Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...
Series
Criterion collection volume 844
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rio, a bank robber, is bent on revenge against his one-time partner in crime.
3) Time
Series
Criterion collection volume 1109
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
What does the weight of time's passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary,...
4) Nanny
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding blend of social observation and artful shocks, the debut feature from Nikyatu Jusu plunges into the increasingly fractured consciousness of Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage one that could either destroy or empower her. This visually...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Hindi
Description
Shaunak Sen’s ALL THAT BREATHES reinvents the environmental documentary by portraying, in incisive yet lyrical fashion, the reciprocal influence of animals and humans. For more than a year, Sen followed New Delhi brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad as they rescued birds of prey from the increasingly destructive effects of urban pollution.
6) Lynch/Oz
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration—consciously or unconsciously—from a single work. Through six distinct perspectives, Alexandre O. Philippe’s LYNCH/OZ helps us reexperience and reinterpret The Wizard of Oz by way of David Lynch, delivering new appreciations of both.
Series
Criterion collectio volume 942
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Series
Criterion collection volume 765
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home), in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse, is a cinematic tour de force. After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.
11) Eraserhead
Series
Criterion collection volume 725
Language
English
Description
David Lynch's surreal, existentialist nightmare has become a bona fide cult classic. In a nameless, menacing industrial city, a shy man learns that he is about to become a father. When the baby is born, he is shocked to discover that it is a ghastly mutant. The baby's endless crying torments the parents night and day, putting a strain on their relationship, which is nearing an end. Eventually the man sees his only chance of escape in murdering the...
12) Boat people
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui's shattering look at the circumstances that drove Vietnamese refugees to flee their homeland in the wake of the Vietnam War is told through images of haunting, unforgettable power.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1026
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
14) Roma
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Italiano
Description
Virtually a plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens. Blending autobiography with scenes from present-day Roman life.
16) Love affair
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building, until the hand of fate...
17) Farewell amor
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides to build a life together. Told in three...
18) Exotica
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the defining independent films of the 1990s, Atom Egoyan₂s mesmerizing international breakthrough takes the conventions of the psychological thriller into bold new territory; unsettling, dreamlike, and empathetic.
19) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Language
English
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
20) The Innocent
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clémence,...