Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection ; 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
2) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection ; 137
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The innocent daughter of a Nazi cooperates with American agents by using her father's reputation as cover for infiltrating a Nazi organization operating in Brazil. Her dangerous role is complicated by her love for the agent with whom she is working.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
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.
Series
Criterion collection ; 725
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to be abandoned. The lights flicker on and off, he has bowls of water in his dresser drawers, and for his only diversion he watches and listens to the Lady in the Radiator sing about finding...
7) Amarcord
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Description
"In this movie Fellini portrays his home town of Rimini as he remembered it in the 1930's, during his young days. Many bizarre but very warm and human characters and specific Mediterranean humor made this movie the most popular of all Fellini's works" --Internet Movie Database.
Series
Criterion collection ; 565
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
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 Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
Series
Criterion collection ; 63
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A church organist inexplicably survives a car wreck, and finds herself haunted by visions of ghouls who seem to be following her.
10) The Blob
Series
Criterion collection ; 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Science fiction film in which residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Criterion collection ; 237
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
A lawyer brings his wife to a play starring his former lover which leads to a series of romantic mishaps.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the late eighties and early nineties, Aki Kaurismäki (The Match Factory Girl), the master of the deadpan, fashioned a waggish fish-out-of-water tale about a U.S. tour by the worst rock-and-roll band in the world. Set contains five Leningrad music videos directed by Kaurismake.
15) Clean, shaven
Series
Criterion collection ; 354
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Peter is schizophrenic. He has recently been released from a hospital, and lives in his car. Before his condition developed, he was married, and now he wants to see his daughter Nicole. His stern, disapproving mother refuses to tell him what has happened to the girl. His belief that "receivers and transmitters" are within his body makes his quest more than difficult. One consequence of his troubled behavior is the police detective tracking down...
16) Equinox
Series
Criterion collection ; 338
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Deep within the woods and canyons of California, four teens find an ancient book containing the secrets of a strange world that coexists with their own.
17) The Bank dick
Series
Criterion collection ; 78
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Egbert Souse accidently foils a bank robbery and is hired as a bank guard.
Series
Criterion collection ; 361
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After Grey Gardens spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans.
19) La piscine
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope." --
20) Paris is burning
Series
Criterion collection ; 1018
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, it offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion 'houses,' from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty."...
