Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 827
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016, 1971.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
3) Eraserhead
Series
Criterion collection volume 725
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nightmarish collage of images which blends the grotesque and the absurd, the deeply disturbing and the darkly humorous. Henry is the nerdish central character who lives in a squalid apartment with a strange girl and their monstrous baby. The extraordinary special effects create an eerie, dream-like world with a logic all its own.
4) Black moon
Series
Criterion collection volume 571
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After skirting the horrors of an unidentified war being waged in an anonymous countryside, a beautiful young woman takes refuge in a remote farmhouse where she becomes embroiled in the surreal domestic odyssey of a mysterious family. Evocatively shot by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, 'Black Moon' is a Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a post-apocalyptic world of shifting identities and talking animals. It's a cinematic daydream like no other....
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daniel Miller was tooling along a Los Angeles boulevard listening to Barbra Streisand sing "Something's Coming" when something came - a bus. One head-on crash later, Daniel wakes up deceased. And his troubles are just beginning ... Meryl Streep joins writer/director/star Brooks ... for a witty peek at the afterlife where you can eat all you want and not gain an ounce. But there's a catch: you're saddled with Defending Your Life. If you can't make...
6) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the Farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
8) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
9) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
11) Thief
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Director-approved dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD (approximately 124 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
A professional thief is caught between Chicago organized crime families and corrupt police.
12) Jellyfish eyes
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
日本語
Description
After moving to a country town with his mother following his father's death, a young boy befriends a charming, flying, jellyfish-like sprite, only to discover that his schoolmates have similar friends, and that neither they nor the town itself are what they seem to be. Pointedly set in a post-Fukushima world, Murakami's modest-budgeted special effects extravaganza boasts unforgettable creature designs and carries a message of cooperation and hope...
13) Personal shopper
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, and a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 540
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other. The brothers wanted to regain their friendship of each other. Their "spiritual quest, " however, veers rapidly off-course -- thanks in part to over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray. Eventually the three find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert...
15) Uncut gems
Series
Criterion collection volume 1101
Language
English
Description
This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard₂s ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
A tough-talking former GI comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; events turn out neither as planned nor at all well.
Series
Criterion collection volume 889
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have And Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, take on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer (Wallace...