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Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 494
Formats
Description
Director Michael Ritchie's (*The Golden Child*) debut film is a tense and taut look at the world of Olympic skiing. Robert Redford plays the hero, Chappellet, a handsome loner from Colorado, bent on making it to the top and Gene Hackman plays his demanding coach. As the pressure and tension build, Chappellet learns how fleeting and lonely fame can be. Winner of Best Actor (Robert Redford) at the **BAFTA Awards**. Nominated for Best Drama Written Directly...
2) The 39 steps
Pub. Date
[1999], c1935
Description
Follows the excapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 62
Pub. Date
1999
Description
"With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer's THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden who died for God and France. Long thought to have been lost to fire, the original version was miraculously found in perfect condition in 1981 -- in a Norwegian mental institution. Criterion is proud to present...
4) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 75
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 113
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
6) The Rock
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 108
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A retired US Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery) assemble to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs \out.
7) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 105
Pub. Date
[2001]
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.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 118
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 157
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
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.
11) Heat and dust
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Story of a woman who goes to India to find the truth about her aunt who left her British husband for an Indian prince.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 821
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President, his aides and the Pentagon struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Formats
Description
Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant 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 (DVD videodiscs) volume 330
Pub. Date
2006, 1987
Edition
Widescreen format.
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 361
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
After Grey Gardens, the portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie, spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their 1976 vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 388
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Pascal is a young French boy who discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two become inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. A touching allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 452
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Special ed.
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent. .
19) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 543
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special ed.
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.
20) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 65
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen presentation, special ed.
Description
When two offbeat friends fall in love with the same woman, each takes drastic measures to win her heart.
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