Criterion Collection (Firm)
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 1111
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
With a powerhouse ensemble cast, writer-director Mike Leigh's Palme d'Or winning film is a tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath the surface of everyday lives.
5) The others
Series
Criterion collection volume 1195
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A remote manor; hushed, candlelit atmosphere; and shivery, supernatural menace. With his first English-language feature, Chilean Spanish writer-director-composer Alejandro Amenb̀ar resurrected the classic gothic chiller to create a ghost story of uncommon emotional resonance. Nicole Kidman stars as a World War II-era mother whose imperiousness masks a terrifying pain, as she keeps her light-sensitive children enshrouded in darkness on her country...
Series
Criterion collection volume 700
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (87 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Based on the beloved, best selling book by Roald Dahl.
8) Macbeth
Series
Criterion collection volume 726
Formats
Description
Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis star as a decorated warrior rising in the ranks and his driven wife, scheming together to take the throne by any means.
Series
Criterion collection volume 596
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An offshoot of a Japanese television series of the same name, "Three outlaw samurai" is a classic in its own right. A wandering, seen-it-all ronin becomes entangled in the dangerous business of two other samurai hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate. With remarkable storytelling economy and thrilling action scenes, it's an expertly mounted tale of revenge and loyalty.
10) Broadcast news
Series
Criterion collection volume 552
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter. James L. Brooks' witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 734-735
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman , they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit, are rigorous,...
12) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, with the help of a young aboriginal boy on his "walkabout", a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
13) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1069
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (193 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Director Jacques Rivette, in close collaboration with stars Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, rewrote the rules of cinema in the spirit of pure play and the result is one of the most inventive and utterly enchanting films of the French New Wave.
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
16) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Series
Criterion collection volume 889
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Morgan is an honest charter-boat captain who is facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he2ll admit.
18) Life of Brian
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
20) The 400 blows
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Description
The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the film L'amour à vingt ans, picking up Antoine's story a few years later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams...