Criterion Collection (Firm)
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection, and she soon gives up everything for her beloved's...
22) Notorious
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman is enlisted by an American agent to spy on a ring of Nazis in post war Rio.
23) Cameraperson
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
24) The gunfighter
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A key forerunner of the new breed of dark, brooding westerns that would cast a shadow over America's frontier folklore, this subversive psychological saga sounds a death knell for the myth of the outlaw hero. In one of his most morally complex roles, Gregory Peck stars as Jimmy Ringo, an infamous gunslinger looking to hang up his holsters and start a new life, but whose reputation draws him inexorably into a cycle of violence and revenge from which...
25) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
26) Pandora's box
Series
Criterion collection volume 358
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone with whom she comes in contact.
27) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
29) Taste of cherry
Series
Criterion collection volume 45
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. : 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
30) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 355
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Italiano
Description
The structure of power and the facade of democracy are explored in this political exposé of corruption in Naples. Following the fatal collapse of a tenement building, an investigation reveals that profits from municipal developments are going to city council members and developers in backroom negotiations.
32) State of siege
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 250
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (ca. 837 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (67 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.).
Language
English
Description
"Shadows": Explores interracial friendships and relationships in the 1950's Beat-era New York City. "Faces": Richard and Maria are attempting to escape the anguish of their dissolving marriage by falling in the arms of others. "A woman under the influence": Mabel, is loved by her husband Nick, but her madness proves to be a problem in their marriage. "The killing of a Chinese bookie": To clear his debt, a strip club owner grapples with his own conscience...
34) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant, takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage, one that could either destroy or empower her.
35) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
[Widescreen format], DVD ed., Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Harve, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (299 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen format
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two artists one Austrian, the other French meet in Paris and form an instant friendship. Each falls in love with the same woman, who loves both in return. Their friendships and mutual love affair last for decades.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras's career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family's integral role in the ongoing crisis of opioid overdoses with an intimate journey through...
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Extended international version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.