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 702
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Italiano
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
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
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...
4) 4 by Varda
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Language
English
Description
Cleo from 5-7: Selfish pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) has two hours to wait until the results of her biopsy come back. After an ominous tarot card reading, she visits her friends, all of whom fail to give her the emotional support she needs. Wandering around Paris, she finally finds comfort talking with a soldier in a park.
Publisher
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Pub. Date
1940.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (126 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish "Tomainian" dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after...
6) 8 1/2
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (139 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s *8 ½* (*Otto e mezzo*) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for *8 ½* was "The Beautiful Confusion," and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Winner of two **Academy...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swedish
Description
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, WILD STRAWBERRIES dramatizes one man’s remarkable voyage of self-discovery. This richly humane masterpiece, full of iconic imagery, is a treasure from...
Publisher
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Pub. Date
1953.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom. Nominated for Best Writing - Story and Screenplay at the 1956...
9) Richard III
Publisher
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Pub. Date
1955.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (160 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In Richard III, director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier brings Shakespeare's masterpiece of Machiavellian villainy to ravishing cinematic life. Olivier is diabolically captivating as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who, through a series of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward. And he surrounds himself with a royal supporting cast, which includes Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, and Claire Bloom. Filmed in VistaVision...
10) Bicycle Thieves
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the **Academy Award–winning** BICYCLE THIEVES, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swedish
Description
Winner of the **Academy Award** for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity, and of one father’s need to avenge the death of a child.
12) Black Orpheus
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Portuguese
Description
Winner of both the **Academy Award** for best foreign-language film and the **Cannes Film Festival’s** Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis...
Series
Criterion collection volume 922
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
The wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismaki is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference. A response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, the film follows two people, a displaced Syrian and a Finnish salesman, searching for a place to call home.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction.
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 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
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.
17) Fantastic planet
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.
18) 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.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
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.