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Series
Criterion collection volume 14, 15, 16
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Language
日本語
Description
Collects three samauri films by Hiroshi Inagaki, including "Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto," "Samauri II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple," and "Samurai III: DUel at Ganryu Island," which fictionalize the life of Musashi Miyamoto, a swordsman in seventeenth-century Japan.
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever....
3) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013, 1931.
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...
5) Betty blue
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Featuring a magnetic breakout performance by Bǎtrice Dalle, Jean-Jacques Beineix2s art-house smash, presented here in its extended director2s cut, is a sexy, crazy, careening joyride of a romance that burns with the passion and beyond-all-reason fervor of all-consuming love.
6) Z
Series
Criterion collection volume 491
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Series
Criterion collection volume 744
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
Description
A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
10) Smithereens
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren, a sparkplug in fishnets who lives dangerously downtown, moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up flyers for herself or hanging at the Peppermint Lounge, she is getting involved with Paul, the nicest guy to ever live in a van next to the highway, and Eric, an aloof rocker.
11) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1960s, at the height of the British New Wave, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne set out for more fanciful territory than the gritty realism of the movement they'd helped establish. Tom Jones brings a theatrical flair to Henry Fielding's canonical eighteenth-century novel, boisterously chronicling the misadventures of the foundling of the title (Albert Finney, in a career-defining performance), whose easy charm seems...
12) All that jazz
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.
13) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After having been missing for four years and presumed dead, Travis emerges from the desert near the Texas-Mexico border and collapses at a gas station. His younger brother, Walt, a billboard artist, takes him to Walt's Los Angeles home where Travis' son, Hunter, has lived with Walt and Walt's wife, Anne, since Travis and his wife, Jane, disappeared. Travis reestablishes a relationship with Hunter, finds Jane and brings about a reunion between Jane...
14) Wanda
Series
Criterion collection volume 965
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.
15) Babette's feast
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Danish
Appears on list
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Series
Criterion collection volume 742
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple who are on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner.
17) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Series
Criterion collection volume 308
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Paul, a young idealistic would-be intellectual, struggles to forge a relationship with incipient pop star Madeleine in 1960s Paris.
19) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Darius Marder2s Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
20) Toni
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©[1934]
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, the story follows the eponymous Italian migrant, whose tempestuous affairs with two women, the faithful Marie and the flirtatious Josefa, unleash a wave of tragedy.
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