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3) Kes
Series
Pub. Date
1969.
Description
A troubled fifteen-year-old working-class boy in Northern England forms a close bond with a wild kestrel.
4) Bull Durham
Series
Criterion collection volume 936
Description
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
7) Walkabout
Series
The Criterion collection volume 10
Pub. Date
1998
Description
An Australian aborigine on his tribal initiation "walkabout" in the outback rescues an English brother and sister who have been abandoned there.
8) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Description
A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he has loved her all along.
10) Black narcissus
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
11) The Blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
12) Hamlet
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Hamlet is Shakespeare's towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer. Sir Laurence Olivier stars as the melancholy Dane and also directed this award-winning film version of the play.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 70
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Series
Criterion collection volume 79
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W.C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona.
15) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
16) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
17) The ruling class
Series
The Criterion collection volume 132
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The story of two lonely people who discover in each other the intimacy they have lost in their marriages.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
20) A film trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 208
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
This four disc set features Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's work on three of his most powerful films presented as a trilogy. The films of the trilogy examine the necessity of religion and question the promise of faith. The last disc is a documentary film offering views on set construction, lighting, rehearsals, editing, as well as intimate conversations with Ingmar Bergman and members of his cast and crew.