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1) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Director approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
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 157
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 13
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
Series
Criterion collection volume 765
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel, in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse. After surviving together, they develop a bond and begin training to race once they are rescued.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1171
Language
English
Description
Zeffirelli's production of Romeo and Juliet is considered to be one of the great Shakespeare adaptations, and it was the first to cast actual teenagers in the lead roles. Young lovers have an affair which threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families during the Renaissance.
Series
Criterion collection volume 967
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's February 1964. The Beatles are making their first trip to America, and four Jersey girls are determined to get face to face with them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the Farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
Series
Criterion collection volume 787
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
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...
9) Shoah
Series
Criterion collection volume 663
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (566 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Director-approved three-DVD special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (393 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
Language
Swedish
Description
A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Includes bonus disc with special features.
11) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Internationally renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 753
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 panels : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1218
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 151 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (12 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (folded : color illustrations ; 18 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Ḧl̲ise, 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 Heloise by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Heloise first moments of freedom. Ḧl̲ise's portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
Series
Criterion collection volume 613
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Marie is an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student. Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm's outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works.
19) Petite maman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1181
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
20) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
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...