Criterion Collection (Firm)
81) Mystery train
Series
Criterion collection volume 521
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of Memphis in hot pursuit of the elusive 'King' himself, Elvis! Includes documentary, photos, booklet, and more.
82) 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.
83) Mandabi
Series
Criterion collection volume 1065
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head. An adaptation of a novella by the director himself is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption,...
84) Grand illusion
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French World War I POW is held by Erich von Stroheim's German captain. A rousing prison-escape adventure and an exemplar of the 1930's poetic realist movement.
85) Smooth talk
Series
Criterion collection volume 1068
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
The fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
86) A master builder
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A visionary yet tyrannical middle-aged architect is haunted by figures from his past.
87) Fantastic planet
Series
Criterion collection volume 820
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine like leaders.
88) A touch of Zen
Series
Criterion collection volume 825
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Description
A fugitive noblewoman seeks refuge in a remote, and allegedly haunted, village. The sanctuary she finds with a shy scholar and two aides in disguise is shattered when a nefarious swordsman uncovers her identity, pitting the four against legions of blade-wielding opponents.
89) The celebration
Series
Criterion collection volume 1108
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a wealthy man's 60th birthday, a huge group of family and friends convenes at his country estate for a celebration that soon spirals into bedlam, as bombshell revelations threaten to tear away the veneer of bourgeois respectability and expose their traumas. The handheld camera work, grainy natural lighting, cacophonous diegetic sound, and raw performance style that would become Dogme hallmarks enhance the shattering visceral impact of this caustic...
90) Trainspotting
Series
Criterion collection volume 1204
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him.
Series
Criterion Collection volume 1188
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sixty-two year old Mrs. Tan wants to take a trip to China to pay her last respects to her ancestors. But her daughter Geraldine is still unmarried. This aging immigrant widow leaves her devoted daughter torn between filial duty and her own desires.
Series
Criterion collection volume 448
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French criminal, recently escaped from prison and trying to pull off a robbery, finds himself being chased by an inspector.
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!
94) 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.
95) Meantime
Series
Criterion collection volume 890
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A incisive portrait of the tensions that exist within a working class family.
96) Multiple maniacs
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
97) Man push cart
Series
Criterion collection volume 1066
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
The experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad was a famous rock star. Now a widower separated from his son and adrift in New York, he works long hours selling coffee and bagels from a midtown Manhattan food cart, engaged in a Sisyphean search for human connection and a sense of purpose that seems perpetually just out of reach.
98) Sisters
Series
Criterion collection volume 89
Formats
Description
Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters' insidious sibling bond. A scary and stylish paean to female destructiveness.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (23 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A law student is attracted to a girl he sees in the street and wanders the area hoping to see her again. While there, he stops in for cookies at a quaint Paris bakery and becomes interested in a pretty brunette who works there. Is he truly interested or is she just a sweet diversion?
100) Equinox
Series
Criterion collection volume 338
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Deep within the woods and canyons of California, four teens find an ancient book containing the secrets of a strange world that coexists with their own.