Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection ; 29
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
Series
Criterion collection ; 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Rome open city: When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.
Paisan: Set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate...
3) Medium cool
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
4) Frances Ha
Series
Criterion collection ; 681
Publisher
Pine District Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman in her late twenties living in contemporary New York tries to sort out her ambitions, finances, and above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend Sophie. Frances Ha gets at both the frustrations and the joys of being young and unsure of where to go next.
7) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection ; 137
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The innocent daughter of a Nazi cooperates with American agents by using her father's reputation as cover for infiltrating a Nazi organization operating in Brazil. Her dangerous role is complicated by her love for the agent with whom she is working.
10) The great beauty
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
11) Amarcord
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Description
"In this movie Fellini portrays his home town of Rimini as he remembered it in the 1930's, during his young days. Many bizarre but very warm and human characters and specific Mediterranean humor made this movie the most popular of all Fellini's works" --Internet Movie Database.
Series
Criterion collection ; 296
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant and a sheltered woman haunted by a lover's promise.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
"Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials: letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of...
Series
Criterion collection ; 349
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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 ; 63
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A church organist inexplicably survives a car wreck, and finds herself haunted by visions of ghouls who seem to be following her.
16) Desert hearts
Series
Criterion collection ; 902
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.
Series
Criterion collection ; 237
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
A lawyer brings his wife to a play starring his former lover which leads to a series of romantic mishaps.
Series
Criterion collection ; 215
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Polish
Description
The suspenseful story of three people isolated for 24 hours aboard a yacht.
19) Late spring
Series
Criterion collection ; 331
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter.
20) Charade
Series
Criterion collection ; 57
Language
English
Description
Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow, pursued by a trio of thugs, who with the help of a handsome stranger is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away. But who can she trust?