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21) Burden of dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 287
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career -- Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an...
22) Casque d'or
Series
Criterion collection volume 270
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.
Series
Criterion collection volume 308
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Paul, a young idealistic would-be intellectual, struggles to forge a relationship with incipient pop star Madeleine in 1960s Paris.
24) The River
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
Series
Criterion collection volume 845
Language
English
Description
In his third feature, director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) whose parents are divorcing. The father (Jeff Daniels) and mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized, half-savage fashion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for...
26) La bête humaine
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (34 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) inserted in container.
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
27) Night on earth
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
Series
Criterion collection volume 410
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 chiefly unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
Series
Criterion collection volume 459
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social position collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
Series
Criterion collection volume 460
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Español
Description
"Tells the story of an early Christian ascetic -- modeled on Saint Simon Stylites -- who has lived atop a pillar, surrounded by a barren landscape, for six years, six months, and six days to prove his devotion to God. But the Devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic's vision of religious conviction, Luis Buñuel's short and sweet satire is one of his most renowned works of surrealism"--Container....
Series
Criterion collection volume 480
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (574 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 466
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his strangulation and mutilation. Kichizo is tired of life, of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Middle-aged widower Sir William Hamilton marries Emma Hart, a beautiful dance hall girl, and introduces her to society leading to her scandalous affair with English Navy officer, Horatio Nelson.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1071
Language
English
Description
After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
Series
Criterion collection volume 513
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([27] pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Non-actors play versions of themselves in loosely outlined scenarios. The sense of what an ordinary day might have been like in Weimar-era Germany is enchantingly captured in this bit of cinematic amber.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
A scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, in which a weekend at a marquis's countryside chateau lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances. The film was a victim of tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after premiere audiences rejected it in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. It wasn't reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned...
38) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 pages] ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 601
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
After mapping a new diamond mine, four geologists are trapped by a fire in the woods of Siberia.
40) Week end
Series
Criterion collection volume 635
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to...
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