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21) Coup de torchon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
Français
Description
After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village, is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Part I starts with the coronation of Ivan the Terrible and concludes with his return to power after the death of his wife. Part II covers the attempt to assassinate him in 1564. The third part of the saga was never made due to the death of Eisenstein.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
日本語
Description
A princess must escape across enemy lines with the royal treasure, guarded only by a loyal general and two greedy peasants.
In one of the many classic collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and his leading man Toshirô Mifune, this 1958 film tells the story of a warrior and a princess trying against all odds to return to their homeland with their fortune. Along the way, they are simultaneously assisted and thwarted by two itinerant and not...
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
Persian
Formats
Description
This docudrama comments on Iranian society. Ali Sabzian claims to a fellow passenger on the bus that he is the famous Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. He then becomes involved with his fellow passenger and her family, claiming that he has cast the family's son in a major role. At some point this tale comes unravelled, and the family takes him to court. A well-meaning judge persuades the family to drop the charges against this unemployed man....
Series
Criterion collection volume 948
Language
English
Formats
Description
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant,...
26) Rashōmon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 129
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Français
Description
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
The story of the lives of three sisters, one of whom is dying of cancer, and of their servant, who hears everything that happens.
Series
Criterion collection volume 148
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he single-handedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marries him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A distinguised professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 207
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A small time porno filmmaker in Osaka, struggles to cope with the corrupt sexual mores in his family, the world outside, and in himself. He peddles his films to condescending executives and panders a little on the side, believing he provides a socially valuable service.
34) Jubilee
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex."--Container back.
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 210
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman (Jonas Persson) who is tormented by anxiety, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. A school teacher (Maerta Lundberg) offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss of faith....
37) Pépé le Moko
Series
Criterion collection volume 172
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003].
Language
Français
Description
The notorious Pépé le Moko is a wanted man-- women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Cashah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him to risk his life and leave its confines once and for all.
Series
Criterion collection volume 193
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Français
Description
A jealous husband is accused of murder after a man his wife was flirting with turns up dead.
Series
Criterion collection volume 209
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003].
Language
English
Description
"While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family's already fragile ties are tested when Karin discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, her father, husband, and younger brother are unable to prevent Karin's harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 211
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ill -- would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother?
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