For my sake:
El Sol del Membrillo, aka Dream of Light, Quince Tree of the Sun, Victor Erice (1994)
And for history’s sake:
Farrebique, George Roquier (1947)
David Holzman’s Diary, Jim McBride (1967)
Damn it two threads that ask the same thing? Well for two films by the same director that can get the duo treatment is Frank Darabont and his Stephen King duo set which is now a trilogy(haven’t seen the mist, but some of my friends liked it) I’m saying a set for the shashank redemption(based on a great short story by King from the novella that also gives us stand by me) and the green mile. Two amazing films that are adapted beautifully from page to screen.
Seeing Mulholland Drive get the treament would be great, as would a box set with both Before Sunrise and Before Sunset like Linklater mentioned a few years back. Personally, I love it when Criterion goes Hollywood and chooses stuff like Armageddon. So, in that vain, why not something from guys like M. Night Shyamalan or the Wachowski Brothers’ Bound? Though Bound isn’t really Hollywood. Still…
Yet, looking at all of these treasures that really are classics like The Night of the Hunter, wouldn’t it be cool if Criterion tried their hardest to bring us movies that are “lost”, like Todd Haynes’ Superstar and Disney’s Song of the South. Imagine the commentaries and docs for films like those.
films that aren’t available or in need of a restoration and bonus material that only the criterion collection can acomplish :)
Greed
Open City
Paris,Texas
Belle de Jour
Chimes at Midnight
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Apu Trilogy
Pixote
Johny Guitar
My Life to Live/Vivre sa vie
Los Olvidados
Landscape in the Mist
Shane
Santa Sangre
The Life of Oharu
Happy Together
Last Year at Marienbad
The Best Years of Our Lives
Night of the Hunter
The Music Room
This has probably been mentioned, but I’ll run through my current list that I long for:
Jacques Rivette films
Early Hou
Early Wim Wenders (Since it has been confirmed that both Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire are being released by CC)
Cronenberg’s Crash
Jarmusch’s Mystery Train
More Naruse
Claude Chabrol films
The Decalogue
Satantango
Last Year at Marienbad
La Notte
Here we go…
1. WISE BLOOD- John Huston
2. ODD MAN OUT- Carol Reed
3. HAROLD & MAUDE- Hal Ashby
4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS-Orson Welles
5. HOTEL DU NORD- Marcel Carne
6. THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS- Erle C. Kenton
7. THE LOST ONE- Peter Lorre
8. PIEGES- Robert Siodmak
9. LA CHIENNE- Jean Renoir
10. LE DERNIER TOURNANT- Pierre Chenal
- Leon The Professional
- Murder By Contract
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
- Ghost Dog
- Shanghai Triad
- Battle Royale
- Night of the Hunter
- Fantastic Planet
- Fallen Angels
… and I wish Criterion got these instead of Milestone:
- Killer of Sheep
- The Exiles
- I Am Cuba
Battle Royale would be interesting. Maybe Tarantino could provide a commentary track.
BLOW-UP, Repo Man, Koyaanisqatsi, any Harmony Korine, Stroszek, Tarnation, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Ashes of Time
and a Criterion set of Lindsey Anderson’s Mick Travis Trilogy would be rad
The Makioka Sisters (Ichikawa’s version)
Cousin Cousine (not the remake, the original with Victor Lanoux and Marie-Christine Barrault)
Oharu (Mizoguchi)
A few films from India – Vishwanath’s Sagara sangamam; Balachander’s Rudraveena; Maniratnam’s Roja, Iruvar, Nayakan; RamGopal Varma’s Company, Satya; Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri;Aamir Khan’s Lagaan, Dil Chahtha Hai, Swades
of course Godfather 1&2 which did not come up in the search.
70’s classics French Connection, Apocalypse now, Kramer vs Kramer.
Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Catch me if you can, Saving Private Ryan
More recently David Fincher’s Zodiac;Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige
Francesco Rosi is an underrepresented director. Something by him other than “Salvator Giuliano” might be good.
I heard that “The Moment Of Truth” is being considered.
All of Jean Vigo. L’ATALANTE; ZERO DE CONDUITE; TARIS, ROI DE L’EAU; and À PROPOS DE NICE. One feature, three shorts. That is the box set I want to own.
terrence davies films esp. the long day closes
the night of the hunter
belissima
Germany, Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
I watched these two films a few months ago and the quality was horrendous. Please, criterion really needs to add these to the collection.
Z (Costa-Gavras)
Z is no longer distributed, which is very, very sad. The cheapest new version I’ve found of it is $90. I really can’t spend that much yet. I will if I have to, but I really don’t want to.
Voyage to Italy – Rossellini
My Life to Live – Godard
King Vidor
1. The Crowd
2. The Fountainhead
Louis Bunuel
3. Bell De Jour
Kieslowski
4. Dekalouge
Blue Velvet would be amazing, though I am pretty sure it will never happen.
I’ll mention it again, just because I would love to see it in print, Zazie dans le Métro.
Also, these mysterious Godard films that have had new prints but never turned up on disc yet, Vivre sa vie, Made in USA, and Deux ou Trois Choses… with the bonus of his Le Plus Vieux Métier du Monde short.
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom
Spring summer autumn winter and spring
Dir. Ki-duk Kim
Beguilingly simple and aesthetically stunning it burrows benignly into the soul and years after viewing, meaning continues to surface from its depths.
Carol Reed’s “Our Man in Havana” (I wrote about it here: http://www.aggregat456.com/2008/04/suck-or-vacuuming-as-military.html). It is my favorite Reed film, and my favorite performance by Alec Guinness.
Also, I was watching some of Woody Allen’s films from the mid to late 90s on TV the other night, and they look bad. They have not aged very well (which is weird, because they are technically not that old).
made in hong kong (1997) by fruit chan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Hong_Kong_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123328/
Off the top of my head, 21 absolutes:
1. Brewster McCloud (and the few remaining Robert Altman films yet to make dvd)
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating
4. Head
5. Wise Blood
6. Out of the Fog (how about a collection of rare Warner Bros. from the 1930s/1940s?)
7. One Way Passage (I’ll take any Kay Francis films, really – maybe an Eclipse set?)
8. Repulsion
9. Detour (deserves remastering more than any film I can think of)
10. Bigger Than Life
11. Coonskin (a/k/a Street Fight) (Ralph Bakshi should be reevaluated)
12. Red Desert
13. Five Easy Pieces (has yet to receive a decent release)
14. Emil Cohl collection
15. Marie Menken, Bruce Conner, etc. – more avant garde!
16. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
17. Magnificent Ambersons (of course)
18. Hearts in Dixie
19. Expresso Bongo (repair the Kino Video botch job!)
20. The Wayward Bus
21. Multiple Maniacs (along with John Waters’ early, rarely screened Dreamland films)
how about herzog’s work?
MVD, I am behind you all the way.
I think Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons” should be released on Criterion DVD.
MVD good call on Five Easy Pieces, it’s often overshadowed in discussion by Nicholson’s other work during that period
LE MONDE DU SILENCE dir. by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, I think the only thing holding up a DVD release is Cousteau’s estate. Palme d’Or winner and I would love to see it get a good dvd treatment and release.
(life is a) CABARET
i’d love to see what Criterion would do with any film by Wim Wenders
stagefright
Douglas Sirk’s entire oeuvre. It seems like Criterion is working on this with “Magnificent Obssession” being released next month.
Robert Altman’s “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmie Dean, Jimmie Dean” and “Steamers”. These are two overlooked films from his 1980’s “play” films.