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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The Naked City

October 3, 2012

The Naked City

Call Number: DVD01062

Director/Distributor: Jules Dassin

Format:  DVD video: NTSC color broadcast system

Language: English

Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, ©2007

Notes:

Summary: Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.

OCLC #: 78785909

Added: 10/03/2012

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Scenes From A Marriage

October 5, 2011
Scenes From A Marriage or Scener ur ett äktenskap (original title)
Call Number: DVD01135
by:  Lars-Owe Carlberg; Ingmar Bergman; Liv Ullmann; Erland Josephson; Bibi Andersson; Jan Malmsjö; Gunnel Lindblom; Sven Nykuist; Siv Lundgren; Inger Pehrsson; Björn Thulin; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Swedish – English subtitles available
Publisher:  New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, 2004.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Features: video interview with the director, interview with Bergman scholar Peter Cowie, essay. Disc 1: Television verion, scenes 1-3 ; Disc 2: Television verion, scenes 4-6 (1973 ; 297 min.); Disc 3: U.S. theatrical version. Nomiated for 2 1975 Golden Globes. Feature Running Time: 167 mins. Total Running Time for all 3 discs: 466 mins.
Summary: Ten years of Marianne and Johan’s relationship are presented. We first meet them ten years into their marriage. He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer. They say that they are happily married – unlike their friends Katarina and Peter who openly fight, especially when under the influence of alcohol – but there is a certain detached aloofness in the way they treat each other. In the next ten years, as they contemplate or embark upon divorce and/or known extramarital affairs, they come to differing understandings at each phase of their relationship of what they truly mean to each other. Regardless of if it’s love or hate – between which there is a fine line – they also come to certain understandings of how they can best relate to each other, whether that be as husband and wife, friends, lovers or none of the above.
OCLC #: 56987169
Added: October 5, 2011
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Shock Corridor

April 21, 2011
Shock Corridor
Call Number: DVD00477
by Peter Breck; Constance Towers; Samuel Fuller; Stanley Cortez; Paul Dunlap; Eugene Lourié; Gene Evans; Jerome Thoms; James Best; Hari Rhodes; Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.; Home Vision (Firm); Janus Films.; Classic Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Classic Collection, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1963 (101 min). A Janus Films release in connection with Allied Artists Picture Corporation a part of the Criterion collection. Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Summary: Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
OCLC #: 42603947
Added: April 21, 2011
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Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones
Call Number: DVD00869
by David Maysles; Albert Maysles; Charlotte Zwerin; Ellen Giffard; Rolling Stones.; Maysles Films.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2000.
Notes: Film originally released, c1970 (91 min). Features: never-before-seen performances of the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1969, including “Little Queenie,” “Oh Carol,” and “Prodigal Son”; backstage outtakes; audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and collaborator Stanley Goldstein; excerpts from KSAN Radio’s Altamont wrap-up, recorded December 7, 1969; Altamont stills gallery; original and re-release theatrical trailers; filmographies for Maysles Films and Charlotte Zwerin; restoration demonstration.
Program notes (43 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) inserted in container.
Summary: A documentary on the Rolling Stones’ 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Contains: Jumping Jack flash ; (I can’t get no) satisfaction ; You gotta move ; Wild horses ; Brown sugar ; Love in vain (Rolling Stones) –I’ve been loving you too long (Ike & Tina Turner) –Honky tonk woman ; Street fighting man (Rolling Stones) –Six days on the road (Flying Burrito Brothers) –The other side of this life (Jefferson Airplane) –Sympathy for the devil ; Under my thumb ; Street fighting man ; Gimme shelter (Rolling Stones) –The making of Little Queenie –Little Queenie ; Oh Carol ; Prodigal son (The Rolling Stones) –Backstage with Mick, Ike and Tina.
OCLC #: 56197065
Added: April 21, 2011
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The Red Shoes

April 20, 2011
The Red Shoes
Call Number: DVD00424
by J Arthur Rank; Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger; Keith Winter; Moira Shearer; Anton Walbrook; Marius Goring; Robert Helpmann, Sir; Albert Bassermann; Esmond Knight; Ludmila Tcherina; Leonide Massine; Brian Easdale; Thomas Beecham, Sir; H C Andersen; Janus Films.; Archers (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm); Pinewood Studios.; Home Vision (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [Irvington, NY?] : Criterion Collection, ©1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1948 (68 min.); Based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen; Nominated for five 1949 Academy Awards; “The Classic Collection : a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema”–Container. Special features: audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie, Jeremy Irons reads excerpts from the novelization and the original fairy tale, theatrical trailer, stills gallery, Scorsese’s memorabilia, sketches, and filmography.
Summary:  Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina who’s torn between the demands of career and love.
OCLC #: 41886767
Also on VHS: VHS01153
Added: April 20, 2011
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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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Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves
Call Number: DVD00677
by Cesare Zavattini; Oreste Biancoli; Carlo Montuori; Vittorio De Sica; Lamberto Maggiorani; Enzo Staiola; Lianella Carell; Alessandro Cicognini; Luigi Bartolini; Produzioni De Sica S.A.; Criterion Collection (Firm); Image Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Italian
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y]. : Criterion Collection : Image Entertainment, ©2007.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1948 (89 mins). “Restored high-definition digital transfer”–Container. Special features: “Working with De Sica” featurette with D’Amico, Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; “Life as it is: The neorealist movement in Italy,” featurette with film scholar Mark Shiel; Documentary by Carlo Lizzani on longtime De Sica collaborator and neorealist Cesare Zavattini. Program notes on container insert include the following essays : “A passionate commitment to the real” by film critic Godfrey Cheshire, “Ode to the common man” by filmmaker Charles Burnett, “Some ideas on the cinema” by neorealist writer Cesare Zavattini, “Bicycle Thieves” by film critic Andre Bazin, and the following remembrances : “My secret” by director De Sica, “But this is Maria” by actor Carell, “We were always on the street” by Luisa Alessandri, “The smallest detail” by Sergio Leone, “Many friends, much noise” by Manuel De Sica, “Money kills the imagination” by Maria Mercader.
Summary: A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.
OCLC #: 77216072
Added: November 29, 2010
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Burden of Dreams

Burden of Dreams
Call Number: DVD00703
by Les Blank; Werner Herzog; Maureen Gosling; Klaus Kinski; Candace Laughlin; Flower Films (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2005.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1982 (95 mins). Accompanying materials: One booklet (77 p. : map ; 19 cm.). Special features: New restored high-definition digital transfer ; Audio commentary ; interview with Herzog, “Dreams and burdens” ; film, “Werner Herzog eats his shoe” ; Deleted scenes ; Photo gallery ; Theatrical trailer ; New English subtitles ; Essay by Paul Arthur.
Summary: A documentary on the chaotic production of Wernor Herzog’s epic Fitzcarraldo(1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven director. Not only does he have major casting problems, losing both Jason Roberts (health) and Mick Jagger(other commitments) halfway through shooting, but the crew gets caught up in a war between Peru and Ecuador, there are problems with the weather and the morale of cast and crew is falling rapidly..
OCLC #: 62145615
Added: November 29, 2010
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Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai
Call Number: DVD01140
Director/Distributor: by Akira Kurosawa; Sojiro Motoki; Shinobu Hashimoto; Hideo Oguni; Toshirō Mifune; Takashi Shimura; Michael Jeck; Janus Films.; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.; Criterion Collection (Firm); Home Vision (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 1998.
Notes: Special features: original U.S. theatrical trailer; audio commentary by Japanese film expert Michael Jeck.
Summary: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
OCLC #: 48213815
Added: November 29, 2010
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Night on Earth

November 23, 2010

Night on Earth
Call Number: DVD01068
by Jim Jarmusch; Winona Ryder; Gena Rowlands; Giancarlo Esposito; Paolo Bonacelli; Matti Pellonpää; Tomi Salmela; Tom Waits; Jay Rabinowitz; Kari Väänänen; Sakari Kuosmanen; Armin Mueller-Stahl; Rosie Perez; Isaach de Bankolé; Roberto Benigni; Béatrice Dalle; Frederick Elmes; Drew Kunin; Thom Andersen; Paul Auster; Bernard Eisenschitz; Goffredo Fofi; Peter von Bagh; Kathleen Brennan; Janus Films.; Nihon Bikutā Kabushiki Kaisha.; Bikutā Ongaku Sangyō Kabushi Kaisha.; Channel Four Films (Firm); Pandora Film (Firm); Pyramides (Firm); Studio Canal+; J.V.C. Company of America.; Locus Solus (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Notes:  Originally released in 1991 (128 min.);
Summary: A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles – A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver’s career. New York – An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn’t understand. Paris – A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome – A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki – an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
OCLC #: 157051016
Added: November 23, 2010
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Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory
Call Number: DVD01094
by Stanley Kubrick; Calder Willingham; Jim Thompson; James B Harris; Kirk Douglas; Ralph Meeker; Adolphe Menjou; Gerald Fried; Humphrey Cobb; Bryna Productions, Inc.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher:  [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2010
Notes:  Originally released in 1957 (88 min.);
Summary: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
OCLC #: 664880050
Added: November 23, 2010
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Chung Hing sam lam

Chungking Express
 
Call Number: DVD00727
 
by  Kar-wai Wong; Yi-Kan Chan; Chun-Wai Lau; Qingxia Lin; Tony Chiu Wai Leung; Fei Wang; Takeshi Kaneshiro; Miramax Films.; Rolling Thunder Pictures.; Jet Tone Production Company.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
 
Format: DVD
 
Language: Chinese  
 
Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, ©2008.
 
Notes:  Originally released in 1994 (102 mins); Special features: Commentary [optional audio feature]; “Moving Pictures” [featurette] (12 min.); U.S. Theatrical trailer (2 min.); booklet includes the essay “Electric Youth” by Amy Taubin;
 
Summary: A greasy Hong Kong fast-food joint serves as the focal point for two off-kilter love stories about two cops, both told from multiple perspectives and exploring the fragility of human connections. Detective 223, dumped by his girlfriend, buys a can of pineapple every day which he will eat in a year, if she hasn’t changed her mind and returned to him. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a bewigged drug smuggler. Detective 663, also dumped, falls for nutty counter girl Faye. Possibly unhinged by her habit of constantly listening to an ear-shattering rendition of “California Dreamin’,” Faye falls for him and begins sneaking into his apartment, rearranging the furniture, cleaning the place up and further weakening his already-shaky grasp on reality.
 
OCLC #: 261565015
 
Added: November 23, 2010
 
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Modern Times

Modern Times
Call Number: DVD01043
by  Charlie Chaplin; Paulette Goddard; Charles Chaplin Productions.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2010].
Notes:  Originally released as a motion picture in 1936 (87 mins, Black & White); copyright held by Charlie Chaplin. Special features: [disc 1] audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson; two new visual essays; new program on film’s visual and sound effects; interview from 1992 with Modern times music arranger, David Raskin; Chaplin today: “modern times” (2004); two segments removed from the film; 3 theatrical trailers; [disc 2] All at sea (1933), a home movie; The rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler; For the first time (1967), a Cuban documentary short; Chaplin today (2003) by Philippe Truffault.
Summary: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
OCLC #: 665161080
Added: November 23, 2010
Also: Availiable on VHS at VHS00161
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Bottle Rocket

Bottle Rocket
Call Number: DVD00689
by  Wes Anderson; Owen Wilson; Polly Platt; Cynthia Hargrave; Luke Wilson; Robert Musgrave; Andrew Wilson; Lumi Cavazos; James Caan; Robert D Yeoman; David Moritz; Mark Mothersbaugh; Barry Braverman; Susan Arosteguy; Columbia Pictures.; Gracie Films.; Boyle-Taylor Production.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2008.
Notes:  Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1996 (91 mins).
Summary: Focusing on a trio of friends and their elaborate plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.
OCLC #: 261598934
Added: November 23, 2010
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Breathless

Breathless
Call Number: DVD00692
by Jean Luc Godard; Georges de Beauregard; François Truffaut; Jean Seberg; Jean-Paul Belmondo; Daniel Boulanger; Henri-Jacques Huet; Roger Hanin; Van Doude; Liliane David; Michel Fabre; Jean-Pierre Melville; Claude Mansard; Richard Balducci; Philippe de Broca; Jean Domarchi; Jean Douchet; Jean Herman; André S Labarthe; Raoul Coutard; Pierre Rissient; Cécile Decugis; Martial Solal; D A Pennebaker; Mark Rappaport; Jonathan Rosenbaum; Dudley Andrew; Pretty Pictures (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: French
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2007.
Notes:  Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960  (90 mins). Special features: Disc 1. Excerpts from interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville recorded for French television between 1960-1964; trailer. Disc 2. “Coutard and Rissient” video interview with Coutard & assistant director Pierre Rissient; “Pennebaker on ‘Breathless” video interview with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; “Jean Seberg” video essay by Mark Rappaport; “Breathless as criticism” video essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum; “Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède” making-of documentary with members of the cast & crew (1993, 78 min.); “Charlotte et son Jules” short film by Godard starring Belmondo (1959, 13 min.). Booklet. “Breathless then and now” by scholar Dudley Andrew; “Godard in his own words” selections from statements & interviews by Godard from 1959-1962; “Breathless in progress”; “Truffaut treatment” original film treatment translated by Ellen Sowchek; “Godard scenario” translated by Dory O’Brien for Dudley Andrew’s book Breathless.
Summary: A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him.
OCLC #: 181222846
Added: November 23, 2010
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Stagecoach

Stagecoach
Call Number: DVD01162
by Walter Wanger; Dudley Nichols; John Ford; Claire Trevor; John Wayne; Andy Devine; John Carradine; Thomas Mitchell; Louise Platt; George Bancroft; Donald Meek; Berton Churchill; Tim Holt; Tom Tyler; Alexander Toluboff; Bert Glennon; Boris Morros; Richard Hageman; W Franke Harling; Louis Gruenberg; John M Leipold; Leo Shuken; Otto Lovering; Dorothy Spencer; Walter Plunkett; Frank Maher; Jim Kitses; Peter Bogdanovich; Dan Ford; H G Bissinger; Vic Armstrong; Tag Gallagher; David Cairns; Ernest Haycox; United Artists Corporation.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010].
Notes:  Originally released as a motion picture in 1939 (96 mins). Based on the original story “Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox. Academy Award, 1940: Best supporting actor (Thomas Mitchell); Best music, scoring. Special features: Disc 1. Commentary with film historian, Jim Kitses; Original theatrical trailer. Disc 2. “Bucking Broadway” John Ford silent film (1917); John Ford interview; “Peter Bogdanovich” offers his thoughts on Stagecoach; “Dreaming of Jeanie” video essay by Tag Gallagher; “John Ford home movies” interview with grandson Dan Ford; “True West” video interview with Buzz Bissinger; “Yakima Canutt” stuntsman Vic Armstrong discusses Camutt’s contributions to filmmaking; “Screen director’s playhouse” radio adaptation of Stagecoach broadcast Jan. 9, 1949 with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Booklet: “Taking the stage” by David Cairns; “Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox.;
Summary: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
OCLC #: 611239815
Added: November 23, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Pandora’s Box

November 1, 2010
Pandora’s Box
Call Number: DVD01090
by G W Pabst; Ladislaus Vajda; Georg C Horsetzky; Günther Krampf; Louise Brooks; Fritz Kortner; Francis Lederer; Carl Goetz; Krafft-Raschig.; Alice Roberts; Daisy D’Ora; Gustav Diessl; Michael von Newlinsky; Sig Arno; Thomas Elsaesser; Mary Ann Doane; Gillian B Anderson; Dimitar Pentchev; Peer Raben; Stephan Oliva; J Hoberman; Kenneth Tynan; Frank Wedekind; Janus Films.; Münchner Stadtmuseum. Abteilung Film.; Nero-Film A.G.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2006.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1929 (133 mins). Adapted from the stage plays: Erdgeist & Die Büschse der Pandora / by Frank Wedekind. “New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the definitive Munich Film Museum restoration”–Container. Accompanying booklet (“Reflections on ‘Pandora’s box'”) includes essays by film critic J. Hoberman (“Opening ‘Pandora’s box'”), film critic Kenneth Tynan (“The girl in the black helmet”), & actress Louise Brooks (“Pabst and Lulu”). Special features (disc 1): Optional audio commentary by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser & Mary Ann Doane; Four different musical scores (orchestral score by Gillian Anderson, cabaret score by Dimitar Pentchev, modern orchestral score by Peer Raben, piano improvisation by Stéphan Oliva). Special features (disc 2): “Louise Brooks : looking for Lulu” (documentary film by Hugh Munro Neeley ; 1998, 60 min.); “Lulu in Berlin” (documentary filmmakers Richard Leacock & Susan Steinberg Woll interview actress Louise Brooks ; 1984, 48 min.); “The shadow of my father : Michael Pabst on G.W. Pabst’s ‘Pandora’s box'” (interview with director G.W. Pabst’s son by Richard Leacock ; 2006, 34 min. ; in German, with optional English subtitles); stills gallery.
Summary: The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
OCLC #: 71036519
Added: November 1, 2010
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Silence of the Lambs

Silence of the Lambs
Call Number: DVD01147
VHS01554
by Jonathan Demme; Edward Saxon; Kenneth Utt; Ron Bozman; Ted Tally; Jodie Foster; Anthony Hopkins; Scott Glenn; Ted Levine; Anthony Heald; Thomas Harris; Orion Pictures.; Criterion Collection (Firm).;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, ©1998.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990 (118 mins). Based on the novel by Thomas Harris. Special Features include: Scene selection; Commentary track featuring Jonathan Demme, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Tally & John Douglas; Deleted scenes; Storyboards; FBI crime classification manual; Voice of Death (word-for-word statements from convicted killers).
Summary: A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
OCLC #: 39949091, 233134251
Added: November 1, 2010
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