Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection
“Hunger” by Henning Carlsen (Danish film from 1966) & Truffaut’s “Two English Girls”.
The short films of Joris Ivens. A brilliant technician almost completely unknown.
One of the masters of documentary. If you are interested in him, you can find a huge box set they published recently.
Hunger” by Henning Carlsen
yeah, this is another unknown surrealist masterpiece.
“Leolo” directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon 1992
Lone Star
The Spitfire Grill
Vanishing Point
El Mariachi
Cinema Paradiso
Rosemary’s Baby
Badlands
Blue Velvet
Leaving Las Vegas
Punch Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
Let the Right One In
Longtime Companion
The Mirror, The Sacrifice, Nostalghia, Man with a Movie Camera
Prisoner of Zenda-1937
the Big Sleep
Bernt Amadeus Capra’s-Mindwalk
After reading all 23 pages……….I concur on the following:
Local Hero – needs a much better package, but pretty sure this is WB.
Before Sunrise/Sunset would be great.
Infernal Affairs – the US DVD is a joke, the cover being especially awful.
Waiting for Guffman/ Best in Show/ A Mighty Wind – All WB, but barebones DVDs. There are supposedly hours of deleted scenes for each of these which haven’t surfaced.
And a couple I didn’t read but would like:
The Killer (Woo) I know they already did this, but it is OOP and there is no other US edition available.
Caro Diario (Moretti) No US edition of this is available, would be a great edition.
I would like to see Ophlus’ Letter From an Unknown Woman. I don’t believe it has a DVD release, and there are several other Ophlus films in the collection already.
Out 1.
Black God, White Devil.
Celine and Julie Go Boating.
Nashville.
Synecdoche, New York.
Playtime (Tati, 1967).
The 47 Ronin.
Imitation of Life.
Vertigo (obviously).
Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964).
Our Hitler.
The Age of the Earth (Rocha, 1980).
Hi, Mom! (De Palma, 1970).
Dog Star Man/The Art of Vision.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?.
The Naked Kiss.
Blood and Black Lace.
Titicut Follies.
Seven Women.
The Sorrow and the Pity.
Anything by Godard that isn’t on the Criterion already.
Same for Lang (especially his Indian Epic…Yes. Just YES.)
And, on a much more conventional note, Citizen Kane.
Aaron, Playtime and Gertrude both have well deserved Criterion releases. Also The Naked Kiss.
Le ciel sur la tête (1965)
War and Peace (1967 Sergei Bondarchuk)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
La petite voleuse (1988)
De onfatsoenlijke vrouw (1991)
that’s for a start :-)
I always wanted Bresson’s two Dostoyevsky adaptations (Four Nights of a Dreamer and Une Femme Douce) to be put on Criterion. Sadly, I’ve never seen either of the two (I don’t think many people have) since Bresson told his wife not to realease them, or something like that. Kind of sucks, if you ask me. Being a very large admirer of Dostoyevsky, I try to see and read a lot of stuff about him, or that was influenced by him; when you get someone like Bresson making movies from his works, you are bound for gold.
Savvy
OK- a few more to add to the list…
- ASHES OF TIME redux (WOW! What a ‘insanely gorgeous’ film, indeed! Can enjoy multiple viewings, and now we see where the visual style of ‘Crouching Tiger’, ‘Hero’, and ‘House of Flying Daggers’ partly originated…) 2046 is also worthy of the CC treatment, imo…
- I’M NOT THERE (a great new ‘thread’ has just begun on this underrated film…)
- INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Scorcese’s inspiration for ‘The Departed’ – great suspense drama, ditto to previous comments on the current DVD!)
- Z (the classic political thriller)
American History X
Angel Heart
Batman Returns
Blood Simple
Dead Man
Ed Wood
Eraserhead
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Get Carter
Man on the Moon
No Country for Old Men
Pi
Punch Drunk Love
Rope
Spirited Away
The Dark Knight
The Diving Bell and the Buttefly
The Evil Dead
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Squid and the Whale
The Triplets of Belleville
The Truman Show
The Wrestler
The Woman in the Window
Two Lovers
Zodiac
and for the love of god, more kubrick!
forgot to mention
Memento
The Lives of Others
Unbreakable
Persona
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Wild Bunch
Come and See
Synecdoche, New York
Come and See
As well, Satyricon, Roma and I’m Not There deserve releases.
@Doinel:
Thank you for the correction. I will be sure two check those releases out.
Memento (great film, terrible DVD treatment, although criterion should carry over the option to watch the movie in chronological order)
The Prestige
Children of Men
There Will Be Blood
Punch-Drunk Love
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Juno
Desperado
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
and I’m going out on a limb and saying….
Burn After Reading
Please, more Kinoshita Keisuke and Shindo Kaneto; two old directors really untraceable in English. There are only Japanese box sets out.
Please.
Yeah, it’s not easy getting hold of much by either; i do have Twenty Four Eyes (Kinoshita’s very popular hit in Japan) on dvd, and by Shindo, i guess Onibaba and The Island are most likely to have been seen, i could do with more. He did a documentary on Mizoguchi, whom he’d been assistant director for and admired.
All the Wes Anderson’s films are in Criterion but his last. Why not ?
The Darjeeling Limited and Hotel Chevalier…
I’d really like something by Buster Keaton. Not everything (even though it’s easily done – see Kino)…but just an example of his work so that he’s represented in the collection. He’s important.
Some movies directed by Uchida Tomu, expecially the 3 hours masterpiece “Kiga Kaikyo”
Maybe more John Ford films. The Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine, The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance are my first choices. Then On The Waterfront. (Unless, they already are.)
My bad for the posts. Sorry.
Wait. Assuming it’s not there, Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing.
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>Some movies directed by Uchida Tomu.
I’d agree, another forgotten director.
About Ford, there are lots of older films, yet untraceable, to publish!
Doinel
Deserves to be saved from the trash bin. Very much so.