Catalog Search Results
1) Early summer
Series
Criterion collection volume 240
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
日本語
Description
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
3) 12 Angry Men
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is in their hands...death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
5) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
8) Medium cool
Language
English
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
10) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Appears on list
Description
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
11) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
12) Harakiri
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
13) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 845
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In his third feature, director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) whose parents are divorcing. The father (Jeff Daniels) and mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized, half-savage fashion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for...
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006], ©1957.
Language
Français
Description
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
19) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 337
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A sixteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request