Janus Films.
1) Crumb
Series
Criterion collection ; 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
Criterion collection ; 432
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
日本語
Description
A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
4) Ikiru
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
6) Hopscotch
Series
Criterion collection ; 163
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate - because he's having to much fun!
7) M
Series
Criterion collection ; 30
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
8) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection ; 98
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found.
9) Richard III
Series
Criterion collection ; 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
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...
Series
Criterion collection ; 318
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
Series
Criterion collection ; 360
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one: There have been many films about their own making, but few that examine the creative process from so many perspectives as this one. Greaves uses the shooting of one scene to analyze film production, beginning with directorial fallibility, the inherently collaborative nature of film making, and the creative possibilities that emerge from hardship. In the end, this renders the line between documentary and fiction moot,...
14) Richard III
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
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...
15) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection ; 85
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
16) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection ; 47
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engstrom travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engstrom quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
17) Eating Raoul
Series
Criterion collection ; 625
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A bawdy, gleefully amoral tale about a prudish married couple feeling put upon by the swingers who live in their apartment building, who, one night by accident, discover a way to simultaneously realize their dream of opening a little restaurant and rid themselves of the 'perverts' down the hall.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Documents the 1973 Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America.
19) Modern times
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens." --
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...