Janus Films
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
2) Pickpocket =
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of traveling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Bergman Island (2006): an 83-minute documentary on Bergman...
4) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Series
Criterion collection volume 650
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
Follows an imprisoned French resistance leader's planning and execution of his escape.
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
7) 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 805
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974 while Blank was living at the Russell/Shelter records recording studio compound on Grand Lake of the Cherokees in NE Oklahoma, but unreleased due to creative differences and music clearance problems, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Includes scenes of Russell and his band and others performing, both in concert...
Series
Criterion collection volume 334
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
Series
Criterion collection volume 438
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
12) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
"Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 746
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
Series
Criterion collection volume 25
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 778
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
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...
17) Cameraperson
Series
Criterion collection volume 853
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer
Series
Criterion collection volume 840
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
An undertaker marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's job so the family can keep their government allotted apartment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 707
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Italiano
Description
A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
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