Janus Films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 874
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Multiple
Formats
Description
Insiang (1976): Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother's lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge.
Mysterious object at noon (2000): Apichatpong creates a film version of the corpse game, enlisting locals to improvise narration to create a combined story.
Revenge (1989): A child raised in Korea spends decades avenging the death of his father's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1047
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Lucia (1968): Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
After the curfew (1954): A hero of revolution returns to civilian life to find the new society very different from the ideals he fought for.
Pixote (1980): With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Pixote offers an electrifying look at youth fighting...
Series
Criterion collection volume 156
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version ; RSDL Dual-layer edition.
Language
English
Description
Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in rare footage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
5) Orpheus
Series
Criterion collection volume 68
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling.
6) Pickpocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 314
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy carves a small wooden man into a canoe. Follows the adventures of the tiny craft as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean. A thrilling journey across the waves and rapids of North America.
Series
Criterion collection volume 364-368
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The haunted strangler: Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin believes that the wrong man has hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret.
Corridors of blood: In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer,...
11) Ikiru
Series
Language
日本語
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
12) Modern times
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Swedish
Description
An old professor dreams of his own death, and, haunted by memories of his life, determines to open himself to love.
14) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 900
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games -- Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
DVD ed.
Language
Persian
Description
In this documentary-style film, which reconstructs events leading up to a trial and includes footage of actual trial proceedings, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami tells the story of unemployed Iranian man, Hossain Sabzian, who insinuated himself into the lives of a well-to-do Iranian family by posing as famous Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf and promising their son a prominent role in his next film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 322
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition 3-disc set.
Language
English
Description
American smuggler Guy van Strattan decides to investigate the mysterious Mr. Arkadin after hearing about the wealthy man from a prison cellmate, but Arkadin claims amnesia about his own life, sending van Strattan off to investigate Arkadin's past.
18) The 39 steps
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the exploits of Richard Hannay, a dapper everyman who ends up on the run after he is mistaken for a murderer.
19) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
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.