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Series
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (17 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
Tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true comaraderie, until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Louis Malle's own childhood, the film is an observed tale of courage, cowardice and tragic awakening.
62) Cold war
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
63) Wings
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) inserted in container.
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
66) Missing
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : b&w, ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
68) Days of heaven
Series
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
70) Hoop dreams
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (172 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert.
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
71) Kiss me deadly
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs. The men torture the girl to death as the semiconscious Hammer watches helplessly. He himself escapes extermination when the murderers' car topples off a cliff and he is...
72) Safety last!
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, black and white.
Description
The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint. The story was dramatized for centuries in Noh and kabuki theater, and here it becomes one of the director's most riveting early films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments without the help of their spouses only to find that their spouses are having an affair.
75) Farewell amor
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides to build a life together. Told in three...
Series
Criterion collection volume 728
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Description
A psychologically damaged war veteran and a neglected child begin a startlingly intimate friendship, one that ultimately ignites the suspicion and anger of his friends and neighbors in suburban Paris. It becomes a stirring contemplation of an alliance between two troubled souls.
77) L'argent
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
"In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver, leading him to incarceration and violence"--Container....
78) Quadrophenia
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
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
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages).
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
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