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81) Heart of a dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 846
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In this essay film, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson presents a monologue touching upon her relationship with her rat terrier Lolabelle, the death of her mother, the heightening of surveillance following 9/11, and other topics.
82) Black narcissus
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
83) A film trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 208
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
This four disc set features Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's work on three of his most powerful films presented as a trilogy. The films of the trilogy examine the necessity of religion and question the promise of faith. The last disc is a documentary film offering views on set construction, lighting, rehearsals, editing, as well as intimate conversations with Ingmar Bergman and members of his cast and crew.
Series
Criterion collection volume 805
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Follows singer-songwriter Leon Russell in the studio, in concert, and behind the scenes from 1972 to 1974.
85) Slacker
Series
Criterion collection volume 247
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants
86) Sanjuro
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
87) Repo man
Series
Criterion collection volume 654
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
About a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is a politically trenchant take on President Reagan's domestic...
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, by Gillo Pontecorvo. Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, etc. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1111
Pub. Date
[2022]
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 1071
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After he dies suddenly, hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Based on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, a local officer reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective to investigate the crimes, leading each man on a wrenching, yearslong odyssey of failure and frustration that will drive him to the existential edge.
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 641
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind's obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
95) La Llorona
Series
Criterion collection volume 1156
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
While standing trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities, a former military dictator is haunted by a series of disturbing visions.
96) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume 864
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance), who mistakes his protégé's horticultural mumblings...
97) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A young ballerina is torn between love and success. Includes commentary, documentary, interview, theatrical trailer, booklet, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Pub. Date
[2023]
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" --Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[1998], c1957
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death, with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as a cultural turmoil envelops the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.