Yves Montand
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
Français
Description
An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.
5) Grand Prix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The revved up Oscar winner about the world's most celebrated racing experience! Nine races. One champion. James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato portray Formula One drivers competing to be the best in this slam-you-into-the-driver's-seat tale of speed, spectacle, and intertwined personal lives. Eva Marie Saint and Toshiro Mifune also star. John Frankenheimer (who 32 years later would again stomp the petal to the metal for...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Chain-smoking kooky Daisy consults psychiatrist Chabot to help her stop smoking. Chabot is astonished to learn she has amazing ESP powers and that under hypnosis she reveals her former life as Melinda, an 1840 English coquette.
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