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Series
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
p1931, c2002
Language
Français
Description
A landmark film in early sound production this is a left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner. He oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers are reduced to mere automatons. Blackmailed over his past, he joins up with his old cellmate, and the pair take to the road as tramps. Frequently acknowledged as the inspiration for Chaplin's "Modern times."
2) 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1935
Language
English
Description
A man falsely accused of murder is chased across Scotland as he tries to find those responsible.
Series
Criterion collection volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A journalist fakes mental illness to get himself committed to a mental hospital for a story. Soon, he starts to lose his mind.
7) Summertime
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
8) Walkabout
Series
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
9) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 51
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
10) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 35
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.
12) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Language
English
Formats
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
14) Peeping Tom
Series
Criterion collection volume 58
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[©1999]
Language
English
Description
A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1125
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
"It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly...
17) The third man
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
日本語
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 611
Publisher
2000 Universal Studio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A street puppeteer turned file clerk accidentally discovers a portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich and he hatches a plot to charge $200 for others to make the journey.
20) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
