Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 779
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
2) Saint Omer
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
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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...
3) Idi i smotri
Series
Criterion collection volume 1035
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Belarusian
Description
As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty, rendered with feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design.
As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet...
Series
Criterion collection volume 360
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A fiction/documentary hybrid that blurs the line between reality and fiction, yet remains a tightly focused movie about making movies. Bonus disc includes 2005 sequel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2; a video interview with Steve Buscemi; and more!
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one: There have been many films about their own making, but few that examine the creative process from so many perspectives as this one. Greaves uses the shooting of one scene...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1063
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
"The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final...
6) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned son and then heads to Texas to reunite the boy with his mother. Bonus features include commentary with Director Wim Wenders, interviews, deleted scenes, Super 8 home movies, gallery of photos, and a booklet with an essay from film critic Nick Roddick and interviews with cast and crew.
After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned...
7) Seconds
Series
Criterion collection volume 667
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A sinister, science fiction dispatch from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. Starting over in America, however, is not as easy as it sounds.
A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed)...