Criterion Collection (Firm)
441) Valley of the dolls
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
443) Lola Montès
Series
Criterion collection volume 503
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : portraits ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
444) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
445) Dreams =: Yume
Series
Criterion collection volume 842
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director's own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life. As a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers...
446) The great dictator
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Fooey ... and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
447) Old joy
Series
Criterion collection volume 1008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip. As they drive from Portland into the woods in search of a secluded hot spring, expectant father Mark and nomadic Kurt make fumbling attempts to reconnect, butting up against the limits of their friendship and coming to grips with just how much their paths have diverged since their shared youth.
448) Tokyo story
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
449) Gilda
Series
Criterion collection volume 795
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out booklet.
Language
English
Description
A deceitful woman plays with the lives of her husband, his crime lord boss, and his right-hand man.
450) Rouge =: Yan zhi kou
Series
Criterion collection volume 1129
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm).
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty...
451) Paris belongs to us
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Français
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suspicious of the death, she investigates to see if conspiracy was involved.
452) Mikey and Nicky
Series
Criterion collection volume 957
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Nicky has embezzled a fortune from his Mafia bosses and is on the run. His only friend, Mikey, tries to help him escape - or will he lead him into a trap?
453) Inside Llewyn Davis
Series
Criterion collection volume 794
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
454) Dekalog
Series
Criterion collection volume 837
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 583 minutes) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).
Language
Polish
Description
Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth,...
455) An unmarried woman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1032
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
One woman's journey of self-discovery brings about a warmly human cultural conversation about female liberation, in this wonderfully frank, funny chronicle of changing '70s sexual politics by Paul Mazursky. When her husband of sixteen years abruptly leaves her for a younger woman, Manhattan gallery worker Erica finds herself alone and adrift, but also newly empowered to explore her needs and desires as she tests the waters of a new relationship with...
456) 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.
457) Multiple maniacs
Series
Criterion collection volume 863
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
"John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities...
458) Female trouble
Series
Criterion collection volume 929
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters' larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film's lurid mantra, 'Crime is beauty,' who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impuses land her in the electric...
459) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Johnny Clay has a plan. After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, he decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which "no one will get hurt."
Killer's kiss: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the...
460) Saikaku ichidai onna
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound., black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a servant. Caught together, the man is beheaded and Oharu and her family are exiled. After enduring further misfortunes as a concubine, a courtesan, wife, and prostitute, Oharu becomes a mendicant nun in her old age. A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout...