Summary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THISummary: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RASSummary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DISSummary: A princess must escape across enemy lines with the royal treasure, guarded only by a loyal general and two greedy peasants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion collection 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FSummary: Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. Roubaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Roubaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BETSummary: Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLOSummary: A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001