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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Russian
Description
The Ascent tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces during World War II.
Wings: Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
62) Blast of silence
Series
Criterion collection volume 428
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Professional killer Frankie Bono returns after an apparent absence to Manhattan during the Christmas season to assassinate the gangster Troiano. Bono is a loner and intends to avoid any unnecessary human contact while planning the murder of his victim. Bono is recognized by an acquaintance from the orphanage he was raised in who invites him to a Christmas party. There he meets up with an old semi-girlfriend, Lorrie. His friend's happy marriage contrasts...
63) Bottle rocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 450
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Anthony finds himself embroiled in the machinations of his best friend, who is an elaborate schemer. With the help of a getaway driver they develop a plan to rob a small bookstore.
64) Europa
Series
Criterion collection volume 454
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Deutsch
Description
Leo Kessler, an American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purguing of loyalists by the Allied forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate's daughter.
65) High and low
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Description
A shoe company magnate must decide whether to save his company or his chauffeur's kidnapped son.
66) Hobson's choice
Series
Criterion collection volume 461
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life. Bonus features include commentary, documentary, essay, interviews, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 429
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Français
Description
A restless bourgeois wife finds her eye wandering from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A veteran spy about to retire undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends to defect and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
Series
Criterion collection volume 417
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Story of a coal miner's rise to become a professional rugby star. Includes commentary; interviews; documentary; booklet; and more.
70) Vampyr
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Deutsch
Description
"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror....
71) Bergman Island
Series
Criterion collection volume 477
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Swedish
Description
Iconic director Ingmar Bergman discusses his life and work from his secluded island home on the Baltic Sea.
72) A Christmas tale
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Français
Description
A family scarred by past tragedies comes together at Christmas only to face a new challenge when the matriarch discovers she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the life and loves of Benjamin Button who was born an old man and ages in reverse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
75) Danton
Series
Criterion collection volume 464
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.
77) Downhill racer
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A talented but self-involved downhill skier claims victory at the expense of emotional and family attachments.
Series
Criterion collection volume 459
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
A group of high-society friends find themselves unable to leave their host's mansion after a lavish dinner party.
79) For all mankind
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A chronicle on mankind's journey to the moon, using no narration, only the voices of the astronauts and mission control.
Series
Criterion collection volume 475
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Facing a trip back to jail, a small-time gunrunner weighs loyalty to his bank-robbing friends and snitching to the feds.