Criterion Collection (Firm)
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Swedish
Description
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie - Winter Light. This documentary film offers views on set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction.
3) The piano
Series
Criterion collection volume 1110
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds...
Series
Criterion collection volume 858
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nine years ago, two strangers met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Now, they're about to cross paths again--in Paris--where they will get the chance we all wish we had.
6) Crumb
Series
Criterion collection volume 533
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1097
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps make for one of the most iconic screen couples of the 2000s as the basketball-obsessed next-door neighbors who find love over flirtatious pickup games, fall...
Series
Criterion collection volume 856
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a young American and a French beauty meet on the Eurail, he convinces her to spend time with him before he has to go back to the U.S. in the morning.
Series
Criterion collection volume 475
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he's forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free.
10) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
11) Easy rider
Series
Language
English
Description
A generation-defining movie about friends who engage in a motorcycle journey across the country to discover the true America. Bonus features include: CD Songtrack, making of documentary, commentary, and British Film Institute Modern Classic Book.
12) Romeo and Juliet
Series
Criterion collection volume 1171
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the great Shakespeare adaptations, it was the first to cast actual teenagers in the lead roles. Young lovers have an affair which threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families during the Renaissance.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the early fifties, this ... adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot."--Container.