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2) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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...
3) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Language
English
Description
When Marty, the owner of a Texas backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him-- or so he thinks.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
English
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.
8) Rashomon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1218
Publisher
NEON, The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Language
Français
Description
A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
10) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
Norwegian
Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
12) Five easy pieces
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Language
English
Description
Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever....
Series
Criterion collection volume 1106
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the 1960s.
14) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition]
Language
Central American Indian
Description
Looks at the life of an early-1970s, middle-class family in Mexico City through the eyes of their indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running.
15) Grey Gardens
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
16) Certain women
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
17) Seconds
Series
Criterion collection volume 667
Language
English
Description
A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Series
Criterion collection volume 768
Language
English
Description
When film actors Mike and Anna play Charles and Sarah, an engaged young Victorian man and the cast-off mistress of a French lieutenant, they find their own relationship paralleling the roles that they play.
19) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 711
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Follows the misadventures of the Beatles as they travel from Liverpool to London to perform on a television broadcast.
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