Essential Art House: Vol V

May 5, 2014

Essential 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
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Essential Art House: Vol II

May 2, 2014

Essential Art House: Vol II 

Call Number: DVD00822-DVD00827

Director/Distributor:

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, ©2009.

Films:

Black Orpheus
Call Number: DVD00822
by Marcel Camus; Sacha Gordine; Jacques Viot; Breno Mello; Marpessa Dawn; Vinícius de Moraes; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Language: Portuguese 
Notes: Originally released 1959 (107 mins). Inspired by the play Orfeu da Conc̦eicão by Vinicius de Moraes; Nominated for One 1960 Academy Award;
Summary: The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Rio de Janeiro at Carnival time.
OCLC #: 300300558
 
The 400 Blows
Call Number: DVD00823 Copy 2
by Jean-Pierre Léaud; Claire Maurier; Albert Rémy; François Truffaut; Marcel Moussy; Jean Constantin;
Language: French with English subtitles
Notes: Originally released in 1959 (99 mins.); edition includes the short film Antoine and Colette (1962, 30 mins.),Copy 1:  audio commentaries, audition footage, newsreel footage of the Cannes Film Festival, excerpt of television interviews of François Truffaut and theatrical trailer; Nominated for one 1960 Academy Award;
Summary: The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the film L’amour à vingt ans, picking up Antoine’s story a few years later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams and amorous restlessness.
Also: Included in The Adventures of Antoine Doinel box set; also included: Stolen Kisses (DVD00020); Bed and Board (DVD00021); Love on the Run (DVD00022) and Les Salades de L’Amour: The Supplements (DVD00023);
OCLC #: 276784022
 
La Strada
Call Number: DVD00824
by Federico Fellini; Tullio Pinelli; Anthony Quinn; Giulietta Masina; Richard Basehart; Produzione Ponti-de Laurentiis.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Language: Italian  
Notes: Originally released 1954 (108 mins Black & White); Nominated for two 1955 Academy Awards;
Summary: Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brute circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
OCLC #: 300301026
Also: available on VHS at VHS00785 
 
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Call Number: DVD00825
by Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger; Roger Livesey; Deborah Kerr; Anton Walbrook; J Arthur Rank; Georges Périnal; Allan Gray; Roland Culver; Harry Welchman; Arthur Wontner; Archers (Firm); Carlton International Media Limited.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Language: English  
Notes: Originally released 1943 (163 mins).
Summary: British soldier Clive Candy battles to maintain his honor and proud gentlemanly conduct through romance, three wars, and a changing world.
OCLC #: 300301025
 
Pygmalion
Call Number: DVD00826
by Anthony Asquith; Leslie Howard; Wendy Hiller; Wilfrid Lawson; Marie Lohr; Bernard Shaw;
Language: English  
Notes: Originally released 1938 (90 mins Black & White); Based on the stage play by George Bernard Shaw; Nominated for four 1939 Academy Awards;
Summary: A phonetics professor bets his friend that he can transform a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady within three months.
OCLC #: 658148591
Also: available on VHS at VHS01393 and see the  George Cukor version “My Fair Lady at VHS01385
 
Ikiru
Call Number: DVD00827
by Sojiro Motoki; Shinobu Hashimoto; Hideo Oguni; Akira Kurosawa; Takashi Shimura; Miki Odagiri; Nobuo Kaneko; Kyōko Seki; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Language: Japanese  
Notes: Originally released 1952 (143 mins Black & white).
Summary: A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
OCLC #: 300300559
 
Added: 5/2/14
 
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Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks

November 29, 2010
Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks 
Call Number: DVD00941-DVD00944
by Allan Ekelund; Ingmar Bergman; Gunnar Björnstrand; Bengt Ekerot; Nils Poppe; Max von Sydow; Bibi Andersson; Inga Gill; Maud Hansson; Inga Landgré; Gunnel Lindblom; Harriet Andersson; Ulla Jacobsson; Gunnar Fischer; Erik Nordgren; Victor Sjöström; Svensk filmindustri.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Swedish
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.
Notes: Smiles of a summer night originally released as a motion picture in 1955 (108 mins); The seventh seal originally released as a motion picture in 1957 (96 mins); Wild strawberries originally released as a motion picture in 1957 (91 mins); The virgin spring originally released as a motion picture in 1960 (89 mins).
Films: 
 
Smiles of a Summer Night DVD00941 |  A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.

The Seventh Seal DVD00942 | In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

Wild Strawberries DVD00943 | A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.

The Virgin Spring DVD00944 | A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father’s house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.

OCLC #: 184953593

Added: November 29, 2010

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Last Year At Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad
Call Number: DVD00989
by Pierre Courau; Raymond Froment; Alain Robbe-Grillet; Alain Resnais; Sacha Vierny; Giorgio Albertazzi; Delphine Seyrig; Sacha Pitoëff; Françoise Bertin; Luce Garcia-Ville; Helena Kornel; Françoise Spira; Karin Toeche-Mittler; Pierre Barbaud; Wilhelm von Deek; Jean Lanier; Gérard Lorin; Davide Montemuri; Gilles Quéant; Gabriel Werner; Francis Seyrig; Mark Polizzotti; François Thomas; Ginette Vincendeau; Rialto Pictures LLC.; Studio Canal.; Cocinor (Firm); Argos Films.; Cineriz (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: French
Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009].
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1961 (94 mins). Booklet includes: “Which year at where?” essay by critic Mark Polizzotti; “So close, so far away and Last year at Marienbad” essay by Alain Robbe-Grillett; “The myth of perfect harmony” by film scholar François Thomas. Special features Disc one: Original audio (theatrical run); Restored audio; Restored high-definition digital transfer of the film, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais; original theatrical trailer and Rialto’s rerelease trailer. Special features Disc two: “Alain Resnais audio interview”; “Unraveling the enigma: the making of Marienbad” documentary on the making of Last year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais’ collaborators; “Ginette Vincendeau on Last year at Marienbad” interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries; “Toute la mémoire du monde” Resnais documentary (1956); “Le chant du styrène” Resnais documentary (1958).
Summary: Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
OCLC #: 328784931
Also: Availiable on VHS
Added: November 29, 2010
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Un Chien Andalou

April 9, 2009
An Andalusian Dog
Call Number: DVD00105
by Luis Buñuel; Salvador Dalí; Simone Mareuil; Pierre Batcheff; Grandes films classiques (Firm); Transflux Films (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: [Los Angeles] : Transflux Films, ©2004.
Notes: Originally released in 1929 (17 mins.); edition contains a documentary, interview, audio commentary and transcripts;
Summary: Filmed in the subjective language of the unconscious, this early avant-grade film appears as fresh today as when it first appeared.
OCLC #: 233002425
Added: April 9, 2009
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Marat/Sade

March 19, 2009
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Call Number: DVD00331
by Peter Brook; Michael Birkett; Adrian Mitchell; Glenda Jackson; Patrick Magee; Ian Richardson; Richard Peaslee; Peter Weiss; United Artists Corporation.; Royal Shakespeare Company.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM DVD, ©2000.
Notes: Originally released in 1967 (120 mins.); includes original theatrical trailer; Based on Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats by Peter Weiss
Summary: The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to an asylum, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.
OCLC #: 249386774
Added: March 19, 2009
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Le Sang d’un poète

October 27, 2008
Blood of a Poet
Call Number: VHS 00031
by Jean Cocteau; Video Images.; Reel Images.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [United States] : Video Images ; Monroe, Conn. : Reel Images, 1980
Notes: Originally released in 1930 (53 mins.); Edition includes program card;
Summary: An avant-garde film built around a character who lives what he creates.
OCLC #: 74387111
Added: October 27, 2008
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