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c2006, p1943., Adult, Janus Films Call No: DVD Fic Amarcord Edition: Special ed. double-disc set features/Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 4.Summary Note: Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
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-- Boudu sauvé des eaux.2005, 1932., General, Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Boudu Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 305.Summary Note: In Renoir's satire of French middle-class society, a well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and the bookseller's family dedicates itself to reforming the vagrant.
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-- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet2006, p1948., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD SHK Fic Hamlet (1948) Edition: Digitally remastered version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 82.Summary Note: Shakespeare's tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, who senses treachery behind his father's death.
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[2005]., Adult, Touchstone Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Life Edition: [Widescreen ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 300.Summary Note: 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 of Zissou, and Eleanor, Zissou's estranged wife and co-producer. They face overwhelming complications including pirates, kidnapping, and bankruptcy.
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2008., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Bio M678s Edition: Special ed.; Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 432.Summary Note: A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
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2006., General, Criterion Collection ; Distributed by Image Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Pandora's box Edition: Standard format ; 2-disc special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 358.Summary Note: Follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone with whom she comes in contact.
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c2002, p1950., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Rashomon Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: 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.
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-- Rat catcher.2002., General, Home Vision Entertainment Call No: SC DVD Fic Ratcatcher Edition: [Widescreen version]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 162.Summary Note: A haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970's, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him.
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-- Ballon rouge2008., Juvenile, Criterion Collection Call No: FR DVD Fic Red B Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)Summary Note: "Newly restored and available for the first time on DVD, Albert Lamorisse's exquisite The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children's films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. With its glorious palette and allegorical purity, the Academy Award-winning The Red Balloon has enchanted movie lovers, young and old, for generations."--Container.
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2013., Adult, Criterion Collection Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic RoyalT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 157
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1999., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Sanjuro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 53.Summary Note: A samurai turns up in a town where nine young men are plotting to overthrow a corrupt regime. He takes charge of the group and attempts to formulate a plan to deceive the old bosses.
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-- Shichinin no samurai.2006., General, Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Seven S Edition: Special ed. , English subtitled version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 2.Summary Note: Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
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2012., Adult, Criterion Collection Call No: SC DVD Fic Shallow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 616.Summary Note: "This diabolical thriller was the first film from director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge (the smashing team behind Trainspotting). In Shallow Grave, three self-involved Edinburgh roommates-played by Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table), Christopher Eccleston (Elizabeth), and Ewan McGregor (Beginners), in his first starring role-take in a brooding boarder. When he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle bit of Hitchcockian nastiness."--Container.
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2008., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Spy W Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 452.Summary Note: 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. .
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-- Kumonosu-jo.1957, c2003., Adult, Criterion Collection Call No: DVD SHK Fic Throne Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodisc) Volume: 190.Summary Note: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.