Criterion Collection (Firm)
61) A taste of honey
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
62) Skammen =: Shame
Series
Criterion collection volume 961
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
An examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by Sven Nykvist₂s handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 854
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.
64) Koyaanisqatsi
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This first work of The Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern hemisphere, in an astonishing collage created by the director, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer Philip Glass. It shuttles viewers from one jaw-dropping vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing dependence on technology.
65) Walk cheerfully
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
None
Description
A seemingly no good guy reveals his softer side when he loses his heart to a secretary.
66) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 39
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
68) Smithereens
Series
Criterion collection volume 941
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 913
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America.
Series
Criterion collection volume 185
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Les Mistons: Depicts a group of pubescent boys whose admiration of a young girl takes on an edge of cruelty, with unforeseen results. Working with François Truffaut: Interview with co-writers Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon.
Series
Criterion collection volume 820
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine like leaders.
72) Smithereens
Series
Criterion collection volume 941
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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.
73) Trances
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Arabic
Description
Trances: "The ... Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the ... subject of this ... musical documentary"--Container.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Includes bonus disc with special features.
Series
Criterion collection volume 459
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
After a fancy dinner party, guests find they are mysteriously unable to leave. Over a few days they elaborate pretenses and facades they've built up by virtue of their position in society. Now they are reduced to living like animals.
76) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marries him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
78) Kameradschaft
Series
Criterion collection volume 908
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
When a coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside, workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 520
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
In a working-class neighborhood, in Malmo, Sweden in the early 1900s, live Maria and her husband Sigfrid. Siggie strong and dependable manual laborer who clearly loves and respects his wife, but due to his prodigious philandering and alcohol consumption theirs is--despite a brood of seven--a strained marriage. When Maria attempts to sell a camera they won in a raffle, the curious shopkeeper and photographer Sebastian Pedersen instead teaches her how...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America.