Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) Bad timing
Series
Criterion collection volume 303
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 unnumbered pages ; illustrated, color ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Alex is a cold, distant, fiercely intellectual research psychiatrist from New York, teaching in Vienna. Milena, an Army brat, has wandered back through the countries she was raised in to find herself there, too. They meet at a party, are immediately attracted to each other, and fall quickly into a sexually obsessive relationship. Milena has a husband across the border named Stefan, and a drinking problem. This does not make Alex very happy. Their...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations, some color ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New Yorks 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 Warhol's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 912
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (28 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
日本語
Description
Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.
4) Amarcord
Series
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of people in a town in Italy in the 1930's, under the control of both the Church and Fascism.
5) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 mins.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 522
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of industry, surrounded by the blighted landscape of the mechanized...
Series
Criterion collection volume 820
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
This futuristic story takes place on Ygam, a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against their oppressors.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
10) Hôtel du Nord
Series
Criterion collection volume 1139
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (10 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. --
Series
Criterion collection volume 293
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
"In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container.
Dramatization of the life of St. Frances of Assisi, focusing on the founding of the Franciscan order of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 976
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (folded to 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
"Two luminaries of French cinema, Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche, unite for the first time in this piercing look at the elusive nature of true love, and the extent to which we are willing to betray ourselves in its pursuit. Binoche plays Isabelle, a successful painter in Paris whose apparent independence belies what she desires most: real romantic fulfillment. Isabelle reveals deep wells of yearning, vulnerability, and resilience as she tumbles...
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels ; folded to 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature -- the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies -- harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 154
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 334
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
Series
Criterion collection volume 836
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
"In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood,...
18) Spellbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 136
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature - or so she thinks. That is until the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at the Green Manors Mental Asylum. The bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis, where the greatest risk is to fall in love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 182
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet of program notes ([17] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies savagery and violence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 835
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 123 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 unnumbered pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give them, but there are prices for fame and fortune -- addictions...