Essential Art House: Vol V
May 5, 2014Essential Art House: Vol V
Call Number: DVD00828-DVD00833
Director/Distributor: Various
Format: DVD
Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2010]
Films:
Brief Encounter
Call Number: DVD00828
by Noel Coward; Ronald Neame; Anthony Havelock-Allan; David Lean; Celia Johnson; Trevor Howard; Stanley Holloway; Joyce Carey; Cyril Raymond; Cineguild (Firm); Pinewood Films Ltd.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English.
Notes: Originally released 1945 (86 mins).
Summary: Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
OCLC #: 608103943
8 1/2
Call Number: DVD00829
by Federico Fellini; Angelo Rizzoli; Ennio Flaiano; Marcello Mastroianni; Claudia Cardinale; Anouk Aimée; Sandra Milo; Rossella Falk; Barbara Steele; Nino Rota; Titanus (Firm); Cineriz (Firm); Image Entertainment (Firm); Corinth Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Italian.
Notes: Originally released 1963 (138 mins).
Summary: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
OCLC #: 606891485
Floating Weeds
Call Number: DVD00830
by Yasujirō Ozu; Masaichi Nagata; Kōgo Noda; Ganjirō Nakamura; Machiko Kyo; Ayako Wakao; Hiroshi Kawaguchi; Haruko Sugimura; Hitomi Nozoe; Chishū Ryū; Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese.
Notes: Originally released 1969 (119 mins).
Summary: A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.
OCLC #: 608101656
Jules and Jim
Call Number: DVD00831
by François Truffaut; Jeanne Moreau; Oskar Werner; Henri Serre; Henri Pierre Roché; S.E.D.I.F.; Films du carrosse (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: French.
Notes: Originally released 1962 (105 mins).
Summary: Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
OCLC #: 606910073
Kapo
Call Number: DVD00832
by Franco Solinas; Gillo Pontecorvo; Moris Ergas; Susan Strasberg; Laurent Terzieff; Emmanuèle Riva; Carlo Rustichelli; Cristaldifilm (Firm); Vides Cinematográfica.; Francinex (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Italian.
Notes: Originally released 1959 (117 mins).
Summary: A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
OCLC #: 606927327
Loves of a Blonde
Call Number: DVD00833
by Miloš Forman; Jaroslav Papoušek; Ivan Passer; Rudolf Hájek; Jana Brejchová; Josef Šebánek; Vladimír Pucholt; Vladimír Menšík; Miroslava Hajek; Evzen Illin; Ústřední půjčovna filmů (Prague, Czech Republic); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Czech.
Notes: Originally released 1965 (85 mins).
Summary: A working-class young woman (Andula) in a hick Czech town sleeps with one of the band members of a group from Prague. “You are a Mondrian, not a Picasso,” he tells her. When she doesn’t hear from him again, she packs up and arrives on his doorstep in the big city, throwing his household (he lives with his parents) into chaos.
OCLC #: 607901095
Added: 5/5/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
