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Criterion collection volume 1188
Language
English
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Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
2) Moonstruck
Series
Criterion collection volume 1056
Language
English
Description
"A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air: One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
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
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and his own internal conflicts to create renowned works of art. This version includes retranslated subtitles and the restoration of 40% of the original dialog.
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1998.
Language
日本語
Description
A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma -- should he pay the ransom anyway and risk losing his position?
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
日本語
Description
Musashi is a wondering samurai swordsman who is honing his skills during a succession of duels. When he defeats a succession of students, he becomes marked for death and is attacked in a series of cowardly ambushes. Romantic threads are further complicated when two women meet and discover their rivalry. Musashi earns himself an archenemy who vows to defeat Musashi to make his name the finest in all of Japan.
8) Easy rider
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Language
English
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Description
Two young men on a motorcycle trip to New Orleans encounter hippies, drugs, rednecks and prostitutes along the way.
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally impaired, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each oth
10) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engstrom travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engstrom quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The number-three ranked killer in the Tokyo underworld carries out three hits, but bungles a fourth. Then both the women in his life try to kill him. The next thing he knows, he is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the very dangerous No. 1 killer ...
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A black streetcar conductor and talented singer/dancer falls in love with a country girl during Rio's carnival and follows her into the world of death in pursuit of his love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
日本語
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness. Includes theatrical trailer.
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.
17) Cléo de 5 à 7
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.
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