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1) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Description
"A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 44
Publication Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Karen's great pride, her red shoes, doom her to dance forever, until a drastic action and much repentance and suffering bring her the forgiveness she has craved.
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 (DVD videodiscs) volume 99
Publication Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers. This special version also contains never-before-seen performances from the Madison Square...
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 753
Description
Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
7) Grey Gardens
Publication Date
c2006, c1975
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. & guide.
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 349
Publication Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of college students afraid of the future remain on campus to await their futures, while trying to answer the question where do we go from here?
9) Bull Durham
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 936
Appears on list
Description
The baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls' new catcher "Crash" Davis punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh, he's just been hired to train. Matters get even more complicated when sexy Annie Savoy informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed-- and Nuke and Crash are this year's "draft picks!"
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 492
Publication Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their...
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a celebratory ritual that only gradually makes itself clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a family's entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys.
12) Godzilla
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 594
Publication Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire populations fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. Here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American...
13) Frances Ha
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave?s most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and Gerwig with an effortless combination of sweetness and wit,...
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Errol Morris changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the US, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity: Gates of heaven (1978) (82 min.) The first uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry; Vernon, Florida (1981) (55 min.) the second travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey...
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 794
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
16) Cameraperson
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 853
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages)
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
17) Certain women
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 folded booklet
Description
A stirring look at four women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in the...
18) Personal shopper
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 folded booklet
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way one mourn those they love
19) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1075
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (ca. 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert ([12 p.] ; ill. : 19 cm.).
Description
A comedy that chronicles the individual struggles of several high school teenagers in southern California as they deal with independence, success, money, school, adults, self-esteem, the opposite sex, and more.


