Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) Walkabout
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood. This is the original director's cut
Series
Criterion collection volume 1176
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver, one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s, digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti-romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie's best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles and his married-but-separated coworker Laura. Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that...
3) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant, takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage, one that could either destroy or empower her.
4) Afire
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic inadequacies. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest...
5) Love streams
Series
Criterion collection volume 721
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
7) The trial
Series
Criterion collection volume 1191
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka's novel, Orson Welles's film casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, McCarthyism, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement, one of his boldest...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
"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" --
Series
Criterion collection volume 1209
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
"Michael Roemer's groundbreaking first feature, sensitively shot by his close collaborator Robert M. Young, is a still-resonant expression of humanity in the face of virulent prejudice. Made at the height of the civil rights movement, Nothing But A Man reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity, as he attempts to settle...
11) Les misérables
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (281 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector, Javert, who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
12) La cérémonie
Series
Criterion collection volume 1199
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire), the housemaid to a wealthy family, forms a mysterious alliance with Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), a small-town postal worker. Their violent pasts resurface when they feel unacknowledged. The film is considered the crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career and is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Icelandic
Description
"The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested as he confronts the harsh terrain, temptations...
Series
Criterion collection volume 175
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
15) Mudbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 1205
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
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.
16) Pinocchio
Series
Criterion collection volume 1201
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
17) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 429
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Language
Français
Description
A restless bourgeois French woman finds her eye wandering from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger.
Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, Elevator to the Gallows. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash The Lovers (Les amants), he made her a star once and for all. A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, perched on the edge between classical and New Wave cinemas,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1194
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (203 min.) : sound ; black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...