Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York₂s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy...
82) Monterey pop
Series
Pub. Date
1968.
Description
Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on California's Monterey Peninsula in 1967. It would help launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding. Captured on film that became immortalized, Pete Townshend destroying his guitar and Jimi Hendrix burning his.
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 641
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind's obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world"--Container.
84) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Pub. Date
2000, c1938
Description
Professor Henry Higgins (Howard) works to make a pretty flower girl (Hiller) into a young lady of society.
85) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an 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.
86) Straw dogs
Series
The Criterion collection volume 182
Description
"In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's...
87) El Norte
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Beginning in the mountains of Guatemala, El Norte is the story of a brother and sister who flee their homeland in search of the "promised land" after their father is assassinated by the government. El Norte is a work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery -- a heartbreaking story of hope and survival.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafs. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The story of two lonely people who discover in each other the intimacy they have lost in their marriages.
90) Dead man
Series
Criterion collection volume 919
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world
Series
Criterion collection volume 349
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A group of college students afraid of the future remain on campus to await their futures, while trying to answer the question where do we go from here?
Series
Criterion collection volume 732
Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
93) Sound of Metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
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.
94) Rififi
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Just out of prison, a master thief is persuaded to orchestrate the nearly impossible robbery of an upscale jewelry store.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Martin Scorsese's documentary about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women.--Container
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
99) The Blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Criterion collection volume 79
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W.C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona.