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A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Winner of the Best Director Award and Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 71
Pub. Date
2000, c1975
Edition
Standard format.
Description
Tamino battles the evil Queen of the Night to rescue his beloved Pamina.
Series
Criterion collection volume 110
Pub. Date
2001, c1953
Edition
Standard format.
Description
The eccentric M. Hulot's presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one catastrophe after another.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
Series
Description
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
[Widescreen format], Special ed.
Description
Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chang move into neighboring apartments and soon discover that they have much in common, including frequently absent and distant spouses, which leads them to find the intimacy with each other that they cannot find in their marriages.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
9) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen format
Description
Two artists one Austrian, the other French meet in Paris and form an instant friendship. Each falls in love with the same woman, who loves both in return. Their friendships and mutual love affair last for decades.
12) The 400 blows
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Description
The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the film L'amour à vingt ans, picking up Antoine's story a few years later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams...
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Pub. Date
2006, 1987
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
14) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Special ed. , English subtitled version.
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
[Standard format], Special ed.
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man hoping to support his desperate family with a new job loses his bicycle, his main means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Pascal is a young French boy who discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two become inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. A touching allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
17) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special ed.
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Pub. Date
[2013].
Edition
DVD special edition.
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
19) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Description
Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right, concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover and best friend. Antonioni's controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation.
20) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
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