Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Newly restored special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 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.
7) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
8) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
9) Shoah
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Director-approved six-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (566 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (60 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming SHOAH is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryl's own life as she navigates a new relationship with a white girlfriend. Balancing a breezy romantic comedy with a serious inquiry into the history of Black and queer women in Hollywood, The Watermelon...
11) After life
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
12) Moonstruck
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An enchanting romantic comedy that brought together a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement to the staid Johnny are thrown into question after she meets his hot-blooded brother, Ronny, and...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (50 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
This film is a high-powered rock musical that tells the hilarious but emotional tale of a German glam-rock diva on a journey to find love and stardom in her new home, a trailer park in Kansas!
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Formats
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
16) Mulholland Dr
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
17) Paris is burning
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Renato and Albin--a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez--agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato's son's fiancee come for a visit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
20) The ice storm
Series
Criterion collection volume 426
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Director-approved blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their...