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Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Description
Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) stages elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother, but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks out his blind dates, modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse, and attends funerals, where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric to the core, Maude lives exactly as she pleases, with avid collecting and...
Series
Description
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 33
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Documentary on the life of one Eskimo tribe, and their struggle for survival in the vast and inhospitable Arctic.
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Extended international version.
Description
Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Special ed. ; full screen.
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.
7) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Pub. Date
2000, c1988
Edition
Widescreen format.
Description
The carpenter Jesus of Nazareth sets out to find what God wills for him. As his mission nears its end, he faces a series of increasingly-enticing temptations.
Series
Criterion collection volume 775
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Based on E.M. Forster's novel of requited love. A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this gargantuan art-house hit.
10) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
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 97
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
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,...
13) Rashōmon
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
15) The vanishing
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
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 178
Pub. Date
[2003], c1985
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen version (1.66:1 ; 16x9).
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
19) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.
Series
Criterion collection volume 229
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Special ed.
Description
An inside look at the events leading to the disintegration of what everyone considered to be a perfect marriage.
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