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Series
Criterion collection volume 301
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
42) Bad timing
Series
Criterion collection volume 303
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty.
Series
Criterion collection volume 286
Pub. Date
c2005
Summary
A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.
44) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Summary
A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
Series
Criterion collection volume 318
Pub. Date
c2005
Summary
A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France.
46) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
47) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Pub. Date
c2005
Summary
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
48) The River
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
49) Wages of fear
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Pub. Date
c2005
Summary
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
51) Pandora's box
Series
Criterion collection volume 358
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone with whom she comes in contact.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Summary
Beginning in 1832, shows ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Pub. Date
c2007.
Summary
L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes...
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
57) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 397
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.
59) Overlord
Series
Criterion collection volume 382
Pub. Date
2007
Summary
The story of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity. Interweaved with archival war footage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 414
Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
The Driver and The Mechanic roam the country in a tricked-out 1955 Chevy, drag racing for money and thrills. While stopped at a diner, The Girl climbs into their car and plants herself in the backseat. Drifting across the Southwest, they keep being buzzed by a snazzy 1970 Pontiac. GTO chats up a storm, bending the ears of the hitchhikers he regularly picks up off the side of the road. Like modern day cowboys, they just keep moving--no roots, no responsibilities--the...
