Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) Yi yi
Series
Criterion collection volume 339
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of a year, from a wedding at the start to a funeral at its end.
Series
Criterion collection volume 387
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
"La jetee" was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's film "Twelve Monkeys" and is almost entirely narrated using black and white stills. After Paris is destroyed in a third world war, the survivors are forced to retreat underground where scientists conduct strange time-travel experiments in an effort to escape to a better past or future. In "Sans soleil", an unknown woman reads the writings of a cameraman who travels the world to produce a study of...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hector is a rising college basketball star in a troubled relationship with dance student Olive, while his roommate, guerrilla theater student/political activist Gabriel, keeps himself awake so long to avoid the draft that he slips into madness.
4) Medium cool
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (306 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Varda meets a Greek relative for the first time in Sausalito; follows an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers co-founder, Huey P. Newton; creators of the musical "Hair" and Viva, a woman from the Warhol Factory, live together, talking about love, fame, and politics; explores the public murals of Los Angeles; drama about a divorced mother and her son living a marginal life in Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 blu-rays (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
7) Eraserhead
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A nightmarish collage of images which blends the grotesque and the absurd, the deeply disturbing and the darkly humorous. Henry is the nerdish central character who lives in a squalid apartment with a strange girl and their monstrous baby. The extraordinary special effects create an eerie, dream-like world with a logic all its own.
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
Series
Criterion collection volume 993
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on its eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta. She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 134
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (179 min.) : sd., col. (restored tinting) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous. Through painstaking research, this silent docu-drama attempts to reconstruct the practices of witchcraft and satanism from the 15th through the 17th centuries, concluding with cases of demoniac possession...
11) La vérité
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominated La vérité delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
13) No bears
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
14) Close-up
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Based on the real-life case of Hossein Sabzian and re-enacted by the actual people involved in the original case, a man impersonates a famous director to insinuate himself into a wealthy family he has just met.
15) Cold water
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The acclaimed early film by Olivier Assayas about teenage lovers in the outskirts of Paris in the early '70s, whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. With memorable party sequences and a rock soundtrack evoking the period, it is a heartbreaking tale of the emotional tumult of being young
16) Black girl
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD with special features.
Description
A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally, into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.
17) The Brood
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
18) Chan is missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 1124
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco₂s Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city₂s back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants to track him down. But what begins as a search for...
19) Safety last!
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
20) El sur
Series
Criterion collection volume 927
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
In the North of Spain, Estrella grows up captivated by her father, a doctor with mystical powers, and by the enigma of his youth in the South, a near-mythical region whose secrets seem to haunt him more and more as time goes on. Though Erice's original vision also encompassed a long section set in the South itself, which was never made, it remains an experience of rare perfection and satisfaction.