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Series
Criterion collection volume 844
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including Karl Malden and Pina Pellicer) nuanced depictions of conflicted...
Series
Criterion collection volume 898
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets, but especially Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Classic film of adventure in which duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner of war camp during World War I.
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Thirty schoolboys lost on a tropical island after a plane crash revert to savagery in their efforts to survive.
6) Rashomon
Series
Pub. Date
2002, 1950.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Internationally reknown 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 353
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Don Juan-ish yuppie Tomás Tomás spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he can't keep their names straight. That is until one spurned nurse gives him a taste of his own medicine.
10) Life of Brian
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Series
Criterion collection volume 427
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress Mara̕ Jos,̌ 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.
12) Che
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
A portrait of the man who overthrew a dictatorship and became a revolutionary before his life was ended. Includes both Che Part One: The Argentine and Part Two: Guerrilla and bonus features.
13) Howards End
Series
Criterion collection volume 488
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In Edwardian England, two well educated sisters each find different ways to deal with the constraints of society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin's first film with dialogue in which he is a modest unassuming proprietor of a small barber shop in the Jewish ghetto Tomania who is mistaken for the country's maniacal dictator, Adenoid Hynkel.
15) Something wild
Series
Criterion collection volume 563
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A straitlaced Wall Street tax consultant sets off on a wild and ultimately dangerous weekend with an unpredictable woman he has just met.
16) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An innocent man is accused of a murder he did not commit and must find the real murderer to clear his own name. In doing so, he becomes involved with an international spy ring.
17) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
18) Godzilla
Series
Criterion collection volume 594
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
Godzilla, king of the monsters: An American reporter investigating a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan comes face to face with Godzilla, an ancient powerful creature capable of reducing Tokyo to smoldering rubble.
Gojira: A prehistoric monster ravages metropolitan Tokyo. Scientists suspect that H-bomb tests awakened it from a two-million year sleep. They try to develop techniques to stop the monster.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Chinese
Description
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite--until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An authentic depiction of the tragedy of the sinking of the cruise ship Titanic, in which 1500 people died.
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