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1) Uncut gems
Series
Criterion collection volume 1101
Language
English
Formats
Description
This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 900
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
32 videodiscs (6253 min.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 27 cm)
Language
English
Description
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, this set is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger": Jesse Owens shattering...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
4) Election
Series
Criterion collection volume 904
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actress at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **Film Independent Spirit...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring notes on the films by cinema historian Peter Cowie, along with a letter from Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, a short history of the project by restoration producer Adrian Wood, and hundreds of photographs from a century of Olympic games.
Series
Criterion collection volume 933
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
An opulent romantic adventure that focuses on a diverse group of passengers traveling by express train from Peking to Shanghai. Among them is Captain Doc Harvey, who finds himself reunited with his former lover, now an infamous adventuress who calls herself Shanghai Lily. Desire and deception follow, culminating in a tense hostage situation when their train is hijacked by a Chinese warlord.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spoiled princess is sent to Russia to marry Grand Duke Peter, but is horrified to discover her intened is a half-wit and depravity rules in her new home. She soon is transformed into the notorious libertine Catherine the Great.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 142 min.) : sound, color, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
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.
9) 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...
10) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (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 190
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
12) Mudbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 1205
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart.
Series
Criterion collection volume 806
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
14) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Español
Description
In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst...
Series
Criterion collection volume 827
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Publisher
Universal City Studios
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise, "--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 734
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert
Language
English
Description
In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit, are rigorous,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 880
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent...
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Series
Criterion collection volume 274
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet/poster.
Language
English
Description
Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. With a history of nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime. But there is no easy money in this underworld and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
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