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62) The Ascent
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces suring World War II.
63) Bottle rocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 450
Pub. Date
©2008, ©1996
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
After his stay in a mental hospital, Anthony reconnects with best pal Dignan, who greets his friend with a plan for them to become professional thieves working for a criminal mastermind named Mr. Henry. Step one: recruit a wheelman--Bob, a bored, wealthy 20-something living in fear of his older brother. Step two: rob a strip mall bookstore. Step three: go on the lam, which in this case means hide out at a motel in the middle of nowhere and, for Anthony...
Series
Criterion collection volume 440
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p. ; ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
66) Hobson's choice
Series
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong eldest daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life.
67) 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
The Criterion collection volume 458
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).
Description
El norte: Enrique and Rosa are brother and sister Mayan Indian peasants, living in the mountains of Guatemala. When the village attempts to organize for better treatment, Enrique and Rosa are forced to flee as the Guatemalan army is sent in to punish the townspeople. Receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant, they make their way to Los Angeles, hoping to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants....
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (34 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pascal is a young French boy who discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two become inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. A touching allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
70) Short cuts
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at human life and American culture with over 20 characters' lives interweaving.
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
72) 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.
73) Danton
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm)
Description
Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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 positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
76) Hunger
Series
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
77) Made in U.S.A
Series
Criterion collection volume 481
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([13] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
This chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism rummages through an intricate plot for a former lover who might have been assassinated, and also points toward more political cinema.
Set in the near future, Paula, a leftist writer, goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet ([32] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In this 'enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap' [-- Container], an elderly couple must move in with their adult children when they lose their home.
79) Paris, Texas
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (42 p. ; col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
After having been missing for four years and presumed dead, Travis emerges from the desert near the Texas-Mexico border and collapses at a gas station. His younger brother, Walt, a billboard artist, takes him to Walt's Los Angeles home where Travis' son, Hunter, has lived with Walt and Walt's wife, Anne, since Travis and his wife, Jane, disappeared. Travis reestablishes a relationship with Hunter, finds Jane and brings about a reunion between Jane...
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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