Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 1010
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated.
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations outside of his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary, based on the book entitled My Eskimo friends, Nanook of the North, by Robert Flaherty, about the saga of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. This is the original director's cut, restrored to the proper frame rate and tinted accrding to Flaherty's personal...
Series
Criterion collection volume 133
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Nederlands
Description
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller.
6) Overlord
Series
Criterion collection volume 382
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The story of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity. Interweaved with archival war footage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable portrait of the early life of the Great Emancipator, young Mr. Lincoln, after teaching himself law, has barely started practicing when an Independence Day celebration ends with a stabbing. Abe first stops a lynch mob from killing brothers Matt and Adam Clay, and then defends them against a seasoned prosecutor and his crafty adviser. As presented here, Lincoln is a strong but peaceful frontier democrat, his quiet, awkward, folksy...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...
9) Election
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for high-school president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control.
10) Adoption
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hungarian
Appears on list
Description
Through intimate camera work, the film immerses the viewer in the worlds of two women, each searching for fulfillment: Kata, a middle-aged factory worker who wants to have a child with her married lover, and Anna, a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself to marry her boyfriend. The bond that forms between the two speaks quietly but powerfully to the social and political forces that shape women2s lives, as each navigates the realities...
11) The circus
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin shines as director, composer, and star. A gag-packed comedy full of audacious set pieces, it showcases silent cinema's most popular entertainer and ranks among Chaplin's finest.
13) HIgh Sierra
Series
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
[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.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism,...
17) Hotel du Nord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the H�otel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carn�e's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence.
18) The confession
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
19) The soft skin
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
20) Crash
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James, and an enigmatic doctor, Helen, brings them, along with James2s wife, Catherine, together in a crucible of blood and broken glass, and it's not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons.
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