The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2008 | 122 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Feb 16, 2010
In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works as an assistant in a brothel, where he falls
for
Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a
rural cop
and...
The story, unfolding over a 24-hour period, centers on Vinz, Said and Hubert--very close
friends from very different backgrounds. Vinz is Jewish. Said, an Arab. Hubert is Black. They
are three disenfranchised youths trying to...
Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill, Trish is about to be married again. Bill is a pedophile, so Trish couldn't be more excited to have Harvey, a "normal" father figure for her two sons. But when Bill is released from...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2007 | 154 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jul 27, 2010
When patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a port-side restaurant specializing in his ex-wife’s fish couscous, the extended clan’s passions and problems explode.
A woman named Shin-Ae and her only child move to the small town of Milyang, South Korea. Her husband has recently passed away and she has decided to start life anew back in the hometown of her deceased husband. While entering...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1993 | 96 min | Rated PG | Region A (locked) | Mar 20, 2012
The War Room takes us inside Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Director D.A. Pennebaker provides an up-close view of the two principals: campaign managers James Carville and George Stephanopoulos as they try to stay on...
In the 1960s, having started out as a poet and photographer, Hollis Frampton became fascinated with the possibilities of 16 mm filmmaking. In such radically playful, visually and sonically arresting works as Surface Tension,...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1989 | 110 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jun 15, 2010
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in Memphis, the city of dreams. Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the home of Stax...
Elena is a gorgeous fifteen-year-old forced to drag along pudgy twelve-year-old Anais as she trolls for boys in the cafes of a seaside resort where their family is vacationing. Treating Anais with casual cruelty, Elena smooches a...
A trio of couples meet at a country estate for a weekend vacation, but there, under the idyllic summer moonlight, a series of swapping interludes ensues.
Recently released convict Muraki meets the beautiful Saeko at a gambling house. Soon, they are lovers on the lam, navigating the menacing underworld of Tokyo, where danger lurks around every corner.
Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright
with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive
black sheep, banished from family events...
Giuliana is a woman who, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, struggles to discover meaning, peace and serenity within the desolate and industrialized town where she lives. Plagued by mental anguish as the result of a past...
Biswambhar Roy is a zamindar (landlord) and the last of his kind. With the title, he has none of the perquisites, inheriting diminishing lands that are being eroded by the neighbouring river. But he must maintain the lifestyle of...
Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his
exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking,...
