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Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
The Criterion Collection, Inc. ,
Language
English
Description
Internationally renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1991, ℗2017.
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
Series
The Criterion collection volume 31
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
4) Oliver Twist
Series
The Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley₂s classic children₂s novel by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home), in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse, is a cinematic tour de force. After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, portrayed as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones, ending with his final temptation on the cross.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A dramatized account of the slave uprising led by laborer-turned-gladiator Spartacus, against the combined forces of the late Roman Republic. After escaping from a gladiator training ground, Spartacus convinces his fellow escapees to join him in an attempt to free all Roman slaves, and becomes the head of a massive revolt that threatens to overwhelm the power of Rome.
10) Cat people
Series
Criterion collection volume 833
Language
English
Description
A Serbian immigrant living in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
11) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
"Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape. When fate brings together three hapless men--an...
12) Hopscotch
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
14) My life as a dog
Series
The Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
Swedish
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
Series
Criterion collection volume 170
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
"When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 226
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
日本語
Description
An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
17) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version and special features.
18) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Deutsch
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the D�usseldorf child murders of 1929.
Series
Criterion collection volume 257
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Portrays a disgraced President Richard Nixon recording memoirs in an attempt to defend himself and his political legacy.
20) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
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