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41) The River
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (25 pages ; illustrations ; 18 cm)
Description
A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, Ill. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
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.
46) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
48) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her. Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, Grover, Otis, Max and Skippy remain on campus, denying the real-world futures awaiting them. Nobody wants to radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, who tends bar and is in his tenth year. The four friends typify a generation of adults-to-be unable to...
50) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
53) 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...
54) House of games
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Travelers on a trans-European train are put up in a hotel for the night due to bad weather. Shortly after the journey begins in the morning, people begin to disappear. Bonus features include commentary; documentary; essays; and more.
56) The naked city
Series
Criterion collection volume 380
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.
57) Night on earth
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
58) Overlord
Series
Pub. Date
2007, c1975
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Drafted into the British army, young Tom Beddows leaves his parents and his beloved cocker spaniel and reports for military duty, arriving late because of a German air raid. In training camp, he makes friends with Jack and Arthur. They all wish the war would go away, so they could return to their parents and girlfriends. Finally ordered into combat, a sense of impending doom prompts Tom to write a consoling letter to be delivered to his parents instead...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
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