Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 1111
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...
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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
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No Regrets For Our Youth. Yukie, the spoiled bourgeois daughter of a university professor, begins a soul-searching journey that takes her from the elegance of Kyoto to the peasant farms of impoverished rural Japan, the rise and fall of ultranationalism corresponding with her own moral awakening.
One Wonderful Sunday. Yuzo and Masako, a middle-class couple suffering from economic postwar decline, meet on Sunday in Tokyo with only thirty-five yen to...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Not Supplied
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Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras's career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, 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...
4) The Irishman
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
DVD edition, widescreen edition.
Description
"Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two."--container.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Not Supplied
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Documents the 1973 Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Co., which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
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A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
8) Safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 739
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Special edition.
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.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Not Supplied
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An absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles; in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies.
Series
Criterion Collection volume 728
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Not Supplied
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When a war veteran with amnesia develops a friendship with a neglected twelve-year-old girl, his motives are misinterpreted by friends, neighbors, and authorities.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Description
Master of social discomfort Ruben Östlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d'Or, winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece...
Series
Criterion Collection volume 1071
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
DVD edition.
Description
After he dies suddenly, hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
13) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition]
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
15) Romeo and Juliet
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
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Franco Zeffirelli's sublime adaptation starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting and featuring a score by Nino Rota and Oscar-winning costumes and cinematography is Shakespeare at its most deeply felt and passionately alive.
16) Watership down
Series
Criterion collection volume 748
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
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A faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams's classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat.
Series
Criterion collection volume 628
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
In northern Albania, a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father's entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.
18) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
19) Certain women
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Not Supplied
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A stirring look at four women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in the...
20) Blue
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
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A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. The first of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, followed by 'White' and 'Red.'