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1) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1948, 1998
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 417
Pub. Date
1963.
Edition
Special edition
Language
English
Description
Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stops him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation....
3) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister plots and giant talking bugs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 31
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 50
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Language
English
Description
This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley₂s classic children₂s novel by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home), in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse, is a cinematic tour de force. After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.
7) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Digitally remastered version.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
8) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen ; Director approved edition
Language
Norwegian
Description
Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engstro?m travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engstro?m quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 46
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man.
11) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 45
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Persian
Description
Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
13) Yojimbo
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Language
日本語
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness. Includes theatrical trailer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 77
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but na?ve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
15) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
16) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
17) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 104
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
日本語
Description
In this stylized dramatization of the puppet theater play, Jihei abandons business, family and self respect for a passionate love affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course of action to be in death together with the lover he is unable to obtain in life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 80
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The story of an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer preying on young girls. Set in Germany, the film is shot in sepia tones with brilliant blue flashes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 92
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains.
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