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1) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 33
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Language
English
Description
In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
Series
Criterion collection volume 77
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
6) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + guide.
Language
English
Description
The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Language
English
Description
A woman psychiatrist becomes involved in a series of convoluted swindles, each of which is complicated further by her romantic feelings for one of the con men.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
9) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
10) Mon oncle
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
11) Quadrophenia
Series
Criterion collection volume 624
Language
English
Description
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division.
Series
Criterion collection volume 109
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.
Series
Criterion collection volume 171
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + notes.
Language
Français
Description
A screenwriter is torn between the demands of a proud European director, a crude and arrogant American producer and his disillusioned wife, Camille, as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey. It is a study of marital breakdown, artistic compromise, and the cinematic process. DVD.
15) Pépé le Moko
Series
Criterion collection volume 172
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The notorious Pépé le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him to risk his life and leave its confines once and for all.
16) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
17) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 231
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Locked away in an asylum for a decade and teetering between life and death, the criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse has scribbled his last will and testament: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime. When the document's nefarious writings start leading to terrifying parallels in reality, it's up to Berlin's star detective, Inspector Lohmann, to connect the fragmented, maddening clues in a case unlike any other. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse appropriates...
19) I vitelloni
Series
Criterion collection volume 246
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 297
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unp. : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
"Follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly." -- Container.
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