Janus Films.
1) Modern times
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job.
Publisher
Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric character, Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another. Tati pays homage to the great classic selent comedies with a hilarious blend of colorful characters, sparse dialogue, sight gags, and an innovative sound track.
3) Ugetsu
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed. double-disc set.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in sixteenth-century Japan, an ambitious potter is haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer dreams of becoming a samurai.
4) La Strada
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Description
A drama portraying the conflict between an itinerant circus strong man whose loneliness is masked by a rough, indifferent exterior, and his simple-minded mistress who serves him with unselfish devotion in the vain hope of winning his love and understanding.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women of a prosperous farming community. He returned six years later, during Ronald Reagan's second term, to find drastic economic decline. Free of stereotypes about America's heartland, God's Country, commissioned for American public television, is a stunning work of emotional and political clarity." -- container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1001
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition
Language
English
Description
When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan, strong-willed mom, taciturn dad, and jaded sister with pretentious boyfriend in tow, has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Polish
Description
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth.
9) 24 frames
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami creates a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.
10) Hopscotch
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned C.I.A. agent writes a book designed to expose his colleagues and gets into trouble with both his ex-boss and the KGB.
12) Multiple maniacs
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Lady Divine, out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles.
14) The baker's wife
Series
Criterion collection volume 986
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
DVD special edition
Language
Français
Description
An enchanting countryside comedy about the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker that snowball into a scandal that engulfs the entire town.
15) Calcutta
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
Description
"When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking--a chaotic portrait of a city racked with social and political turmoil." -- container.
16) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick triumph over life's hard knocks.
18) Le million
Publisher
Critierion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
Français
Description
A pair of artists loose the lottery ticket which won them a fortune and chase all over Paris trying to recover it.
19) The Apu trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 784
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Three-DVD special edition
Language
Bengali
Description
Pather panchali: A poor Bengali family survives in a village but wider horizons tempt the father. The protection of family members' reputations, the relationship of the family group to an elderly 'aunt', and first confrontations with death contribute to the early development of the boy Apu. His father's dreams prevail over the objections of his mother so that at the end of the film the family moves to the big city of Benares. Aparajito: Follows Apu...
20) Wanda
Series
Criterion collection volume 965
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.