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3 Women
(1977) ~ dir. Robert Altman - USA |
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In a dusty,
under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and
impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home
attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie,
a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of
sophisticated ladies magazines. But Pinky's hero-worship evolves
into something far stranger and more sinister than could be
imagined. |
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Criterion
Collection #230 |
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8 1/2 (1963) ~ dir. Federico Fellini
- Italy |
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Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film
director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. |
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Criterion Collection #140 |
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42nd Street (1933) ~ dir. Lloyd Bacon - USA |
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A Broadway musical
director has troubles during rehearsal, promotes the understudy and
has a successful opening night. Chiefly memorable for the incredible
musical numbers. |
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400 Blows
(1962) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France |
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The
semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel,
portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and
a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short
film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the
film L'amour áa vingt ans, picking up Antoine's story a few years
later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love
affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams and amorous
restlessness. |
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Criterion Collection #5 |
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Adventures of
Robin Hood (1938) ~ dir. Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
- USA |
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Recounts the life
and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived
as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny. |
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Aguirre, the
wrath of God (1972) ~ dir. Werner Herzog |
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A band of Spanish
conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold.
As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and
each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is
consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a
revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death
trip. |
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Ali, fear eats
the soul = Angst essen Seele auf (1974) ~ dir. Rainer
Werner Fassbinder - Germany |
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Lonely widow Emmi
Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They
fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family,
colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects
the ethnic tensions within German society. |
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Criterion
Collection #198 |
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All that heaven
allows (1955) ~ dir. Douglas Sirk - USA |
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Cary Scott, an
attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in
her community and within her family when she becomes romantically
involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener. |
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Criterion
Collection #95 |
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Alphaville:
a strange case of Lemmy Caution = une etrange aventure de Lemmy
Caution (1965) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard - France |
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Secret agent Lemmy
Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a
computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws
emotion. |
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Criterion Collection #25 |
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Amarcord (1974) ~ dir. Federico Fellini
- Italy |
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Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics,
family life and growing up in a small Italian town in
the 1930's. |
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Criterion Collection #4 |
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...And God
created woman = Et Dieu-- crea la femme (1956) ~ dir.
Roger Vadim - France |
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Juliette is an 18
year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all
of St. Tropez. Her sweet but naive husband Michel endures beatings,
insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways. |
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Criterion
Collection #77 |
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And the ship
sails on = E la nave va (1983) ~ dir. Federico Fellini
- Italy |
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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. |
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Criterion
Collection #50 |
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Andrei Rublev (1966) ~ dir. Andrei
Tarkovsky - Soviet Union |
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Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who
survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates
works of art. |
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Criterion Collection #34 |
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Ashes and
Diamonds (1958) ~ dir. Andrzej Wajda - Poland |
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Portrait of a young
Polish nationalist assassin who, when World War II ends, finds
himself living uncertainly, moving from echoing bars to seedy hotel
rooms, finding comfort in a girl and crazy jokes. |
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Criterion
Collection #285 |
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L'avventura (1960) ~ dir. Michelangelo
Antonioni - Italy |
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Story about the search for a girl lost on an island;
gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems,
and the girl is never found. |
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Criterion Collection #98 |
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Bakery Girl of Monceau ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1962) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France |
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Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day. |
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Criterion
Collection #343 |
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Ballad of a
soldier = Ballada o soldate (1959) ~ dir. Grigori Chukhrai
- Russia |
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A soldier-boy earns
a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desparate
act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small
adventures. |
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Criterion
Collection #148 |
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Band of
outsiders = Bande a` part (1964) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- France |
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Two burglars plan a
robbery with a young woman they just met. |
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Criterion
Collection #174 |
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Bank Dick (1940) ~ dir. Edward Cline
- USA |
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Egbert Souse accidently foils a bank robbery and is
hired as a bank guard. |
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Criterion Collection #78 |
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Battle of
Algiers = La bataille d'Alger (1966) ~ dir. Gillo
Pontecorvo - Algeria |
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Dramatizes the
harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for
independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising
against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on
both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the
Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence.
Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in
cafâes. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as
the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be
suppressed. |
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Criterion
Collection #249 |
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Beauty and the Beast = La belle et la bete
(1946) ~ dir. Jean Cocteau - France |
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Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the
self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince
in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that
become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light
Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast. |
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Criterion Collection #6 |
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Bed and Board (1970) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France |
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The fourth
installment of the Antoine Doinel series. Antoine is now 26, married
and expecting his first child. He is also still struggling to find
steady work. Antoine and Christine become the proud parents of a
son, but Antoine soon tires of domesticity and when he meets a
Japanese woman at his new job he falls in love and has an affair. |
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Criterion
Collection #187 |
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Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf (2007) ~ dir. Stellan Olsson |
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Story of King Hrothgar, the monster Grendal and the hero Beowulf, one of Europe's greatest epics. Anglo-Saxon epic, lines 1-1062. |
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Bicycle Thief
(1949) ~ dir. Vittorio De Sica - Italy |
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An
unemployed man in Rome finds a job as a bill poster for which he
needs a bicycle. When the bicycle is stolen, he and his son search
for the thief and end up stealing another bicycle. The film vividly
portrays the poverty, hope, despair, and uncertainty of post-war
Italy. |
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Bhaji on the
beach (1993) ~ dir. Gurinder Chada - UK |
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A comedy about a
group of Indian women, living in England, who are brought together
by a day at the beach. |
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Big Deal on
Madonna Street = I soliti ignoti (1958) ~ dir. Mario
Monicelli - Italy |
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Five men conspire
to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to
carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to
eventually give up and go home. |
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Criterion
Collection #113 |
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Black narcissus
(1947) ~ dir. Michael Powell - USA |
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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 struggle with her
own past that will prove the ultimate test of her devotion and
faith. |
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Criterion
Collection #93 |
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Black Orpheus = Orfeu negro (1959) ~
dir. Marcel Camus - France |
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Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice
set against the colorful background of the carnival in
Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography
and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious
bossa nova beat to the United States. |
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Criterion Collection #48 |
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Blob
(1958) ~ dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. - USA |
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Residents of a
small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader. |
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Criterion
Collection #91 |
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Blood of a Poet = Le Sang d'un Poete
(1930) ~ dir. Jean Cocteau - France |
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Part 1 of Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy. An
artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of
a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on
a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists
become obsessed with their own works. |
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Criterion Collection #67 |
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Blow up (1966) ~dir. Michaelangelo Antonioni - Italy |
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A London
photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers
that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. |
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Blue Velvet (1986) ~ dir. David Lynch - USA |
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A college student
stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The
strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown
picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger. |
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Bob le flambeur
(1955) ~ dir. Jean-Pierre Melville - France |
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Bob the gambler and
his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800
million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino
tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the
men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die. |
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Criterion
Collection #150 |
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Boxcar Bertha
(1972) ~ dir. Martin Scorsese - USA |
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Set in the 1930's,
a homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to
get revenge from a railroad company. |
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BRD Trilogy:
the supplements ( ) ~ dir. Rainer Werner
Fassbinder - Germany |
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This supplemental
disc chronicles the career of international film director Rainer
Fassbinder. |
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Criterion
Collection #203 |
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Branded to kill
= Koroshi no rakuin (1967) ~ dir. Seijun Suzuki - Japan |
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The number-three
ranked killer in the Tokyo underworld carries out three hits, but
bungles a fourth. Then both the women in his life try to kill him.
The next thing he knows, he is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the
very dangerous No. 1 killer ... |
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Criterion
Collection #38 |
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Brazil
(1985) ~ dir. Terry Gilliam - UK |
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A daydreaming
bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a
beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own
romantic illusions. |
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Criterion
Collection #51 |
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Breathless = A bout de souffle (1960) ~ dir.
Jean-Luc Godard - France |
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A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to
leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to
the police and he gets killed trying to escape. |
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Brick (2005) ~ dir. Rian Johnson - USA |
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Brendon Frye is a loner, someone who always knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the 'who' and 'why'. |
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Brief encounter (1946) ~ dir. David
Lean - UK |
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class
suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a
passionate yearning for each other. But as their
affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult
decision that will affect both of their lives forever. |
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Criterion Collection #76 |
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Burden of dreams
(1982) ~ dir. Les Blank - USA |
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Goes behind the
scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of
one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle.
Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by
Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects. |
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Criterion
Collection #287 |
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by Brakhage:
an anthology ( ) ~ dir. Stan Brakhage
- USA |
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Twenty-six
masterworks by Stan Brakhage. |
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Criterion
Collection # 184 |
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Cache = Hidden (2005) ~ dir. Michael Haneke - France |
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A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy. |
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Celluloid Closet (1995) -
USA |
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Assembles footage from over 120 films showing the
changing face of cinema homosexuality from cruel
stereotypes to covert love to the activist cinema of the
1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators provide
anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men
and lesbians on the silver screen. |
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Charade
(1963) ~ dir. Stanley Donnen - USA |
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A trio of crooks
relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune
her dead husband stole from them. |
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Criterion
Collection #57 |
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Children of Paradise = Les enfants du paradis (1945) ~ dir. Marcel Carne -
France |
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Drama about the theater and the individuals that
made the stage their life. Includes the love story of
four men for one woman. |
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Criterion Collection #141 |
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Chinatown (1974) ~ dir. Roman Polanski
- USA |
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Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral
climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is
hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her
husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a
maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits,
uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that
come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in
Chinatown. |
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City Lights (1931) ~ dir. Charles
Chaplin - USA |
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A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and
attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her
regain her sight. |
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Claire's Knee ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1970) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France |
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Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, but he falls for Laura's half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee. |
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Criterion
Collection #347 |
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Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) ~ dir. Agnes Varda - France |
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A girl waiting for
the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking
she has cancer. |
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Criterion
Collection #73 |
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Closely Watched
Trains (1966) ~ dir. Jiri Menzel - Czechslovakia |
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Comedy-drama about
a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II.
He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train,
but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act
of courage. |
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Criterion
Collection #131 |
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La Collectionneuse ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1967) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France |
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Adrien goes to a villa on the Mediterranean. He is in vacation, and wants to do absolutely nothing. He has to share the villa with a friend, Daniel, and an unknown young girl, Haydee. Haydee has a lot of lovers, and at first, Adrien and Daniel despites her. But Adrien will be more and more attracted by her. |
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Criterion
Collection #346 |
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Constant forge:
a film (2000) ~ dir. Charles Kiselyak - USA |
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A look at the life
and work of John Cassavetes assembled from candid interviews, rare
photos, archival footage, and the director himself. The narration is
created from Cassavettes' own words. The actors discuss their own
performances and those of their colleagues, give insights into
Cassavetes's theater work, and into his handling of music in his
films. |
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Criterion
Collection #256 |
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Contempt = Le
mépris (1963) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard - France |
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On Capri, an
Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang
directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer
and red Alfa, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to
help Lang commercialize the picture. Against this backdrop, Javal's
marriage to Camille, a young former typist, disintegrates. It opens
with the couple talking in bed, she asking assurance that he finds
her attractive. Later that day he introduces her to Prokosch, and,
unawares, blunders unforgivably. The rest of the film portrays her,
in their apartment and in public, expressing her hurt and change of
heart and his slow grasp of the source of her contempt. |
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Criterion
Collection #171 |
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Conversation,
the (1974) ~ dir. Francis Ford Coppola - USA |
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A provoking
mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story
of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine
surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has
become an unwitting player in murder scheme. |
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Le Corbeau
(1943) ~ dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot - France |
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A mysterious writer
of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French
provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and
rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly
captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning
an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style
witch-hunt. |
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Criterion
Collection #227 |
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Cranes are
flying (1957) ~ dir. Mikhail Kalatozov - Soviet
Union |
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When Veronica's
lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His
cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her
marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait
for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the
war. |
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Criterion
Collection #146 |
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Crazed fruit =
Kurutta kajitsu (1956) ~ dir. Ko Nakahira -
Japan |
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Two brothers
compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside
summer of gambling, boating, and drinking. A portrayal of post-war
sexual revolution among Japan's young and privileged. |
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Criterion
Collection #295 |
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Cries and Whispers = Viskningar och rop (1972) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden |
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A story of four women's search for spiritual peace.
Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is
dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two
sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in
feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet
Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her
sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering
beauty as well as horror. |
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Criterion Collection #101 |
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| Damned = Gotterdammerung (1969) ~ dir.
Luchino Visconti - Italy |
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The degradation of a great family, set against the
historical background of the "Night the long knives" and
the rise of Nazism. |
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Dawn of the Dead (1978) ~ dir. George A. Romero - USA |
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The corpses of the
recently-dead are returning to life & attacking the living,
devouring their victims. Two members of the Philadelphia S.W.A.T.
team & their friends land in a shopping mall occupied by the living
dead. They secure the mall through brutal battles with the
creatures, but can they escape both the bandits & the zombies? |
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Special features
includes three revealing audio commentaries; two feature length
documentaries; one classic film, the European version, and the
extended version of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead and much
more. |
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Day of wrath = Vredens dag (1943) ~ dir. Carl
T. Dreyer - Denmark |
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Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of
Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly
pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells
her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him
dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of
killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled
by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to
take the oath swearing she did not kill her husband. She seems to
become what she is accused of being and in a strange ending refuses
to take the oath. |
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Criterion Collection #125 |
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Death in Venice (1971) ~ dir. Luchino
Visconti - Italy |
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In Venice on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach
encounters a young Polish boy and becomes obsessed with
him, a secret passion that will lead to his doom. |
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Dekalog = The Decalogue (1988) ~ dir. Krzyzstof Kieślowski - Poland |
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Ten one-hour films made for Polish television that each feature one of the 10 commandments as a thematic construct. |
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Devil and Daniel
Webster (1941) ~ dir. William Dieterle - USA |
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Having promised his
soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the
talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain. |
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Criterion
Collection #214 |
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Diabolique
(1954) ~ dir. Georges Clouzot - France |
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Suspense classic
that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells
the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who
is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The
women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained,
the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying
his killers. |
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Criterion
Collection #35 |
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Diary of a
Chambermaid = Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964) ~ dir.
Luis Buñel - France |
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A chambermaid with
Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for
and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn
the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is
murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to
whom may be responsible. |
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Criterion
Collection #117 |
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Diary of a
country priest = Journal d'un cure´ de campagne
(1950) ~ dir. Robert Bresson - France |
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A new priest
arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his
first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately.
Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a
crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village
and God. |
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Criterion
Collection #222 |
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Dirty Pretty
Things (2002) ~ dir. Stephen Frears - UK |
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Nigerian exile Okwe
and Turkish chambermaid Senay toil at a west London hotel that is
full of illegal activity. Late one night Okwe makes a shocking
discovery, which creates an impossible dilemma and tests the limits
of all they know. |
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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie = Le Charme
Discret de la Bourgeoisie (1972) ~ dir. Luis
Bunuel - France |
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An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never
eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a
vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. |
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Criterion Collection #102 |
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Diva (1981)
~ dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix - France |
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Cynthia Hawkins is
the operatic superstar whose refusal to make a recording frustrates
her adoring public. A young fan named Jules makes a secret tape and
is stalked by thugs who plan to blackmail the diva. Jules also
accidently acquires a tape which tells of a top mobster's role in an
international sex and drug ring. Two hired killers are out to get
the tape. |
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Divorce Italian
Style (1962) ~ dir. Pietro Germi - Italy |
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A man falls in love
with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To
get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife. |
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Criterion
Collection #286 |
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Do the Right
Thing (1989) ~ dir. Spike Lee - USA |
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The hottest day of
the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life
of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions
sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise. |
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Criterion
Collection #97 |
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La Dolce Vita (1960) ~ dir. Federico
Fellini - Italy |
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A journalist ventures into the decadent society of
modern Rome and finds that his values are being
destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned. |
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Double Indemnity (1944) ~ dir. Billy
Wilder - USA |
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An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to
trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double
for accidental death-- then push him from a train. It's
an almost perfect crime. |
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Double Suicide
= Shinju¯ ten no Amijima (1969) ~ dir. Masahiro
Shinoda - Japan |
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In this striking
adaptation of a bunraku puppet play, a paper merchant sacrifices
family, fortune and ultimately life for his erotic obsession with a
prostitute. |
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Criterion
Collection #104 |
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Down by Law (1986) ~ dir. Jim Jarmusch
- USA |
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A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time
pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for a crime they didn't
commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set
in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana. |
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Criterion collection #166 |
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Early Summer =
Bakushu (1951) ~ dir. Yasujiro Ozu -
Japan |
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The Mamiya family
is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas
of her own. |
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Criterion
collection #240 |
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Earth = Zemlia (1930) ~ dir. Aleksandr
Dovzhenko - Soviet Union |
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Bezhin meadow =
Bezhin lug (1935-37) dir. Sergei Eisenstein -
Soviet Union |
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Earth: A Ukranian landowner is forced to give up his
holdings to the state. Vasili obtains a tractor and under his
leadership the collective is successful. He is shot by the
landowner's son. Vasil's father asks that he have a "modern" funeral
with songs by the young people of their new life. |
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Bezhin meadow: Eisenstein's film was banned in Russia in 1937, and
subsequently all prints were destroyed. This print is a
reconstruction by Sergeæi Yutkevich from old stills and sketches. It
was to have been about the young pioneers and their contribution to
Soviet collective farming, but became instead the story of the
struggle between old and new forces in Russia as symbolized in the
story of a young boy who opposes his evil father. |
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Element of crime
= Forbrydelsens element (1984) ~ dir. Lars von Trier
- Denmark |
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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. |
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Criterion
Collection #80 |
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Elena and her
men (1956) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France |
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Set amid the
military maneuvers and Quatorze de Juillet carnivals of
turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir's romantic comedy stars
Ingrid Bergman as a Polish princess who drives men of all stations
to fits of desperate love. |
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Criterion
Collection #244 |
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Enigma of Kaspar
Hauser (1974) ~ dir. Werner Herzog - Germany |
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Based on a real
historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man
who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in
total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak,
read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered. |
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Eyes without a
face = Les yeux sans visage (1959) ~ dir. Georges Franju
- France |
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A plastic surgeon,
holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of
kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting
countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an
automobile accident. |
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Criterion
Collection #260 |
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F for Fake (1972) ~ dir. Orson Welles - USA |
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Trickery. Deceit.
Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker
gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the
tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. |
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Criterion
Collection #288 |
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Faces (1968)
~ dir. John Cassavettes - USA |
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Powerful story of
the dissintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his
wife. |
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Criterion
Collection #252 |
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Fanny and
Alexander (1982, 1984) ~ dir Ingmar Bergman - Sweden |
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In a Swedish
provincial town in the early years of this century, two children are
growing up within the bosom of a large, jolly extended family. Their
father dies, and their mother remarries. Their new stepfather is a
stern, authoritarian clergyman who means well but is absolutely
incapable of understanding the feelings of others. |
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Boxed set of the
theatrical version, the original five-hour television version,
Bergman's 1986 feature-length documentary 'Dokument Fanny och
Alexander' (The Making of Fanny and Alexander), the 1984 interview
'Ingmar Bergman ... tar farval av filmen' (Ingmar Bergman bids
farewell to film) and the video introductions to 11 of his own films
that Bergman made for Swedish television in 2003. |
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Criterion
Collection #261-264 |
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Fat Girl
(2001) ~ dir. Catherine Breillat - France |
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Twelve-year-old
Anaïs is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a beauty. Elena meets an Italian
law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the
ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister's
innocence. |
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Criterion
Collection #259 |
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Fighting elegy
= Kenka erejii (1966) ~ dir. Seijun Suzuki -
Japan |
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High schooler Nanbu
Kiroku yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is
to reform Kiroku's sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, Kiroku
channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available:
savage, crazed violence. |
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Criterion
Collection #269 |
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Firemen's ball
= Hori´, ma´ panenko (1967) ~ dir. Milos Forman
- Czechoslovakia |
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In a small
provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's
annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn. |
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Criterion
Collection #145 |
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Fitzcarraldo (1982) ~ dir. Werner
Herzog - Germany |
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Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his
own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town. |
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French cancan
(1955) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France |
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A musical comedy
about an aging theater impressario with a talent for transforming
common working girls into dance hall sensations. |
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Criterion
Collection #243 |
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Garden of the
Finzi-Continis (1970) ~ dir. Vittorio De Sica -
Italy |
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Set in Italy in
1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts began to isolate the Jews
from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an
aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge
the world beyond its fenced garden. |
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General (1926) ~ dir. Buster Keaton &
Clyde Bruckman - USA |
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Playhouse
(1921) ~ dir. Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline - USA |
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Cops (1922) ~ dir. Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline -
USA |
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General: The General is a locomotive beloved
by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single-handedly. |
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Playhouse: A
comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an
actor, a monkey and other parts; includes the "dream" sequence. |
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Cops: A
comedy of error and circumstance in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming
a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an
entire police precinct. |
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General Idi Amin
Dada: a self portrait (1974) ~ dir. Barbet Schroeder
- France |
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In 1974 a film crew
followed Idi Amin Dada, dictator of Uganda, interviewing him and
filming him as he worked. Provides a candid portrait of a notorious
figure. |
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Criterion
Collection #153 |
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A Generation = Pokolenie (1954) ~ dir.
Andrzej Wajda. |
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Wajda, who fought for the Resistance during World
War II, offers an unsentimental appraisal of heroism in the tale of
a cocky Polish youth who decides to fight the Nazis after he falls
for a pretty Resistance leader. Barely out of their teens, he and
his friends approach their first mission - like a game of cops and
robbers. |
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Criterion
Collection #283 |
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Gertrud (1964) ~ dir. Carl T. Dreyer
- Denmark |
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Around 1910, a woman who is unhappily married to a
lawyer meets a famous poet whom she had loved, has an affair with a
young composer and finally decides to live alone in Paris. |
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Criterion Collection #127 |
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Gimme Shelter (1970) ~
dir. David Maysles - USA |
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A documentary on
the Rolling Stones' 1969 American concert tour and a concert at
Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member.
Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and
the Flying Burrito Brothers. |
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Criterion
Collection #99 |
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Golden Coach
(1953) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France |
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An
eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy in Central America
who receives a golden coach and gives it to the star of a touring
commedia dell'arte company. |
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Criterion
Collection #242 |
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Good morning =
Ohayo (1959) ~ dir. Yasujiro Ozu - Japan |
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Satiric comedy in
which two young brothers refuse to talk until their parents agree to
buy them a television set. Set in a 1950s residential suburb of
Tokyo. |
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Criterion
Collection #84 |
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Gospel according to St. Matthew (1964)
~ dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini - Italy |
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The film, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1964
Venice Film Festival, is different from other cinematic depictions
of the life of Christ in that there is no screenplay per se.
Pasolini limited himself to the account by Matthew: only words
written by the Saint are employed; no additional dialogue was
written and only scenes described by Matthew are shown. Pasolini
used no professional actors (his mother plays the older Mary) and he
dedicated his film "to the dear familiar memory of John XXIII." |
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Grand Illusion = La grande illusion
(1938) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France |
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In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor
conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic
French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow
aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French
comrades, who are commoners, in a daring escape. |
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Criterion Collection #1 |
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Grapes of wrath (1940) ~ dir. John Ford
- USA |
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The migration of the Joad family to California from
their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. |
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Hamlet
(1948) ~ dir. Sir Laurence Olivier - UK |
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The classic version
of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince
who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer. |
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Criterion
Collection #82 |
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Harder they come (1973) ~ dir. Perry
Henzell - Jamaica |
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A rural Jamaican musician journeys to the city of
Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Pushed to desperate
circumstances by shady record producers and corrupt cops, he
achieves notoriety as a murderous outlaw. A cult movie favorite
featuring reggae music and reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff. |
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Criterion Collection #83 |
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Harlan County
USA (1976) ~ dir. Barbara Kopple - USA |
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In 1973, when the
Brookside coal miners voted for the United Mine Workers union, the
Duke Power Company refused it. Barbara Kopple documented the
struggle between the miners and the company, causing a big uproar. |
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Criterion
Collection #334 |
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Häxan,
witchcraft through the ages (1922) ~ dir. Benjamin
Christensen - Sweeden |
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In a series of
dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches
of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients
suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the
scary, the gross and the darkly humorous. |
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Criterion
Collection #134 |
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Hearts and Minds (1974) ~ dir. Peter
Davis - USA |
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Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is
a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes
interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of
Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and
Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese
leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in
rare footage. |
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Criterion Collection #156 |
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Heaven Can Wait (1943) ~ dir. Ernst Lubitsch - USA |
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Newly deceased
playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where
he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell.
Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a
lifetime wooing and pursuing women. |
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Criterion
Collection #291 |
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Hidden Fortress
(1958) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan |
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A princess must
escape across enemy lines with the royal treasure, guarded only by a
loyal general and two greedy peasants. |
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Criterion
Collection #116 |
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High and low
(1963) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan |
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A complex crime
thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is
kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma. |
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Criterion
Collection #24 |
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) ~ dir. Alain
Resnais - France |
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A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in
a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their
personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand
experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic
affair with a German soldier. |
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Criterion Collection #196 |
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Honeymoon
Killers (1969) ~ dir. Leonard Kastle - USA |
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Martha is sullen,
overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club,
she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a sauve charismatic
smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal
of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to
find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that
transcends all bounds. |
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Criterion
Collection #200 |
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Hoop dreams
(1994) ~ dir. Steve James - USA |
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This documentary
follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school
as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA. |
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Criterion
Collection #289 |
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Hopscotch
(1980) ~ dir. Ronald Reame - USA |
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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 to much fun! |
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Criterion
Collection #163 |
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Hour of the Wolf
(1968) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden |
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A brooding artist
accompanied by his wife travels to a remote island where he hopes to
escape his demons. |
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I am curious -
blue (1968) ~ dir. Vilgot Sjoman - Sweden |
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This sequel to I am
curious - yellow follows young Lena on her continuing journey of
self-discovery. In Blue, Lena confronts issues of religion,
sexuality and the prison system, while at the same time exploring
her own personal relationships. Like I am curious - yellow, Blue
freely traverses the lines between fact and fiction, employing a mix
of dramatic and documentary techniques. |
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Criterion
Collection #181 |
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I am curious -
yellow (1967) ~ dir. Vilgot Sjoman - Sweden |
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Using an innovative
stylistic approach, director Vilgot Sjèoman deliberately blurs the
lines between the characters' lives and those of the actors
portraying them. Lena, the film's protagonist is a true woman of the
60's in search of her own selfhood. She becomes a political
activist, challenging traditional values on the issues of
militarism, social equality and sexual liberation. The film was
seized by U.S. Customs and released in the U.S. only after the U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling of a lower court. |
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Criterion
Collection #180 |
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I Vitelloni
(1953) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy |
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This film
compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men
lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape
from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives. |
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Criterion
Collection #246 |
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Ikiru = To live
(1952) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan |
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Discovering that he
is in the terminal stages of cancer, a government clerk spends his
last months in search of a meaning to life. |
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Criterion
Collection #221 |
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Imitation of
life (1934) ~ dir. John M. Stahl / (1959) ~ dir. Doulas
Sirk - USA |
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The story of two
women trying to find success, but end up finding that success isn't
everything. Includes both the 1934 and 1959 releases. |
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In the Mood for
Love = Hua yang nian hua (2000) ~ dir. Wong Kar-Wai
- Hong Kong |
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The story of two
lonely people who discover in each other the intimacy they have lost
in their marriages. |
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Criterion
Collection #147 |
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Ingmar Bergman
collection: supplemental materials ( ) ~
dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden |
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A look at the life
and work of Ingmar Bergman, organized into three main categories:
featurettes, media archives, and photo galleries. Featurettes
include TV interviews with Bergman from 1970 and 2002, a documentary
about the setting for many of his films called Fårö Island mystique,
and a documentary about cinematographer Sven Nykvist called With one
eye he cries. The latter two works include commentary from Marc
Gervais. The media archives section is a transcription of several
articles from the April 1972 issue of American cinematographer,
which was a special issue on film making in Sweden. The photo
galleries section features still photos and posters from several
Bergman films. |
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Ingmar Bergman makes a movie = Ingmar
Bergman gor en film (1961) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman -
Sweden |
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The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a
movie - Winter Light. This documentary film offers views on set
construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as
intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and
crew. |
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Criterion Collection #212 |
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Insomnia
(1997) ~ dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg - Norway |
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Disgraced Swedish
detective Jonas Engstrèom travels to Northern Norway to solve a
brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight
sun, Engstrèom quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind. |
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Criterion Collection #47 |
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Invasion of the
Body Snatchers (1978) ~ dir. Phillip Kaufman -
USA |
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Filmy spores fall
from space over San Francisco, and the city blossoms with beautiful
new flora. People take the flowers home and as they sleep, the
plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their
identities--including their emotions, their uniqueness and their
souls. |
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It Happened One Night (1934) ~ dir.
Frank Capra - USA |
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A rich young woman marries an idle playboy against
her father's will. Her father holds her captive on his yacht but she
escapes and, while on her way to New York, becomes entangled with an
unemployed news reporter. |
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It's a wonderful
life (1947) ~ dir. Frank Capra - USA |
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George Bailey, a
desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows
him how important he has been to those around him in his life. |
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Ivan the Terrible = Ivan Groznyi
(1945) ~ dir. Sergei Eisenstein - Soviet Union |
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Part I starts with the coronation of Ivan the
Terrible and concludes with his return to power after the death of
his wife. Part II covers the attempt to assassinate him in 1564. The
third part of the saga was never made due to the death of
Eisenstein. |
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Criterion Collection #88 |
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Jubilee (1977) ~ dir. Derek Jarman - UK |
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When Queen
Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the
future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland
of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police,
scattered filth, and twisted sex. |
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Criterion
Collection #191 |
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Jules and Jim = Jules et Jim (1962) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France |
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Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates
between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules. After
the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle. |
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Juliet of the Spirits = Giulietta
degli spiriti (1965) ~ dir. Federico Fellini -
Italy |
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When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a
housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In
this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his
examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of
abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies. |
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Criterion Collection #149 |
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Kagemusha
(1980) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan |
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Reconstructing the
splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates
a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman
in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut
Japanese version, not the shortened "international version"
presented by 20th Century Fox. |
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Criterion
Collection #267 |
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Kanal (1957)
~ dir. Andrzej Wajda - Poland |
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Part of the Andrzej
Wajda's war trilogy |
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As Resistance
fighters descend into Warsaw's sewer system to escape the Nazis,
Wadja shows a psychological descent into the minds of a crushed
people. The terrors of war are complicated by the intensely stifling
close quarters. Based on actual events during the Warsaw uprising in
Sept. 1944. |
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Criterion Collection #284 |
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Killers
(1946/1964) ~ dir. Robert Siodmak / Don Diegel - USA |
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Melodramatic
thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become
curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill. |
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Special edition
double-disc set features The killers (1946) and The killers (1964).
Includes Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version of The
killers. |
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Criterion
Collection #176 |
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Killing of a
Chinese Bookie (1976) ~ dir. John Cassavettes -
USA |
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A film noir about a
gentleman's club owner finds himself on the bad side of a small time
gangster, and then must save his beloved club and way of life. |
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Criterion Collection #254 |
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Kwaidan = Kaidan (1965) ~
dir. Masaki Kobayashi - Japan |
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Consists of four stories of the supernatural based
on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai
leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in
his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first
appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the
snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the
snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In
Hoichi, the earless, a blind musician-monk named Hoichi is commanded
by a gathering of ghosts to sing the saga of their ancient deeds.
The head monk paints Hoichi's body with prayer verses to protect
him, but unfortunately overlooks Hoichi's ears. In In a cup of tea,
a writer wonders what would happen to a person who drinks another's
soul and finds out. |
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Criterion Collection #90 |
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Lacombe,
Lucien (1974) ~ dir. Louis Malle - France |
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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. |
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Criterion
Collection #329 |
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