The Criterion Collection
Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements.
The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Renoir, Godard, Kurosawa, Cocteau, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Fuller, Lean, Kubrick, Lang, Sturges, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Ozu, Sirk, Buñuel, Powell and Pressburger. To date, more than 150 filmmakers have contributed to this collection.
Blithe Spirit (1945)
While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons th...
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Manual of Arms (1966)
In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary ...
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Process Red (1966)
An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.
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Maxwell's Demon (1968)
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell's classic theory about the behavior of gas molecules is represented on-screen by a man performing a se...
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Surface Tension (1968)
A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.
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Carrots & Peas (1969)
An experimental short film which compares and contrasts the colors of carrots and peas.
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Lemon (1969)
Light begins to illuminate the small, nipple-like end of a lemon on the right edge of the frame and gradually spreads until the entire lemon ...
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Zorns Lemma (1970)
Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structural film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma), ...
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The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I (1977)
Hollis Frampton alludes to origins and creation as he cuts between a garden featuring a bride and groom and an 1902 film entitled "A Little P...
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Pan 0 (1974)
Clouds roll by in a static haze.
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Pan 1 (1974)
A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.
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Pan 2 (1974)
Rain falls and reflects the light.
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Pan 3 (1974)
A journey through a field of corn.
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Pan 4 (1974)
A series of papers flutter in the wind.
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Pan 697 (1974)
A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.
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Pan 698 (1974)
The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.
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Pan 699 (1974)
A little boy celebrates his frog catch.
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