I’m not sure if these aren’t on Criterion, but it’s definitely not on Auteurs yet, to name a few…
Truffaut’s “The Bride Wore Black”, with Jean Moreau on a killing spree.
Also ‘’ Confidentially Yours", great ’80’s b/w noirish caper featuring Fanny Ardant’s legs.
Kon Ichikawa’s “Odd Obsessions”, with Tatsuya Nakadai – pretty creepy ending and closing shots!
Mike Hodge’s “Get Carter”-1971
Orson Welles’ “The Trial” a.k.a. “The Process”(Kafka) – with Anthony Perkins. Real brilliant filmmaking. People who ever doubt Welles’ genius should see this one – a visually stunning work done on a tiny budget.
Sidney Lumet’s "The Hill’’ -with Sean Connery and Ossie Davis as disgraced British soldiers in a stockade. See Davis’ meltdown…
Russ Myer’s “Mudhoney” and “Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill!”
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“Night of the Iguana”
‘Santa Sangre’, Chaplin’s ‘The Gold Rush’
-Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life
-Peter Yates’ John and Mary
-Stuart Rosenberg’s Cool Hand Luke
-Scorsese’s Journey Through American Cinema and My Voyage to Italy
-Shohei Imamura’s Black Rain
-King Vidor’s The Champ
-Pasolini’s Gospel According to Saint Matthew
-Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful and Lust For Life
-Fred Zinnemann’s The Men (Brando’s excellent first leading role)
-Kieslowski’s Decameron
There’s a ton more. Criterion is the best diving board we could ask for, but there is a whole pool of undiscovered films waiting out there just begging to be dove into.
Menilmontant (the short by Kirsanoff)
Man with a Movie Camera
The Magnificent Ambersons (why, oh WHY won’t TCM give Criterion the DVD rights?)
The Insider by Michael Mann
Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy”
Aki Kaurismaki’s “Drifting Clouds”
Anything aside from “The Professional” by Luc Besson.
Pedro Almodovar’s “Pepi, Luci, Bom…”, “What have I done to deserve this?”, “Atame!”, “Talk to Her”
Douglas Sirk’s “Imitation of Life”,
Kim Ki-Duk’s “Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring”
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Sidney Lumet: The Pawnbroker (1964)
Richard Lester: Petulia (1968)
Peter Brook: Marat/Sade (1968)
Jun Ichikawa: Tony Tankitani (2004)
Shunji Iwai: Love Letter (1995), Hana and Alice (2004)
Sang-soo Hong: Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002), Tale of Cinema (2005), Woman on the Beach (2006)
Alain Tanner: Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), Messidor (1979), In the White City (1983)
Jacques Doillon: Young Werther (1993), Ponette (1996)
Ming-liang Tsai: Rebels of the Neon God (1992), The River (1997), The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Hsiao-hsien Hou: The Puppetmaster (1993), Flowers of Shanghai (1998), Millennium Mambo (2001)
Jean-Luc Godard: Slow Motion (1980), Hail Mary (1985), JLG/JLG – Autoportrait de Décembre (1995), Elogé de l’amour (2001), Notre Musique (2004)
Bertrand Tavernier: L.627 (1992), It All Starts Today (1999)
Ermanno Olmi: The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1978)
Where’s the punchline in this thread? Or is this really just a thread to list whatever non-Criterion releases you can think of? That’s going to be a long list. I bet there are at least 100 movies in existence that Criterion hasn’t released. Maybe 150.
Lars Von Trier – “Breaking the Waves” – That should be a Criterion pick – if it hasn’t been already
Hiroshi Teshigahara – “Woman in the Dunes” I would like to see
Reprise
Before the Devil Knows Your’e Dead
the big chill,the virgin suicides
Peter Watkins: The War Game (1965), Punishment Park (1971), Edvard Munch (1974), La Commune (2000)
Patrick Keiller: London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997)
Miklós Jancsó: The Round-Up (1966), The Red and the White (1967)
MURNAU’S SUNRISE!!!
I don’t like posting in these list threads, but NEH Gremlins 2? I am always ashamed om my love for it. The smart gremlin is one of my favorite characters ever. I did stand up comedy about three times and my impression of him went over really well. Glad to see someone else loves that movie!
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This is awesome. We are going to get to work on this list right away. Most of these films will be up within the next two weeks. Keep it coming.
Woman in the Dunes is part of a boxed set with Pitfall and Face of Another. I’m looking forward to picking it up soon, Woman in the Dunes was really great.
Might as well join them…. I’d love to see more Woody Allen. “Fox And His Friends” by Fassbinder and More Herzog. Possibly “Stroszek” and “The Enigma Of Kasper Houser”. I’d also like to see “The Stranger”.
I’ve been actively campaigning Criterion for a few years to add one of the few Pressberger-Powell films not in their collection: “Stairway to Heaven” . . . called in its UK version “A Matter of Life and Death.” This film deserves the attention that Criterion can bring to it. I purchased a DVD from Amazon some time ago that was apparently ripped from a VHS recording, but it is no longer available. There is also a version available from the UK, but only in a Region 2 DVD format. Criterion’s Jonathan Turrell was kind enough to reply to my request about this film in August, 2007; he said that Criterion had been trying for years to get this film but Columbia had refused to issue Criterion the rights to the film. It’s nearly 18 months later: has Criterion made any headway yet?
Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1968)
Illustrious Corpses (Rosi,1976)
M.S 45: Angel of Vengeance (Ferrera, 1981)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973)
Violette Noziere (Chabrol, 1977)
The Europeans (Ivory, 1979)
Don Giovanni (Losey, 1979)
Light Years Away (Tanner, 1981)
Android (Lipstadt, 1982)
Street Fight (Bakshi, 1975)
Entertaining Mr. Slone (Hickox, 1970)
Pigsty (Pasolini, 1969)
The Dresser (Yates, 1984)
Hammett (Wenders, 1982)
City of the Lost Souls (Praunheim, 1983)
Violated Angels (Wakamatsu, 1967)
Alan J. Pakula: Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974), All the Presidents Men (1976)
Wim Wenders: The Goalkeepers Fear of the Penalty (1972)
Claude Sautet: Les Choses de la vie (1970), Max and the Junkmen (1971), Un coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Breaking Glass (1980)
Directed by Brian Gibson. With Phil Daniels, Hazel O’Connor, Jon Finch.
Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Directed by Cy Endfield. With Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York.
Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Vitali Kanevsky’s Freeze Die Come to Life, Lena Wertmuller’s Seven Beauties,Shohei Imamura’s Ballad of Narayama, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment.
To quote Smokey… I second that emotion in regard to The Hill, Parallax View, and Pawnbroker and would add Lumet’s The Offense and
Arthur Penns’ Bonnie and Clyde.
ps.. the Library obviously does contain many films already that are not Criterion issues, but I guess there are a lot of key films missing so we can’t add them to our favourites or post reviews etc…
Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov)
Tripletes of Belleville
Definitely some more Peckinpah
i second triplets of belleville, trouble every day, and punishment park.
Luis Buñuel’s “Belle de Jour”
@Andrew Kay,
Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin (Street Fight)”
Abel Ferrara’s “Ms. 45”
I agree!
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Faust
jiri Trnka’s Emperor’s Nightingale
Annie Hall
Mata Hari
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