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Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Internationally renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers. This special version also contains never-before-seen performances from the Madison Square...
423) My own private Idaho
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.
424) 4 by Agnès Varda
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
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Description
La Pointe Courte. A film about a fishing town and a couple who are evaluating their changing relationship. Varda juxtaposes the two tales to create a unique perspective on life.
Cléo from 5 to 7. A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.
Le bonheur. Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband...
426) La jetée
Series
Criterion collection volume 387
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
La jetée: While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past--the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl,...
427) Late spring
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
Banshun: A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Tokyo-ga: Legendary director Wim Wenders's tribute to Yasujiro Ozu.
428) Still Walking
Series
Criterion collection volume 554
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a celebratory ritual that only gradually makes itself clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a family's entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys.
429) La haine =: Hate
Series
Criterion collection volume 381
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
430) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2007, ©1987.
Language
English
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
431) 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.
432) Salesman
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A landmark documentary that captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Bible, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the line from hype to despair.
433) The ruling class
Series
Criterion collection volume 132
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy.
434) Inland empire
Series
Criterion collection volume 1175
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
'Strange, what love does.' The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes as it...
435) Yi Yi
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
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Description
Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged father, NJ's tenuous flirtation with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang's attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera.
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 330
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's experiences as a schoolboy during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Series
Criterion collection volume 149
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Series
Criterion collection volume 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
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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.
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