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1) Armageddon
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results....
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
4) Grey Gardens
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006, c1975
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
5) La strada
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001, ©1945
Edition
Standard format; special ed.
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman is stranded in a Scottish seacoast town en route to marry a rich British industrialist. While there, she meets and falls in love with a naval officer on leave, threatening her carefully laid-out life plans.
7) La llorona
Series
Criterion collection volume 1156
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands for...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment]
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After Grey Gardens, the portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie, spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their 1976 vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans.
Series
Criterion collection volume 677
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
日本語
Description
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness.
11) Short cuts
Series
The Criterion collection volume 265
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The lives of nearly a dozen couples, families, and groups of friends overlap in Los Angeles over a period of several days.
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