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Series
Criterion collection volume 300
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 3
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A young woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
Series
Criterion collection volume 25
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.
6) Peeping Tom
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A study of a voyeuristic maniac who obsessively murders beautiful women while filming the fear in their faces at the moment of death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 80
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The story of an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer preying on young girls. Set in Germany, the film is shot in sepia tones with brilliant blue flashes.
10) Gimme shelter
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers. This special version also contains never-before-seen performances from the Madison Square...
11) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise, "--Container.
14) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
15) Rashōmon
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
日本語
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 118
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
17) Hopscotch
Series
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 to much fun!
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
20) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
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