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Call Number: DVD01119

by  Akira Kurosawa; Toshirō Mifune; Criterion Collection (Firm); Janus Films.; Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: Japanese  

Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2008.

Notes: Originally released in 1950 (88 mins. Black  & White); Nominated for two 1953 Academy Awards;

Summary: The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove, seen from four different perspectives

OCLC #: 246725280

Added: January 12, 2011

 

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

 

Call Number: DVD01018

by Fritz Lang; Peter Lorre; Ellen Widmann; Inge Landgut; Otto Wernicke; Theodor Loos; Gustaf Gründgens; Thea von Harbou; Seymour Nebenzal; Fritz Arno Wagner; Paul Falkenberg; Anton Kaes; Eric Rentschler; William Friedkin; Claude Chabrol; Harold Nebenzal; Friedrich Gnass; Paul Kemp; Theo Lingen; Rudolf Blümner; Georg John; Rosa Valetti; Fritz Odemar; Nero-Film A.G.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: German

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2004.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931 (111 mins.). Special features (disc 2): “Conversation with Fritz Lang” by William Friedkin (c1975, 49 min.); “M le maudit” short film by Claude Chabrol (c1982, 11 min.); interview with Chabrol about Lang (7 min.); interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of producer Seymour Nebenzal (c2004, 14 min.); classroom tapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing “M” and its history (c1976-1977, 36 min.); “The physical history of M” featurette (c2004, 25 min.); gallery, with production stills, behind-the-scenes photos and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler. Booklet includes an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffman (“The mark of ‘M'”); 3 contemporaneous articles about the film (“My film ‘M’ : a factual report”, “Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ : filmed sadism” & “Gangsters, too, have their professional honor”); interview with Lang by Gero Gandert (“Fritz Lang on ‘M’ : an interview”, c1963).

Summary: When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929 

OCLC #: 56795847

Added: October 31, 2010

Also: available on VHS at VHS00809

Call Number: THFM2900_F10_01

by Gillies MacKinnon; Jonathan Pryce; James Wilby; Jonny Lee Miller; Pat Barker; Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Santa Monica, CA : Artisan Home Entertainment, [2002?]

Notes:  Originally released in 1997 (96 min.);

Summary: As a psychiatrist at a respected Scottish asylum, Dr. Rivers heals shellshocked soldiers so they can be sent back into the trenches. Then he encounters a different kind of patient–a war hero sent to the asylum for publishing an outspoken anti-war pamphlet. As each struggles to cope with the war, the line between patient and doctor begins to blur. Taken from Pat Barker’s 1991 novel Regeneration and based on true events.

OCLC #: 52394192

Added: September 23, 2010

Added: March 5, 2010

Call Number: DVD00291

by Joseph Losey; Franco Solinas; Alain Delon; Jeanne Moreau; Francine Bergé; Juliet Berto; Jean Bouise; Suzanne Flon; Massimo Girotti; Michaël Lonsdale; Gerry Fisher; Henri Lanoë; Marie Castro-Vazquez; Michele Neny; Egisto Macchi; Pierre Porte; Lira Films.; Adel Productions.; Nova Films.; Mondial Televisione Film.; Home Vision Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: French, optional English subtitles

Publisher: [United States] : Home Vision Entertainment, 2004.

Notes: Originally released in 1976 (122 mins.); Nominated for two 1998 Academy Awards;

Summary: Set in Nazi-occupied France ‘Mr. Klein’ is the riveting story of one man’s search for another who shares his name, and who has stolen his identity.

OCLC #: 55090709

Call Number: DVD00258

by Joseph E Levine; Pietro Francisci; Ennio De Concini; Gaio Fratini; Steve Reeves; Sylva Koscina; Gianna Maria Canale; Fabrizio Miono; Ivo Garrido; Arturo Dominici; Minno Palmara;

Format: DVD

Language: Dubbed in English

Publisher: [Garden Grove, CA] : Vina Distributor, [200-?]

Notes: Originally released in 1958 in Italian (107 mins.);

Summary: Dramatization of the life of Hercules, mythological hero of great physical strength. Hercules arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of King Pelias. Immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king’s daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts

OCLC #: 71297045