Wow, I was about to suggest to someone to forget about a CC version of Paris, Texas and just get the 6 dollar release with the beautiful transfer and director’s commentary only to find out it’s out-of-print.
I’d also like to see Mulholland Dr. and Chinatown get the full CC treatment. Add in Midnight Cowboy if only to get the (supposedly excellent) John Schlesinger Criterion laser disc commentary released again.
Night of the Hunter!
Orson Welles ‘Chimes at Midnight’. It’s Wiki entry suggests their are ownership issues which have kept it off dvd in the states but I’ve never seen it and don’t really want to watch an import if there’s a chance Criterion will put it out. That’s precisely the kind of film I want the pristine transfer and bonus features that Criterion would provide. Also ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’
johnny guitar – a much needed western addition to the criterion collection and an oft overlooked, if not campy, classic genre classic.
barfly
cross of iron – peckenpah+criterion= perfect release!
frankenhooker – it’s campy, it’s a cheap ‘b’ t&a, why not give it a criterion release!
nashville
detour – this is a great film noir and could use some cleaning up and a proper release! please!
renaldo and clara
and > dylan on criterion? i could die happy!
eat the document
I’ve always advocated further delving into the Czech New Wave, as Facets (the main publisher of Czech New Wave films in the US) really makes kind of shitty DVDs.
I also just want to see a release of any kind of Macunaima (Brazilian Cinema Novo era surrealist political commentary). That’s of course just because I really really really enjoy that type of film, but I definitely don’t think Cinema Novo is accessible enough (meaning I haven’t watched very many but enjoyed all the ones I’ve watched).
Oh, and “Eros + Massacre” (Japanese New Wave) doesn’t have a US release (or UK I think), which is highly unfortunate.
I think Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson should have been in the collection years ago. But it’s not too late. Please add it!
I think Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson should have been in the collection years ago. But it’s not too late. Please add it!
“El dependiente”, by Leonardo Favio (Argentina)
Satyajit Ray’s the Apu Trilogy. I love those films.
Performance.
It finally came out on DVD a few years ago but I’d love to see it get the same Criterion treatment as The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Hawks’s Tiger Shark
Anthony Mann’s The Tall T (get Scorsese to do a commentary track!) and Reign of Terror AKA The Black Book, which is only available in a lousy public domain copy but is an absolutely gorgeously shot film (by DP John Alton).
Joseph H. Lewis’s The Big Combo and My Name is Julia Ross (both perfect for Bogdanovich to intro)
Fellini’s Toby Dammit
John Flynn’s The Outfit
Altman’s Brewster McCloud
Sam Fuller’s Park Row
Early Hal Hartley (Trust, The Unbelievable Truth, Simple Men)
Greg Mottola’s The Daytrippers
Malick’s Badlands
…and the legendarily tough-to-see (though it’s easy enough to track down bootlegs online) The Dion Brothers/The Gravy Train
(All are films I’ve either been lucky enough to see in a theatre or else would love to see for the first time in a pristine Criterion presentation)
Some proper Visconti: Ossessione, La Terra Trema, and Senso.
In addition to the excellent suggestions about Buñuel’s Mexican period, how about some Emilo Fernández, Arturo Ripstein, María Novaro and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo? And Gavaldón’s “Macario.” And “Pedro Páramo.” And, of course, “Canoa.” Maybe Cuarón, González Iñárritu and Del Toro should be working with Criterion on this kind of project.
“Greed.” “Sunrise.” “The Last Laugh.” “The Scarlet Letter.” “Intolerance.”
Ophüls’ “American” films: “Letter from an Unknown Woman,” “Caught,” “The Reckless Moment”
More Italians: Francesco Rosi is shamefully underrepresented—how about “Three Brothers” and “Christ Stopped at Eboli”? Also, the Tavianis need proper releases—“Padre Padrone,” “Kaos,” etc. And DeSica’s “Garden of the Finzi-Continis.”
William Dieterle’s “Jewel Robbery.” And more Lubitsch, “The Merry Widow,” “Cluny Brown,” “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” “Design for Living,” etc. Perhaps an Eclipse edition.
“The Childhood of Maxim Gorky” and the other two parts of the Gorky trilogy. A proper release of Eisenstein’s “¡Que Viva México!”
Hear, hear on the Jacques Demy. And “Last Year at Marienbad.” And “Belle de Jour.”
Satyajit Ray: In addition to the Apu trilogy, “Devi,” “Charulata,” “Days and Nights in the Forest,” and “The Home and the World.”
Ichikawa’s “Makioka Sisters.”
Jane Campion’s “Portrait of a Lady.”
“Beat the Devil.”
A Julie Christie trio: Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now,” Schlesinger’s “Darling,” and Losey’s “The Go-Between.” Also Losey’s “Eva.”
Jean Vigo x 2.
I second GASTON MONESCU with special emphasis on Jean Vigo’s: L’ATALANTE.
A second Cassavetes box would be good. HUSBANDS is in desperate need of a release, and it would be nice to see MINNIE & MOSKOWITZ too.
Why isn’t there an amazing NASHVILLE disc available – there must be loads of extras that could be dug up and it’s such a landmark film of 70’s cinema.
INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN UNDER SUSPICION. Great Morricone score and needs to be availalable.
More RIVETTE would be good – particularly L’amour Fou and also some BRESSON (Un Femme Douce).
Plus some Asian cinema would be good, especially Korean or from Taiwan. I’m thinking some more Edward Yang (A Brigter Summer Day, The Terrorizers) and some Ki-Duk Kim.
Before the Devil Knows Your Dead and Dog Day Afternoon- Lumet
Mulholland Dr.- Lynch
Undertow- David Gordon Green
Mabuse and Metropolis- Lang
Aguirre, Wrath of God- Herzog
Infernal Affairs- Andy Lau
Kubrick movies other than Spartacus
Hero or House of Flying Daggers- Zhang Yimou
Memories of Murder- Bong Joon-ho
Oldboy-Park Chan-wook
Friend (Ching-gu)- Kwak Kyung-Taek
I also think some animated movies should make it:
My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke- Miyazaki
Grave of the Fireflies- Takahata
Metropolis- Rintaro
Psh, and Akira- Otomo
Man, almost missed it =P
I would be interested in Antonioni’s early documentaries.
I vigorously second Brewster McCloud.
I would be interested in seeing added to the Criterion Collection:
“Kids,” the combination of Harmony Korine’s script with Larry Clarks direction results in a tragedy of great proportion
“Refused Are Fucking Dead,” one of the most searching investigations of what artistic integrity and freedom I’ve seen, very honest.
“Me and You and Everyone We Know,” with maybe a disc of bonus features including some of her artworks, videos, performances, etc.
A box set of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski’s collaborations
I would also like to see a Criterion Edition of Donnie Darko.
JACKFATE — you nailed it with “renaldo and clara and > dylan on criterion? i could die happy! eat the document”
and SAMUEL N — the original Donnie Darko would be a godsend, but not that awful director’s cut.
Old Joy, Let the Right One In
i throw my votes behind “barfly” and “breaking the waves” also. and i would do unmentionable things to see “husbands” get the full criterion treatment.
as far as things yet unmentioned, “brighton rock” is way up on my list. “the woman of the port” would also be a nice addition.
Karel Reisz’ ISADORA (roadshow version)
Either THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT or WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (or why not both). The only editions available now are the ones in the Jayne Mansfield Collection Box set. Criterion could do some excellent things with Tashlin.
When You Comin’ Back, Red Rider?
There can be arguments, (probably many) made against it, but I wish at least SOMEONE had the courage to release it. Myself, I haven’t seen it since it was new and I was 18. My memory may exaggerate it’s attributes, but it struck me as a lower-brow but powerful film equivillant of O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
Any other devotees of this film? I’d be happy even to hear from people who know it well and hate it.
YELLOW F***ING SUBMARINE!
The Ghost of Yotsuya needs a legit release…
as does Nineteen Eighty Four…
Shawn Fremstad
Bergman’s Monika and Shame
Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Truffaut’s Soft Skin
Bergman Island
Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital