Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 14
Description
The first film in the Samurai trilogy, a fictionalized retelling of the life of legendary Kensei Musashi Miyamoto.
Series
Criterion collection volume 737
Description
Contains the films Yum, yum, yum! A taste of Cajun and Creole cooking; The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists; and Sworn to the drums: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella.
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking: Accordionist Marc Savoy and his family and friends show us how to make goo courtbouillon, gumbo, étouffée, boudin, and other Cajun and Creole delights.
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists: This portrait of the free-spirited...
Series
Criterion collection volume 737
Description
Contains the films Sprout Wings And Fly; In Heaven There Is No Beer?; and Gap-Toothed Women.
Sprout wings and fly: This is a warm depiction of the life of old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
In heaven there is no beer?: A cinematic jamboree, this film finds Blank in a characteristically jubilant mode as he explores "polka happiness" and the Polish American polka subculture.
Gap-toothed women: Blank breezily...
4) Dekalog
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Criterion collection volume 837
Description
Contains brief information about each film in the set and an essay: "'And so on' : Kieślowski's Dekalog and the metaphysics of everyday" by Paul Coates. Also includes "Kieślowski on Kieślowski" in which the director discusses Dekalog and the two short films "A short film about killing" and "A short film about love" via interview.
Series
Criterion collection volume 992
Description
"Abbas Kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final installment of The Koker Trilogy. Unfolding 'behind the scenes' of And Life Goes On, this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors--a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him--creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught...
Series
Criterion collection volume 15
Description
The second film in the Samurai trilogy, a fictionalized retelling of the life of legendary Kensei Musashi Miyamoto.
Series
Criterion collection volume 134
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
Description
It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Description
Presents an impressionistic look at NASA's first manned flights to the moon as filmed and narrated by the astronauts who made the voyages.
Description
It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
Description
It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
Series
Criterion collection volume 737
Description
A well spent life: A tribute to Texas songster Mance Lipscomb,
Dry wood: An exploration of black Creole life in French Louisiana.
Hot pepper: A musical portrait of zydeco king Clifton Chenier.
Series
Criterion collection volume 737
Description
Always for pleasure: An insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo.
Garlic is as good as ten mothers: A paean to garlic that explores the history, consumption, cultivation, and culinary/curative powers of the "stinking rose."
Description
It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
16) Poto and Cabengo
Description
The story of twin sisters, Grace and Virginia Kennedy, who were thought to have developed a private language inspires Jean-Pierre Gorin to investigate family, communication, and social environment.
Description
It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
18) 24 frames
Series
Criterion collection volume 956
Description
In his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami created 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.
19) The Inland Sea
Series
Criterion collection volume 988
Description
In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting people who still carried on the fading customs...
20) And life goes on
Series
Criterion collection volume 991
Description
In the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that left fifty thousand dead, Abbas Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation, but also the teeming life in its wake. Blending fiction and reality into a playful, poignant road movie, And Life Goes On follows a film director who, along with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the young boys who acted in Where Is the Friend's House? are among...