Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) 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...
2) 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.
3) 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
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...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic that details the life of Pu Yi, crowned at the age of three as the last emperor of China before the Communist reign. Follow him from his childhood to manhood to fugitive to puppet ruler to party proletariat. Includes commentary and booklet.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (81 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the days leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques, including expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, and painfully intimate close-ups, to immerse viewers in her subjective experience.
Series
Criterion collection volume 963
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry, a devilish charmer, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1071
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
9) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (209 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
Description
Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
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.
11) Girlfriends
Series
Criterion collection volume 1055
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan, trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fling with a married, older rabbi? This 1970s New York time capsule from Claudia Weill captures the complexities and contradictions of women's lives and relationships with...
12) Irma Vep
Series
Criterion collection volume 1074
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A Hong Kong action-movie star arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink to realize his vision.
13) Petite maman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1181
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
14) Vagabond
Series
Criterion collection volume 74
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
15) Dheepan
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family. They end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. Even though they barely know one another, they try to build a life together.
16) Border radio
Series
Criterion collection volume 362
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three musicians take money that is owed to them from a job and flee to Mexico.
17) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. +‡e1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families -- one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers -- are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
19) Clean, shaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 354
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A schizophrenic man attempts to track down his young daughter after he is released from an institution.
20) Antonio Gaud?
Series
Criterion collection volume 425
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Antonio Gaud? designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks. Takes viewers on a tour of Gaud?'s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral.