The Criterion Collection Complete

KINOSHITA, Keisuke (Japan) Jubiliation Street [1944] Eclipse Series 41 DVD As World War II escalates, the tight-knit inhabitants of a street in Tokyo must relocate from their homes so the government can use the space. Keisuke Kinoshita's sensitive film — beautifully and resourcefully shot — traces the fears and desires of the evacuees. 73 minutes Black & White Monaural in Japanese 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2014 Director/Writer Keisuke Kinoshita was 32 when he directed Jubilation Street . Other Kinoshita films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 41: Port Of Flowers (1943) Eclipse Series 41: The Living Magoroku (1943) Eclipse Series 41: Army (1944) Eclipse Series 41: Morning For The Osone Family (1946) #442: Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) #645: The Ballad Of Narayama (1958) The Film Film Rating (0-100): 99 By Director By Spine #

KINOSHITA, Keisuke (Japan) Army [1944] Eclipse Series 41 DVD Keisuke Kinoshita's ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multigenerational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family, before settling into an emotionally complex portrayal of parental love during wartime. As the mother and father of a boy shipped off to battle, Kinuyo Tanaka and Chishu Ryu locate profound depths of feeling that transcend ideology. 87 minutes Black & White Monaural in Japanese 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2014 Director/Writer Keisuke Kinoshita was 32 when he directed Army . Other Kinoshita films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 41: Port Of Flowers (1943) Eclipse Series 41: The Living Magoroku (1943) Eclipse Series 41: Jubilation Street (1944) Eclipse Series 41: Morning For The Osone Family (1946) #442: Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) #645: The Ballad Of Narayama (1958) The Film Film Rating (0-100): 99 By Director By Spine #

KINOSHITA, Keisuke (Japan) Morning For The Osone Family [1946] Eclipse Series 41 DVD Keisuke Kinoshita's first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought tale about a liberal-minded Japanese family torn apart by war and imperialist politics. Morning for the Osone Family  is both palpably bitter about the nation's fresh wartime wounds and inspiringly hopeful about a democratic tomorrow. 81 minutes Black & White Monaural in Japanese 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2014 Director/Writer Keisuke Kinoshita was 34 when he directed Morning for the Osone Family . Other Kinoshita films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 41: Port Of Flowers (1943) Eclipse Series 41: The Living Magoroku (1943) Eclipse Series 41: Jubilation Street (1944) Eclipse Series 41: Army (1944) #442: Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) #645: The Ballad Of Narayama (1958) The Film Film Rating (0-100): 99 By Director By Spine #

OZU, Yasujiro (Japan) Walk Cheerfully [1930] Eclipse Series 42 DVD In Yasujiro Ozu's Walk Cheerfully , which gracefully combines elements of the relationship drama and the gangster story, small-time hood Kenji, a.k.a. Ken the Knife, wants to go straight for good girl Yasue but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds. This was the Japanese master's first true homage to American crime movies, and it is a fleetly told, expressively shot work of humor and emotional depth. 96 minutes Black & White Silent Japanese Intertitles 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Yasujiro Ozu was 27 when he directed Walk Cheerfully . Other Ozu films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 42: That Night's Wife (1930) Eclipse Series 10: Tokyo Chorus (1931) Eclipse Series 10: I Was Born, But . . . (1932) Eclipse Series 42: Dragnet Girl (1933) Eclipse Series 10: Passing Fancy (1933) #232: A Story Of Floating Weeds (1934) #525: The O...

OZU, Yasujiro (Japan) That Night's Wife [1930] Eclipse Series 42 DVD In noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to desperation by the need to provide for his family. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujro Ozu's That Night's Wife  combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker's later masterpieces, and employs beautifully evocative camera work. 65 minutes Black & White Silent Japanese Intertitles 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Yasujiro Ozu was 27 when he directed That Night's Wife . Other Ozu films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 42: Walk Cheerfully (1930) Eclipse Series 10: Tokyo Chorus (1931) Eclipse Series 10: I Was Born, But . . . (1932) Eclipse Series 42: Dragnet Girl (1933) Eclipse Series 10: Passing Fancy (1933) #232: A Story Of Floating Weeds...

VARDA, Agnès (France) Black Panthers [1968] Spine #0000B/Eclipse Series 43 DVD/ Blu-ray Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton. In addition to evincing Varda's fascination with her adopted surroundings and her empathy, this perceptive short is also a powerful political statement. 28 minutes Color Monaural 1:371 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Agnès Varda was 40 when she directed Black Panthers . The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras Extras Rating (0-40): 39 60 + 39 = 99 By Director By Spine #

VARDA, Agnès (France) Uncle Yanco [1967] Spine #0000B/Eclipse Series 43 DVD/ Blu-ray In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history. The short documentary Uncle Yanco  features Varda tracking down a Greek emigrant relative she's never met, discovering an artist and kindred soul leading a bohemian life in Sausalito. 19 minutes Color Monaural in English and French 1:37:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Agnès Varda was 39 when she directed Uncle Yanco . The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras Extras Rating (0-40): 39 60 + 39 = 99 By Director By Spine #

VARDA, Agnès (France) Lions Love (. . . And Lies) [1969] Spine #0000B/Eclipse Series 43 DVD/ Blu-ray Agnès Varda brings New York counterculture to Los Angeles. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men -- Viva, of Warhol Factory fame, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who created and starred in the rock musical Hair  -- delight in one another's bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics, They are soon joined by underground director Shirley Clarke, playing herself as well as functioning as a surrogate for Varda. Lions Love (. . . and Lies)  is a metacinematic inquiry into the alternating currents of whimsy and tragedy that typified late-sixties America. 112 minutes Color Monaural 1:66:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Agnès Varda was 41 when she directed Lions Love (. . . and Lies) . The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras Extras Rating (0-40): 39 60 + 39 = 99 By Director By ...

VARDA, Agnès (France) Documenteur [1981] Spine #0000B/Eclipse Series 43 DVD/ Blu-ray This small-scale fiction about a divorced mother and her child (played by Agnès Varda's own son) leading a quiet existence on L.A.'s margins was made directly after Mur Murs , and though Documenteur  is different in form and tone from that film, the two are complexly interwoven, with overlapping images and ideas. This meditative portrait of urban isolation overflows with subtle visual poetry. 65 minutes Color Monaural in French 1:66:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Agnès Varda was 53 when she directed Documenteur . The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras Extras Rating (0-40): 39 60 + 39 = 99 By Director By Spine #

VARDA, Agnès (France) Mur Murs [1980] Spine #0000B/Eclipse Series 43 DVD/ Blu-ray After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs  is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art. 82 minutes Color Monaural in English and French 1:37:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Agnès Varda was 52 when she directed Mur Murs . The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras Extras Rating (0-40): 39 60 + 39 = 99 By Director By Spine #

DUVIVIER, Julien (France) David Golder [1930] Eclipse Series 44 DVD The first sound film by Julien Duvivier also marked his first collaboration with the marvelous actor Harry Baur. Together, they brought to life the vivid protagonist of Irène Némirovsky's best-selling first novel, an avaricious, self-interested banker whose family life is as tempestuous as his business dealings. Directed with visual panache, this grim yet arresting tale showcases Duvivier's preternatural cinematic maturity during a transitional phase for the French film industry. 95 minutes Black & White Monaural in French 1:19:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Duvivier (right) Julien Duvivier was 34 when he directed David Golder . Other Duvivier films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 44: Poil De Carotte (1932) Eclipse Series 44: La Tête D'Un Homme (1933) Eclipse Series 44: Un Carnet Du Bal (1937) #172: Pépé Le Moko (1937) #955: Panique (1946) The Film...

DUVIVIER, Julien (France) Poil De Carotte [1932] Eclipse Series 44 DVD Julien Duvivier remade his own silent adaptation of a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century novella and play for the sound era, resulting in one of his most beloved films. In a tremendously moving performance, Robert Lynen plays the neglected young François, mockingly called Poil de Carotte (Carrottop) by his family for his mop of red hair. Duvivier sensitively charts the rural daily life of a boy desperate to connect with others, especially his distracted father, played by the chameleonic Harry Baur. 92 minutes Black & White Monaural in French 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Duvivier (right) Julien Duvivier was 36 when he directed Poil de Carotte . Other Duvivier films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 44: David Golder (1930) Eclipse Series 44: La Tête D'Un Homme (1933) Eclipse Series 44: Un Carnet Du Bal (1937) #172: Pépé Le Moko (1937) #955: Paniqu...

DUVIVIER, Julien (France) La Tête D'Un Homme [1933] Eclipse Series 44 DVD This meticulously crafted adaptation stars Harry Baur as novelist Georges Simenon's indelible creation Inspector Maigret, investigating the odd circumstances surrounding the killing of a wealthy American woman in Paris. Every bit Baur's equal is the Russian émigré actor Valéry Inkijinoff, cast as a reptilian, nihilistic medical student. Julien Duvivier gives the viewer one evocative image after another, constructing a work of sinister beauty. 93 minutes Black & White Monaural in French 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Duvivier (right) Julien Duvivier was 37 when he directed La Tête d'un Homme . Other Duvivier films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 44: David Golder (1930) Eclipse Series 44: Poil De Carotte (1932) Eclipse Series 44: Un Carnet Du Bal (1937) #172: Pépé Le Moko (1937) #955: Panique (1946) The Film Film Rating (0-100): ...

DUVIVIER, Julien (France) Un Carnet De Bal [1937] Eclipse Series 44 DVD A rich widow, nostalgic for the lavish parties of her youth, embarks on a journey to reconnect with the many suitors who once courted her. In doing so, she sets off on a course of discovery, both of herself and of how greatly the world has changed in two decades. Julien Duvivier's smash hit is a wry, visually inventive tale of romantic pragmatism that defly combines comedy and drama. 130 minutes Black & White Monaural in French 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2015 Director/Writer Julien Duvivier was 41 when he directed Un Carnet de Bal . Other Duvivier films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 44: David Golder (1930) Eclipse Series 44: Poil De Carotte (1932) Eclipse Series 44: La Tête D'Un Homme (1933) #172: Pépé Le Moko (1937) #955: Panique (1946) The Film Film Rating (0-100): 99 By Director By Spine #

AUTANT-LARA, Claude (France) Sylvie Et Le Fantôme [1946] Eclipse Series 45 DVD With this film, conceived during the occupation and released after the war, Claude Autant-Lara entered the realm of pure fantasy. Odette Joyeux stars as Sylvie, in love with a long-dead romantic figure from her family's past. Sylvie's father hires three actors to impersonate the ghost of her beloved, while the spirit himself (Jacques Tati, in his first feature-film role) stalks the grounds. Marrying a playful script, artful special effects, and wistful performances, Sylvie et le fant ôme  stages a delicate dance of enchantment . 98 minutes Black & White Monaural in French 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Claude Autant-Lara was 45 when he directed Sylvie et le Fantôme . Other Autant-Lara films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 45: Le Mariage De Chiffon (1942) Eclipse Series 45: Lettres D'Amour (1942) Eclipse Series 45: Douce (1943) The F...

AUTANT-LARA, Claude (France) Douce [1943] Eclipse Series 45 DVD As belle epoque Paris prepares for Christmas, the residence of the Countess de Bonafé hosts more than its share of intrigue: the countess's headstrong granddaughter, Douce (Odette Joyeux), pines for the estate manager, whose heart has been broken by the governess, who is being courted by Douce's widower father. Elegantly shot, Douce  is a dizzying romantic roundelay that contains a biting critique of France's rigid social order. This film, which ultimately takes a tragic turn, found Claude Autant-Lara in full command of his craft. 109 minutes Black & White Monaural in French 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Claude Autant-Lara was 42 when he directed Douce . Other Autant-Lara films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 45: Le Mariage De Chiffon (1942) Eclipse Series 45: Lettres D'Amour (1942) Eclipse Series 45: Sylvie Et Le Fantôme (1946) The Film ...

AUTANT-LARA, Claude (France) Lettres D'Amour [1942] Eclipse Series 45 DVD A deceptive lightness distinguishes this farcical second feature made by Claude Autant-Lara while Germany occupied France. During the reign of Napoléon III, a plucky businesswoman (Odette Joyeux) agrees to receive love letters to a prefect's wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town's class tensions. A transporting period piece with ornate costumes by Christian Dior, Lettres d'amour  paints a blithely pointed portrait of life in a highly stratified society. 92 minutes B&W Monaural in French 1:37:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Claude Autant-Lara was 41 when he directed Lettres d'Amour . Other Autant-Lara films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 45: Le Mariage De Chiffon (1942) Eclipse Series 45: Douce (1943) Eclipse Series 45: Sylvie Et Le Fantôme (1946) The Film Film Rating (0-10...