Paramount Pictures Corporation
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Michael Ritchie's (*The Golden Child*) debut film is a tense and taut look at the world of Olympic skiing. Robert Redford plays the hero, Chappellet, a handsome loner from Colorado, bent on making it to the top and Gene Hackman plays his demanding coach. As the pressure and tension build, Chappellet learns how fleeting and lonely fame can be. Winner of Best Actor (Robert Redford) at the **BAFTA Awards**. Nominated for Best Drama Written Directly...
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Winner of the Best Director Award and Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
4) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen version ; [Special edition].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([32] pages)
Language
English
Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (Blu-ray) (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the life and loves of Benjamin Button who was born an old man and ages in reverse.
7) The furies
Series
Criterion collection volume 435
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...