Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) Petite maman
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual state of wonder through luminous, richly textured images, the film takes viewers on a journey inward for a quietly miraculous tale of emotional time travel.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's sixty-two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in...
3) Targets
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass...
4) Nanny
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) House
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Rather than spend the summer with her father and his girlfriend, Oshare decides to bring her friends to her aunt's country home, but do not realize that her aunt is actually dead and the house is haunted.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
4K UHD + Blu-ray combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis's country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the early fifties, decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.
8) Pinocchio
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
4K UHD + Blu-ray combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
A father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved three-Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (317 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in a chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
Benny's video: A 14-year-old video enthusiast, Benny, obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
71 fragments of a chronology of chance: 71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant,...
11) Afire
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic inadequacies. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (399 minutes) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm).
Language
Swedish
Description
The baby carriage: Following his manifesto for a new Swedish cinema, director Widerberg started his career with this realist tale of young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
Raven's End: An aspiring young writer lives in a bleak working class block in the late 1930s.
Elvira Madigan: The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 Goldin's life, from her rebellious adolescence and immersion in New York City's thriving underground arts scene to her personal experiences of addiction and the AIDS epidemic. Through it all, her indelible photographs...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Director-approved three-Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (425 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
Five original films, set between 1969 and 1982, celebrate the courage and solidarity of London's West Indian community. From a group of activists taking on a seemingly hopeless battle against police persecution, to a teenager experiencing a blues party full of dance, danger and romance, they're a powerful reminder of how brave individuals can spark change.
Mangrove: The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a lively community hub in London's Notting...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016, 1973.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out sheet.
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.
16) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (approximately 951 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (95 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti-romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie's best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles and his married-but-separated coworker Laura. Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that perhaps...
18) One false move
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
4K UHD + Blu-ray combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (unpaged ; 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
A small-town police chief concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman caught in the middle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1186
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
4K UHD + Blu-ray combo edition.
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays + 3 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays (380 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrated ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
The tall T: An easygoing rancher who, along with the newlywed daughter of a wealthy mining baron, must use his wits to stay alive when he is taken hostage by a band of ruthless stagecoach robbers.
Decision at Sundown: A mysterious stranger who, consumed by hatred for the man he blames for his wife's suicide, rides into the corrupt town of Sundown hell-bent on vengeance. There, both he and the townspeople face a reckoning that forces them to confront...