World Cinema (Classics) pre 1980
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg - dvd
Released: 12 Mar 2008
Geneviève, 17, lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, a twenty-year-old auto mechanic, are secretly in love and want to marry, but when she reveals this to her mother, her mother objects on the grounds ...
Un Chien Andalou (2 disc) - dvd
Released: 1 Sept 2007
The opening sequence of Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou is one of the most shocking scenes in cinema history. A masterpiece of surreal filmmaking, this seventeen minute classic is a remarkable synthesis of montage, emulating the logic of a drea...
Virgin Spring - dvd
When a devout young girl is raped and killed by herders, her deeply religious parents find their most sacred beliefs challenged. her father is consumed by a thirst for justice and a violent need for vengeance. Based on medieval legend, 'The Virgin...
Viridiana - dvd
Released: 6 September 2006
Don Jaime lives alone in his manor. His wife died from a heart attack on the wedding night. He has paid the gift and education so that his wife's niece Viridiana could become a nun, and wants her to visit him for a few days before she take...
Vivre Sa Vie - dvd
Nana (Anna Karina) needs two thousand francs. After asking her ex-boyfriend, then her workmates, a friend introduces her to Raoul who offers her a way to work for the money. In pursuit of fame and fortune, she leaves her family to become an actres...
Weekend - dvd
Released: 15 Mar 2008
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations. (imdb)
White Sheik, The (Lo Sceicco Bianco) - dvd
Released: 3 Oct 2007
The first two days of a marriage. Ivan, a punctilious clerk brings his virginal bride to Rome for a honeymoon, an audience with the Pope, and to present her to his uncle. They arrive early in the morning, and he has time for a nap. She sneaks off ...
Wild Stawberries - dvd
A bittersweet tale of an elderly college professor�s journey from emotional isolation to redemption and, ultimately, personal renaissance.
Wim Wenders on Film - dvd
Released 30 April 2007
Lightening Over Water, 1980 is a penetrating and touching film of the last days of cult American director Nicholas Ray, most well-known for Rebel Without a Cause. The State of Things, 1982 is a highly autobiographical work concerning a shoestr...
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