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21) Down by law
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet insert in container.
Description
"Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape. When fate brings together three hapless men--an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and a strong-willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni)--in a Louisiana prison, a singular adventure ensues. Described by Jarmusch as a "neo-Beat noir comedy," Down...
Series
Criterion collection volume 154
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
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.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
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.
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.
27) The killers
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 brochures.
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (18 cm)
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
29) 3 women
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines.
Series
Criterion collection volume 261-264
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (618 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (35 p. : ill.,18 cm).
Description
The sometimes tumultuous life of an extended family in early 20th-century Sweden, as seen through the eyes of two children.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Sicily in the 1800s, this film depicts Prince Salina, a great landowner, who watches the decrease of the aristocracy's power and influence during the 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy under the royal House of Savoy. The upper class tries to ignore the nationalist movements, while the prince's rebellious nephew joins Giuseppe Garibaldi's revolutionaries.
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (218 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury to take up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff. Donzoko (125 min.): Sutekichi, a vulgar, comical thief takes up residence in a slum flophouse inhabited by many eccentric, destitute people. Osugi, the cruel landlady, and her sister,...
33) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.
Series
The Criterion Collection volume 224
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1953
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.
Series
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unp. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
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.
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.
38) Kagemusha
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (45 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In 16th century feudal Japan, a thief is saved from execution to train as a double for one of the warlords, Shingen. Three warlords, Shingen, Nobunaga, and Ieyasu, battle for total power over Japan. When Shingen receives a mortal wound, the double must take his place to hold the Takeda clan together.
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Internationally renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
40) Pickpocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 314
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
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