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Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1937, 2009
Description
In this 'enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap' [-- Container], an elderly couple must move in with their adult children when they lose their home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2000
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.
5) Chasing Amy
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
6) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 202
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 274
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Two-bit London hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
11) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 325
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Louis Mazzini wants to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
13) The furies
Series
Criterion collection volume 435
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.
Series
Criterion collection volume 457
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008, 1954
Description
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love....
15) Made in U.S.A
Series
Criterion collection volume 481
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Paula, a leftist writer, goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover. In French with English subtitles.
16) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"Kindly antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab, and soon finds himself the possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious American named Angel (a delightfully crude and deranged Ron Perlman)."--Container.
17) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Publisher
Distributed by the Voyager Company
Pub. Date
2010, 1957
Description
Captures the spirit of Humphrey Cobb's novel in presenting a harsh attack on the futility of war in general and World War I in particular. Explores the contrasting perspectives of the French general staff and the common soldier, and questions the system of military justice.
18) Stagecoach
Series
Criterion collection volume 516
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
Series
Criterion collection volume 676
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
20) 3:10 to Yuma
Series
Criterion collection volume 657
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford, to the train that will take him to prison. This apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man's particular brand of honor.
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