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1) Trafic =
Series
Criterion collection volume 439
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
Français
Description
The bumbling Monsieur Hulot, outfitted with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris's highways and byways.
Series
Criterion collection volume 25
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1037
Language
English
Description
Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
4) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader that consumes everyone in its path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
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Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Internationally renown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant 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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 317
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Film version of the opera uses a combination of dramatization and stage performances to tell the story of a poet who dreams up three women who each break his heart.
8) Naked City
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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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.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress María José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence.
10) The last emperor
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Pu Yi is the last of the Emperor of China who from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City was the object of worship by half a billion people. From his abdication, to his decline and dissolute lifestyle. His life was exploitated by the invading Japanese and his term as the emperor of Japan's Manchuguo. He was eventually released back to public life in 1959 and died as gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking.
11) Black Orpheus
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Portuguese
Description
The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Rio de Janeiro at Carnival time. Includes interviews, documentary, trailer, and essay.
"Against a background of the Rio carnival, a black tram driver accidentally kills his girlfriend, and after seeking her in the nether regions kills himself to be with her"--Halliwell's Film and video guide, 5th edition.
12) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection volume 65
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Max Fischer, a tenth-grader at Rushmore Academy, is involved in too many extra-curricular activities, and, as he tries to avoid getting expelled because of his grades, Max befriends a first-grade teacher, whom he falls in love with, and a melancholy, self-made millinaire.
13) Journey to Italy
Series
Criterion collection volume 675
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013, ©1954
Language
English
Description
Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Robert Rossellini's Journey to Italy charges the declining marriage of a couple from England on a trip in the countryside near Naples. More than just the anatomy of a relationship, Rossellini's masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Much to the consternation of her family, a German woman in her sixties falls in love with and marries a much younger Moroccan immigrant.
Series
Criterion collection volume 695
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed,...
16) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
Series
Criterion collection volume 700
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox have a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash and visiting nephew Kristofferson until Mr. Fox decides to plan a heist of three local farms to steal all their chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
Series
Criterion collection volume 711
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Captures all the fun, excitement, and unforgettable music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo at the height of Beatlemania. The Beatles perform their songs and look for adventure, all while avoiding hordes of screaming fans. Packed with all-time Beatle favorites, including A Hard Day's Night; All My Loving; Can't Buy Me Love; I Should Have Known Better; She Loves You; Tell Me Why; and more.
19) Mon oncle =
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
Description
A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.
20) Playtime
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
Description
A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
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