Janus Films
2) Stray dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 233
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In post-WW II Japan, a detective whose gun is stolen, sets out on an odyssey to reclaim his weapon and to seek out a killer.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy carves a small wooden man into a canoe. Follows the adventures of the tiny craft as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean. A thrilling journey across the waves and rapids of North America.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (22 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of traveling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 286
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages :illustrations ;19 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.
7) 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...
8) Border radio
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three musicians take money that is owed to them from a job and flee to Mexico.
Series
Criterion collection volume 614
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Swedish
Description
Seventeen-year-old Monika and nineteen-year-old Harry Lund meet in a cafe. They spend a happy summer together, and soon Monika discovers that she is pregnant. They marry, but Monika is bored with taking care of the baby and the responsibilities of married life. She begins an affair with a former lover and their marriage falls apart.
11) Harakiri
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([26] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
After an unemployed samurai is forced to commit harakiri before a feudal lord, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A gangster story about a hitman who lost his last target, and now another hitman is after him.
13) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled...
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 149
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
17) 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 805
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974 while Blank was living at the Russell/Shelter Records recording studio compound on Grand Lake of the Cherokees in NE Oklahoma, but unreleased due to creative differences and music clearance problems, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Includes scenes of Russell and his band and others performing, both in concert...
Series
Criterion collection volume 294
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A strict English schoolteacher is forced into retirement and begins to doubt himself and his life.
20) The gold rush
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (160 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.