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Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
日本語
Description
A 16th century Japanese farming community has been victimized by bandits, year afer year. Desperate to find some means of ending the terror, the villagers hire seven unemployed samurai to help defend them. Film formed the basis of The Magnificent Seven and Battle beyond the Stars.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
3) Armageddon
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results....
5) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
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
Criterion collection volume 212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003, c1963
Edition
Standard version.
Language
Swedish
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 215
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Polish
Description
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth.
11) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A trio of crooks relentlesly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 262
Publisher
distributed by Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Français
Description
Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos.
A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic...
Series
Criterion collection volume 364
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Atomic Submarine: A series of mysterious sinking plagues the northern seas. Great trans-arctic submarine liners are vanishing without a trace! The nuclear powered U.S.S. Tiger Shark, the most advanced sub in the fleet, has been undergoing around-the-clock modifications to prepare for an urgent top-secret mission: to discover the cause of the Arctic disasters, and put an end to it! First man into space: A cocky test pilot disobeys orders and takes...
15) Viridiana
Series
Criterion collection volume 332
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Viridiana, who is about to become a nun, does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
17) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
18) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
19) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Director-approved special ed.
Language
English
Description
Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
20) Godzilla
Series
Criterion collection volume 594
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2012]
Language
English
Description
It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire populations fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. Here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American...
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