Criterion Collection (Firm)
181) 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.
182) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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
183) Dekalog
Series
Criterion collection volume 837
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Polish
Description
It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
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184) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
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...
186) For all mankind
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Presents an impressionistic look at NASA's first manned flights to the moon as filmed and narrated by the astronauts who made the voyages.
187) The asphalt jungle
Series
Criterion collection volume 847
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A heist is being set up to be pulled off by Doc, who has recruited a small gang to help him carry it out. Everything he could possibly think of was taken care of, down to the very last detail. It's the night of the heist and suddenly Doc's luck turns sour when betrayal strikes and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a...
188) 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...
189) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
190) Jubal
Series
Criterion collection volume 656
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the...
192) HIgh Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band...
193) 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)...
194) In a lonely place
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is found murdered, and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police, providing...