Janus Films.
2) Crumb
Series
Criterion collection volume 533
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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 526
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
日本語
Description
A widowed high school teacher finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son's future, the more they are separated.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 71
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Swedish
Description
An opera by Mozart, in which a handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of Night's daughter from an evil sorcerer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Language
日本語
Description
When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
10) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Swedish
Description
An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 805
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974 while Blank was living at the Russell/Shelter Records recording studio compound on Grand Lake of the Cherokees in NE Oklahoma, but unreleased due to creative differences and music clearance problems, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Includes scenes of Russell and his band and others performing, both in concert...
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
Description
A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
13) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000], c1948
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
14) Sanjuro
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
"In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, the jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
16) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
17) Twenty-four eyes
Series
Criterion collection volume 442
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
日本語
Description
An elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher's unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. It takes a simultaneously sober and sentimental look at the epic themes of aging, war, and death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 398
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who has been injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings are inseparable, living in the same room, fighting, playing secret games, and rarely leaving the house. Paul's friend, Gerard, often drops by to stay with them. One day Elisabeth brings home Agathe to live with them. She bears a strong resemblance to Dargelos, a schoolboy whom Paul had a...
19) Yōjinbō
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
20) Richard III
Series
Criterion collection volume 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle...