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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen.
Language
Français
Description
Louis Malle, known as one of the world's most versatile storytellers, gives us 6 discs of documentaries. Set includes: Vive le Tour; Humain, Trop Humain; Place de la Republique; Phantom India; Calcutta; ...And the Pursuit of Happiness; and God's Country.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Swedish
Description
Torment: A dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl, Bertha, he finds himself caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games.
Crisis: Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her 18-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who raised...
Series
Eclipse volume series 5
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
I shot Jesse James. The story of Robert Ford, who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
The baron of Arizona. In the mid-1800s, James A. Reavis forges documents that turn the Arizona Territory over to a woman whom he later marries, setting himself up as owner of the state.
The steel helmet. Korean War soldiers grapple with moral and racial issues while trying to stay alive.
4) Late Ozu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
"Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-three feature films over the course of his long career. Yet it was in the final decade of his life, his "old master" phase, that he entered his artistic prime. Centered more than ever on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and all the accompanying joys...
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Love parade: In mythical Sylvania, Queen Louise's cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. Unfortunately, he finds his position as Queen's Consort unsatisfying and without purpose, and the marriage soon runs into difficulties. The Love parade introduced the screen operetta genre.
Monte Carlo: A wealthy count passes himself off as a hairdresser in order to meet an impoverished...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
日本語
Description
No Regrets For Our Youth. Yukie, the spoiled bourgeois daughter of a university professor, begins a soul-searching journey that takes her from the elegance of Kyoto to the peasant farms of impoverished rural Japan, the rise and fall of ultranationalism corresponding with her own moral awakening.
One Wonderful Sunday. Yuzo and Masako, a middle-class couple suffering from economic postwar decline, meet on Sunday in Tokyo with only thirty-five yen to...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Finnish
Description
Shadows in paradise: An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Ariel: A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead.
The match factory Girl: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
William Klein's explosive New York street photography made him one of the most heralded artists of the sixties. An American expatriate in Paris, Klein has also been making challenging cinema for more than forty years, yet with the exception of his acclaimed documentary Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, his film work is barely known in the United States. In his three fiction features -- Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, and The Model Couple -- he...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
[V. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
[V. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
[V. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
Russian
Description
The Ascent tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces during World War II.
Wings: Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
11) Nikkatsu noir
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Description
I am waiting: An ex-boxer gets roped into the criminal underworld when he falls hard for a mysterious young woman fleeing her gangster boss.
Rusty knife: Best friends, who are former criminals and trying to go straight, are outed as witnesses to a murder committed by a local Yakuza boss. The police try to convince them to come forward. The gangsters try to pay them off, with the threat of death looming.
Take aim at the police van: A prison guard...
12) Private lives
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Though born to modest means in Hungary, Alexander Korda would go on to become one of the most important filmmakers in the history of British cinema. A producer, writer, and director who navigated toward subjects of major historical significance and mythical distinction, Korda made a name for his production company, London Films, with the Oscar-winning The Private Life of Henry VIII. He then continued his populist investigation behind the scenes and...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Italiano
Description
"In the final phase of his career, Italian master Roberto Rossellini embarked on a dramatic, daunting project: a series of television films about knowledge and history, made in an effort to teach, where contemporary media were failing. Looking at the Western world's major figures and moments, yet focusing on the small details of daily life, Rossellini was determined not to recount history but to relive it, as it might have been, unadorned but full...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Japanese girls at the harbor. Shimizu's exquisite silent drama tells of the humiliating social downfall experienced by Sunako after jealousy drives her to commit a terrible crime. With its lushly photographed landscapes and innovative visual storytelling, this film shows a director at the peak of his powers and experimentation.
[v. 2]. Mr. Thank You. Shimizu's endearing road movie follows the long and winding route of a sweet-natured bus...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
La chambre: The camera goes around the room three times, starting at a table, and slowly making its way 360 degrees around the room.
Hotel Monterey: Short film consisting entirely of shots of people walking in and out of a rundown New York hotel.
News from home: Presents a series of abstract and fragmentary images of everyday urban life in 1970s New York City, accompanied by the distinctive narration of filmmaker Chantal Akerman as she dispassionately...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
日本語
Description
Sanshiro Sugata: Akira Kurosawa's effortless debut is based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita about the rivalry between judo and jujitsu.
The most beautiful: This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during world War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda.
Sahshiro Sugata, part two: This sequel is a hugely entertaining adventure, reuniting most of the major players from the original and...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
日本語
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Description
Collection includes: Pleasures of the Flesh (Etsuraku, 1965, color); Violence at Noon (Hakuchu No Torima, 1966, B&W); Sing a Song of Sex (Nihon Shunka-Ko, 1967, color); Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Muri Shin Ju: Nihon No Natsu, 1967, B&W); and Three Resurrected Drunkards (Kaette Kita Yopparai, 1968, color)
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