Sven Nykvist
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
2) Vargtimmen
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A brooding artist accompanied by his wife travels to a remote island where he hopes to escape his demons.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Series
Criterion collection volume 262
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
6) Curtain call
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1997
Description
Stevenson Lowe has just moved in to a fabulous brownstone with his girlfriend, Julia, who wants to get married. But all thoughts of proposing are quickly scared out of him by a couple of grouchy ghosts who have the marriage from hell. They are Max and Lily Gale, the original residents of his newly purchased brownstone who have no intention of leaving to make room for this new couple. When Julia decides she's waited long enough for a proposal, she...
