Columbia Pictures
Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
2) Jubal
Series
Criterion collection volume 656
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand.
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Members of an African American family live in a cramped Chicago apartment. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
5) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert (47 cm x 37 cm).
Language
English
Description
Follows the increasingly elaborate deception of a down-on-his-luck New York actor who disguises himself as a woman to get a coveted soap opera gig; while his female persona skyrockets to fame, he finds himself learning to be a better man.
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 pages)
Language
English
Description
A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele who has a history of violent behavior becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing them...
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Special] DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, with his blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever....