Definitely BLOW UP and RED DESERT by Antonioni, also THE PIANO by Jane Campion. And how about MARTYRS he he (no really).
I have to 2001 fans, there is a superb 2-disc special edition out now, it’s enough, no need for Criterion.
Oh and since Let the Right One In’s edition has little features, it would be a good 2-disc edition Criterion pick.
- Apu trilogy, or any other of Ray’s films (Charulata, Days and Nights in the Forest)
- Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
- Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea)
- Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak)
- early films of Hou Hsiao-hsien (City of Sadness, Time to Live and a Time to Die)
- Where Is the Friend’s Home? (Kiarostami)
- Vivre sa Vie (Godard)
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
- Black God, White Devil (Rocha)
That’s all I can think of for the moment…
Casa de Lava – Costa
Apu Trilogy – Ray
Out 1/ Celine & Julie Go Boating – Rivette
Magnificent Ambersons – Welles
Love Streams – Cassavetes
Kubelka Compilation
Nostalghia – Tarkovsky
Koker Trilogy – Kiarostami
The Dead – Huston
Probably listed here previously, but a strong vote for Kurosawa’s ‘Dersu Uzala’.
Movies deserving a Criterion release or makeover:
Black Lizard
Chappaqua
Sorcerer
The Last Movie/American Dreamer
Until the End of the World (5 hour version)
Wim Wender’s Road Trilogy
Velvet Goldmine
The Old Gun
Towers Open Fire
Andy Warhol Collection
Week-End
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Fellini Casanova
I’d love to see a Criterion release of Santa Sangre.
Or any region 1 release of it, for that matter.
Apu trilogy is also a wonderful candidate.
Santa Sangre
Zabriskie Point
Point Blank
Performance
Red Desert
Bullet in the Head
Che
NETWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muratova’s OPERA OMNIA
Svankmajer’s masterpieces
Silent rarities
Don’t Look Back
Thelma and Louise
Metropolis
The Color Purple
Gummo
Kids
Heathers
LOST IN TRANSLATION
John Carpenter’s Halloween
Toby Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Midnight Cowboy
The Last Picture Show
Paper Moon
Ciao Manhattan
Manhattan
Everyone Says I Love You
Ghost World
Happiness
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Chicago
The Blair Witch Project
American Beauty (overrated, yes. Wonderful film, absolutely)
The Virgin Suicides
Pulp Fiction
Crash (1996, fuck Crash 2005)
Brokeback Mountain (it’s in a way historically monumental)
The Holy Mountain
El Topo
The Cremaster Trilogy
Bubble
Me, You and Everyone We Know
All About Lily Chou Chou
La Mala Educacion (OR SOME FUCKING ALMODOVAR)
Some more Kubrick
Little Children
In The Bedroom
I think Criterion should continue to enrich their modern film selection and go with some of these. I’ll add more later.
Dersu Uzala
Stalker
All the Darren Aronofsky’s films, Dogville, Manderlay, dont mock me but I think that The Ninth Gate should be in criterion but all of this on Blu-ray please
El Topo and the Holy Mountain would be some good releases. I think also that Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Almodovar would be cool.
Now that the World Cinema Foundation has got its hands on it – how about A Brighter Summer Day.
Also, Voyage En Douce, The Mattei Affair, City of sadness, Mr Klein . . .
seeing Drag Me To Hell has reminded me of how much the world needs Sam Raimi. i think his 90s suspense film A Simple Plan would fit in nicely with Criterion. although not forgotten, it doesn’t seem to be talked about much these days, but i remember when it came out it was the cat’s meow. i know i loved the hell out of it. in fact, i think i’ll pick it up again.
Anything with “the divine” Greta Garbo
i dont care who does it criterion or not, but i need compilations for jan svankmajer and the brothers quay. a good version of un chien andalou would also be nice. also troll 2.
joking about troll 2.
Parents – Bob Balaban
Fellini’s Casanova
Martin – George Romero
Bigger than life – Nicholas Ray
Britannia Hospital – Lindsay Anderson
I stand alone – gaspar noe
i’m surprised nothing by Hal Hartley has been inducted. Henry Fool or Simple Men.
I could go on about films from everywhere except US, Japan and Western Europe being underrepresented (i.e. not a single film originating in a Latin American or African country, only one single Chinese language film that’s not directed by Wong Kar Wai, no Indian films at all, nothing from Southeast Asia, etc.) but one thing they must fix is Los Olvidados, maybe Bunuel’s most influential feature-length film, not to mention one of the most universally relevant, isn’t included their pretty massive number of Bunuel releases. Because it’s from Mexico? I really dunno!
Paradzhanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is currently unavailable on DVD, I think. It would be ideal for Criterion’s tastes, and Kino hasn’t managed to release that one yet. I wish they would put out Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia too, but I haven’t seen it.
If they want to stop embarassing themselves regarding Asian films, they need to get the rights to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s ‘80s films for a start, since no one else has ever released those things for the US market. Internationally the most widely loved director among film critics for 20 years or so, well known but under-seen, and his work is complex and quiet in a way that would greatly benefit from attention to picture and sound quality, proper subtitling, lots of contextual and historical supplements, and packaging together with his other works. It’s really odd that the company who seem to care most about such things haven’t invested the necessary time or money.
There’s a bunch:
Weekend
Letter From an Unknown Woman
The Crowd
Sunrise
Don’t Look Now
L’atalante
The Trial
The Magnificent Ambersons
Belle de Jour
Tristana
Vivre sa Vie (though I think I heard it was coming soon)
The Night of the Hunter
Nashville
Ray’s Apu Trilogy
Rossellini’s War Trilogy
I know it’s a little to early but Elephant by Van Sant.
I’m not that familiar with the Criterion Collection, but I think Miss Congeniality could use some sort of deluxe treatment. Perhaps a new interview with Sandra Bullock, commentary by the director, and a small booklet with excerpts of the script….thoughts?
The Magnificent Ambersons
Kiss Me Deadly
Paths of Glory
Red Desert
Five Easy Pieces
Fat City
The Last Detail
Leolo
Crash (1997)
Buffalo 66
The Idiots
Movern Callar
Birth
I’ve posted this before (I think), but CUL DE SAC…wtf is up with that not having a US DVD release AT ALL??
Jack
A Brighter Summer Day
Nostalghia
The Magnificent Ambersons