Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
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...
2) Bande à part
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
4) Shadows
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004], c1959
Language
English
Description
The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. When appearing on Jean Shepherd's radio program Night People, Cassevetes mentioned the improvisation work he had done with his acting class, and asked for funding to film it. When listeners actually sent in money, he worked up a script based on the classwork, and with additional funding filmed his story of three siblings, two of whom can pass as white.
5) Faces
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of the dissintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
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.
7) Salesman
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A landmark documentary that captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Bible, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the line from hype to despair.
9) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
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