Janus Films.
1) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Deutsch
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, want to see him brought down.
2) The River
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
Series
Criterion collection volume 665
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Danish
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy carves a small wooden man into a canoe. Follows the adventures of the tiny craft as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean. A thrilling journey across the waves and rapids of North America.
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Thirty English schoolboys are stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the "next" war. With no adults present, they quickly turn into savages.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
9) Cria cuervos
Series
Criterion collection volume 403
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with her two sisters. They are mourning the death of her mother, whom Ana conjures as a ghost. Evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows of Fascism.
10) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
11) Harakiri
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Home Vision Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
12) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
During the German occupation of France, in a boarding school for boys, run by Catholic religious, Julian, a boy of thirteen, is impressed by the personality of Bonnet, a new partner who enters school.
14) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Persian
Description
Close-up: This docudrama comments on Iranian society. Ali Sabzian claims to a fellow passenger on the bus that he is the famous Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. He then becomes involved with his fellow passenger and her family, claiming that he has cast the family's son in a major role. At some point this tale comes unravelled, and the family takes him to court. A well-meaning judge persuades the family to drop the charges against this unemployed...
16) Sweetie
Series
Criterion collection volume 356
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre...
Series
Criterion collection volume 410
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
19) Jubilee
Series
Criterion collection volume 191
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex.
20) White mane
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, can tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won't allow them.