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61) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
64) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
65) The fallen idol
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
66) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Pub. Date
[2006]
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.
67) Jungle book
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Kipling's classic menagerie comes to dazzling life in this lush adaptation, featuring Sabu as Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. He gradually reacclimates himself to civilization with the help of his long-lost mother and a beautiful village girl, whose father is convinced that Mowgli is dangerous.
Series
Criterion collection volume 349
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A group of college students afraid of the future remain on campus to await their futures, while trying to answer the question where do we go from here?
69) Lacombe Lucien
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt
70) Sanjuro
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
71) Seven samurai
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The story of a sixteenth century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
"Loaded with thrilling filmmaking. Grade A"--Entertainment Weekly.
73) Ace in the hole
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Chuck Tatum is an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead -end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime. He will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
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.
75) Green for danger
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
76) House of Games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
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.
77) Night on earth
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Five cities, five taxis, and a group of strangers make for an interesting night. A collection of 5 stories that span continents, time zones, and languages.
Series
Criterion collection volume 369--373
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A collection of feature films that starred Paul Robeson, plus one short documentary narrated by Sidney Poitier.
79) Rebecca
Series
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
80) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Description
"Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime"--Container.