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Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
3) Antichrist
Series
Criterion collection volume 542
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human...
4) Thief
Series
Criterion collection volume 691
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A professional thief is caught between Chicago organized crime families and corrupt police.
Series
Criterion collection volume 854
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.
Series
Criterion collection volume 860
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a...
Series
Criterion collection volume 855
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
While attempting to contact her ex-lover Iván, actress Pepa Marcos is enmeshed in a series of unexpected meetings with and revelations involving Iván, his mentally unbalanced ex-wife Lucía, his and Lucía's son Carlos, Carlos's fiancée Marisa, Lucía's lawyer Paulina Morales, and Candela, Pepa's model friend who has unwittingly become involved with Shiite terrorists.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1051
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
10) Deep cover
Series
Criterion collection volume 1086
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a police officer who goes undercover as 'John Hull,' the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (Jeff Goldblum), in order to bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of...
11) 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...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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...
13) 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...
14) Exotica
Series
Criterion collection volume 1150
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
At a neon-drenched Toronto strip club, a coterie of lost and damaged souls-- including a man haunted by grief, a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond, an obsessive emcee, and a smuggler of rare bird eggs-- search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis. One of the defining independent films of the 1990s, Atom Egoyan's mesmerizing...
15) Farewell amor
Series
Criterion collection volume 1128
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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...
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