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Series
Criterion collection volume 828
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
Swedish
Description
Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials: letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an...
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English
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Ingrid Bergman was one of the most glamorous stars in Hollywood--until an international scandal threatened to end her career. She had starred in several now-classic films, and her co-stars included such Hollywood icons as Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Gregory Peck. Already a movie star in her native Sweden, Bergman became an instant sensation in Hollywood and the number-one box-office star in the world. But the most dramatic event in her life took...
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Physical Desc
vi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Bergman was filled with contradictions: she was dependent upon men and chafed under their control; she loved her children but constantly left them to perform; she longed for romance but walked away from her affairs without looking back; she desired to make great films but settled for being an entertainer; she hated the scrutiny of the media but learned to charm reporters"--
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305 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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In 1950, Ingrid Bergman-- already a major star-- has a baby out of wedlock with her Italian lover, film director Roberto Rossellini. Previously held up as an icon of purity, Bergman's fall shocked her legions of American fans. Growing up in Hollywood, Jessica Malloy watches as her PR executive father helps make Ingrid a star at Selznick International Pictures. Over years of fleeting interactions with the actress, Jesse comes to idolize Ingrid, who...
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Flusky is a native Briton and is banished to Australia for murder. When a new governor arrives, he brings with him his cousin Adare, an old friend of Henrietta's, who sets out to help her conquer her demons and return her life to normal. However, is Henrietta going insane, or is someone trying to drive her mad? Is she merely an alcoholic, or is someone trying to poison her?
6) Casablanca
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
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1 videodisc (approximately 70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary producer David O. Selznick (Duel in the Sun) made this eloquent, sensitive, and poignant heartbreaking drama - a remake of the 1936 Swedish film with the same title. Acting great Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) reprised her role in this, her first English-speaking role, co-starring the equally great Leslie Howard (Of Human Bondage). Renowned violinist Holger Brandt (Howard) is delighted to be back with his family after a long tour. But when...
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1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Robert Jordan (Cooper), an American demolition expert who lends his abilities to the anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors that includes the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff), and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the screen's greatest love stories."--Container....
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1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the skinflint businessman next door wants the school condemned.
11) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood's most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding...
12) Joan of Arc
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1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
Language
English
Description
Joan of Arc, a 15th-century French peasant girl rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she is directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. When a new king is crowned, Joan's influence grows and makes him wary of her power, ultimately betraying her to martyrdom.
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Criterion collection volume 60
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2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Swedish
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After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each...
14) Gaslight
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
16) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (8 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful woman with a tainted past ... is enlisted by American agent Devlin ... to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex ... . Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so, he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he's loved her all along."--
17) Spellbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 136
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature - or so she thinks. That is until the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at the Green Manors Mental Asylum. The bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis, where the greatest risk is to fall in love.
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English
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This is a wonderful and revealing film about famed horror and suspense director Alfred Hitchcock. You'll see behind-the-scenes of some of his most famous films including Psycho, Vertigo and many more! Containing interviews, production shorts, trailers, film clips, news segments, and more, this collection offers a rare look into the life and times of the man who became the Master of Suspense!
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