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Criterion collection volume 1111
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English
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"This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully...
2) The 39 Steps
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Criterion collection volume 56
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English
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A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring trying to steal top secret information. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll and Lucie Mannheim.
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Criterion collection volume 803
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A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
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Criterion collection volume 781
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November 15, 1959, 2 a.m. In the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep. They were bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were later captured, sentenced and imprisoned. They would be executed in 1965. Author Truman Capote came to Holcomb to research the case, spending weeks talking with the prisoners, jurors, police, friends and...
5) Richard III
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Criterion collection volume 213
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English
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Richard, Duke of Gloucester through a set of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.
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Criterion collection volume 257
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English
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Portrays a disgraced President Richard Nixon recording memoirs in an attempt to defend himself and his political legacy.
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Criterion collection volume 1100
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"Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity's place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller ... and smaller ... and smaller until he's left to fend...
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Criterion collection volume 213
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English
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Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle...
9) Richard III
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Criterion collection volume 213
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English
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Richard, Duke of Gloucester through a set of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.