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Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 242
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
Polish
Description
This is a 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.
4) Seconds
Series
Criterion collection volume 667
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate to escape his life, Arthur succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into the handsome, young Tony Wilson, he begins a jet-set existence among a community of "Reborns." Nominated for Best Cinematography at the **Academy Awards** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.**
5) Monterey pop
Series
Publisher
Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on California's Monterey Peninsula in 1968, inspired Jann Wenner to launch his enormously successful "Rolling Stone Magazine." It also did much to boost the careers of many of the pop and rock stars who performed in it.
6) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Travolta ("Get Shorty") gives an outstanding performance as a B-movie sound-effects editor who inadvertently records the car crash of a presidential hopeful. But the more he listens to his recording, the more he comes to believe that the accident was hardly that, but, rather, an act of political assassination. With the help of an eyewitness (Nancy Allen, "RoboCop"), Travolta attempts to unravel the web that has been unwittingly spun around him...
7) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Italiano
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Russian
Description
Andrei Roublev is a monk in 15th century Russia. He takes a vow of silence after witnessing the repressive society around him.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Français
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 33
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the life of one Eskimo tribe, and their struggle for survival in the vast and inhospitable Arctic.
12) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Pub. Date
1998
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 29
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
15) Shock corridor
Series
Criterion collection volume 19
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A journalist gets himself admitted to a mental hospital to solve the murder of an inmate.
16) Summertime
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
17) Walkabout
Author
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood. This is the original director's cut.
18) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Follows the escapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
19) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Swedish
Description
An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
日本語
Description
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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