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Series
Criterion collection volume 917
Language
English
Formats
Description
"IIn this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help meddling in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize...
2) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1948, 1998
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
3) The graduate
Series
Criterion collection volume 800
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
4) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Language
English
Description
Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
6) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1986, ℗2002
Language
English
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Series
Criterion collection volume 59
Publisher
The Voyager Co
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
This edition features the delightful musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who dreams of the magical land of Oz and includes outtakes, interviews, audio commentary and other material.
8) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1991, p2003
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
10) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Italiano
Description
"In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of rituals, sensations, and emotions. Adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political repartee are set to Nina Rota's music in this beautiful transfer of Amarcord."
11) Andrei Rublev
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
Russian
Description
Andrei Roublev is a monk in 15th century Russia. He takes a vow of silence after witnessing the repressive society around him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998, c1955
Language
Français
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998], c1954
Language
日本語
Description
Musashi is a brash and ambitious peasant who desires frame and power as a swordsman. His dreams of glory in war sour when his army is routed and he becomes hunted by the authorities. With the help of a severe monk, he develops from a hot-tempered into a thoughtful swordsman.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
日本語
Description
This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. The Trilogy (whose first part won an Academy Award) follows Musashi's odyssey from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. In the second and most violent installment, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Musashi beats a samurai armed with a chain-and sickle and is later set upon by eighty...
16) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
17) The seventh seal
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Portuguese
19) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. With its precise tracking shots and gratifying...
Series
Criterion collection volume 49
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999, c1957
Language
Italiano
Description
Cabiria is a fragile young prostitute who has a string of unfortunate encounters with men. Despite her constant travail, she remains ever optimistic, looking for good in evil everywhere.
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