Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
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...
2) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 846
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
In this essay film, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson presents a monologue touching upon her relationship with her rat terrier Lolabelle, the death of her mother, the heightening of surveillance following 9/11, and other topics.
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York₂s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy...
6) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 641
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
"Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind's obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world"--Container.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
2-DVD edition.
Description
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.
9) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
10) Gimme shelter
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Description
"Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinima pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment"--Container....
11) El Norte
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
The north
Description
Beginning in the mountains of Guatemala, El Norte is the story of a brother and sister who flee their homeland in search of the "promised land" after their father is assassinated by the government. El Norte is a work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery -- a heartbreaking story of hope and survival.
Series
Criterion collection volume 336
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman.
13) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he has loved her all along.
14) Bull Durham
Series
Criterion collection volume 936
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
15) Jungle book
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
Kipling's classic menagerie comes to dazzling life in this lush adaptation, featuring Sabu as Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. He gradually reacclimates himself to civilization with the help of his long-lost mother and a beautiful village girl, whose father is convinced that Mowgli is dangerous.
16) Straw dogs
Series
The Criterion collection volume 182
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
"In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 609
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Director approved DVD special edition.
Description
A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie,...
18) The game
Series
Criterion collection volume 627
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
In this thriller, Nicholas Van Orton, a shrewd and successful businessman who is always in control, has been enrolled by his brother in "The Game"-- "a profound life experience" with no rules, which begins quietly but soon erupts in a confusing maze of devastating events. Terrorized by forces who seem intent on dismantling all that he has built, Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life.
19) The ice storm
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Director-approved special ed. ; widescreen.
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Special ed.] ; full screen.
Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.