Knife in the Water

November 30, 2010
Knife in the Water
Call Number: DVD00980
by Roman Polanski; Jerzy Skolimowski; Jakub Goldberg; Leon Niemczyk; Jolanta Umecka; Zygmunt Malanowicz; Zespół Filmowy Kamera.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Polish.
Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, 2008.
Notes: Originally released 1962 (94 mins).
Summary: On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
OCLC #: 246725052
Added: November 30, 2010
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The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress
Call Number: DVD00914
by Akira Kurosawa; Ryūzō Kikushima; Toshirō Mifune; Misa Uehara; Minoru Chiaki; Kamatari Fujiwara; Susumu Fujita; Criterion Collection (Firm); Janus Films.;
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese
Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
Notes: Originally released 1958 (139 mins).
Summary: Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.
OCLC #: 607315293
Added: November 30, 2010
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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
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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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Elephant

Elephant
Call Number: DVD00819
by Gus Van Sant; Dany Wolf; Alex Frost; Eric Deulen; John Robinson; Elias McConnell; Jordan Taylor; Meno Films.; Blue Relief (Firm); HBO Films.; Fine Line Features.; HBO Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [United States] : HBO Video, ©2003.
Notes:  Originally released in 2003 (80 min.);
Summary: A realistic drama that takes the viewer inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance. The experiences of each student range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing.
OCLC #: 55054624
Added: November 23, 2010
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Day for Night

Day for Night
Call Number: DVD00762
by François Truffaut; Jean-Louis Richard; Suzanne Schiffman; Jacqueline Bisset; Jean Pierre Aumont; Valentina Cortese; Jean Champion; Dani.; Jean-Pierre Leaux; Alexandra Stewart; Niké Arrighi; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: French
Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2006.
Notes:  Originally released in 1973 (116 min.); Nominated for one 1974 Academy Award and three 1975 Academy Awards.
Summary: The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, trade unions threaten to walk, shooting must somehow finish before the insurance lapses and a cat needed in a scene can’t hit it’s mark. Is this any way to make a movie? “Day for night” is François Truffaut’s sly humorous bouquet to movies and the people who make them.
OCLC #: 75299910
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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Chasing Amy

Chasing Amy
Call Number: DVD00721
Director/Distributor: by Ben Affleck; Joey Lauren Adams; Jason Lee; Scott Mosier; Kevin Smith; Dave Pirner; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Miramax Films.; View Askew Productions.; Too Askew Productions (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ©2000.
Notes:  Originally released in 1997 (113 min.);
Summary: The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
OCLC #: 45607453
Added: November 23, 2010
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Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Call Number: DVD00750 Copy 1, DVD00750 Copy 2

by  Bill Kong; Hsu Li Kong; Ang Lee; Huiling Wang; James Schamus; Yun-fat Chow; Michelle Yeoh; Ziyi Zhang; Sihung Lung; Tim Squyres; Dun Tan; Dulu Wang; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (Firm); Good Machine (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);
 
Format: DVD
 
Language: English  
 
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2001, ©2000.
 
Notes:  Originally released in 2000 (120 min.); Based on: Wo hu cang long / Wang Du Lu; nominated for ten 2001 academy awards;
 
Summary: Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen.
 
OCLC #: 521648107
 
Added: November 23, 2010
 
Also: available on VHS at VHS01062
 
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Jaws

Jaws
Call Number: DVD00956 Copy 1
DVD00956 Copy 2
by  Steven Spielberg; Carl Gottlieb; Robert Shaw; Roy Scheider; Richard Dreyfuss; Lorraine Gary; Murray Hamilton; Peter Benchley; Universal Pictures (Firm); Universal City Studios.;
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal, ©2000, 1995.
Notes:  Originally released in 1975 (125 mins); Based on the novel by Peter Benchley; Nominated for four 1976 Academy Awards; Bonus materials: deleted scenes; outtakes; Get out of the water! trivia game; shark world; production photographs; original theatrical trailers. Includes documentary: Spotlight on location : the making of Jaws (60 min.)
Summary: A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it.
OCLC #: 44580439
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Added: November 23, 2010
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Spellbound

Spellbound
Call Number: DVD00508 Copy 1
DVD00508 Copy 2
by  Jeffrey Blitz; Sean Welch; Angela Arenivar; Nupur Lala; Ted Brigham; Emily Stagg; Ashley White; Neil Kadakia; April DeGideo; Harry Altman; Yana Gorskaya; Daniel Hulsizer; Blitz/Welch (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm); Film Arts Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.); International Documentary Association.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, ©2002, 2003.
Notes:  Originally released in 2002 (97 mins); Nominated for one 2003 Academy Award; Special features: Optional audio feature commentary by filmmakers ; Theatrical trailer ; Bonus footage; ‘Where are they now?’ [updates on all 8 profiled spellers] ; About the filmmakers [text feature] ; DVD-ROM content: Interactive Hangman game: deluxe edition, Educational guide, including “Host your own spelling bee” kit;
Summary: Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.
OCLC #: 53479655
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
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