Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 15
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
日本語
Description
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing.
22) 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 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
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
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.
28) 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 484
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick.
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.
32) Girlfriends
Series
Criterion collection volume 1055
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan, trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fling with a married, older rabbi? This 1970s New York time capsule from Claudia Weill captures the complexities and contradictions of women's lives and relationships with...
33) Xia nü
Series
Criterion collection volume 825
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A fugitive noblewoman seeks refuge in a remote, and allegedly haunted, village. The sanctuary she finds with a shy scholar and two aides in disguise is shattered when a nefarious swordsman uncovers her identity, pitting the four against legions of blade-wielding opponents.
34) Salesman
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A documentary that captures in detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road."
35) The confession
Series
Criterion collection volume 759
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (139 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
Français
Description
The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
Set in the 1950s, tells the story of a Czechoslovak...
36) Smithereens
Series
Criterion collection volume 941
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages ; folded to 19 x 12 cm).
Language
English
Description
After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren, a sparkplug in fishnets who lives dangerously downtown, moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up flyers for herself or hanging at the Peppermint Lounge, she is getting involved with Paul, the nicest guy to ever live in a van next to the highway, and Eric, an aloof rocker.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
38) Shock corridor
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + guide (28 pages ; illustrations).
Language
English
Description
"Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him. Constance Towers costars as Johnny's coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on racism and other hot-button issues in sixties America and its daring photography by Stanley Cortez, Shock Corridor has had far-reaching influence." -- Container.
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39) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 pages] ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
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...