Koyaanisqatsi
I truly believe that Oasis (2002, Korean)) deserves some Criterion love. I for one have never seen a movie like it, and it really does deserve more respect than what it has.
Kieslowski’s Three Color Trilogy and The Decalogue
Pedro Almodovar’s “Women of the Verge…”, “All About My Mother” and “Talk to Her” (at the very least)
Resnais- La Guerre Est Finis
Jacques Doillon- One of three: Touched In The Head, The Fifteen Year Old Girl, Ponette
Pasolini’s Teorema desperately needs a Criterion blu-ray release.
Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face
In a Lonely Place, and Johnny Guitar.
A Monkey In Winter would be nice as well. I love that film.
Fando y Lis
The Holy Mountain
El Topo
Il Deserto Rosso
La Notte (package it with L’avventura and L’eclisse)
LA DOLCE VITA
Blood Simple
Fargo
Darjeeling Limited
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sideways
The Last Detail
sex, lies, and videotape.
Crash (1997)
Van Sant’s Death Trilogy
More exploitation flicks a la Russ Meyer or John Waters
David Lynch
Better Hitchcock
PT Anderson
Kubrick (the flicks that aren’t two-disc special editions: Barry Lyndon, Lolita, The Killing)
Woody Allen (think about Annie Hall or Manhattan with a Criterion treatment!)
Tarantino
Among many, many others…
I posted earlier in one of these…but these are different from my earlier suggestion:
Heimat (all three)
Satantango
pre ‘M’ Lang’s movies
AMORES PERROS
The firs classic of the new millenium.
The World According to Garp
Jackie Brown
Happiness
Glengarry Glen Ross
Fantastic planet
River’s Edge
Some of these may echo past suggestions:
Woody Allen: Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Hannah and Her Sisters
Fellini: Casanova
Truffaut: Bride Wore Black, Fahrenheit 451
Lelouch: A Man and a Woman
Petri: The 10th Victim
Bergman: Hour of the Wolf, Persona
Itami Juzo: Tampopo, Minbo
Bava: Danger: Diabolik
Simply put, they need HERZOG!
i would imagine Persona will be coming soon enough. I can’t believe it isn’t already part of the collection.
There Will Be Blood
Magnolia
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Amores Perros
Days of Heaven, Night Games (Mai Zetterling’s), Un Chant d’Amour, Chelsea Girls, Crumb, Millennium Actress, Paprika (Satoshi Kon’s), Battle Royale, Ed Wood, India Song, Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson’s), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo García, anything by Shuji Terayama or Rafael Corkidi (both also suitable for Eclipse releases, as are Andy Warhol and the Kuchars), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Arabian Nights (Pasolini), Sick: The Life anb Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, anything by Todd Solondz or Todd Haynes, The Wild Bunch, Black Cat, White Cat, Underground, Anatomy of Hell, Flaming Creatures, The Game, Fight Club, Lunacy, Conspirators of Pleasure or anything by Jan Svankmajer, Paris is Burning, Army of Darkness, Caligula, Cannibal Holocaust, and more performance art titles, like the one on Martha Graham (I’m thinking Merce Cunningham, Kazuo Ohno, Viennese Actionism and Ron Athey).
Days of Heaven is on Criterion.
A nice box set containing Rome, Open City; Paisan; and Germany, Year Zero would really hit the spot…
RUS, Do you know if they are sticking to the cartoon, and releasing it in 2009, or has it been pushed back?
Could we get some more Hiroshi Shimizu?
I’ll say it again, if I’ve said it before – John Ford’s “Wagon Master” and Gillo Pontecorvo’s “Kapo”. “The Crowd”? Will MGM give it up to Criterion?
Someone mentioned Elephant by Gus Van Sant. Gag me! That movie is so terrible, it has no point, and shows how truly bad and over-rated Van Sant really is. Please NEVER add this to Criterion. In fact, take Van Sant out in general.
I agree with Rome, Open City!
Voyage To Italy
Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000
I’d love to see There Will Be Blood, all of Aronofksy’s films (they have such shitty DVDs!), some Nicholas Ray, some Capra, Bergman films that aren’t already in (Hour of the Wolf), Cinema Paradiso, Twilight Samurai, and a few others…
I’m sure I’m only repeating what hundreds of others have already listed, but this is still my personal list of films I feel deserve a Criterion DVD treatment.
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965)
The Trial (Welles, 1962)
Begotten (Merhige, 1991)
Nadja (Almereyda, 1994)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) (IMO Herzog is pure Criterion material. Most of, if not all of his films should be on Criterion)
Barfly (Schroeder, 1987)
Tokyo Fist (Tsukamoto, 1995) (My opinion on Tsukamoto is the same I just said about Herzog)
The Tenant (Polanski, 1976)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Polanski, 1971)
Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)
Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
Until the End of the World: Director’s Cut (Wenders, 1991)
Arizona Dream (Kusturica, 1993)
Buffalo ‘66 (Gallo, 1998)
Seul contre tous aka I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)
Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
Inferno (Argento, 1980)
Sonatine (Kitano, 1993)
Hana-bi (Kitano, 1997)
Violent Cop (Kitano, 1989)
Le Clan des Siciliens aka The Sicilian Clan (Verneuil, 1969)
Shogun’s Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Fukasaku, 1978)
A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
Nowhere (Araki, 1997)
The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006)
Damn….there’s so much more, but I don’t feel like sitting here and typing them all out all night.
No one is going to agree with me on this but The Warriors. I think it’s an important film for the time, and damn it if Michael Bay gets a Criterion why can’t Walter Hill?
Also, as was mentioned, There Will Be Blood needs a Criterion, as does The Wrestler, Synecdoche New York, Blood Simple, A Face In The Crowd, Stalag 17 or maybe even The Godfather. I mean think about the job Criterion could do on the Godfather I and II (leave out III of course).
There Will Be Blood
Segundo de Chomon short film collection
Georges Melies short film collection
Stalker
STALKER
THE SACRIFICE
THE MIRROR
NOSTALGHIA
I just don’t understand why they arent in Criterion’s catalogue!! They did such a magnificent work with Ivan’s childhood and Andrei Rublev.
Im looking forward these releases!
Zachary W
What I would love to see is a box set of Gus Van Sant’s Death Trilogy: “Gerry,” “Elephant,” and “Last Days.” They’re all beautifully evocative and thoughtful portraits, free of the Hollywood-imposed restraints of rationalisation or moralising or repetitive Freudian symbolism. I know that Criterion’s already done a lot of Van Sant, but it would be unfair to penalize these films for that reason alone. They also need “Johnny Guitar,” and basically all of Errol Morris’ work.