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Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (19 x 38 cm, folded)
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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 899
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, and a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
4) Vampyr
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special edition; Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (73 min) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young traveler is assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a remote village in France, finding that his own nightmares are coming true.
5) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet.
Language
English
Description
"Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen; Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 885
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
"With his third feature film, The Lodger: a Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women. The film is animated by the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter, both of whom are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty English schoolboys are stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the "next" war. With no adults present, they quickly turn into savages.
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 458
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] pages ; 19 cm)
Language
Español
Description
El norte: Enrique and Rosa are brother and sister Mayan Indian peasants, living in the mountains of Guatemala. When the village attempts to organize for better treatment, Enrique and Rosa are forced to flee as the Guatemalan army is sent in to punish the townspeople. Receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant, they make their way to Los Angeles, hoping to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants.
The...
Series
Criterion collection volume 478
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
Director-approved special ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
Feature : "[T]his surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of...
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