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Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
Series
Criterion collection volume 665
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Danish
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Series
Criterion collection volume 33
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Robert Flaherty's classic film tells the story of Inuit humter Nanook as he struggles to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 461
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop in England finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, and a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
8) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Russian
Description
Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Series
Criterion collection volume 768
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A parallel narrative of a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and of the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair.
10) PlayTime
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
11) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken...
12) Mon oncle
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 457
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love....
14) Five easy pieces
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, with his blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Pub. Date
[2022]
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1024
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a glorious career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers come together to create an...
Series
Criterion collection volume 336
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The high school students in a small Texas town celebrate the end of the 1976 school year, and the incoming senior class initiates the incoming freshman students.
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