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Series
Criterion collection volume 18
Pub. Date
1987
Description
George Bailey is an ordinary guy, with dreams of excitement and success. He wants to travel, see the world, make something of himself. However, family responsibilities keep interfering with his departure. Suddenly a lot of years have passed, and he's still living in Bedford Falls, the town he was born in.
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,...
3) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Pub. Date
c2006
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 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.
5) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director-approved two DVD special edition.
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Director-approved 2 DVD special edition].
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Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
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