Janus Films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 567
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of three sisters, one of whom is dying of cancer, and their housekeeper, all of whom are searching for spiritual peace in a world that seems to offer only disorder and despair.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside, workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
8) 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 432
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (56 p. : ill.)
Description
A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 526
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A widowed high school teacher finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son's future, the more they are separated.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
Publisher
Criterian Collection
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Insiang; Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother's lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge
Mysterious object at noon: Apichatpong creates a film version of the corpse game, enlisting locals to improvise narration to create a combined story
Revenge: A child raised in Korea spends decades avenging the death of his father's first child
Limite:...
Series
Criterion collection volume 506
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Description
A famous gas mask designer, trying to deal with his pill-addicted wife and the maid he is having an affair with, finds a gun that might have belonged to the famous John Dillinger.
14) Sweetie
Series
Criterion collection volume 356
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jane Campion, director of The Piano, will always be remembered for this stunning debut feature. The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie.'
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Monika, 17 years old and Harry Lund 19 years meet in a cafe. They spend a happy summer together, and soon Monika discovers that she is pregnant. They marry, but Monika is bored with taking care of the baby and the responsibilities of married life. She begins an affair with a former lover and their marriage falls apart.
16) Drunken angel
Series
Criterion collection volume 413
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Set in post-war Tokyo in 1945, a tuberculosis-infected criminal starts an unhealthy relationship with an alcoholic doctor. The patient needs to feel better so that he can retain his status as gang-leader after the ex-leader is released from prison, and the doctor needs to feel like he has a place in society and that life is worth living.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (574 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.
18) Gervaise
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of mid-19th-century Parisian slums in which a young girl's dreams of a happy home and a successful laundry are cruelly destroyed by a drunken husband.
19) Breathless
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet. (80 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (136 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.