Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1072
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an American is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger, and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents and brings them to the very edge of catastrophe.
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.
4) 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.
5) 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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two down-and-out British actors leave their city life for a disastrous vacation in the country with an eccentric uncle.
7) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 948
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
When the beautiful maiden Buttercup hears that her true love Westley is dead, she reluctantly agrees to marry the loathsome Prince Humperdinck. After Westley returns to rescue Buttercup, the two begin an epic adventure filled with fencing, fighting, giants, monsters, miracles, true love and hilarity!
9) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
An amnesiac man found wandering in the Texas desert works to reconstruct his past with the help of his wife and family who have not seen him in four years.
10) Floating weeds
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 leaflet
Description
An aging actor returns to the town where his son lives, who has believed all these years to be his uncle rather than his father.
11) 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 147
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
13) The only son
Series
Criterion collection volume 525
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The story examines the motherly love of a peasant woman who gives up everything so that her son can receive education in Tokyo. Ten years later, the mother pays her son a visit in Tokyo, believing that he has become a successful young man. However, upon arrival, she is bitterly disappointed to find out that her son is working as a night-school teacher and living in poverty with his family.
14) Tokyo twilight
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the dead of winter, past and present traumas afflict two sisters and their aging father in this, one of Ozu's most heartbreaking and powerful works.
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Formats
Description
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
17) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
18) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Formats
Description
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin?s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times?though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)?is a timeless showcase of Chaplin?s untouchable...
Series
Criterion collection volume 224
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
20) Howards End
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...