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Series
Criterion collection volume 13
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
2) Armageddon
Series
Criterion collection volume 40
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results....
3) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1171
Language
English
Description
Zeffirelli's production of Romeo and Juliet is considered to be one of the great Shakespeare adaptations, and it was the first to cast actual teenagers in the lead roles. Young lovers have an affair which threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families during the Renaissance.
5) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York, who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
6) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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 2
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
10) Ace in the hole
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chuck Tatum is an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime. He will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop.
11) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the Farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
Series
Criterion collection volume 460
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Special ed. ; Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In order to prove he is devoted to God, a 4th century saint stays on the top of a pillar for over six years while he is tempted by the devil in the form of a beautiful woman.
13) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mia ... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend ... enters the picture"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (34 pages : illustrations).
Language
Swedish
Description
A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan.
15) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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 who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
"Compact, propulsive screenplay ..."--Variety.
"One of the finest spy films ever."--TV Guide.
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. Based on James Jones' novel, this is the story of Charlie Company's landing and battle experience there in 1942. The story concentrates on how the battle affects, and is effected by, Commanding officer Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, Captain James Staros, Sgt. Edward Welsh, and two privates, Witt and Bell. Charlie Company is attacking...
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A silent film that follows five city dwellers as they enjoy a weekend outing in Weimer-era Berlin.
19) Rosemary's baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby."
Series
Criterion collection volume 613
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Marie is an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student. Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm's outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works.