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Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who kidnap dozens of young men and women and subject them to the most hideous forms of torture and perversion in an isolated villa.

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Lucas's original plot outline for Star Wars also had a strong resemblance to the plot of The Hidden Fortress, which would be reused for The Phantom Menace. The Hidden Fortress (Criterion Collection) - DVD Region 1 (see Note below).

Christopher Eigeman, Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements. An insightful, charming and amusing look at the wealthy young people who populate New York's socialite scene. The auspicious debut film from writer/director Whit Stillman.

POWELL & PRESSBERGER'S 'THE RED SHOES' - NTSC REGION 1 NORTH AMERICANCRITERION EDITION DVD DISC. AUSSIE REGION 4 PAL EDITION OF THIS FILM - VERY GOOD CONDITION. A MODERN CLASSIC, AND HARD TO FIND !

A Poem Is A Naked Person is a film directed by Les Blank, filmed in 1972-1974 but not publicly released until 2015, after Blank's death. Blank spent a large portion of two years on the film, but then its release was delayed for forty years due to creative differences and music clearance problems.

"Robinson Crusoe On Mars" The Criterion Collection DVD. NTSC Region 1 DVD Feature Length: 110 minutes. Very Good Condition, a few very, very small, light marks on the disc that do not.

Decadent, subversive, and bristling with artistic invention, the myth-born cinema of Jean Cocteau disturbs as much as it charms. Cocteau was the most versatile of artists in prewar Paris. Poet, novelist, playwright, painter, celebrity, and maker of cinema—his many talents converged in bold, dreamlike films that continue to enthrall audiences around the world.

A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. Tokyo Story - (DVD) Criterion Collection Spine No. 217.

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The Tin Drum which earned the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for best foreign-language film is a visionary adaptation from Volker Schl ?. ¼ndorff (Young T ?. ¼rless) of Nobel laureate G nter Grass's acclaimed novel characterized by surreal imagery arresting eroticism and clear-eyed satire.

The film traces the life of St. Francis, from his embracing of religion to his efforts to establish a harmonious middle ground between life and spirituality. The director's assistant and cowriter on this project was Federico Fellini.

Title: CRITERION COLLECTION: IL SORPASSO (2PC) ( DVD) NEW BLURAY. An unpredictable journey that careers from slapstick to tragedy, this film, directed by Dino Risi (the original SCENT OF A WOMAN), is a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life.

With Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn, and Lee as Mookie. We cannot be held responsible for delays if you do not use this reference. This disc is region 1 and will only play on players from Canada or USA, or you may have a player that can play multiple regions.

This is a Region 1 (US) DVD and will only play in Australia and New Zealand if you have a MULTI-REGION DVD player or a Region 1 DVD player. It will NOT play on a Region 4 only (Australia and New Zealand) DVD player.

Title: CRITERION COLLECTION: YOJIMBO (WS) NEW DVD. Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, but Mifune is hungry and impoverished, so he agrees to work as bodyguard (or Yojimbo) for a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) against a sake merchant (Takashi Shimura).

Bigger Than Life is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) DVD. Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s. New video appreciation of Bigger Than Life with author Jonathan Lethem ( Chronic City ).

Through the lens of cinematographer Roger Deakins, the imagery goes from swooning to grimy, and the film's bleakness is balanced with surreal humor and genuine tenderness, making for an affecting, music-fueled vision of doomed love.

The Furies. Both sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama. THE FURIES (1950) - DVD. The Furies is a hidden treasure of American filmmaking, boasting Oscar™–nominated cinematography and vivid supporting turns from Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, and Gilbert Roland.

DVD's are not a Ex Rental, they are a part of my personal DVD collection. A little bit of shelf wear on the outer box but otherwise perfect.

Criterion Collection: City Lights. Title: Criterion Collection: City Lights. Studio: Criterion Collection. Attention: This DVD disc has region code '1' which is suitable for use in U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda.

Mon Oncle - (DVD) Criterion Collection Spine No. 111. Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the antiseptic plastic hose factory where he gets a job.

The inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson star in this nimble tale of international intrigue from master British filmmaker Ronald Neame. Despite being in major hot water with his former colleagues, Kendig refuses to get in line-he's having too much fun.

THE TIN DRUM, which earned the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, is a visionary adaptation from Volker Schlondorff (YOUNG TORLESS) acclaimed novel, characterized by surreal imagery, arresting eroticism, and clear-eyed satire.

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Colonel Mostyn is the chief of a section of the British Security Services when they are embarrassed by the number of spies and defections. Although Boys likes the cars and the girls that his new position attracts he's not any good at it.

Unemployment is rampant in London's working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public housing flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, including with a priggish aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role).

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Famous Samurai movies from Japan's most famous movie director Akira Kurosawa.

Metropolitan (The Criterion Collection). Title: Metropolitan (The Criterion Collection). One of the most the most significant achievements of the American independent film movement of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman's debut, Metropolitan, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man's romantic misadventures among New York City's debutante society.

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With Guitry's witty dialogue and fleet pacing, the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.

These three Spanish-language films, each a tale of childhood in troubled times, showcase his singular fusion of the fantastic and the real. Drawing inspiration from a rich variety of sources, from Alfred Hitchcock to Francisco de Goya, the gothic-infused stories collected here populated by vampires, ghosts, and a fairy-tale princess make evident why del Toro is considered the master cinematic fabulist of our time.

And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II ROME OPEN CITY, PAISAN, and GERMANY GROUND ZERO that he left his first transformative mark on cinema. USED GD The War Trilogy Open City Paisan.

Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, finally comes to home video in the United States. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager (Chen Chang, in his first role) from innocence to juvenile delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil.

Paul Mantee. 1964/color/110 min/NR/widescreen. Format: DVD. This disc is region 1 and will only play on players from Canada or USA, or you may have a player that can play multiple regions. We cannot be held responsible for delays if you do not use this reference.

Francois Truffaut's loving homage to Hollywood gangster films is less a plot-filled film noir than a free-associative meditation on the genre. Charles Aznavour stars as a one-time concert pianist who gained fame as Edouard Saroyan but has since changed his name to Charlie Kohler and plays honky-tonk in an out-of-the-way saloon.

Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples's civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.

Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society.

But things are not always what they seem on the surface, and Johan announces he has become involved with a younger woman. Johan seems to give little thought to the harm he has done to Marianne, while she is devastated by his abandonment of her.

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Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer (Wallace Ford), as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde (Patricia Neal), making a series of compromises that stretch his morality-and his marriage-farther than he'll admit.

Format: DVD. Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita. A 17th century samurai searches for a new lord to serve after the collapse of his clan, but when his request for employment is turned down by a prospective ruler, he wishes to follow the society's code of honor and begs to commit ritualistic suicide on his property.

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Title: CRITERION COLLECTION: HIGH & LOW (SPECIAL) NEW DVD. Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential domestic drama and police procedural High and Low.

The unconnected chapters are like parables, some with a moral. This brotherhood is infused with whimsy as well as belief. NEW The Little Flowers Of St. Francis. USED LN The Little Flowers Of St Francis.