Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) Umberto D
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Realistic study of an elderly man living alone on a meagre pension, who is determined to retain his dignity to the end.
2) L'avventura
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Italiano
Description
After a young woman mysteriously disappears during a yachting party, her lover and best friend search for her, and fall in love in the process.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...
4) Sanjuro
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
日本語
Description
Satire in which a skillful but slovenly samurai comes to the aid of group of naive young warriors fighting their corrupt clan leaders.
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...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
7) Mon oncle
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
8) Richard III
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The story of Richard of Gloucester, a man twisted both in mind and body, as he schemes for the throne of England.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darius Marder¿́¿s 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.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Hindi
Description
Shaunak Sen’s ALL THAT BREATHES reinvents the environmental documentary by portraying, in incisive yet lyrical fashion, the reciprocal influence of animals and humans. For more than a year, Sen followed New Delhi brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad as they rescued birds of prey from the increasingly destructive effects of urban pollution.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
“Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY—a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical...
12) Bringing up Baby
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
14) Anselm
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In ANSELM, Wim Wenders creates a hypnotic portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 6K resolution, and presented theatrically and on Blu-ray in 3D, the film presents an immersive cinematic experience of the German artist’s work, which explores the overawing beauty of human existence, landscape, and myth while confronting the horrors of his country’s history and seeking to undo...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS is the swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. As a parting gift, just months before his death in 2023, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and a piano, directed by his son, Neo Sora. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty of his pieces played in the film wordlessly...
16) Beyond the hills
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Romanian
Description
With this arresting drama based on notorious real-life events, Cristian Mungiu mounts a complex inquiry into faith, fanaticism, and indifference. At a desolate Romanian monastery, a young novice nun, Voichita, reunites with her former companion Alina, who plans to take her to Germany. But Voichita proves unwilling to abandon her calling, and Alina becomes increasingly desperate to reclaim her devotion, putting the outsider at odds with the monastery's...
Publisher
distributed by the Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise,"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 607
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Contains 24 films by the acclaimed filmmaker produced between 1966 and 1979.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
Description
"An energetic evocation of the Tour de France, a meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant, and an entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris, Louis Malle's three documentaries set in France reveal, in an eclectic array of ways, the director's eternal fascination with, and respect for, the everyday lives of everyday people." -- container.