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Series
Criterion collection volume 459
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
A group of high-society friends find themselves unable to leave their host's mansion after a lavish dinner party.
62) House: hausu
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
Rather than spend the summer with her father and his girlfriend, Oshare decides to bring her friends to her aunt's country home, but do not realize that her aunt is actually dead and the house is haunted.
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country,...
64) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned son and then heads to Texas to reunite the boy with his mother. Bonus features include commentary with Director Wim Wenders, interviews, deleted scenes, Super 8 home movies, gallery of photos, and a booklet with an essay from film critic Nick Roddick and interviews with cast and crew.
After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned...
65) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
Series
Criterion collection volume 478
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
X attempts to convince A that they met last year in this same hotel (or maybe it was in a different one). They loved each other, emotionally and physically. She agrees to elope with him and get away from M, her husband (or lover). At the last moment, she refuses (for whatever reason) and asked for a one year postponement. Now, the year has passed and X has come to their agreed rendezvous to take her away. A claims she does not recognize X and does...
67) Wings of desire
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An angel falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist and is willing to give up his immortal life to be with her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II. Julien (Malle) is 12 years old, and the smartest boy in his class at boarding school when a new student appears. The two form a friendship even though Julien senses that there is something different about his new friend.
69) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
70) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Persian
Description
Close-Up is the true story of Hossain Sabzian, a poor, underemployed, divorced, father of two. He is obsessed with the cinema. In 1989, Sabzian convinced the Ahankhah family that he was Iranian filmmaker Moshen Makhmalbaf (The Silence) and that he would cast them in his next film. Eventually, the family caught on to the ruse and contacted the authorities, leading to Sabzian's arrest. A journalist wrote a column about the incident that Kiarostami read....
72) Cronos =
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2010.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris happens upon an ancient golden device, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel.
73) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend 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,...
74) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dramatizes the final days of Bobby Sands, a twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member who went on a hunger strike at Maze Prison to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.
75) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lorre stars as a psychopathic murderer who is hunted by both the police and the criminal underworld.
76) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the...
78) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A young ballerina is torn between love and success.
79) Stagecoach
Series
Criterion collection volume 516
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
80) Yojimbo
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Description
A wily samurai turns a war between two clans to his advantage.
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