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with the headline: screen:' chafed elbows'; underground film has flashes of humor .
chafed elbows: photography, william waering, robert prince; editor, robert prince; music, tom o' horgan .
chafed elbows: follows a shiftless downtown manhattanite having his
annual november breakdown
as he wanders from one odd job to the next .
[ disc 1 ]. babo 73 (56 min .); chafed elbows (58 min .) / producer, robert downey sr .
the early films of robert downey, sr. (a prince): babo 73 (1964), chafed elbows (1966) and no more excuses (1968 )
the early films of robert downey, sr. (a prince): babo 73 (1964), chafed elbows (1966) and no more excuses (1968) | 366 weird movies
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george morgan and elsie downey in robert downey sr.' s
chafed elboes
( 1966 )
somewhere in the upper left hand corner of robert downey' s mind dances a little vaudevillian with cane and striped hat. downey often discusses his work with him. the product of their collaboration is the most excellent and funny chafed elbows .
babo 73 (1964, 56 min .) - - chafed elbows / a goosedown production (1966, 58 min .) - - no more excuses / a film by robert downey and robert soukis (1968, 46 min .) .
presents five feature films directed by robert downey sr. , showcasing his comedic and experimental style, and featuring
babo 73 ,
chafed elbows ,
no more excuses ,
putney swope ,
and
two tons of turquoise to taos tonight .
the retrospective, funded by martin scorsese' s film foundation, ends with sunday' s double feature of
no more excuses
( 1968) and
moment to moment ,
( 1975) a tour de force for the director' s then - wife, elsie downey (the mother in
chafed elbows
), who plays 10 roles .
other directors sense the farce in the drama of any still picture. fellini' s white sheik is a parody of the italian fumetti, romantic cartoon strips with real pictures instead of drawings. but white sheik was made as a movie, with due respect paid to continuity of motion and thought. chafed elbows, whatever it is, has not paid respect to anything .
one of these days, robert downey, who wrote, di rected and produced the underground movie ,
chafed elbows ,
which opened at the downtown gate theater last night, is going to clean himself up a good bit, wash the dirty words out of his mouth and do something worth mature attention in the way of kooky, satire comedy. view full article in timesmachine »
i guess that it' s not really a mystery why robert downey sr.' s films get some weirdly bad reviews. though his films are smart and hip, downey goes after straight culture with an unmatched, gleeful, subversive eye, and generally hits what he aims at. chafed elbows epitomises this style, going after everything, including the making of movies itself. in chafed elbows, like chris marker, he uses still photographs to great effect, but more in the vein of national lampoon magazine than f - stop. this film plays like jazz, riffing from one theme to another, one scene to another, one character to another, eschewing plot for wit and speed and surreal wordplay. it' s a wonder that this, and downey' s other movies, were ever made, they are so wonderfully offensive. his audience is, perhaps intentionally, small. the rewards, however, for those who do love his films, are great indeed. viva downey !
no more excuses ,
the latest, almost - feature - length satire by robert downey, is as american as apple pie. the movie essay, from the young man who made the, underground hits
chafed elbows
and
babo 73 ,
manages in 52 minutes to interrelate the assassination of president james a. garfield, east side singles bars, sex, the society for indecency to naked animals and large portions of
balls bluff .
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chafed elbows is my favorite of the downey sr. explorations. it was the story of a man involved in incest with his mother, and is a direct involvement in a murder. it was a hysterical piece, the dry humor therapist scene had me laughing my ass off. just these wise one liners all the way through, and underground cinema inside jokes made it an extremely interesting film. i thought the dubbing was annoying though, and would be better just to make it a regular shoot .
chafed elbows is also an experiment in visual humor. downey uses still pictures for more than half the movie, treating the frozen action as a cartoon. dinsmore is on a roof undressing a girl. stop. comment. he makes love. stop. he throws her off the roof into long island traffic. comment, existential chuckle. dinsmore gets a stop - action hysterectomy which, allowing for differences of taste, is still not the last laugh. but that it is humorous at all is downey' s victory .
okay. chafed elbows is without a doubt one of the most unique flicks i' ve ever seen. made in 1966 by robert downey sr. (no clue pops was a film - maker), chafed elbows is a satire that completely dissects and makes fun of almost every single aspect of society. from racism and the police, to incest and music. filmed in a very peculiar but successful way, you' re shown stills from a scene with very well - done dubbing. it' s remarkably effective, especially in the laughs department. the flick follows around walter dinsmore, who basically goes around town interacting with whomever he crosses paths with. from a dude who wants to sell him as a painting because the weirdo painted his initial on his jacket, to his brother who wants to build a racist amusement park so he can help black people. god this flick was weird. but, it was also good, and intelligent, and funny. check this out if you' re in the mood for good old - time satire .
in tonight' s zany double feature, a man undergoes a breakdown, has a hysterectomy, discovers hundreds of dollars growing inside his body and carries on a passionate affair with his mother in
chafed elbows
( 1966, in which milk appears as, believe it or not, a cop ,
for like 2 seconds ,
downey said). in 1964' s
babo 73 ,
the president of the united states deals with a communist plot to curtail the birthrate of the united states by distributing condoms. one new york critic said the film looked like it was shot on scotch tape .
new yawk new wave has been running at film forum since january 11 but still has a couple of precious days of life left. in a way, it’s one of the more ambitious curatorial projects to emerge from the theater’s august archivists. the series isn’t bound to a single era (it encompasses the period from 1953 to 1973), genre (everything from madcap comedy to downcast drama makes an appearance), or even style (there’s new wave, cinema vérité, post - noir, and whatever you want to call robert downey sr. ’s still - photos - plus - voiceovers oddity, chafed elbows). besides new york origins, the main thing this wildly [ … ]
i saw chafed elbows at the underground movies in about 1968. very cheap production - rapid fire still pictures with a hilarious soundtrack. the throwaway one liners have a cumulative effect. a few of my favorites: walter is walking down a side street in new york. a man is sitting in the middle of the street with a can of white paint and a brush painting a line down the middle. walter says ,
what' s going on here ?
man says ,
you' ve gotta draw the line somewhere !
you can never guess what the next line is. in another scene, walter sits in a pew in church. a naked woman appears in the pew right behind him and says ,
i' ll give you five dollars for your socks. i' m a sock sniffer .
walter, completely serious, says ,
how can you think about sniffing socks when all those people are starving in china ?
feeling the onset of his annual november breakdown, walter dinsmore (george morgan) checks himself into a hospital. while there, he finds himself pregnant and gives birth to 189 ten dollar bills. after which, he is turned into a work of art at gunpoint (or a walking advertisement for a fast food chain) which brings on his annual january breakdown. his psychiatrist (lawrence wolf) tells him not to worry, not believing walter' s worries about impregnating his mother (elsie downey), at least until she confirms it over the telephone .
chafed elbows
is an unpredictable and amusing movie, definitely belonging to the times it was made and the underground scene where it was formed in warning against the dangers of commodification. as such, it is influenced by the works of preston sturges (according to the director robert downey sr. at the q & a), and chris marker through its use of collage work, with the assistance of some wacky voices. the movie works so well in its own absurd and motley way that the otherwise tasteless incest storyline has little negative impact. if nothing else, elsie downey playing all of the female parts could imply the third biggest oedipal complex of all time .
this riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for downey, thanks to rave notices. visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown manhattanite having his “annual november breakdown” as he wanders from one odd job to the next, coming across all sorts of sordid types, from a desperate independent filmmaker to a destitute dirty - sock sniffer. and there is something to offend everyone: incest, murder, bad pop songs, you name it .
“it was just fun, ” robert downey sr. says of his early new york filmmaking days, in a new interview with bilge ebiri for the village voice .
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downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at manhattan' s singles scene of the late sixties. of course, that' s not all: no more excuses cuts... see full summary »
an experimental, ludicrous, plotless, absurd, surreal comedy. it is seemingly intentionally impossible to understand. it leaps from scene to scene, world to world, with recurring names and... see full summary »
dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. renaming the business
truth and soul, inc .
, he replaces the tight... see full summary »
a young woman arrives in new york to visit a friend and lands in one hot spot after another as she fends off the perverted advances from every man she meets .
in an era when dick, jane, and discipline ruled america' s schools, albert cullum allowed shakespeare, sophocles, and shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. through the... see full summary »
a parable based on the life of christ. this ain' t your father' s bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a new mexican setting .
the zany crew of a new york cable television station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention .
hugo pool is a quirky tale of a los angeles pool cleaner who falls in love with a young man dying of lou gerhig' s disease .
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police academy
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: my mother says that kissing a boy only leads to trouble and danger and skepticism .
the opening credits state :
special hindrance: n. y. c. police dept .
this is among the strangest and most plot less comedies i have ever seen. after thinking about the film, i' ve realized that it the protagonist manages to be insane and incestuous murderer. the film sort of follows him around over the course of two
mental breakdowns
in which he encounters a
sock sniffer
, marries his own mother, visits heaven, and much more. the film is wonderfully satirical, and it makes fun of almost everything, much like the very best of kurt vonnegut' s novels. it' s a highly creative work from a highly creative director, the underground filmmaker robert downey, sr. at this point, i' m beginning to really adore downey sr.' s sense of humor. it' s always very satirical, dark, and offensive, and his filmmaking style is highly experimental, surrealistic, and absurd. all of these elements of humor and filmmaking are right up my alley and it seems that i' m really going to enjoy the rest of the films on the
up all night with robert downey sr .
eclipse set from the criterion collection. i' m seriously looking forward to
putney swope
!
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this new york art film is almost totally comprised of still photographs. it chronicles the hip and colorful life in soho during the 1960s. the filmmaker also comments and makes observations about the issues and cultural icons of the day; included are his insights concerning the underground film movement .
about some crude and silly childish business over shock gags and rages against convention .
it' s all good clean fun, of course. i can' t believe disney hasn' t remade it yet .
a chronicle of walter dinsomore' s
annual breakdown ,
1966: he gives birth to ten dollar bills, shoots a policeman, marries his mother and goes on welfare. this ultra - low budget underground comedy is told mostly through (cleverly manipulated) stills with only three actors supplying dozens of voices: it' s almost like an illustrated radio play utilizing lots of leftover marx brothers jokes (
i' ve never been so insulted !
you' re young still .
) the incest, police corruption and murder is too silly to count as
transgressive .
an interesting experiment from the intriguing robert downey, sr .
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the movie is a series of one - liners and short skits involving the oedipian walter dinsmore. the straightmen are the black comedy figures of the new york scene: the bald psychiatrist (who speaks like groucho marx), the underground movie maker (
in underground movies the action is all behind the camera
), and the jewish caterer. the show recalls the most thunderous moments of burlesque, irreverence armed and swaggering .
there is a crudeness in this joking, and the crudeness is the best part of the movie. downey will do anything with the camera to get a laugh, even if it means leaving the screen black at the end of the film while a negrohippie voice slanders all that is good .
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lancer, 1967. soft cover. condition: very good. 1st edition. first printing .
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walter dinsmore' s annual january breakdown begins shortly after he leaves his mother' s apartment. he is delivered by caesarian section [ or through a hysterectomy? ] of 189 ten - dollar bills, an accumulation which is the result of swallowing a nickel when he was a child. psychoanalysis proves of little help to him inasmuch as he sees nothing wrong with being in love with his mother. death offers no solution; heaven promptly rejects walter and sends him back to earth, whereupon he is sold as a pop art creation. he takes an acting job as a policeman in an underground film but finds that
all the action takes place behind the camera .
after the movie project folds because someone knocks over the camera, walter keeps his policeman' s uniform, directs traffic at times square, and accepts bribes from pornography peddlers. he helps cater potato salad at a bar mitzvah and meets a woman who is hiding under a table. when their rooftop orgy is interrupted by the caterer, walter flings him to the street below. walter' s cousin, in a telephone call from the dixie hotel on 43d street, complains that walter has made her pregnant. he throws her from the window, and she lands on a theater marquee, gaining instant
star billing .
after becoming a rock and roll singing sensation with a song entitled
in your black leather negligee ,
walter returns home and finds that his father has died. walter marries his mother, becomes a proud father, moves to the suburbs, and lives happily on welfare. [ the order of events is uncertain. ]
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first off, where did those preposterous ratings come from? have any of those nincompoops actually seen the movie? it' s certainly understandable if they hadn' t, as it is extremely rare. more' s the pity. this movie is a whoopee, stops - out, take - no - prisoners satire of absolutely everything: independent film - making, pop music, american mores, psychology, politics, family, education - - whatever popped into downey' s head. it' s completely plot less and totally absurd, and it feels very much like a
monty python
episode made by new yorkers in the' 60' s. it' s absolutely hilarious and i could go on for days about the performances too (why didn' t elsie downey and lawrence wolf have huge careers beyond their films with downey ?), but let' s just leave it at this: if you ever get the chance, see it .
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robert downey sr. ’s films are ribald, socially - conscious, highly experimental works that make richard lester’s oeuvre seem polite and godard’s plot - heavy. though he achieved cult success with 1969’s putney swope, some of downey’s other, more radical works from the period are arguably more interesting, and their revival by way of an eclipse box set is exceptional news. up all night with robert downey sr. brings together five early films which show the director at his unhinged best, and if nothing else should prove a hedge against downey becoming a mere footnote to his more famous son’s career. a part of new [ … ]
i like being aggressive in the storytelling ...
: michael dinner on his cbs james ellroy adaptation ,
plot: a guy named walter experiences his annual breakdown, gives birth to cash, and marries his mother .
. i' m a fan of the other robert downey movies i' ve seen, mostly because the guy seems fearless. with this early flick, you get kitchen sink satire, goofball avant - garde, spotty comedy, and a cheap but completely unique style. like chris marker' s
, this story - - though it would be a mistake to go into this looking for a story - - is told through a series of still images rather than moving pictures. the dialogue is ludicrously dubbed, and the music often feels like an assault. but i mean that as a positive. downey' s wife elsie and george martin do all of the voices as director / writer takes on politics, art, religion, and relationship, attacks on everything with dada bullets and kooky gags that sort of recall a more surrealistic or drugged marx brothers. it' s wild stuff, man .
looking at the ultra - conventional career of sherlock holmes / iron man robert downey, jr. , it’s hard to imagine that this talented but timid mcmoviestar was sired by a disreputable ultracool beatnik hepcat. indeed, if not for the implication of the “jr. ” designation and the genetic necessity of fatherhood, the average moviegoer would have no idea that a
exists. but exist he does, and a strange life has he led. to those who know him at all, downey is known as a director of obscure cult films and hollywood flops (including his first hollywood flop, the sacrilegious but certified weird vaudeville jesus western
, a satire about a black power advocate who accidentally becomes head of a madison avenue advertising firm, the elder downey had led a fascinating life. by age 29, downey
had lied about his age so he could enlist in the army, been court martialed, won a golden gloves amateur boxing championship, played semi - professional baseball, and written and directed his first underground movies, mostly shot in manhattan without permits, guerrilla - style. “after being thrown out of the house, four schools, and the united states army, i discovered that i was on the right track, ” said downey .
( 1964). the story follows sandy studsberry, the meek “president of the united status” as he deals with an invasion from the red siamese and the antics of his own crazy cabinet, led by chester kitty - litter. all the attributes of early downey make their appearance here: absurd anything - can - happen plotting, amateur acting, dubbed audio, scenes filmed in public spaces, slapstick
silliness, and a single color sequence. with the exception of a few routines addressing racism ,
. understandably, this broth concocted by an amateur chef is far thinner than the comedy stewed by groucho and crew .
s sets are minimal; the cabinet entertains (then shoots) luxembourg’s ambassador while sitting on folding chairs on a beach, and at other times characters are filmed in public running up the steps of the capitol or other national monuments to lend a sense that they really are politicos going about their business. taylor mead plays the prez as a sleepy - eyed spaz, and there are plenty of absurd moments: the cabinet pauses to do calisthenics in an empty field while a jugband medley of patriotic favorites plays on the soundtrack, studsbury tries to talk his private secretary out of a trash can after he has a nervous breakdown, and a peace poet’s monologue about enrolling in a negro college is interrupted by a parade of slaves. although there are occasional clever bits—one of the cabinet members is dubbed “the fascist gun in the west” and president studsbury is told he will be remembered as “a retarded foster dulles”—for the most part the improvised comedy falls flat and feels juvenile. basically, it’s just “public figures” acting like clowns—and unscripted clowns, at that .
for inexplicable reasons, downey credited himself in his early films under the title “robert downey (a prince). ” it was a weird signature for a weird guy, who would only get weirder as his career built towards the ridiculous and sacrilegious greasers’ palace. these first three films show a young auteur, warts and all, finding his footing and honing his skewed sense of satire. downey would find a modicum of success the year after he made no more excuses with the outrageous adverting spoof putney swope. each of his first three movies runs under and hour and could be watched back - to - back - to - back almost as a single piece. the eclipse series publishes them together on disc 1 of the 2 disc “up all night with robert downey sr. ” set (disc 2 contains swope and two tons of turquoise to taos tonight, an experiment which outweirded all previous downey attempts). no more excuses had been seldom seen since its debut, and eclipse restored the film from the only surviving print; it’s not the greatest movie of the 1960s but it would have been a shame to lose this piece of underground film history from one of cinema’s few true originals. let’s just hope jr. will be treating dad to a beer (or even two) with the advance he’ll see from iron man iii. sr. ’s earned it; he’s truly a prince among men .
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on the phone with a reporter from san francisco, filmmaker robert downey sr. was taking a trip down memory lane - of the city he first visited in the 1950s while in the navy, and of the harvey milk he knew in the days when the future mayor of castro street was working on wall street .
i remember this vividly: we were going down the street with tom o' horgan (milk' s friend and a composer for downey' s films) ,
downey said .
and harvey said,' you guys go ahead. i' ll catch up.' so i looked back... and he was helping a bum. givin' him some money and helping the guy to his feet. that was it. that was who he was .
that was in the 1960s, when downey was the self - described
prince
of the new york independent film movement, a time and place vividly captured in the restored prints of four of his most anarchic movies in a series at the yerba buena center for the arts .
there were some people that got into that one ,
downey said .
it' s kind of a mess, but we actually shot at the white house. jfk was in europe, so we just had (the actor) walking around .
it also features the director' s famous son, robert downey jr. , and the film is the
iron man
actor' s favorite of his father' s films .
i' m really happy for my son ,
said downey sr. , referring to the younger downey' s triumph over his troubles .
he' s turned his life around. i' m so proud of him .
downey sr. , 72, is still active. he' s directed 18 movies, has completed a script updating his best - known film, his 1969 madison avenue satire
putney swope ,
and is working on a documentary about german singer and actress lotte lenya .
the last two or three weeks have been my best times ,
said downey, who has battled his own demons in the past .
i feel better and have come through some health issues. my writing' s sharp .
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babo 73: taylor mead plays the president of the united states, who, when he isn' t at the white house, conducts his top - secret affairs on a deserted beach .
no more excuses: downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at manhattan' s singles scene of the late sixties .
eclipse (criterion collection (firm) ). series 33, up all night with robert downey sr .
dvd; ntsc, region 1; dolby digital mono. ; 1. 33: 1 aspect ratio .
in english with optional subtitles in english for the deaf and hard of hearing .
babo 73: taylor mead, james antonio, tom gaines, james greene, richard roat, william rydell .
babo 73: music, tom o' horgan; photography, william waering; editor, fred von bernewitz .
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2 videodiscs (ca. 301 min .): col. and b & w; 4 3 / 4 in .
[ disc 2 ]. putney swope (85 min .) / produced by robert downey sr. , henri pachard
two tons of turquoise to taos tonight (56 min .) / producers ray lofaro, max raab, bette wanderman; screenplay by l. c .
special ed. - [ irvington, ny ]: criterion collection, c2005 .
2 videodiscs (105 min .): sd. , b & w; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 booklet (41 p. ; 19 cm. )
considered truffaut' s greatest film, this is a story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman .
special ed. - [ united states ]: the criterion collection, c2011 .
1 videodisc (91 min .): sd. , col. ; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged: ill. ; 19 cm. )
the legendary gilbert and sullivan troupe, the d' oyly carte opera company, joined forces with hollywood for this 1939 technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and oscar - nominated filmmaker victor schertzinger. the result is a lavish cinematic retelling of the british political satire set in exotic japan .
2 videodiscs (96 min .): sd. , b & w; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 booklet .
special features: schaffner' s 1955 television version, with an introduction by ron simon, director of the paley center for media studie ;
12 angry men
: from television to the big screen, a video essay by film scholar vance kapley; archival interviews with lumet; new interview about the director with writer walter bernstein; new interview with simon about television writer reginald rose; new interview with cinematographer john bailey .
a behind - closed - doors look at the american legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of reginald rose' s teleplay stars henry fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a puerto rican teenager charged with murdering his father. what results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. one of the most radical big - screen courtroom dramas in cinema history .
special ed. - [ united states ]: the criterion collection, 2009 .
money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war. in a word, everything. the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of juliette janson, a housewife from the paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. features include interviews, essays, and more. juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl .
blu - ray edition. - [ irvington, n. y. ]: the criterion collection, [ 2013 ]
4 videodiscs (305 min .): sound, black and white; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 booklet (86 pages: illustrations; 17 cm). sound: digital; optical; mono. lpcm. digital: video file; blu - ray. region a .
stromboli / directed by robert rossellini; produced by robert rossellini; story by robert rossellini; screenplay by sergio amidei, g. p. callegari, art cohn, renzo cesana (1950, english version 106 min. , italian version 100 min. )
europe' 51 / directed by robert rossellini; produced by robert rossellini; story by robert rossellini; screenplay by sandro de feo, mario pannunzio, ivo perilli, brunello rondi (1952, english version 109 min. , itlian version 118 min )
journey to italy / directed by robert rossellini; produced by robert rossellini, adolfo fossataro, alfredo guarini; story and screenplay by vitaliano brancati, robert rossellini (1954, 85 min .) .
the resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama. stromboli, europe' 51, and journey to italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition .
dvd special edition. - [ irvington, n. y. ]: the criterion collection, 2013 .
5 videodiscs (518 min .): sound, black and white; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 booklet (84 pages: illustrations; 19 cm). sound: digital; optical; mono; dolby digital. video: ntsc. digital: video file; dvd video; region 1 .
[ v. 1. ] disc 1. stromboli (english - language version) (106 min. )
disc 2. stromboli terra di dio (italian - language version) (100 min .) .
[ v. 2. ] disc 1 europe' 51 (english language version (109 min .) disc 2. europa' 51 (italian language version) 118 min. )
[ v. 3. ] viaggio in italia (85 min .) = journey to italy .
stromboli. after world war ii, a lithuanian refugee marries a simple italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of sicily. cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany .
europe' 51. ingrid bergman plays a wealthy, self - absorbed rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. as a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city' s poor and sick. her newfound, single - minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity .
journey to italy. among the most influential films of the postwar era, robert rossellini' s journey to italy charges the declining marriage of a couple from england on a trip in the countryside near naples. more than just the anatomy of a relationship, rossellini' s masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality .
[ s. l. ]: criterion; los angeles, ca: distributed by the voyager company, [ c1988 ] .
1 videodisc (110 min .): sd. , b & w; 12 in .
special ed. - [ united states ]: criterion collection, [ 2010? ] .
1 videodisc (92 min .): sd. , b & w; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 booklet ([ 18 ] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. )
in this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, van heflin is a mild - mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber - cool charisma by glenn ford, to the train that will take him to prison. this apparently simple plan turns into a nerve - racking cat - and - mouse game that will test each man' s particular brand of honor .
dvd ed. - [ new york, n. y. ]: criterion collection, [ 2009 ]
1 videodisc (86 min .): sd. , b & w; 4 3 / 4 in .
a young canadian man makes the acquaintance of an international spy. when he finds her murdered in his flat, he takes over her mission and is pursued across scotland by both the police and a dangerous spy ring .
the 39 steps is a heart - racing spy story by alfred hitchcock, follwing richard hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the scotish moors. a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool pamela .
1 videodisc (86 min .): sd. , b & w, single sided; 4 3 / 4 in .
a man falsely accused of murder is chased across scotland as he tries to find those responsible .
dvd ed. - [ new york, n. y. ]: criterion collection, [ 2009 ] .
follows the exploits of richard hannay, a dapper everyman who ends up on the run after he is mistaken for a murderer .
set in the impoverished back alleys of victorian london, the threepenny opera follows underworld antihero mackie messer (a. k. a. mack the knife) as he tries to woo polly peachum and elude the authorities. with a palpable evocation of corruption and dread, set to weill' s irresistible score, the threepenny opera remains a benchmark of early sound cinema .
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director - approved special ed. - [ irvington, n. y. ]: criterion collection, c2007 .
4 videodiscs (ca. 354 min .): sd. , col. and b & w; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged; 19 cm. )
[ v. 2. ] cléo de 5 à 7 = cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) (89 min. )
[ v. 3. ] le bonheur = happiness (1965) (80 min .) - - [ v. 4. ] sans toi ni loi = vagabond (1985) (105 min) .
la ponté courté. a film about a fishing town and a couple who are evaluating their changing relationship. varda juxtaposes the two tales to create a unique perspective on life .
cléo from 5 to 7. a girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever - changing moods, and her search for answers .
le bonheur. though married to the good - natured, beautiful thérèse young husband and father françois finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker .
vogabond. mona, an aimless drifter in the french countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom .
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min .): sd. , b & w; 4 3 / 4 in .
sensitively recreating the trials of truffaut' s own childhood, portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime .
blu - ray special ed. - [ irvington, ny ]: criterion collection, [ 2008 ]
1 videodisc (99 min .): sd. , b & w; 4 3 / 4 in .
antoine doinel is a young parisian boy who is neglected by his derelict parents, skips out on school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries, with disastrous results, to return them. like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. but, unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. he lives in a paris filled with dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and workaday streets. paris is a city that seems big and full of possibilities only when seen through the eyes of a child .
1 videodisc (95 min .): sound, color; 4 3 / 4 in. + 1 folded booklet (unpaged) sound: digital; optical. digital: video file; blu - ray; region 1 .
as kate and geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
chafed elbows is a 1966 film directed by robert downey sr . a manic comic parody made for $ 12,000 , chafed elbows was a commercial success that raised the flag of the underground film scene and elevated the good cause of bad taste . the film was premiered at the gate theater in new york city and ran for over one month alongside scorpio rising . downey photographed most of the movie with a still 35 mm camera and had the film processed at walgreens drugstore . these pictures were animated alongside a few live-action scenes and almost all the dialogue was dubbed to rather hilarious effect . one scene was shot in anthology film archives ’s upstairs theater back in the days when the building was still a defunct downtown courthouse . all 13 of the female roles were played by elsie downey , robert downey 's wife , and the lead male role by george morgan . 
chafed elbows is a 1966 film directed by robert downey sr. a manic comic parody made for $ 12,000, chafed elbows was a commercial success that raised the flag of the underground film scene and elevated the good cause of bad taste. the film was premiered at the gate theater in new york city and ran for over one month alongside scorpio rising. downey photographed most of the movie with a still 35 mm camera and had the film processed at walgreens drugstore. these pictures were animated alongside a few live-action scenes and almost all the dialogue was dubbed to rather hilarious effect. one scene was shot in anthology film archives ’s upstairs theater back in the days when the building was still a defunct downtown courthouse. all 13 of the female roles were played by elsie downey, robert downey's wife, and the lead male role by george morgan.
chafed elbows is a 1966 film directed by robert downey sr. a manic comic parody made for $ 12,000, chafed elbows was a commercial success that raised the flag of the underground film scene and elevated the good cause of bad taste. the film was premiered at the gate theater in new york city and ran for over one month alongside scorpio rising. downey photographed most of the movie with a still 35 mm camera and had the film processed at walgreens drugstore. these pictures were animated alongside a few live-action scenes and almost all the dialogue was dubbed to rather hilarious effect. one scene was shot in anthology film archives ’s upstairs theater back in the days when the building was still a defunct downtown courthouse. all 13 of the female roles were played by elsie downey, robert downey's wife, and the lead male role by george morgan.