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Series
Criterion collection volume 286
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages :illustrations ;19 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
23) Monsoon wedding
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Love, lust and hope envelop an upper middle-class Indian family and their world-wide guests as they celebrate for four days the arranged marriage of their daughter to an East Indian man from Texas.
24) 8 women
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
25) Ran
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons, who turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
A Danish hairdresser recovering from recent cancer treatments discovers that her husband has been cheating with a young co-worker and travels alone to her daughter's wedding in Italy where she sparks a connection with the father of the groom.
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 11
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
After breaking up with her boyfriend, 30-year-old Stefania vacations on the Greek "Isle of Love", and reluctantly agrees to chaperone her precocious 15-year-old niece, Meggy. But Stefania doesn't know that Meggy plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over, and the guy she has her eye on is none other than Stefania's ex.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A woman, with a checkered past, divorces her abusive, addict husband after he beats up their young son, breaking his leg and giving him a concussion. The husband's wealthy family tries to gain custody of the boy through the courts, but when that fails they hire a man to do whatever it takes to discredit the mother.
29) 3 Faces
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Persian
Description
Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
Series
Criterion collection volume 193
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A jealous husband is accused of murder after a man his wife was flirting with turns up dead.
Series
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (451 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Nicknamed "The Eagle" for his unerring intuition, detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson exudes competence and self-assurance but beneath the facade is a tormented personality. Pulled off a plane as he's going to visit his dying mother in Iceland, Hallgrimsson learns that he's been selected to lead a team of Danish investigators gathered to stem the explosion of European cross-border organized crime. He's been handpicked by the newly appointed head of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
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.
34) Triple agent
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
White Russian Army general Fydor acts as a spy against the Marxists, Soviets, and Fascists in 1930s France, and manages to deceive his long-suffering wife until the forces of history catch up with him.
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.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a burly and happily married housing contractor. One afternoon, he picks up his son from school and meets the teacher, a beauty named Mademoiselle Chambon. As their flirtation slowly builds, Jean soon comes to a crossroads, having to choose between his bond with Chambon or the responsibility and care he feels for his wife and child.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When Pigoil's adulterous wife leaves with his beloved son, he gambles everything to get him back. As the previous manager of the now closed Chansonia Theatre, he makes a deal with the new owner to give him one month to turn the theater around and make a profit.
40) Die Nibelungen
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (291 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a dramatization of the Norse myth, Siegfried fights dragons and ogres while traveling through the mystical Woden Wood, but his greatest challenge is the battle for the love of Kriemhild, King Gunther's sister ; Kriemhild is obsessed with avenging the death of Siegfried, and enlists the assistance of Attila the Hun to destroy her brother's kingdom in this dramatization of the thirteenth-century Norse legend.
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