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Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
2) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
Series
Criterion collection volume 889
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have And Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, take on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer (Wallace...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
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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 428
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron's New York City noir film is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration...
7) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras's career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family's integral role in the ongoing crisis of opioid overdoses with an intimate journey through...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Man in Grey. This tale of treachery put both the Gainsborough melodrama and actor James Mason on the map. The star-to-be plays Lord Rohan, a cruel nobleman who marries the naive and sweet-natured Clarissa for the sole purpose of producing an heir; meanwhile, Clarissa's conniving best friend, Hesther, plots against her for her own nefarious ends.
Madonna of the Seven Moons. A lurid tale of sex and psychosis is among the wildest of the Gainsborough...
10) Mudbound
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1215
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Hungarian
Description
The mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. In an unknown time in an unnamed village, one day, a mysterious circus complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence.
12) Walker
Series
Criterion collection volume 423
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
13) Peeping Tom
Series
Criterion collection volume 58
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Unleashing a murderous filmmaker armed with a killer camera, Michael Powell's groundbreaking reclaimed masterpiece takes a dark detour into obsession and voyeurism, daring viewers to confront their own relationship to the violence on-screen.
14) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
Series
Criterion collection volume 175
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1201
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
17) 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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1200
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The red balloon: A French boy named Pascal discovers a stray red balloon in the streets of Paris. Pascal and the balloon become fast friends and share many adventures.
White mane: A young fisherman living near the Rhone River in the vast plains of the Camargue in France wins the confidence of a wild stallion named White Mane.
Bim, the little donkey: This spirited adventure follows two boys - one poor and good hearted, the other weathy and spoiled...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1208
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...
20) Girlfight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1219
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn, a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama's raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society's...
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