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Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
62) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
63) 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.
64) 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...
65) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director-approved two DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
66) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
67) 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 1127
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
"The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mina Nair's Mississippi Masala, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner (Denzel...
69) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet
Language
Korean
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...
70) 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.
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
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