Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s. The collection includes Italian American; American Boy; The Big Shave; What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?; and It's Not Just You, Murray!
Series
Criterion collection volume 1100
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity's place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller... and smaller... and smaller until he's left to fend...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1041
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
5) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Multiple
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1107
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on Parks' semi-autobiographical novel, the film follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark film tempers...
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
MK2
Pub. Date
©2012
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.
8) Shampoo
Series
Criterion collection volume 947
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Shampoo gives us a day in the life of George (Warren Beatty), a Beverly Hills hairdresser and lothario who runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to scrape together the money to open his own salon are continually sidetracked by the distractions presented by his lovers--played brilliantly by Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie, and Lee Grant (in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
10) Secrets & lies
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
11) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...
12) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
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...
13) High Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band...
14) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Series
Criterion collection volume 775
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey.