Archers (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's beloved classic is a profoundly personal journey to Powell's bucolic birthplace of Kent, England. Set amid the tumult of the Second World War, yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims -- a melancholy 'landgirl', a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant -- who are waylaid in the English countryside en route to the mythical...
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Cinema's quintessential backstage drama, a rising star ballerina [is] torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 939
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 441
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon.
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
Series
Criterion collection volume 173
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt,...
11) Black narcissus
Publisher
Mr. Fat-W Video
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension, both with the natives and within their own group, as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 939
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.