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Criterion collection volume 399
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet sat in the director₂s chair for the first time for this sly, merciless thriller. Starring Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna, this film is a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a career con artist targeting his next mark.
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Criterion collection volume 925
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"A picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women finds a companion in Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida. A critical and commercial success despite controversy, [it] became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades...
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Criterion collection volume 843
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Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty toilet plunger salesman Barry Egan spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affections of a mysterious woman named Lena. But their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss.
4) The lady Eve
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Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
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Criterion collection volume 274
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Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
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Criterion collection volume 1078
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English
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"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival. Stanton Carlisle [is] a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long-difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs...
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Criterion collection volume 200
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Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a sauve charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.
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Criterion collection volume 1140
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With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing "preacher," who join forces to take on...
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Criterion collection volume 925
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English
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Two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams.
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Criterion collection volume 1194
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Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
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Criterion collection volume 200
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English
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When sullen, overweight Martha Beck joins Aunt Carrie's Friendship Club, she meets the man of her dreams: suave, handsome, two-bit Latin gigolo Ray Fernandez. And then the murders begin. Based on the true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers.
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Criterion collection volume 1194
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Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
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