Image Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 351
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Ocurrió en un pueblo castellano a mediados de los años cuarenta, es decir, en plena postguerra. Un domingo, Isabel y Ana, dos hermanas de ocho y seis años respectivamente, vieron la película "El Doctor Frankenstein". A la pequeña le causó tal impresión que no dejaba de hacer preguntas sobre el monstruo a su hermana mayor. Cierto día, la familia se dio cuenta de que Ana había desaparecido de la casa. Y mientras todo el pueblo la buscaba,...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The patron saint celebration in an indigenous community is the setting where a photographer loses his shadow. In a spiritual exchange during a traditional funeral, he will also lose the convictions that keep him tied to his world. In order to recover, he will have to travel an initiatory path along with the inhabitants of the community, sharing a different way of approaching the environment. However, only when he accepts the loss of his shadow will...
5) Viridiana
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Viridiana, who is about to become a nun, does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
When his father tries to force him to get a job, the rich Alejandro persuades Diego to pretend to be him. Playing the big spender, he attracts the sexy golddigger Elisa, and Diego pretending to be impoverished meets Maria, Elisa's saucy twin sister.
Cuando su padre trata de obligarlo a conseguir trabajo, Alejandro, el heredero de la industria hotelera, convence a su amigo, Diego, para que asuma su identidad y tome su lugar. Diego, haciendo este papel,...
Series
The criterion collection volume 460
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In order to prove he is devoted to God, a 4th century saint stays on the top of a pillar for over six years while he is tempted by the devil in the form of a beautiful woman.
Sim̤n, un estilita del siglo IV, se ha mantenido en penitencia de pie sobre una columna por m̀s de seis ąos. Durante varios d̕as, Sim̤n es tentado por el diablo, quien se le aparece en forma de mujer hermosa.
Series
Criterion collection volume 459
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special edition; Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
Un grupo de burgueses de la ciudad de México son invitados a una cena en la mansión de los N̤bile despǔs...