Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 196
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : monaural, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Study of a French film actress and a Japanese architect, each with a troubled past, who have a brief affair in postwar Hiroshima.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
Series
Criterion collection volume 353
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Español
Description
Don Juan-ish yuppie Tomás Tomás spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he can't keep their names straight. That is until one spurned nurse gives him a taste of his own medicine.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
Series
Criterion collection volume 361
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a successful Broadway musical, an HBO film, and Albert, the...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations)
Language
Bengali
Description
A matinee idol Arindam Mukherjee is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist Aditi who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
Series
Criterion collection volume 400
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Willie, a disenchanted loner, is visited by his sixteen-year old Hungarian cousin Eva. Willie's equally slacker best friend Eddie also meets Eva, and the three become loose friends, until Eva decides to leave to visit Willie and Eva's Aunt Lottie in Cleveland. After a while Willie and Eddie are surprised to find that they miss Eva's companionship and take off for Cleveland in an old car. Finding Cleveland in winter to be disappointingly cold and unattractive,...
9) Blow out
Series
Criterion collection volume 562
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Jack is a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on...
10) Alexander Nevsky
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242.
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his nymphomaniac sister."--Container.
12) Sweetie
Series
Criterion collection volume 356
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 868
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
日本語
Description
"The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 301
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (35, [2] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
18) Yōjimbō
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A wandering Samurai-for-hire eventually finds a dramatic solution to the problems of a town with two warring clans.
Series
Criterion collection volume 226
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
A woman and her daughter-in-law impersonate demons to lure and kill soldiers in samurai-era medieval Japan.