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541) Sweetie
Series
Criterion collection volume 356
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston has lived a life of luxury in her cosmopolitan, turn-of-the-century hometown. Determined to reach beyond her sheltered world to help others, the headstrong schoolteacher heads for the impoverished Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to teach in a remote schoolhouse. As she grapples with the ignorance and poverty of the members of her new community, she strives to make a difference in the lives of the children she...
543) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 672-675
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD special edition; Five-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Stromboli. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany.
Europe '51. Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son....
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Harry Street, a frustrated author/big game hunter lies dying in the shadow of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reliving his life, adventures, ambitions, frustrations ... and many loves. Wounded both in his leg and in his spirit, Street lapses in and out of consciousness while memories of his love life pass before his eyes: from the spoiled countess who sought to possess him to the one who loved but left him, taking his spark of life with her long before...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that while things never go according to plan, family and the...
548) The dragon painter
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
None
Description
Restoration of "The dragon painter", full-length 1919 feature in which Hayakawa plays Tatsu, a wild youth living in the mountain forests of Japan, spending all his time painting. Although Tatsu creates beautiful art, local villagers believe that he is insane, as he claims that he has a beloved princess fiancée who has been turned into a dragon. When an renowned-but-aging artist hears of the young hermit's talent, Tatsu is brought to civilization...
549) First among equals
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1964, this television drama follows the careers of four members of Parliament from their backbench days through 20-plus years of alliances and betrayals, triumphs and reversals. Each man aims to become prime minister-- but only one will succeed.
550) Dance, girl, dance
Series
Criterion collection volume 1028
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the '30s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls.
551) The last sin eater
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When 10-year-old Cadi feels responsible for her little sister's death, she searches out the one man she feels can take it away, the Sin Eater. In her quest for redemption, she uncovers a secret that threatens her family and community.
Series
Criterion collection volume 959
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
553) The black rose
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A Saxon youth is run out of England during the Crusades, and goes with his loyal retainer to adventures in China where they become intrigued in the court of Kubla Kahn.
554) Girl on the bridge
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
A beautiful waif is prepared to leap to her death in the Seine but is rescued from her grim fate by a raffish carnival knife thrower.
555) Mississippi burning
Series
Pub. Date
[1988, 2019]
Language
English
Description
In Jessup County, 1964, as three civil rights activists drive down a desolate stretch of highway, headlights ominously draw near. Telling each other to stay calm, they have no way of knowing that in minutes they will disappear into the night and spark one of the most explosive murder investigations in history. Enter straight-laced Ward and deceptively easy-going Anderson.
556) Les misérables
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements.
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Una Mujer Fantástica es la historia de Marina, una mesera y cantante, y Orlando, un hombre mayor, que estan enamorados y planean un futuro juntos. Despues de que Orlando enferma repentinamente y muere, Marina se ve obligada a enfrentar a su familia y a la socidad, y luchar para demostrarles quien es: una mujer fuerte, pasional...fantástica."--provided by container.
Marina and Orlando are in love and planning their future, when one night Orlando...
558) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
559) Captain from Castile
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee his home during the Spanish Inquisition, nobleman Pedro De Vargas escapes with a beautiful peasant girl and joins Cortez on his dangerous expedition to conquer Mexico.
560) Titus
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Titus Andronicus returns to Rome after defeating the Goths, bringing with him Queen Tamora, whose eldest son he has sacrificed. The late emperor's son Saturninus is supposed to marry Titus's daughter Lavinia, however, when his brother Bassianus runs away with her instead, Saturninus marries Tamora. Saturninus and Tamora then plot revenge against Titus. Beginning with the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, bloodshed and brutality run rampant, culminating...
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