Max von Sydow
1) Shame
Series
Criterion collection volume 961
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
An examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Two musicians live in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by Sven Nykvist₂s handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric...
2) The letters
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Mother Teresa, the film explores the life's work of Nobel Peace Prize recipient and one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Her selfless devotion to helping the poor changed hearts, transformed lives and inspired millions throughout the world. Told through a series of personal letters written to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor.
3) The magician
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan. Bonus features include an interview with the director regarding the film and various essays.
Series
Criterion collection volume 416
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen.
Language
Swedish
Description
The daughter of a rich businessman falls for her father's servant, and a battle of sexes and classes ensues. Bonus features includes interviews, video essay, and a booklet.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah (Mia Farrow) is a loyal supporter of her two aimless sisters (Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest) and the emotional backbone of a family that seems to resent her stability. But when Hannah’s world unravels, she begins to see that she’s as lost as everyone else, and she’ll have to choose between her own needs…and the family she can’t live without. Winner of three Oscars®️ (1987: Best Supporting Actor, Michael Caine; Best Supporting Actress,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
7) Dune
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1984.
Language
English
Description
Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Barkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
8) Europa
Series
Criterion collection volume 454
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen ed.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Leo Kessler, an American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purguing of loyalists by the Allied forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate's daughter.
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
After Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, he tries to remain close to his beautiful, mortal wife, Annie. With the friendly spirit assigned to guide him, he begins to adapt to his new state of being in a setting that can only be described as heavenly. But when Annie in her despair takes her own life, she is banished to an eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity together, but no one has ever succeeded in rescuing a soul from...
10) The exorcist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen ; The version you've never seen ; Extended director's cut
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured. Added footage includes a "nervous disorder" diagnosis, expansion of Father Merrin's arrival before the ritual, priestly doubts during the ritual, an epilogue with Lt. Kinderman and Father Dyer, and a shattering staircase descent by Regan.
11) A film trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 208
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Swedish
Description
This four disc set features Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's work on three of his most powerful films presented as a trilogy. The films of the trilogy examine the necessity of religion and question the promise of faith. The last disc is a documentary film offering views on set construction, lighting, rehearsals, editing, as well as intimate conversations with Ingmar Bergman and members of his cast and crew.
13) Minority report
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 796
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Language
Swedish
Description
A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Includes bonus disc with special features.