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Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (25 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Classic biographical telling of the life of Abraham Lincoln, from his youth to his death.
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.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 563
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 301
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
7) 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 1075
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
The wild world of adolescence has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this frank spin on the teen comedy by director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe, launching hugely successful film careers for both.
Series
Criterion collection volume 605
Publisher
The Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable life in the period between the two World Wars. The Gibbons are a normal British family whose story begins right after World War I when Frank comes home from serving his country and the family moves to a new house. Their story continues until the dawn of World War II. Frank and Ethel Gibbons' stories and those of their three children - Reg, Queenie and Vi, are told...
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.
11) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 p.] ; 19 cm.)
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
12) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
13) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Formats
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, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
14) Japón
Series
Criterion collection volume 968
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires.
Series
Criterion collection volume 46
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man.
16) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : col. ill.).
Description
Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
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.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor rivalry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 648
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the summer of 1960, a disparate group of Paris residents are interviewed, beginning with the question, "Are you happy?"
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