Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 1111
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Description
A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...
2) Time
Series
Criterion collection volume 1109
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Description
What does the weight of time's passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary,...
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes aim at America's love affair with guns and violence. Featuring interviews with everyone from the NRA's Charlton Heston to shock-rocker Marilyn Manson. Winner of the 55th Anniversary Prize at Cannes Film Festival.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages)
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
6) The Ascent
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces suring World War II.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1065
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head. An adaptation of a novella by the director himself is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption,...
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (32 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed in 1955 at Auschwitz, Alain Resnais combines color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of not just the Holocaust, but the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 video recording (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role and the washed-up talent agent who seeks to revive his career...
10) Jellyfish eyes
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After moving to a country town with his mother following his father's death, a young boy befriends a charming, flying, jellyfish-like sprite, only to discover that his schoolmates have similar friends, and that neither they nor the town itself are what they seem to be. Pointedly set in a post-Fukushima world, Murakami's modest-budgeted special effects extravaganza boasts unforgettable creature designs and carries a message of cooperation and hope...
11) Matewan
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (1 page : color illustrations ; folded to 17 cm.)
Description
A wrenching historical drama that recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. Written and directed by John Sayles, this film issues an impassioned cry for justice that still resounds today.
Series
Criterion collection volume 261-264
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (618 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (35 p. : ill.,18 cm).
Description
The sometimes tumultuous life of an extended family in early 20th-century Sweden, as seen through the eyes of two children.
13) The River
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
15) The great beauty
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
16) Cameraperson
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
17) Roma
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
18) Wings
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
19) Watership down
Series
Criterion collection volume 748
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams's classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat.
20) Farewell amor
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides to build a life together. Told in three...