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Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (127 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages).
Language
Deutsch
Description
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
Series
Criterion collection volume 761
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Full screen version; special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (76 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies.
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1201
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
6) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Director approved DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Español
Description
In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst...
Series
Criterion collection volume 787
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
日本語
Description
After moving to a country town with his mother following his father's death, a young boy befriends a charming, flying, jellyfish-like sprite, only to discover that his schoolmates have similar friends, and that neither they nor the town itself are what they seem to be. Pointedly set in a post-Fukushima world, Murakami's modest-budgeted special effects extravaganza boasts unforgettable creature designs and carries a message of cooperation and hope...
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...
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