Janus Films
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
3) Ikiru
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Pub. Date
[2015]
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.
4) Walkabout
Series
The Criterion collection volume 10
Pub. Date
1998
Description
An Australian aborigine on his tribal initiation "walkabout" in the outback rescues an English brother and sister who have been abandoned there.
5) Magic Flute
Series
Criterion collection volume 71
Pub. Date
1975.
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
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
9) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Based on an actual case, M is an exploration of the most dreaded type of all deviant personalities. The random killer. A psychopathic murderer of young girls...
13) The fallen idol
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
14) The third man
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
15) The 39 Steps
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela
Series
Criterion collection volume 746
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable...
18) Richard III
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
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...
19) The brood
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
Series
Criterion collection volume 479
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
