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Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1940, 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.
Series
Pub. Date
1942
Language
English
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
Series
Criterion collection volume 514
Language
English
Description
In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.
Series
Criterion collection volume 144
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Czech
Description
Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 297
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 300
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary f
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable portrait of the early life of the Great Emancipator, young Mr. Lincoln, after teaching himself law, has barely started practicing when an Independence Day celebration ends with a stabbing. Abe first stops a lynch mob from killing brothers Matt and Adam Clay, and then defends them against a seasoned prosecutor and his crafty adviser. As presented here, Lincoln is a strong but peaceful frontier democrat, his quiet, awkward, folksy...
10) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 400
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Three slackers are on a self-discovery road trip to Florida.
12) Floating weeds
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
日本語
Description
An aging actor returns to the town where his son lives, who has believed all these years to be his uncle rather than his father.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 515
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Val Xavier is a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a Southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance, who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol, who tries to seduce him.
14) Howards End
Series
Criterion collection volume 488
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010, c1992
Language
English
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
16) Stagecoach
Series
Criterion collection volume 516
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians. On the National Film Registry. Special features include a documentary, featurette, and more.
"It's impossible to overstate the influence of Ford's magnificent film."--Time Out.
17) Kiss me deadly
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs. The men torture the girl to death as the semiconscious Hammer watches helplessly. He himself escapes extermination when the murderers' car topples off a cliff and he is...
18) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection volume 65
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Max Fischer, a tenth-grader at Rushmore Academy, is involved in too many extra-curricular activities, and, as he tries to avoid getting expelled because of his grades, Max befriends a first-grade teacher, whom he falls in love with, and a melancholy, self-made millinaire.
Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on.
20) Tokyo story
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
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