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141) Trilogy of life
Series
Criterion collection volume 631
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Special ed., anamorphic widescreen.
Language
Italiano
Description
Eight tales from plague-ridden 14th century Naples with an erotic bent; eight tales that introduce an incorrupt world where people seek love and sex and disobey restrictions imposed by religious and bourgeois morality; a series of erotic and mysterious tales focusing on an innocent young man who falls in love with a slave who has selected him as her master.
142) Paisan
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field, she dies protecting a G.I. but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated, in six months they meet again. A U.S. nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German...
143) Tenebrae
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
American mystery author Peter Neal comes to Italy to promote his newest novel, Tenebrae. Unfortunately, a razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, taunting Neal and murdering those around him in gruesome fashion just like the character in his novel.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Language
Arabic
Description
Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafš, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Introduces a ragtag team of detectives who take over the small Pizzofalcone precinct police station in the aftermath of a scandal. Led by Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono, a brilliant investigator with a checkered past, the new squad includes Lt. Francesco Romano, a loose cannon with a history of anger issues, Alessandra 'Alex' Di Nardo, a gun nut known colloquially as 'Calamity Jane,' Ottavia Calabrese, a computer specialist and mother of an autistic...
146) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
147) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 672-675
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD special edition; Five-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Stromboli. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany.
Europe '51. Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son....
149) The great beauty
Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Director-approved, dual-format edizione, special edizione, [Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Language
Italiano
Description
"For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries"--Container.
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