Max von Sydow
101) Needful things
Series
Language
English
Description
Terror grips a small New England town in this Stephen King thriller.
102) Death watch
Language
English
Description
Set in a future civilization where television does virtually anything to get high ratings, a director implants a video camera in the brain of a man he hires to shoot a documentary about a dying woman without her knowledge.
103) Pelle Erobreren
Series
Language
Danish
Description
A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner.
105) A film trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 208
Language
Swedish
Description
This four disc set features Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's work on three of his most powerful films presented as a trilogy. The films of the trilogy examine the necessity of religion and question the promise of faith. The last disc is a documentary film offering views on set construction, lighting, rehearsals, editing, as well as intimate conversations with Ingmar Bergman and members of his cast and crew.
107) Victory
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English
Description
"This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war. The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another 'proof' of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins? Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape?"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 796, 797
Language
Swedish
Description
A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Includes bonus disc with special features.
109) Solomon Kane
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English
Description
Kane is a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting in Africa, but after an encounter with a demon, The Reaper, he realizes he must seek redemption or have his soul damned to Hell. He returns to England and lives a life of peace, converting to puritanism, but soon the doings of an evil sorceror upset his plans and he must take up arms again.
111) Flash Gordon
Language
English
Description
When energy waves pull the moon out of orbit, New York Jets quarterback Flash Gordon unwittingly finds himself heading for the planet Mongo, where, with the assistance from beautiful Dale Arden, he will take on Ming the Merciless and rescue humankind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Language
Swedish
Description
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged...
Language
English
Description
Rush hour: A tough Hong Kong cop, Lee, and a fast-talking LAPD detective, Carter, join forces to solve the kidnapping of a Chinese diplomat's daughter, despite the fact that they can't stand each other.
Rush hour 2: Lee and Carter's much needed vacation in Hong Kong is cut short when a bomb explodes at the American Embassy.
Rush hour 3: When a Chinese criminal flees to Paris Lee and Carter find themselves in the middle of a battle between the French...
Series
Language
English
Description
Rush hour : A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper.
Rush hour 2: It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting...
Language
Français
Description
Portrays the French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Language
Swedish
Description
Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, it follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people, all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling.