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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them. DVD.
2) Charade
Series
Criterion Collection volume 57
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
3) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], ©1976
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
4) Hopscotch
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
Series
Criterion collection volume 175
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
6) Easy rider
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A generation-defining movie about friends who engage in a motorcycle journey across the country to discover the true America. Bonus features include: CD Songtrack, making of documentary, commentary, and British Film Institute Modern Classic Book.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2006, 1987
Language
Français
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
9) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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.
10) Lacombe Lucien
Series
The Criterion collection volume 329
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
11) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 477
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Swedish
Description
Filmed over several weeks, "Bergman Island" is an impressively intimate look at the waning hours of one of cinema's true legends. Granted unprecedented access to the man himself, Marie Nyrerod captures stories from Bergman that cover his entire life to that point. Bergman is remarkably candid, whether he's discussing his abusive father or his last directorial effort, Saraband. Even those not particularly interested in Bergman's cinema will find something...
13) Black narcissus
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Led by the stern Sister Clodagh, a group of nuns tries to establish a convent in the Himalayas.
14) Mystery train
Series
Criterion collection volume 521
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
�2010
Language
English
Description
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of Memphis in hot pursuit of the elusive 'King' himself, Elvis!
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie ... and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
16) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Clay has a plan. After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, he decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which "no one will get hurt."
Killer's kiss: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the...
17) Kuroneko
Series
Criterion collection volume 584
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
日本語
Description
A military hero struggles with his own demons as he attempts to rid a small village of a malevolent spirit that preys upon itinerant samurai.
18) The music room
Series
Criterion collection volume 573
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Bengali
Description
A fallen aristocrat clings to his heritage and fading way of life by hosting lavish parties in his music room until he spends the last of his fortune.
19) Harold and Maude
Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
20) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
A young African refugee is saved from deportation by a kindly old man, who shines shoes for a living, and his tight-knit community.
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