Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 695
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
♭2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Adele is a high school student who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student. This intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 484
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Français
Description
Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Includes interviews, booklet, documentary, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 820
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Français
Description
This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine like leaders.
4) Dheepan
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2006, 1987
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (34 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Pascal is a young French boy who discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two become inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. A touching allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
Series
Criterion collection volume 760
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006, 1959
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the film L'amour à vingt ans, picking up Antoine's story a few years later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams...
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
10) La promesse
Series
Criterion collection volume 620
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
A Belgian teenager who is gradually comes to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
11) Summer hours
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
12) The 400 blows
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
13) Jules and Jim
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Dual-format edition; dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 DVD videodiscs (106 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, it charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the...
14) Stagecoach
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common are stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.