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Thank you NEH, for this thread! I’m relatively new to TheAuteurs and was about to post this topic myself until I found this. I’m glad to see that some of the films that other people posted are already up. yay…
Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (1936), Limelight (1952)
Buster Keaton: Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), Our Hospitality (1923), The Playhouse (1921)
Jan Svankmajer: Alice (Něco z Alenky) (1988), Conspirators of Pleasure (Spiklenci slasti) (1996), Dimensions of Dialogue (Možnosti dialogu) (1982), Down to the Cellar (Do pivnice) (1983), Darkness/Light/Darkness (Tma, světlo, tma) (1989), The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (Konec stalinismu v Čechách) (1990)
Seijun Suzuki: Pistol Opera (2001)
Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Vidas Secas (Barren Lives) (1963), Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman) (1971)
Glauber Rocha: Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil) (1964)
Guy Debord: La Société du spectacle (Society of the Spectacle) (1973), Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time) (1959), In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (We Turn in the Night, Consumed by Fire) (1978)
Claude Berri: Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources (1986), Germinal (1993)
John Waters: Mondo Trasho (1969), Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Polyester (1981)
Alfonso Cuarón: Children of Men (2006)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Fox and His Friends (1975)
Bennett Miller: The Cruise (1998)
‘This cult favorite documentary is centered on the unique worldview and personality of New York City bus tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch, who later had brief appearances in Waking Life and School of Rock.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruise_(documentary)
Santa Sangre
Punishment Park for sure!
Bigger Than Life
Parents
@Campbell
you realize your smart gremlin impression is just a Tony Randall impression, right?
at least, I hope.
Kate-Agree with Santa Sangre-The only Jodorowsky film I like so therefore the only one unavailable.
Saw Punishment Park last year and was very disappointed.
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@NEH-I thought Punishment Park amateurish & simplistic. None of those being imprisoned sounded like anything other than a right wing sterotype of a leftist. Which I thought odd. I could not identify with or care about them. The film would have been much more effective if they were well rounded characters. Plus nobody in the film could act a lick. I know using amateurs is supposed to make the film seem more real but it’s a device that’s hard to bring off properly and here it wasn’t. A film for people who thought Abbie Hoffman was deep.
Peter Greenaway’s : “The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover”. I can’t wait
The films of Satyajit Ray!
Also Dersu Uzala- Akira Kurosawa
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Punishment Park
New World
The Verdict
The Sting
this is just for stuff that we think should be added onto this site, not for actual criterion release, correct?
The Conversation (there’s an avatar for it, after all)
The Long Goodbye
Nostalghia
Stroszek
Last Year at Marienbad
The Tenant
Belle de jour
Il Postino
My favorite films not on The Auteurs are On the Waterfront and Apocalypse Now.
If any Tim Burton film is on the Auteurs I thing it should be Ed Wood (1994), I think it’s his most interesting and best made film.
It would also be nice to see Don Hertzfeldt as he is one of the most important, truly independent American animators, at these:
The Meaning of Life (2005)
Everything Will Be OK (2006)
I Am So Proud of You (2008)
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Whisper of the Heart – Yoshifumi Kondo (1995)
I personally consider this to be the greatest film ever made. Perfect in every way and endlessly rewatchable.
- “Apocalypse Now”, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Coppola
- “Bringing Out the Dead”, “New York, New York”, “Mean Streets”, “Gangs of New York”, “The Departed” and “The Key to Reserva”, by Scorsese
- “Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio”, “Fellini-Satyricon”, “Fellini-Casanova” and “Roma”, by Fellini
- "Fistful of Dollars and “Once upon a Time in America”, by Leone
- “Amator”, “A Short Film About Love” and “A Short Film About Killing”, by Kieslowski
- “Deconstructing Harry”, “Match Point”, “Cassandra’s Dream” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, by Woody Allen
- “From Dusk till Dawn” and “Sin City”, by Robert Rodriguez
- “Kill Bill Vol.1&2”, by Tarantino
even though threads like this can get frustrating because people list so many films that others have mentioned, and/or people just dump a shitload of films they like, and don’t give any reason why they believe it would be necessary for Criterion or Auteurs to add them, it does give people like me who live film but have a rather limited knowledge of whats good a chance to see what other people are raging about. i say, keep this thread and others like it going! half the fun of Criterion (and Netflix, too) is looking up all the new names and titles i’d either never had a chance to see, OR never even heard of.
…still, descriptions of the films and what makes them special wouldn’t be a bad thing…y’know, if ya wanted that kind of thing.
John Ford’s “The Quiet Man”
Mac And Me
God bless you, Arturo.
Mac & Me is a work of sheer, soulless, shitty brilliance. Without a doubt, my favorite horrible film ever made… and goddamn is it horrible.
@neh I second Hot Rod. I quote this film on a daily basis. “Hospital?” “Trashcan!” Anyway…
I’d like to see Un homme qui dort (The Man who Sleeps) on Criterion and theauteurs. It’s my all-time favorite! After Hot Rod and The Karate Kid pts. I & II, of course. Part III can just suck it.
And more off the top of my head: My Neighbors the Yamadas, Heat, Nabbeun namja (Bad Guy), Sam gang yi (Three… Extremes)
Pourquoi Pas (Why Not?)
Shaft – with commentary by a film historian on Blackspoitation
Island of Lost Souls (1932) – with commentary on 1930’s non-Universal Studios horror films
Nathan Earl
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