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1) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1946
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min., 94 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 program notes.
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
3) High and low
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
[1-disc]; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer guide ([4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma -- should he pay the ransom anyway and risk losing his position?
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema [dist
Pub. Date
1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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 13
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A psychopath is murdering young women across the Midwest. Believing that it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling to interview a demented prisoner, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is willing to provide clues to the killer's actions if Clarice will feed his morbid curiosity by telling him about her own complicated life.
7) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
8) Walkabout
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998], ©1971
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood. This is the original director's cut.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm. 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley₂s classic children₂s novel by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home), in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse, is a cinematic tour de force. After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.
10) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (266 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
11) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Language
English
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
12) Five easy pieces
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Language
English
Description
An extremely crass and frustrated oil worker, and failed child pianist hiding from his past in Texas. Robert Dupea spends his life drinking beer and sleeping with (and cheating on) his annoying but adoring wannabe girlfriend, but when he learns that his father is dying in Washington State, he leaves because leaving is what Dupea does best, from his problems, fears, and those who love him.
13) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen ; Director approved edition
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engstro?m travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engstro?m quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
14) Life of Brian
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty English schoolboys are stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the "next" war. With no adults present, they quickly turn into savages.
16) The red shoes
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. Based on James Jones' novel, this is the story of Charlie Company's landing and battle experience there in 1942. The story concentrates on how the battle affects, and is effected by, Commanding officer Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, Captain James Staros, Sgt. Edward Welsh, and two privates, Witt and Bell. Charlie Company is attacking...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
19) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
20) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
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