I’d like to see some more music and music video releases a la Gimme Shelter and The Beastie Boys. My first choice would be The Who’s Tommy (and why not Quadrophenia why they’re at it?) And Wattstax.
Somebody just mentioned early serials. I think that would be something that maybe Eclipse could pick up on. I would certainly check it out. But the one film that demands a Criterion release is Michael Mann’s Manhunter.
Rocco and his Brothers
Kim Ki-Duk’s films.
Although this is more the area of Kino, the French Impressionist filmmakers of th 20’s are underrepresented in dvd. Certainly Napoleon deserves a DVD release as well as other Gance films (thankfully Flicker Alley put out La Roue and J’Acusse last year) , as well as the early works of Rene Clair, and Germaine Dulac.
Also classic American silents like Greed and the Wind.
Five Corners is an indy film that I love. It is not available in a decent edition, and it is worthy of a Criterion release.
Local Hero (Desperately in need of an upgrade)
The Road Warrior (why not)
Badlands
Kim Ki-duk films (nice call on that, Nelson. Spring, Summer… and 3-Iron in particular)
Kim Ki-young films (particularly The Housemaid)
Sweet Smell of Success
Repulsion
Fat City
Children of Men
Tarnished Angels
Cockfighter
The Devil to Pay
Tarnished Angels
Cockfighter
The Devil to Pay
The Night of the Hunter
The Magnificent Ambersons
Touch of Evil
Johnny Guitar
etc.
Bergman is here. Kurosawa is here. Fellini is here. When will Satyajit Ray be here?
Pink Flamingos needs to be there. John Waters was a ground breaking disciple of Russ Myer I also believe that Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! needs to be in there and it is just rude that they aren’t but two Micheal Bay movies are….KHAN Oh and Demon Lover. Just Watch it…. I wasn’t OK for a long time. It was amazing. And Sonic Youth does the soundtrack. You just can’t lose.
I wrote these in another thread with the same topic but it’s worth repeating. These Terence Davies titles aren’t available at all, in North America:
THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY (1984)
DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (1988)
THE LONG DAY CLOSES (1992)
Also:
ENCORE (1988) – Paul Vecchialli
Kurosawa’s ‘Dreams’
Fincher’s ‘Fight Club’
Cuaron’s ‘Children of Men’
Fellini’s ‘Il Bidone’
Ray’s ‘Apu Trilogy’
Wong Kar-Wai’s ’60’s Trilogy’ (2046 is one of my favorites- IMO better than ItMfL!)
A boxset of classics by Chaplin? (‘City Lights’, ‘The Kid’, ‘Gold Rush’, etc… with silent-film scholar commentary! Please!)
Satyajit Ray films-
Days and Nights in the Forest (1969) [Ray’s personal favorite]
Charulata (1964) [Ray’s personal favorite]
The Apu Trilogy [With a commentary by Robin Wood who had written a book on it]
Distant Thunder (1973) [ With commentary by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen who has done research on the bengal famine and loves the film]
There is a very good possibility of Ray’s titles becoming bestsellers more than others since his movies are always ’entertaining with simple stories told simply.
Night of the Hunter, The Searchers, A History of Violence, Lone Star, Children of Men, Bullitt, Catch 22, Barton Fink, The Hustler, On the Waterfront, The Deer Hunter.
My choices: The Night of the Hunter
Duck Soup
Jorge Santinjes’ Blood of the Condor
The President’s Analyst, if a complete print exists. The current 90-minute evisceration leaves out some of the best material, and if Theodore J. Flicker has a director’s cut, it deserves to be seen.
Punishment Park (1971) needs to be in the criterion collection. It’s an amazing film that not many people know about.
I just remembered tonight that I still have yet to see Track 29 and Insignificance by Nicolas Roeg. Yes. Those need Criterion releases. Plus his new film Puffball would be nice to see, too.
—PolarisDiB
Has anyone suggested Luchino Visconti’s 1967 adaptation of The Stranger by Albert Camus?
It stars Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. I can’t find it anywhere! This would be a perfect pick.
HUNGER.
This is a great work from a first time director, who already is a very well known and established artist.
I agree with Mr. Swindoll. Claude Chabrol’s Les Bonnes Femmes would make a great addition to the collection.
Open City
Voyage to Italy
Max Ophuls: Letter From an Unknown Woman; The Reckless Moment; Caught (thanks for Madame de…)
Erich Rohmer : A Tale of Autumn
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI’S
Where is my friend’s house?
Through the olive trees
Life and nothing more
The Last Laugh- F.W. Murnau
The Apu Trilogy – Satyajit Ray
Drugstore Cowboy
IMO, Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” and “1900” (or, as it is known in Italy, “Novecento”) should have Criterion releases. Also, the Coen Brothers’ “Blood Simple”, “Miller’s Crossing”, and “Fargo”. Also, as others have already stated, NEEDS MORE DAVID LYNCH. (“Blue Velvet”, “The Elephant Man”, and the obvious “Eraserhead” to be exact)
Housekeeping-Bill Forsyth
with commentary by Forsyth, Marilynne Robinson, and Christine Lahti
Open City
Un Chien Andalou
Repulsion
The Apu Trilogy
The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari
Harry Long
@Wolf…
>>I can’t remember but who has Caligari right now?<<
I’m pretty certain Kino has it. They put out a box set of German Expressionism within the past year (or less) & it was included.