Some favourite Criterion sample titles just for this thread – shows some of the depth and scale of the collection:
John Schlesinger – Billy Liar
Philip Kaufman – Unbearable Lightness of Being
Peter Weir – Last Wave
Andrzej Wajda – Ashes & Diamonds
Masaki Kobayashi – Kwaidan
Michael Powell – Black Narcissus
Peter Medak – Ruling Class
Jiri Menzel – Closely Watched Trains
Lasse Hallstrom – My Life as a Dog
Hiroshi Teshigahara – Woman in the Dunes
MEL BROOKS — Young Frankenstein
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA – The Conversation
SIDNEY LUMET — Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
MICHAEL MANN — Collateral
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN — The Prestige
TONY SCOTT — True Romance
STEVEN SPIELBERG — Schindler’s List
QUENTIN TARANTINO — Reservoir Dogs
DAVID FINCHER — Zodiac
CLINT EASTWOOD — Mystic River
Yes! Dead Ringers. Nice Lester.
Howard Hawks – Monkey Business
Roberto Rossellini – Voyage in Italy
Brian De Palma – Carlito’s Way
Jean Renoir – The Rules of the Game
Clint Eastwood – The Bridges of Madison County
John Ford – The Searchers
Jacques Rivette – Out 1
David Lynch – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Terrence Malick – The New World
Vincente Minnelli – Some Came Running
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Stanley Kubrick: 2001
Mary Harron: American Psycho
Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
Coen Bros: The Big Lebowski
Sergio Leone: The Good, the Bad. and the Ugly
Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Samourai
Michael Mann: Heat
Alfred Hitchcock: Rope
Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver
1. Stanley Kubrick- Full Metal Jacket
2. Martin Scorsese- Goodfellas
3. Sergio Leone- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4. Alfred Hitchcock- Psycho
5. Joel and Ethan Coen- The Big Lebowski
6. P.T. Anderson- There Will Be Blood
7. John Ford- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
8. Francois Truffaut- The 400 Blows
9. Francis Ford Coppola- The Godfather
10. Jean-Luc Godard- Band of Outsiders
Trent, good to see another “Monkey Business” enthusiast, I love that movie, one of my favorite comedies.
Pasolini- Teorema
Cassavetes- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Robert Bresson- Diary of a County Priest
Tarkovsky- Nostalghia
Bava- The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Antonioni- L’Avventura
Bergman- The Silence
Godard- Hail Mary
Roeg- Bad Timing
Peckinpah- Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Off the top of my head:
Orson Welles : Chimes At Midnight
David Cronenberg : Crash
John Ford : The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Akira Kurosawa : Drunken Angel
Ingmar Bergman : Passion of Anna
George Romero : Day of the Dead
Monte Hellman : Ride in the Whirlwind
Sam Peckinpah : Ballad of Cable Hogue
Bela Tarr : Damnation
Jean-Luc Godard : Contempt
Sarunas Bartas – Three Days
Goran Markovic – National Class Category Up to 785 ccm
Mamoru Oshii – Angel’s Egg
Walerian Borowczyk – Goto, Island of Love
Shunya Ito – Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Bo Widerberg – Elvira Madigan
King Hu – The Fate of Lee Khan
Chang Cheh – Have Sword, Will Travel
Carmine Gallone – Carthage in Flames
Angela Schanelec – Marseille
David Lynch – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Ingmar Bergman – The Seventh Seal
Woody Allen – Annie Hall
Federico Fellini – 8 1/2
Jean Rollin – La Morte Vivante
Ridley Scott – Blade Runner
Dario Argento – Suspiria
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Lucio Fulci – The Beyond
Ragnar Bragason – Börn
I’m not super well versed in cinema yet but I’ll give this a go…
Ingmar Bergman – Persona
Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove
Alfonso Cuaron – Children of Men
Frederico Fellini – 8 1/2
Akira Kurosawa – Seven Samurai
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Andrei Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublev
Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
Roman Polanski – The Pianist
Christopher Nolan – Memento
My other half’s (who should probably get his own account soon):-—-
John Huston: Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Lindsay Anderson: If…
Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver
Luis Bunuel: Simon of the Desert
Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev
Francois Truffaut: The 400 Blows
Charles Laughton: Night of the Hunter
Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 Steps
Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove
Carol Reed: The Third Man
I’m still thinking about mine…
Ingmar Bergman — Fannie & Alexander
Robert Altman — McCabe & Mrs Miller
Andrei Tarkovsky — The Sacrifice
Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying about the bomb
Joel & Ethan Coen — The Big Lebowski
Alfred Hitchcock — North By Northwest
Akira Kurosawa – Seven Samurai
Bill Forsyth — Local Hero
Park Chan-Wook — Old Boy
Wes Anderson — Rushmore
Ingmar Bergman: Winter Light
Francois Truffaut: The 400 Blows
Richard Linklater: Waking Life
Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums
Federico Fellini: 8 1/2
Robert Altman: Gosford Park
Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Double Life of Veronique
Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation
Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity
Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
Savvy
lists are awesome. I’d like people to read mine, but I doubt anyone will, and it’s still worth a waste of time:
Maurice Pialat – Van Gogh
John Cassavetes – Husbands
Ingmar Bergman – Scenes from a Marriage
Jean Luc Godard – Prenom Carmen
Andrei Tarkovsky – Rublev Rublev Rublev
Takashi Miike – Ichi the Killer
Ken Loach – Raining Stones
Mike Leigh – can’t do it
Dardenne Brothers- Rosetta
Terry Gilliam – The Fisher King
Stanley Kubrick: The Shining
Martin Scorcese: Raging Bull
Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill Vol. 2
David Fincher: Fight Club
Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypsis Now
Jean-Luc Godard: Breathless
Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times
Akira Kurosawa: The Seven Samurai
Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal
David Lynch: Fire Walk With Me
Alejandro Jodorowsky: El Topo
Werner Herzog: Aguirre
Klaus Kinski: Paganini
Vei Harlan: Jud Süss
Stanley Kubrick: The Shining
Yukio Mishima: Patriotism
Sergej Eisenstein: Alexander Nevsky
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now
Robert Bresson: Pickpocket
Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker
Yasujiro Ozu: Late Spring
Kenji Mizoguchi: Sansho the Bailiff
F. W. Murnau: The Last Laugh
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Jean Renoir: The Rules of the Game
Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura
Max Ophuls: L’Plaisir
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Day of Wrath
Mizoguchi – Sancho the Baliff
Mann – The Man From Laramie
Ford – How Green Was My Valley
Huston – The Misfits
Kurosawa – Throne of Blood
Wise – West Side Story
Hawks – To Have and Have Not
Eastwood – Bird
Preminger – Anatomy of a Murder
Lumet – Network
Frank Borzage – History is Made at Night
John Ford – The Prisoner of Shark Island
Howard Hawks – Only Angels Have Wings
Mitchell Leisen – Death Takes a Holiday
Ernst Lubitsch – Trouble in Paradise
Leo McCarey – Ruggles of Red Gap
Joseph von Sternberg – The Scarlett Empress
Raoul Walsh – The Roaring Twenties
William Wellman – Nothing’s Sacred
William Wyler – Dodsworth
Philippe Garrel: Les Hautes Solitudes
Andy Warhol: 13 Most Beautiful Songs
Claire Denis: Trouble Every Day
Roman Polanski: Repulsion
Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law
Jean-Luc Godard: Vivre Sa Vie
Paul Morrissey: Blood For Dracula
Lisandro Alonso: Liverpool
Jacques Rivette: Out 1
Fritz Lang: Fitzcarraldo
I like your list Julian. But Fritz Lang – Fitzcarraldo? ; )
Bergman – Persona
Kurosawa – Seven Samurai
Bunuel – Viridiana
Ray – Pather Panchali
De Sica – The Bicycle Thief
Fellini – La Strada
Mizoguchi – Ugetsu
Bresson – Au Hasard Balthazar
Clouzot – Les Diaboliques
Dreyer – Vampyr
Grey Daisies: Ho, I confuse the director and the films, i would want to put Metropolis, well, is Fritz Lang, Metropolis.
Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
PT Anderson – There Will Be Blood
Wes Anderson – Rushmore
Harmony Korine – Gummo
FW Murnau – The Last Laugh
Lucrecia Martel – The Headless Woman
Michael Haneke – Benny’s Video
Gus Van Sant – Paranoid Park
Claire Denis – Beau Travail
Lisandro Alonso – Los Muertos
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
Darren Aronofsky: Requiem for a Dream
Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver
Lars Von Trier: Dancer in the Dark
Jean Luc Godard: A Woman is a Woman
Akira Kurosawa: The Bad Sleep Well
Tony Kaye: American History X
Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange
Christopher Nolan: Memento
Philippe Garrel: L ’Enfant Secret
Carl Theodor Dreyer: The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
Jacques Rivette: Merry-Go-Round
Jean-Luc Godard: Masculin Feminin
Charles Chaplin: City Lights
Jean Eustache: The Mother And The Whore
Terry Jones: Monty Python, Life Of Brian
Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law
Jim Jheridan: In The Name Of The Father
Lisandro Alonso: Los Muertos
Griffith: Birth of a Nation
Chaplin: Modern Times
Bertolucci: The Sheltering Sky
Weir: Dead Poets Society
Kon: Perfect Blue
Ray: Apur Sansar
Kurosawa: Ran
Fellini: Nights of Cabiria
S. Coppola: The Virgin Suicides
Sayles: Lone Star
Aaron Dumont
Damnit! This is too diffcult. But anyhow:
Syberberg – Our Hitler
Rivette – Out 1
Lang – Die Niebelugen
Antonioni – Red Desert
Fellini – Juliet of the Spirits
Bresson – Au Hasard Balthazar
Dreyer – Ordet
Mizoguchi – The 47 Ronin
Rocha – The Age of the Earth
Godard – Week-End