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Series
Criterion collection volume 255
Publisher
Castle Hill Productions
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
A successful Broadway actress is touched by a personal crisis that gives her the strenght to turn this challenge into her greatest performance.
2) Stalker
Series
Criterion collection volume 888
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1979.
Language
Russian
Description
Inside a mysterious realm called the Zone there is the Room, a place that will grant you your innermost desire. Stalker, a man that knows how to pass the deadly secrets of the Zone, escorts a group of people to the Room.
3) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
4) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
7) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
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.
8) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
日本語
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
9) RoboCop
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a good cop gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "Robocop." Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, Robocop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new, hardened exterior, Robocop is tormented by scraps of memory of...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
12) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.
13) Life of Brian
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
14) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 100
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Contains eighteen videos by the Beastie Boys. Each disc is divided into two sections: videos in sequence and videos with supplements. Includes commentary by Evan Bernard, Adam Bernstein, Tamra Davis, Spike Jonze, and others.
16) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
17) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.
19) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
20) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
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