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Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
22) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
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.
23) Heaven can wait
Series
Criterion collection volume 291
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
24) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 353
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
"Don Juan-ish yuppie Tomás Tomás spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he can't keep their names straight -- until one of his many conquests, a spurned nurse, gives him a taste of his own medicine."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable portrait of the early life of the Great Emancipator, young Mr. Lincoln, after teaching himself law, has barely started practicing when an Independence Day celebration ends with a stabbing. Abe first stops a lynch mob from killing brothers Matt and Adam Clay, and then defends them against a seasoned prosecutor and his crafty adviser. As presented here, Lincoln is a strong but peaceful frontier democrat, his quiet, awkward, folksy...
27) Breathless
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
A small-time criminal kills a police officer, setting in motion a tragic series of events for both himself and his American girlfriend.
28) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
29) Missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed political drama about a father's search for his missing son in Latin America.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benjamin Button was a not-so-ordinary man who began his life under unusual circumstances. Born in his eighties, and unable to stop time, he continued to age backwards. His life story is detailed from the end of World War I in 1918 and into the 21st century, when he discovered a love that lasted beyond time.
"...a triumph of technique."--A.O. Scott, New York Times
"...pleasures come in a series of small packages, with treats inside as tasty as they...
31) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
33) Monsoon wedding
Series
Criterion collection volume 489
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When one family reunites for an unexpected wedding, sparks fly as love, lust, and secrets are revealed.
34) Wings of desire
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
35) Howards End
Series
Criterion collection volume 488
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
36) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
37) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Pub. Date
[2010]
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 a...
39) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
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