Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 375 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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 and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 607
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (266 min.) : sound silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages).
Language
English
Description
Contains 24 films by the acclaimed filmmaker produced between 1966 and 1979.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015, ©1981, ©1978.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 foldout insert.
Language
English
Description
Gates of Heaven: uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry.
Vernon, Florida: travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic, sometimes absurd pursuits.
Series
Criterion collection volume 517
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (455 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
In this second installment, we are proud to present thirty more of Brakhage's innovative creations, from his 1950s films to his final work from 2003. Highlights of this collection include the antiwar film 23rd psalm branch; hand-painted films from the Persian series; The wonder ring, made for a commission by Joseph Cornell; the autobiographical Scenes from under childhood, section one; his only found-footage film, Murder psalm; and much more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 184
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (243 min.) : sound and silent, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world's most beloved and provocative auteurs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 134
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (179 min.) : sound, color (restored tinting) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 212
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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 volume 215
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
The suspenseful story of three people isolated for 24 hours aboard a yacht.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
14) F for fake
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. This edition includes many special features.
15) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 848
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016, 1972.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out.
Language
Italiano
Description
Virtually a plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens. Blending autobiography with scenes from present-day Roman life.
16) Judex
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs + 1 Blu-Ray (97 min.) : Blu-ray, DVD, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 cm + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
A mysterious kidnapping of a corrupt banker by a shadowy crime fighter (American magician Channing Pollock) spins out into a thrillingly complex web of deceptions. Combining stylish sixties modernisms with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents.
17) Safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 739
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.
18) Louie Bluie
Series
Criterion collection volume 532
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make in the coming years.
Series
Criterion collection volume 194
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling...
20) Le beau serge
Series
Criterion collection volume 580
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Standard format], DVD special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend - now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic - and the provincial life he represents. Includes bonus features.