My favorites I have are Straw Dogs, Kwaidan, and Man Bites Dog.
They’re all very great films that I didn’t mind spending the extra money on because I will watch them again and again.
I really want to get the Seven Samurai 3 disc though…
Hara Kiri and The Sword of Doom
The Vanishing, Sansho the Bailiff and Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
BERGMAN"S trilogy
FULLER’S Shock Corridor
JARMAN’S Jubilee
All my godards, 2 antonioni films, silence of the lambs, and some choice criterion laserdiscs that i cannot seem to part with.
The Carl Dreyer Box Set (Day of Wrath/Ordet/Gertrud). Everything else in my collection seems to pale in comparison.
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
3 Films by Malle
Six Moral Tales-Rohmer
Brazil
I still have my Criterion laserdiscs of RAGING BULL, CITIZEN KANE and ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. I will never part with them. Never.
My Seven Samurai is one of the most cherishable things I own.
Don’t have it? Buy it.
Cassavetes box set, Carnival of Souls, Diary of a Country Priest
cassavetes box set, seven samurai, the 400 blows.
Visconti’s The Leopard, (I hear the Innocent will finally be released in the U.S.)
My Man Godfrey
The Double Life of Veronique
John Cassavetes box set
Brazil
My Own Private Idaho
Man Who Fell to Earth
Complete Mr. Arkadin
Carnival of Souls
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Bicycle Thieves
Short Cuts
All these are a testament to the true spirit of independent filmmaking and have great supplementary materials.
Definitely the Bergman trilogy…
Throne of Blood
La Strada
Two Lane Black Top. I owe my big bro for that one. It was a gift. Keep ’em coming Kit.
Damn, I was gonna say Two-Lane. I’ll go with THE THIRD MAN on blu; perhaps the greatest assembly of extras ever included on a single disc.
While, not exactly criterion, my Essential Art House, Vol 1 which i got for Christmas this year!
other than that, my favorite from my collection are:
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Olivier’s Shakespeare
Vampyr
Late Ozu Eclipse
and while everyone will say “over-rated”, all the Wes Anderson films.
Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy, but when I get Berlin Alexanderplatz next month, that will be number one
my Blu-ray Chungking Express, Jules and Jim, Fanny and Alexander, M, In the Mood for Love, 8 1/2
Straw Dogs
Brazil
Videodrome
Actually I just splurged on two out of prints, Cocteau’s Blood of a Poet and Dreyer’s Gertrud. So they might be jewels in the crown as well.
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
six Moral Tales
Jules and Jim
Down By Law
Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy,
Dreyer’s Vampyr
Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou
Blank’s Burden of Dreams
the oop straw dogs for me .
Solaris
Ran
Amarcord
Seven Samurai 3 disc (probably the most of them all)
Cassavetes Box Set
Seven Samurai
Dead Ringers
Lots to mention but my good desert island dozen would include -
Otis Redding/ Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop
Solaris
Le Cercle Rogue
High and Low
Seduced and Abandoned
Amarcord
Wages of Fear
Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales
Yojimbo/ Sanjuro Edition
Mon Oncle
Breathless 3 disc Edition
Solaris
In the Mood for Love
Chungking Express- Blu Ray
Brazil
Adventures of Antoine Doinel
4 by Agnes Varda
Playtime
Seven Samurai
Battle of Algiers
Jupin
I’m wondering what everyone’s favorite Criterion discs are. If you don’t own any, then maybe ones you’ve watched before and had a good experience with. I’ll say that for me, I really love the three-disc edition of Breathless I have. Also, my copy of Robocop is pretty prized if you ask me.