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Punch Drunk Love
El Mariachi
Badlands
Lone Star
Cinema Paradiso
Let the Right Ones In
Resevoir Dogs
Rosemary’s Baby
80’s Germany Comedy “Men…”
Lonely are the Brave
Charley Varrick
Housekeeping
Far From The Madding Crowd by John Schlesinger
with Julie Christie , Terrence Stamp and Alan Bates
there isn’t a good edition on dvd of this film , it has a great photography but the quality of the dvd is so poor , with no subtitles , no extras no nothing
Far From The Madding Crowd by John Schlesinger
with Julie Christie , Terrence Stamp and Alan Bates
there isn’t a good edition on dvd of this film , it has a great photography but the quality of the dvd is so poor , with no subtitles , no extras no nothing
Dune
Oh, and Léolo …
Oh, and Léolo …
Il Postino
@Gil-Wow, Leolo. I’d forgotten all about that film. Saw it years ago and loved it.
Los Olvidados (The Forgotten) by Luis Bunuel. Criterion is way, way, way overdue on this one. If I had 500 I could sell ’em in twenty minutes. Betcha.
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness
Edward Yang’s Terrorizers
There are so many…I’ll name a handful, mostly older films, and I’m not going to name any films that already have great DVD releases, despite how badly I want VERTIGO to get a Criterion release, if only for the mono soundtrack.
WITHOUT A REGION-1 DVD RELEASE:
The Tarnished Angels (Sirk)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
Prima Della Revoluzione/Before the Revolution (Bertolucci)
The Rain People (Coppola)
The Reckless Moment (Ophuls)
Caught (Ophuls)
Bigger Than Life (N. Ray)
Wild River (Kazan)
Johnny Guitar (N. Ray)
The Lusty Men (N. Ray)
The Crimson Kimono (Fuller)
Underworld USA (Fuller)
Shanghai Express (von Sternberg)
Greed (Von Stroheim)
Woman on the Beach (Renoir)
MOVIES ALREADY WITH A DVD RELEASE DESERVING A CLEAN-UP OR THE CRITERION TREATMENT:
Last Tango in Paris (the MGM release needs a restoration, and Criterion likes Bertolucci)
In a Lonely Place and Bitter Victory (both got nice restorations from Colombia but Criterion could go farther, and include swank bonus features deserving to Nicholas Ray’s auteur status; you could include KNOCK ON ANY DOOR and make it a Nick Ray at Colombia trilogoy)
Five Easy Pieces, and other little-known films by Bob Rafelson
Dodsworth (this 1930s masterpiece about a marriage in crisis desperately needs a clean-up…and a new audience)
A Farewell to Arms and other Frank Borzage films (his Hemingway adaptation languishes in the public domain and aside from the gorgeous Borzage at Fox box set released early this year, Borzage remains criminally under-acknowledged in the DVD world)
On Dangerous Ground, restored to Nicholas Ray’s original cut.
Lola Montes (out of print DVD from 1999; a new print having been shown around the country restored on the big screen—which I was very, very lucky to have seen—and with extended footage by Rialto Cinema, I think Criterion may release this in the near future)
Vivre sa Vie (I’m not the only one to want this and I won’t be the last)
F.W. Murnau: Journey Into the Night, The Burning Soil, Tabu, and Sunrise
Sergei Eisenstein: Strike, October, The General Line, Que Viva Mexico
Robert Wiene: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac, Crime and Punishment
Luis Buñuel: L’Age D’or, Un chien andalou
Some John Sayles-Especially Matewan.I’ve been on this site for several months and have just realized no one ever seems to bring up John Sayles who has been making movies outside the system for 25 years or so. I find him hit or miss but have 3 or 4 among my favorites. Matewan is film that definetly needs a good DVD.
Ah Patrick — Tabu! — finally, a cinephile after me own heart.
Serena, your list is really thorough and I’m glad to see films like Caught and Tarnished Angels and Greed and In a Lonely Place, et al., on there. I got the Fox Lorber DVD of My Life to Live new for about 10 dollars when it came out and I have kept it ever since. It was one of the smarter decisions I made as a collector. But then, I love that film. I saw it was going for over a hundred dollars on amazon at one point; now the price has dropped, I guess because Criterion has it on their to-do list. Hoping for some great extras.
Jericó (Luis Alberto Lamata, Venezuela, 1990)
Kings Of The Road (In The Course Of Time) – Wim Wenders
May I second Los Olvidados, Santa Sangre, Greed (should come in a double disc set featuring the original release version and the “Complete” version released on VHS),
and Kinugasa’s Page of Madness (though I believe is something more on the line of Crazy Page or Page out of Line maybe someone knows the correct translation of the title)
and if the Criterion Collection could release the complete original Russian cut of Eisenstein’s October, and not the Ten Days that Shook the World cut, that would be a borderline miracle. Complete with the original Russian inter titles that would be amazing!
INVASION is a movie should be at The Criterion Co.
This was the only movie written by JORGE LUIS BORGES!!!!!!!!!
and it turned to be a great one, directed by the argentine born film-maker HUGO SANTIAGO.
The works of Buster Keaton, especially The Cameraman and of Charlie Chaplin, especially City Lights. The Conformist by Bernardo Bertolucci, Raging Bull by Martin Scorsese, Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick, Crumb by Terry Zweigoff, Open Doors by Gianni Amelio, Dillinger is Dead by Marco Ferreri, Nosferatu Phantom of the Night by Werner Herzog, Persona by Ingmar Bergman …
The Beatle’s Yellow Submarine. I know it’s not a great film, but it is fascinating, the animation is beautiful and I have seen nothing else like it. Criterion has already done the Beastie Boys, so why not this? They could do a lush restoration, the colors would be gorgeous. The packaging would be awesome. Currently the film is out of print on Dvd. The only thing is music rights, which may be very expensive. It may just be a groundbreaking film, though I have not seen anything like it afterward. Also think about the sound, the music of the beatles surround sound!
I know I may sound crazy, but the film would be perfect for criterion.
Plus the film does have artistic credibility due to its animation.
Now I am a bit reluctant about the yellow submarine since the story makes no sense, I heard the beatles hated it, also it seems like just an attempt to cash in on the name of the Beatles.
Soderbergh’s Kafka
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Apu Trilogy (considering I just sold my Sony Classics editions)
more silent films
Andy: Yes, we definitely need some more Herzog. At least that one, guys.
But anyway, here’s a few off the top of my head:
The Human Condition Trilogy (Boxed set, anyone?)
Samurai Assassin (Now, I’m not one for remakes, but could anyone else see this story being reworked into a Gangs of New York styled movie? It’d be crazy, but I think it could be doable with the right crew)
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
The Quiet Duel
Rhapsody in August
The Great Silence
Django (not that it’s a classic piece of cinema, but I’d really like to see some non Leone Spaghetti Westerns get some criterion treatment)
Dersu Uzala
Madadayo (you may have gathered by now that I’m a Kurosawa fanboy. You would be absolutely right.)
Chan Wook-Park’s Vengeance Trilogy (though I did just get the Oldboy tin case edition, so don’t do this for some time then.)
A Mane Escaped
The Proposition
Mr. Klein
Paths of Glory
Munich
More Tatsuya Nakadai movies; He’s a great actor and deserves just as much recognition as Mifune. Maybe (And i’m just throwing these out there, as I’ve already said Human Condition) The Wolves and Goyokin?
And though this one is a bit out of character, I’d like to see The Thing get a good dvd treatment. Maybe box it with the original b&W version?
Anyway, I’ve carried on for too long.
Andy: Yes, we definitely need some more Herzog. At least that one, guys.
But anyway, here’s a few off the top of my head:
The Human Condition Trilogy (Boxed set, anyone?)
Samurai Assassin (Now, I’m not one for remakes, but could anyone else see this story being reworked into a Gangs of New York styled movie? It’d be crazy, but I think it could be doable with the right crew)
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
The Quiet Duel
Rhapsody in August
The Great Silence
Django (not that it’s a classic piece of cinema, but I’d really like to see some non Leone Spaghetti Westerns get some criterion treatment)
Dersu Uzala
Madadayo (you may have gathered by now that I’m a Kurosawa fanboy. You would be absolutely right.)
Chan Wook-Park’s Vengeance Trilogy (though I did just get the Oldboy tin case edition, so don’t do this for some time then.)
A Mane Escaped
The Proposition
Mr. Klein
Paths of Glory
Munich
More Tatsuya Nakadai movies; He’s a great actor and deserves just as much recognition as Mifune. Maybe (And i’m just throwing these out there, as I’ve already said Human Condition) The Wolves and Goyokin?
And though this one is a bit out of character, I’d like to see The Thing get a good dvd treatment. Maybe box it with the original b&W version?
Anyway, I’ve carried on for too long.
That “contour” looks like a grade a piece of shit
“Come and See” by Elem Klimov is a masterpiece which deserves a good dvd release!!! also would love to see Bride of Frankenstein
Metropolis.
Pet sematary
Mondo Trasho or Pink Flamingos or something from the genious John Water..¡¡¡came on!!!
The Dreamers
monstergirly
Urgh! A Music War
Dogs In Space
Trop belle pour toi (Too Beautiful for You)
Claude Berri – Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, Germinal…