I’d love to see Alain Robbe Grillet’s early work, L’ Immortelle and Trans-Europ Express; I read Last Year at Marienbad release is not far off from being released which is amazing but I’d love to see some Robbe-Grillet stand alone. Some other Bresson releases such as L’Argent, and Chabrol’s Les Bonnes Femmes, Wenders now out of print Paris, Texas. Any Peter Greenaway or Bela Tarr would be fantastic.
Friends of Eddie Coyle. Great movie with a wonderful performance from Robert Mitchum. Never been on DVD. Just reminded of this when I noticed it’s on cable tomorrow morning.
Last year at Marienbad – Alain Resnais, that would be incredible
Histoire(s) du cinéma – Jean-Luc Godard
and some Herzog would be nice.
Teshigahara’a Man without a Map. Don’t know why it wasn’t included in the box set from a while back. Anyone know the reason?
Sounder – Martin Ritt. superb.
and Celine and Julie Go Boating is available out of the UK…
Last Year at Marienbad
An Eclipse collection of Edward Yang’s stuff.
This may be a dead thread, and this film may have already been mentioned along the way, but …
Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori (1994)
This may have been what the Brits call a “one off” by Tamahori, but it is one of a kind, a remarkable, powerful film, one of the best of the last couple of decades.
Lars Von Trier – Breaking the Waves
Satyajit Ray’s work is a DEFINITE – I can only imagine that Criterion has had trouble obtaining the rights to these works as the only reason it’s been so long overlooked.
I would love the animation work of Makoto Shinkai to be Criterion – “She and her Cat”, “5 Centimeters per second”, “Voices of a Distant Star” – all on one DVD
and even A Place Promised in Our Early Days – beautifully and profoundly moving work in animation.
Three Times-Hsiao-hsien Hou
Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend
I was recently watching Stalker and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. The images in these films are downright astounding, and the VHS transfer just does not do justice to these films.
I was recently watching Stalker and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. The images in these films are downright astounding, and the VHS transfer just does not do justice to these films.
I was recently watching Stalker and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. The images in these films are downright astounding, and the VHS transfer just does not do justice to these films.
I was recently watching Stalker and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. The images in these films are downright astounding, and the VHS transfer just does not do justice to these films.
Elia Kazan’s AMERICA, AMERICA. It needs a release, period; and it seems right up Criterion’s alley.
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“Bar Fly” was really good, that deserves some criterion treatment. “Elephant” from Van Sant would be great.
Mike Nichol’s Closer
Ken Annakin’s Across the Bridge
My imaginary Criterion Collection——
-Begotten (E. Elias Merhige) People seem to hate this film. I don’t understand why. I’m siding with the late Susan Sontag as this being one of the most important films of modern cinema. Yep, sue me, but I think she may have had a relevant point.
Damnation (Bela Tarr) Satantango is good—-definitely demands some patience, but I couldn’t recommend it to someone just getting into ‘serious film-watching.’ Damnation. I can’t even get started on how great of a masterpiece this is…
Jean-Luc Godard——
Two Or Three Things I Know About Her, Numero Deux, and Ici et ailleurs
Irreversible (Gaspar Noe) I’m glad someone earlier mentioned this. I consider this film the high-point of this brand of new-school French cinema—- the films that are ultra-violent, ultra sexual, and ultra uncompromising, in one word—VISCERAL. They’re a loved it/hated it kind of film. Noe, Breillat, those girls that directed Baise Moi, etc. Has this trend already been branded?
-a Georges Méliès collection.
Snakes On A Plane. I can’t agree more with the person that mentioned that up above. And no, not as a joke either—- in the history of cinema, this film could be a great example of The History of the Decline and Fall of American Cinema.
-Stalker (Andrei. Tarkovsky) I can only watch this movie once ever 5 years but I would pay $39.98 for a 2 or 3 disc set treatment of the one.
-Wong Kar Wai’s 60’s Trilogy + a Chungking Express/Fallen Angels double pack.
@ Matthew Giles—-
Has anyone mentioned The Mother and the Whore and Celine and Julie Go Boating? These aren’t available on DVD at all.
I’ve been wanting to see these for some time now. If I’m not mistaken I saw these in the FACETS catalog available on VHS, but they were very expensive, and I really hate resorting to VHS.
@ Geneya—
Lars Von Trier – Breaking the Waves
Good choice!!!!
re-issues of Peckinpah’s Strawdogs
more Nicolas Roeg – Don’t Look Now, Insignificance, Eureka
Diavolo in corpo (Marco Bellocchio 1986)
more Antonioni – Zabriske Point (1970), The Red Desert (1964), Beyond the Clouds (1995)
La Luna (Bertolucci 1979)
Casanova (Fellini 1976)
The Voice of the Moon (Fellini 1990)
El Topo (Jodorowsky 1971)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky 1989)
Caligula (Tinto Brass 1979)
My Favorite Year ( Richard Benjamin 1982)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush 1980)
any thing by Almodovar
The Stranger (Visconti 1967)
The Devils (Ken Russell 1971)
Women in Love (Russell 1969)
Repulsion (Polanski 1965)
Paris Trout (Stephen Gyllenhaal 1991)
Fay Grim (Hal Hartley 2006)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay 2002)
Performance (Donald Cammell, N. Roeg 1970)
Definitely Bryan Forbes’ " Whistle Down The Wind" which started out on VHS in an OOP VHS Janus Collection release. Please contact Jon Mulvaney on this when you request titles. The movie is incredible. Hayley Mills is incredible in this. A timeless story.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.
Un Flic by Melville.
I would love to see “Gummo” get a Criterion release, a Korine movie would be nice. Svankmajer’s “Alice” or even “Faust” would be nice additions. I would love it if “The Brood” got the Criterion treatment as far as Cronenberg is concerned. Dave Borthwick’s “The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb” would be an amazing addition to the collection. Something by Ralph Bakshi would also be amazing, perhaps “Wizards”. A Criterion issue of “Blue Velvet” would make me cry with joy. Im still baffled by the fact that “Fellini Satyricon” is not in the collection. Im also surprised that there are no Dogme certified films. “The Celebration” would be a nice choice in this respect. Herzog’s “My Best Fiend” would be great. I would love it if “Synechdoche” made it onto Criterion. “Come and See” is one of the most beautiful films ever conceived. Lastly “The City of Lost Children” could benefit greatly from a Criterion release.
Some others that would also be great would be…
1)Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
2)Dead Alive
3)Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker
4)Santa Sangre
5)The Holy Mountain
6)Anything by Haneke, “Time of The Wolf” in particular
7)Lunacy
8)In The Bedroom
9)Perfect Blue
10)Le Dernier Combat aka last battle
I would love to see “Gummo” get a Criterion release, a Korine movie would be nice. Svankmajer’s “Alice” or even “Faust” would be nice additions. I would love it if “The Brood” got the Criterion treatment as far as Cronenberg is concerned. Dave Borthwick’s “The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb” would be an amazing addition to the collection. Something by Ralph Bakshi would also be amazing, perhaps “Wizards”. A Criterion issue of “Blue Velvet” would make me cry with joy. Im still baffled by the fact that “Fellini Satyricon” is not in the collection. Im also surprised that there are no Dogme certified films. “The Celebration” would be a nice choice in this respect. Herzog’s “My Best Fiend” would be great. I would love it if “Synechdoche” made it onto Criterion. “Come and See” is one of the most beautiful films ever conceived. Lastly “The City of Lost Children” could benefit greatly from a Criterion release.
Some others that would also be great would be…
1)Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
2)Dead Alive
3)Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker
4)Santa Sangre
5)The Holy Mountain
6)Anything by Haneke, “Time of The Wolf” in particular
7)Lunacy
8)In The Bedroom
9)Perfect Blue
10)Le Dernier Combat aka last battle
I’ve scoured every post on this thread and wholeheartedly endorse these prior suggestions —
The Apu Trilogy
Santa Sangre
Gospel According to St. Matthew
Seven Beauties
Fellini’s Casanova
Fellini’s Voice of the Moon (the only Fellini film I’ve never seen)
Here are two hitherto unspoken suggestions —
Bergman’s Face to Face
and the cinematic treasure that brought me to this thread (very surprised it’s not been mentioned already) ….
Pagnol’s Fanny Trilogy (Marius, Fanny & Cesar)
More Kubrick :D
Adam Lee
Sunshine – Danny Boyle (most underrated sci-fi flick of all time)
Planet Of The Apes – Franklin J. Schaffner
Matador – Almodovar (actually, everything that Almodovar has ever done)
Hard Eight – P.T. Anderson
David Holzman’s Diary – Hal Ashby
Alien – Ridley Scott
Koyaanisqatsi – Godfrey Reggio
Margot At The Wedding – Noah Baumbach (I know it’s too soon, but damn I loved this movie)
Being John Malkovich – Spike Jonze
Deep Red – Dario Argento
Annie Hall – Woody Allen
Repo Man – Alex Cox
The Thing – John Carpenter
Barbarella – Roger Vadim
The Darjeeling Limited – Wes Anderson (might as well make them all Criterion)
Barton Fink – Coen Brothers
Children Of Men – Alfonso Cuaron