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1) 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
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer but he just can't shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover, and love child, under wraps. That's when his wife announces she's pregnant.
Series
Criterion collection volume 228
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, black and white or color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A documentary-style drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily.
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Language
English
Formats
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...
7) L'innocente
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
After becoming bored with his timid wife, a wealthy aristocrat begins an exciting affair. Upon learning that his wife is having a torrid affair of her own, he is tormented by her infidelity and descends into madness, committing a cruel and horrifying act.
9) Miral
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.
Series
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang. He accepts both offers, setting in motion a plan to destroy the criminals.
11) Intervista
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"A Japanese film crew interviews Fellini about his career as he films the memories of his life as a young journalist walking into his beloved studio Cinecitta for the first time"--Container.
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