Criterion Collection

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of three films by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. In 'Where Is the Friend's House?' (1987) a young boy must hand in his friend's notebook which he picked up by mistake. In 'And Life Goes On' (1992) a director visits the aftermath of an earthquake in the hope of finding the children who acted in one of his films. Finally, 'Through the Olive Trees' (1994) follows the lives of two characters who depicted a newly married couple in a previous film.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored Box Set</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of three films in Satyajit Ray's celebrated trilogy. 'Pather Panchali' (1955) tells the story of a family living in the grip of poverty in a small Bengali village, focusing on the experiences of young boy Apu (Subir Bandopadhyay). 'Aparajito' (1956) sees Apu (Smaran Ghosal) move with his family to the busy city of Benares where they hope to build a new life after suffering a devastating family tragedy. But when Apu's father dies, the young man decides to head out on his own and attend college in Calcutta, leading to a growing estrangement between him and his widowed mother. Finally, in 'The World of Apu' (1959), the adult Apu (Soumitra Chatterjee) hopes to become a writer, but his lack of finances forces him to abandon his university studies. He meets old friend Pulu (Swapan Mukherjee) and together they travel to the wedding of Pulu's cousin, Aparna (Sharmila Tagore). When the wedding is cancelled, Apu agrees to marry Aparna to save her from ridicule. They return to his Calcutta apartment to start a new life and Apu comes to love his wife, but his happiness is soon shattered by a tragic turn of events.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set (Restored)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Footage of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival presented in a film by D.A. Pennebaker. Featuring performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and The Who, the three-day concert, although well-attended, was never to be repeated, becoming known as the beginning of the Summer of Love.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Indie film-maker Richard Linklater directs this trilogy of films about three meetings between American Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Parisian Céline (Julie Delpy), which take place several years apart. In 'Before Sunrise' (1995) American student Jesse is travelling his way around Europe. He strikes up a conversation on a train with a young Parisian woman and on the spur of the moment invites her to spend the day with him in Vienna. As the day wears on, a casual acquaintance turns into something more profound. In 'Before Sunset' (2004) Jesse and Céline cross paths again in Paris where they get the chance to catch up on all that has occurred in their lives since their first meeting. Jesse, now married with a young child, has become a successful novelist. He is on a whirlwind European tour when he stops off at a bookshop in Paris, and Céline, who now works for an environmental organisation, comes to the reading. In the 80 minutes before his plane leaves the two stroll around the streets of Paris and discuss their views, experiences, hopes and dreams. Finally, in 'Before Midnight' (2013), 18 years have passed since Jesse and Céline first met. Jesse's novel based on the experience became a US bestseller and led him to meet Céline again after an interval of almost a decade, where the spark of their initial encounter was still present. Now the couple are living in Paris, proud parents to two young girls. However, their lives are far from perfect. Frustrated at her inability to match Jesse's professional success, Céline is considering a change in career. Jesse, meanwhile, is struggling to connect with his teenage son Hank (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick), who is visiting from Chicago for the summer.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Triple bill of Senegalese dramas written and directed by Ousmane Sembène. 'Emitai' (1971) chronicles attempts made by the French army to conscript soldiers and commandeer supplies from the Diola tribe during World War II. As the male elders pray to Emitai, the God of Thunder, the women hide their rice harvest. However, when their resistance incurs the wrath of the French soldiers, violence ensues. 'Xala' (1975) is a satirical comedy based on Sembène's novel of the same name. Upon the occasion of his third marriage, El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and believes that he has been cursed by either his first or second wife. As he attempts to remove the curse, his wealth and influence begin to fade, for as he eventually comes to realise, he has brought this affliction upon himself as a consequence of his own actions. Finally, in 'Ceddo' (1977), the Ceddo struggle to preserve their way of life which is under threat from the growing influence of Christianity and Islam and the rise of the slave trade. When their king converts to Islam, they kidnap his daughter, but their conflict erupts into war that may not end even if she is returned.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set (Restored)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of three horrors and dramas directed by Tod Browning. In 'Freaks' (1932), when trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) learns that Hans (Harry Earles) stands to inherit a sizeable amount of money, she decides to seduce him and colludes with her lover, the strongman Hercules (Henry Victor), to kill Hans so that she can inherit his wealth. When the rest of the carnival performers learn of the plot, their revenge is swift and grotesque. 'The Unknown' (1927) stars Lon Chaney as knife thrower Alonzo the Armless. A fugitive on the run from the law, Alonzo keeps his arms strapped tightly to his torso, a secret known only to one person. He is in love with Nanon (Joan Crawford), his assistant, but his competition with strongman Malabar (Norman Kerry) for her affections leads to tragedy. Finally, in 'The Mystic' (1925), fraudulent psychic Zara (Aileen Pringle) and con artist Michael Nash (Conway Tearle) work together to enter American high society, where they proceed to swindle the wealthy out of their fortunes through fake seances.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of three Japanese films directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. In 'Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto' (1954), orphan Musashi Miyamoto (Toshirô Mifune) leaves his home village to join the army with his best friend Honiden Matahachi (Rentarô Mikuni) who is betrothed to local girl Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa). While they are away, Matahachi is seduced by another woman, and when Miyamoto returns to the village alone to break the news, Matahachi's family accuse him of telling lies and sentence him to death. He is rescued by a Buddhist monk and educated in the ways of the Samurai, but as he becomes proficient in his art, Miyamoto is forced to choose between the way of the warrior and the possibility of happiness with Otsu, who has now fallen in love with him... In 'Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple' (1955), after years on the road perfecting his sword fighting skills, Miyamoto returns to his home village to find his former love Otsu still waiting for him patiently. However, the Samurai warrior is disinterested in love and only interested in defending his reputation by taking on students from the local fencing school. In 'Samurai III: Duel at Ganru Island' (1956), Miyamoto renounces his quest for fame in favour of the search for inner truth, but after settling down in a quiet peasant village, he is forced to take up arms when his sanctuary is attacked by marauding bandits.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored</i>