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Series
Criterion collection volume 636
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
In 16th century Japan, a desperate village hires seven out-of-work samurai to protect inhabitants from invading bandits.
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
Series
Criterion collection volume 670
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled."--Container.
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
Russian
Description
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. The film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes, gradually emerging as a man struggling to preserve his creative and religious integrity.
8) Danton
Series
Criterion collection volume 464
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of author Laurens van der Post's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war in Japan.
10) Antonio Gaudí
Series
Criterion collection volume 425
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
Antonio Gaudí designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks. Takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí's truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral.
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Italiano
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.
12) The furies
Series
Criterion collection volume 435
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.
13) Shoah, Volume 1
Series
Criterion collection volume 663
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a Jewish director is forced to hide in the basement of his theater while his wife stars in its latest production.
Series
Criterion collection volume 351
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"Ocurrió en un pueblo castellano a mediados de los años cuarenta, es decir, en plena postguerra. Un domingo, Isabel y Ana, dos hermanas de ocho y seis años respectivamente, vieron la película "El Doctor Frankenstein". A la pequeña le causó tal impresión que no dejaba de hacer preguntas sobre el monstruo a su hermana mayor. Cierto día, la familia se dio cuenta de que Ana había desaparecido de la casa. Y mientras todo el pueblo la buscaba,...
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Focuses on 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...
18) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Pub. Date
c2009
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.
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