Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) The River
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
Series
Criterion collection volume 787
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
After moving to a country town with his mother following his father's death, a young boy befriends a charming, flying, jellyfish-like sprite, only to discover that his schoolmates have similar friends, and that neither they nor the town itself are what they seem to be. Pointedly set in a post-Fukushima world, Murakami's modest-budgeted special effects extravaganza boasts unforgettable creature designs and carries a message of cooperation and hope...
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Series
Criterion collection volume 828
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials: letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an...
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. With its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense...
6) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
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Description
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...
8) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other 'scanners' have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious...
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
10) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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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.
Ruben is a drummer in a metal-duo with his girlfriend Lou. When he suddenly loses his hearing, he goes through a profound odyssey and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Series
Criterion collection volume 777
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
12) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Master of social discomfort Ruben �Ostlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d'Or, winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. 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. Pushing each provocative set piece...
14) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.