Albert Finney
Series
Criterion collection volume 1112
Language
English
Description
A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller's Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers' trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney), whose unflappable cool is tested when he begins offering...
2) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 151
Language
English
Description
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
3) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Language
English
Description
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
4) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fielding's canonical 18th-century novel, boisterously chronicling the misadventures of the foundling of the title, whose easy charm seems to lead him astray at every turn from his beloved, the wellborn Sophie Western"--Container.