Janus Films
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.
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.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (371 min.) : sound, silent, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
La chambre: The camera goes around the room three times, starting at a table, and slowly making its way 360 degrees around the room.
Hotel Monterey: Short film consisting entirely of shots of people walking in and out of a rundown New York hotel.
News from home: Presents a series of abstract and fragmentary images of everyday urban life in 1970s New York City, accompanied by the distinctive narration of filmmaker Chantal Akerman as she dispassionately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 567
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (347 min.) : sound, color , black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Major Barbara: Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army, but also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire arms manufacturer. A comedic battle rages between daughter and father, posing the question: does salvation come through faith of science?--International Movie Data Base.
Caesar and Cleopatra: Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more...
Series
Criterion collection volume 526
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A widowed high school teacher finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son's future, the more they are separated.
7) Tristana
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[between 1990 and 1999?]
Edition
Letterbox edición.
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (98 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Español
Description
Set in 1920's Spain, this film is a scathing examination of moral decay. Tristana, a victim of her own captivating beauty, is desired by two men. One is her lecherous guardian whose physical advances repulse her and cause her to have nightmares of his death by decapitation, and the other is a young artist who wants to marry her, but lacks the courage.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (378 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story of a cheat: "Considered Sacha Guitry's masterpiece, this fleet, witty picaresque about a gambler and petty thief is a whimsical delight. Guitry himself stars as the tricheur looking back fondly on a life of crime, which he narrates with an effervescence matched by that of the film's skillful editing and cinematography. With its rapid storytelling and novel use of voice-over, The Story of a Cheat has influenced filmmakers from Orson Welles...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (301 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon was a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. This set showcases three of his richest films, which were made during the German occupation of France. These character-driven dramas are humane, entertaining, and technically brilliant, and prove Grémillon to be one of cinema's true hidden masters.
Remorques. Gabin plays Laurent, a salvage-boat captain who rescues a merchant vessel from...
Series
Criterion collection volume 392-395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (521 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....
11) Pickpocket
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
12) Close-up
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Persian
Description
The arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence. Real people from the case play themselves.
Series
Criterion collection volume 290
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Three-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (281 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Persian
Description
Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for his wondrous, slyly self-referential trilogy of films set in the rural Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, these lyrical fables exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that defines the director's sensibility.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 432
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (56 pages : illustrations).
Language
日本語
Description
A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
17) Modern times
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
Series
Criterion collection volume 72
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Digitally remastered version with restored sound.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films.
19) Clean, shaven
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Peter is schizophrenic. He has recently been released from a hospital, and lives in his car. Before his condition developed, he was married, and now he wants to see his daughter Nicole. His stern, disapproving mother refuses to tell him what has happened to the girl. His belief that "receivers and transmitters" are within his body makes his quest more than difficult. One consequence of his troubled behavior is the police detective tracking down a...
20) Hearts and minds
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version ; RSDL Dual-layer edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (19 x 12 cm).
Language
English
Description
Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in rare footage.