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
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
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 998
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 x 12 cm folded).
Description
In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74; a music festival planned to accompany the Rumble in the Jungle, Muhammad Ali's heavyweight championship fight against George Foreman. This documentary captures the charismatic boxer training for one of the toughest bouts of his career.
12) 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.
14) 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...
16) 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
17) 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.
18) 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.
19) King of jazz
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
Long available only in incomplete form, this film appears here newly restored to its original glory, offering a fascinating snapshot of the way mainstream American popular culture viewed itself at the dawn of the 1930s.
20) 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.