Criterion Collection (Firm)
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent. .
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 546
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, with his blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
4) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis charts the rift that forms within a 1960s Montana household when the father and breadwinner abruptly departs to fight the forest fires raging nearby, leaving his restless wife and teenage son to pick up the pieces. A deeply human look at a woman's wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women's liberation era and a sensitively observed, child's eye coming-of-age tale....
5) The Irishman
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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 his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 61
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
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...
8) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 164
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
11) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 538
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : ill. ; 19 x 12 cm)
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.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captures all the fun, excitement, and unforgettable music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo at the height of Beatlemania. The Beatles perform their songs and look for adventure, all while avoiding hordes of screaming fans. Packed with all-time Beatle favorites, including A Hard Day's Night; All My Loving; Can't Buy Me Love; I Should Have Known Better; She Loves You; Tell Me Why; and more.
13) Paris is burning
Series
Criterion collection volume 1018
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (76 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
"Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, it offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion 'houses,' from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty....
14) Days of Heaven
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 409
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Winner of the Best Director Award and Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the...
15) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken...
16) Stagecoach
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 516
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
17) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 44
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 695
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Adele is a high school student who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student. This intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
20) Certain women
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : color illustrations ; folded to 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...