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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 396
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
Series
Criterion collection volume 475
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
As a small time hood Eddie (Robert Mitchum) is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. *"A good, tough unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston Hood." - Vincent Canby, **The New York Times*** *"...give him [Robert Mitchum] a character and the room to develop it, and what he does is...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1251
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gus Van Sant's dreamy, drifty, deadpan second feature an addiction drama based on James Fogle's autobiographical novel captures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix to fix. Swinging between dope-fueled disconnection and edgy paranoia, Matt Dillon plays the leader of a ragtag crew that robs pharmacies for pills, coasting across the 1970s Pacific Northwest while trying to outrun sobriety and fate. With a brilliant...
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. & 1 folded sheet.
Language
English
Description
A young woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
7) Red river
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (205 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art.
9) Armageddon
Series
Criterion collection volume 40
Language
English
Description
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results....
10) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.
12) High and low
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
A wealthy manufacturer is ruined by a kidnapper who demands a huge ransom for what turns out to be the man's chauffeur's son.
Series
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Musashi is now a legendary swordsman whose latest quest is to save an isolated village from rampaging brigands. He also, remains haunted by his memories of Otsu. Meanwhile, the ruthless and increasingly jealous Kojiro plots his battle royal with Musashi to prove who is the finest swordsman in Japan.
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.
17) Seven samurai
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
18) Summertime
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
19) Walkabout
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood. This is the original director's cut
20) Barry Lyndon
Series
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of...
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