Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection ; 29
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
Series
Criterion collection ; 387
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
"La jetée" was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's film "Twelve Monkeys" and is almost entirely narrated using black and white stills. After Paris is destroyed in a third world war, the survivors are forced to retreat underground where scientists conduct strange time-travel experiments in an effort to escape to a better past or future. In "Sans soleil", an unknown woman reads the writings of a cameraman who travels the world to produce a study of...
Series
Criterion collection ; 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Rome open city: When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.
Paisan: Set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate...
6) Medium cool
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
7) Schizopolis
Series
Criterion collection ; 199
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fletcher Munson, a corporate drone and speechwriter for a New Age guru, discovers he has a doppelganger in the crazed dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. A deranged comedy of confused identity, doublespeack and intrigue. Starring director Steven Soderbergh.
Series
Criterion collection ; 184
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage.
10) Eraserhead
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
11) Crumb
Series
Criterion collection ; 533
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.
Series
Criterion collection ; 1022
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Wingo, a disillusioned southern football coach, leaves his crumbling marriage to travel to New York to talk to his troubled sister's psychiatrist about their dysfunctional family's history." --
Series
Criterion collection ; 212
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Swedish
Description
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie - Winter Light. This documentary film offers views on set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew.
Series
Criterion collection ; 118
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A Hollywood director wants to abandon comedies and make serious films. In order to feed his creative flame, he travels onto the street disguised as a hobo in order to endure real hardship.
Series
Criterion collection ; 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
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.
16) Frances Ha
Series
Criterion collection ; 681
Publisher
Pine District Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman in her late twenties living in contemporary New York tries to sort out her ambitions, finances, and above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend Sophie. Frances Ha gets at both the frustrations and the joys of being young and unsure of where to go next.
Series
Criterion collection ; 1007
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. This breathless adventure in the shadow of Armageddon takes its heroes to the ends of the earth and into the oneiric depths of their own souls." --
Series
Criterion collection ; 680
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Formats
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
19) The Europeans
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Classic satire about two fortune-seeking expatriates and their sober American relations.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy carves a small wooden man into a canoe. Follows the adventures of the tiny craft as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean. A thrilling journey across the waves and rapids of North America.