Criterion Collection (Firm)
41) Le beau serge
Series
Criterion collection volume 580
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend - now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic - and the provincial life he represents. Includes bonus features.
42) Louie Bluie
Series
Criterion collection volume 532
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make in the coming years.
43) Safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 739
Formats
Description
Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.
44) 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...
45) Green for danger
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 828
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Director Stig Bj?rkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials; letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an...
48) Judex
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious kidnapping of a corrupt banker by a shadowy crime fighter (American magician Channing Pollock) spins out into a thrillingly complex web of deceptions. Combining stylish sixties modernisms with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Martin Scorsese's documentary about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
50) Certified copy
Series
Criterion collection volume 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
51) For all mankind
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chronicle on mankind's journey to the moon, using no narration, only the voices of the astronauts and mission control.
Series
Criterion collection volume 468
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (471 min.) : sd. and si., b&w and col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Presents a wide range of natural phenomena in a context of scientific exploration and surrealism. Focusing on the work of French filmmaker Jean Painlevé, this collection features twenty-three Painlevé nature films; a 2005 performance of the ninety-minute score, The sounds of science, written in 2001 by members of the rock group Yo La Tengo to accompany eight of Painlevé's films; an interview with Yo La Tengo; and the eight-part 1988 French television...
53) The awful truth
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. Try as they each might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help but meddle in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman, and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead.
54) Equinox flower
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Ozu's splendid first color film, a stubborn businessman, who disapproves of his daughter's fiance, must learn to embrace modern romance.
55) Late spring
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1? booklet.
Description
A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter.
56) EO
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling Siberian rock band leaves the lonely tundra to tour the United States because, as they're told, 'they'll buy anything' there.This farce follows the musicians as they bravely make their way across the New World.
58) La Pointe-Courte
Series
Criterion collection volume 419
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([56] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The great Agnes Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later be considered one of the progenitors of the coming French...
Series
Criterion collection volume 351
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shortly after the Spanish civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it.
60) 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.