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1) The Irishman
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2020. | Director approved two-DVD special edition. | Criterion Collection | 2 videodiscs (209 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm.) | English |
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An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
2) Kwaidan
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[2015] | Two-DVD special edition. | Criterion Collection | 2 videodiscs (183 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert. | 日本語 |
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After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...
3) The killers
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[2015] | Two-DVD special edition. | The Criterion Collection | 2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert. | English | On Shelf
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Main Media DVD Killers |
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Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight,...
4) Red river
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[2014] | Two-DVD special edition. | [Publisher not identified] | 2 videodiscs (127 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert. | English |
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With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
5) Othello
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[2017] | DVD special edition. | The Criterion Collection | 3 videodiscs (93, 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) | English | On Shelf
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Southside AV DVD 822.33 Oth |
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Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
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