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Criterion collection volume 700
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Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
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Criterion collection volume 1201
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English
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"A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it...
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Criterion collection volume 942
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The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Bonus features included.
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Criterion collection volume 546
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English
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Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever....
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Criterion collection volume 316
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日本語
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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.
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Criterion collection volume 700
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English
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Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1201
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
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Criterion collection volume 841
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日本語
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Shogun Assassin, 1980 English-dubbed reedit of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films.
10) Bigger than life
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Criterion collection volume 507
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English
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A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
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Criterion collection volume 841
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日本語
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Sword of vengeance: Ogami is the kogi kaishakunin, the official executioner for the Tokugawa shogun and a sword master of great status in eighteenth-century Japan. But the Shadow Yagyu clan, led by the scheming Retsudo Yagyu, seeks to solidify its power by taking Ogami's coveted position of executioner for its own.
Baby cart at the River Styx: Itto Ogami and Daigoro continue their quest for vengeance through meifumado, the spiritual way of "demons...
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Russian
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Law of the border: Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this film is a terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape. One of them is a quiet man who finds himself fighting for his young son's life as he becomes pitted against his fellow outlaws.
Taipei story: A washed-up baseball player and his property girlfriend struggle with their relationship as they work towards marriage and emigration.
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Criterion collection volume 671
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Français
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Renato and Albin--a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez--agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato's son's fiancee come for a visit. A French farce about the importance of nonconformity and being true to oneself that inspired the major Broadway musical and the movie remake The Birdcage.
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Criterion collection volume 646
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Français
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Eleven-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on.
15) La promesse
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Criterion collection volume 620
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Français
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An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
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Criterion collection volume 841
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日本語
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Baby cart to Hades: Ogami Itto rescues a girl who has killed a pimp in self-defense. Baby Cart in Peril: Ogami Itto faces his greatest challenge yet--he has been hired to kill Oyuki, tattooed mistress of the martial arts.
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Criterion collection volume 841
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日本語
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Baby cart in the land of demons: Ogami roams the Japanese countryside with his infant son Diagoro and a crude wooden baby cart as the paid assassins known as "Lone Wolf and Cub!". White Heaven in Hell: Once again, Ogami Itto and his son are about to enter the Crossroads to Hell. But this time, they may not return!
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Criterion collection volume 526
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日本語
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A widowed high school teacher finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son's future, the more they are separated.
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Criterion collection volume 841
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日本語
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Sword of vengeance: He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido. Their first commission: to save the life of Daimyo and kill the traitors that plot his death. Baby Cart at the River Styx: The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami and his son Diagoro wander the countryside.
Baby cart at the River Styx: In this exploitation-cinema classic, which...
20) And life goes on
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Criterion collection volume 991
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Persian
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In the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that left fifty thousand dead, Abbas Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation, but also the teeming life in its wake. Blending fiction and reality into a playful, poignant road movie, And Life Goes On follows a film director who, along with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the young boys who acted in Where Is the Friend's House? are among...