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Series
Criterion collection volume 78
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1940]
Language
English
Description
Egbert Souse accidentally foils a bank robbery and is hired as a bank guard.
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Publisher
Jenus films/Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
The partially autobiographical story of a young boy who turns to crime when left to his own devices in an indifferent adult world.
3) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographically-inspired film about a famous film director (Guido Anselmi) who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film, and retreats into his memories and fantasies.
4) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], �1976.
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Series
Criterion collection volume 159
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
日本語
Description
A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Russian
Description
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 234
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Deutsch
Description
Chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive...
Series
Criterion collection volume 257
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Portrays a disgraced President Richard Nixon recording memoirs in an attempt to defend himself and his political legacy.
13) Pickpocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 314
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006], ©1957.
Language
Français
Description
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
Series
Criterion collection volume 323
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Italiano
Description
A four-year-old boy is trapped in a loveless family with his suicidal father and his adulteress mother.
17) Mouchette
Series
Criterion collection volume 363
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A portrait of human desperation, as Mouchette, a teenage girl, must deal with tragic events and a broken family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 327
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on the director's childhood, this film portrays a precocious fifteen-year-old boy as he journeys from childhood to adulthood, his story of sexual maturation, and the unorthodox relationship he has with his free-spirited mother.
Series
Criterion collection volume 351
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Only dimly aware of the shadow of World War II somewhere beyond the Castilian plateau, sisters Isabel and Ana must occupy themselves as their preoccupied scientist father and isolated, languishing mother move in their solitary orbits. After attending the screening of James Whale's "Frankenstein" at a makeshift movie theater in town, Ana becomes obsessed with the idea of befriending the imaginary monster. Largely wordless, the film functions as a striking...
20) Ace in the hole
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Ace in the Hole, in this case, is Leo Minosa, trapped in a cliff dwelling near Albuquerque, N.M. The publicity from his situation could build a winning hand for several people: Chuck Tatum, manipulative veteran newsman; Lorraine, his bored wife who dreams of city lights; Sheriff Gus Kretzer, boosting his re-election campaign; and young Herbie, a reporter who wants to make the big leagues. In 1951, there was no 24-hour cable news, and the Albuquerque...
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