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Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1963, c2008
Language
日本語
Description
A shoe company magnate must decide whether to save his company or his chauffeur's kidnapped son.
3) 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 97
Publisher
Universal City Studios
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise, "--Container.
5) Armageddon
Series
Criterion collection volume 40
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997].
Language
English
Description
When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant an atomic bomb that should destroy it.
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 33
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the communal life of the Eskimos and their struggle for existence. Special features includes excerpts from the 1958 TV documentary: Flaherty and film : Mrs. Frances Flaherty remembers Nanook of the North (8 min.); still gallery of Flaherty's photographs of life in the Arctic.
9) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Dickens' tale of a young orphan on the streets of London.
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end.
10) For all mankind
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Presents an impressionistic look at NASA's first manned flights to the moon as filmed and narrated by the astronauts who made the voyages.
11) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
12) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the demands of career and love.
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.
14) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader that consumes everyone in its path.
15) Gimme shelter
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
16) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
19) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and 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
Language
English
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Description
Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
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