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21) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Summary
Regina finds herself pursued through the streets of Paris by several men in search of the fortune that her murdered husband stole from them. As her world becomes entangled with suspense, murder and plots twists, she finds herself leaning on a suave, charming stranger whose motives are unclear.
Series
Criterion collection volume 948
Summary
Heartbroken over the death of her beloved Westley, beautiful Buttercup finally succumbs to the advances of the wicked Prince Humperdinck. Yet, when she's suddenly kidnapped by a motley band of deviants, what gallant hero comes to the rescue? None other than Westley-- alive, well and as wonderful as ever. But before these two can live happily ever after, they must first overcome formidable odds. Will these star-crossed lovers ever fulfill their destiny?...
25) The vanishing
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Summary
During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
26) Hearts and minds
Series
Criterion collection volume 156
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in rare footage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Pub. Date
[2002]
Summary
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Pub. Date
[2002]
Summary
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Pub. Date
2003
Summary
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Series
Criterion collection volume 184
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
Twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage.
32) Punch-drunk love
Series
Summary
Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty toilet plunger salesman Barry Egan spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affections of a mysterious woman named Lena. But their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss.
33) Throne of blood
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
In medieval Japan, a warlord and his wife stop at nothing in their quest for power. A tale of pride, treachery, ambition, and greed that echoes Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
c2004
Summary
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafaes. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
35) Faces
Series
Criterion collection volume 252
Pub. Date
[2004]
Summary
Powerful story of the dissintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.
37) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Pub. Date
[2004]
Summary
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
38) Mikey and Nicky
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Summary
Nicky has embezzled a fortune from his Mafia bosses and is on the run. Nicky's only friend, Mikey tries to help him escape; or will he lead him into a trap?
39) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Formats
Summary
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Pub. Date
2004
Summary
Eight characters become four couples while vacationing at a country estate.
