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Criterion collection volume 391
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Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
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It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. There are a few people who have been half-century friends or acquaintances on the island, including Tisha Doughty and Joshua Brackett.
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic...
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Criterion collection volume 417
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Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation....
9) O lucky man!
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Armed with ambition and a work ethic, coffee salesman hits the road and finds that desire alone can't bring wealth and status. Bonus features include commentary, new feature-length career profile, and vintage featurette.
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Criterion collection volume 417
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"One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark 'kitchen-sink realism' follows the self-defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner turned rugby player eking out an existence in drab Yorkshire"--Container.
11) Chariots of fire
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic...
12) The white bus
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An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal London life, back to her home in North England on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity.
13) In celebration
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God-fearing and hard-working Mr. and Mrs. Shaw welcome their sons home to celebrate the couple's 40th wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrival, more of the Shaws' model family facade begins to wear away. Colin is on the path to a loveless marriage. Steven is on the threshold of a nervous breakdown. But it is eldest son Andrew who tears into the Shaw family's carefully maintained fictions, to either heal the painful rifts or else finally tear...
14) If
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Criterion collection volume 391
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English
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A daringly chaotic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Insouciant Mick Travis and his school chums trump authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior against the vicious games of one-upmanship played by both students and masters.
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Welcome to Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator and sinister human experiments financed by the Japanese. Can Mick survive one very strange day...