My nomination is for Sidney Lumet’s underrated Prince of the City.
i think itd be swell if ‘last action hero’ got the criterion treatment. i understand (and agree) that that movies just beyond terrible. but, shit, that movie makes me laugh almost more than any comedy has. s’gotta be worth something, right?
(and, the answer is : yes — its worth $4.99 in the cheap dvd bin at walmart)
Bergman’s Persona and Hour Of The Wolf
All of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films
And WAY more Stanley Kubrick stuff. I am so surprised that Sparticus is the only one, and he didn’t even direct the whole thing.
persona and hour of the wolf have a dvd release and there are now TWO kubrick boxsets (and a blu-ray). what would be the point of putting them on criterion?
prince of the city woulda been good but its already out on dvd
so many movies you guys are naming already have dvd releases. and some cases, the dvd’s are really good. what about important films that dont have ANY dvd release yet?
id like to see ‘the man who laughs’ get a proper restoration + dvd with as many extras as possible. to the best of my knowledge, theres only one version of a dvd for it and its not good quality (hair, pops, scratches, etc)
dead man’s shoes
‘Big Time’ (Tom Waits). Seems like a no-brainer for them. Perhaps the music rights are too messy to bother untying?
EDIT: No-brainer because it’s never been on DVD; even shitty used VHS copies go for money on ebay.
I would personally like to see: Aguirre, Wrath of God and Night of the Hunter
The DVD releases available here are bare bone and I don’t feel particularly inclined to buy them.
Russian Ark
Orson Welles’s The Trial
The Thin Red Line
L’atalante
(And where is the Herzog?)
First of all, 1000 posts on this thread. Impressive.
2nd, Chimes at Midnight, Criterion PLEASE!!! Chimes at Midnight.
I seem to recall that they had a restoration for Chimes of Midnight in place?
:-)
I don’t know if the restoration is currently happening however. Roger Ebert speaks of one in his “Great Movies” review of Chimes at Midnight.
Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)
I know Oldboy had a 3 disc version that was almost like a Criterion release but Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance have no real extras besides director’s commentary. Lady Vengeance is the one that really needs a Criterion release because I’d like the director’s prefered “Fade to Black and White Version” of the film to be available here in the U.S.
Also Akira, The Fisher King, Heavenly Creatures, and The Dark Knight.
More Naruse (Yearning is amazing)
More Mizoguchi (Zangiku Monogatari is very important)
The Only Son (the real Ozu masterpiece, never the cinema was this poetic and never in the future[until Late Spring ;)] )
Red Desert
La Notte
The Man Who Left his Will on Film
La Terra Trema
Jacques Rivette
Man Without a Map (My favorite Teshigahara film)
Wim Wender’s Road Movie Trilogy (the most urgent release in history of dvds)
Alexander Kluge
Sadao Yamanaka
Yoshishige Yoshida’s Eros Plus Massacre (a very important film)
Why Bergman’s Persona isn’t on Criterion I can’t imagine.
Bob, you can’t imagine that they can’t secure the rights for it?
I think the fundamental misconception of this whole thread is that Criterion is about quality. Criterion is about securing rights to quality films. They can’t just see a title and go. “Oh Oldboy, that is a decent film. Let us release it immediately with many special features because I am sure its rights holder who is enjoying much profit now will find it most benefitial to donate his entitlement to us.”
I agree with Genaro Navarro, except for Red Desert which has a marvellous BR edition by BFI, so it would be more or less useless.
In my opinion, I’d ask for recent and relevant Asian Cinema; I submitted this request to MoC too. Koreeda and Kurosawa Kiyoshi films really need great treatments: to get Cure, you have to pay 24$ for the only copy available (by HVE) and the quality is not great at all. Prices of Asian editions are not acceptable (an average of 28 euros), so Western releases would help a lot.
Thanks.
Law – I don’t know all the ins and outs of what it takes to obtain the rights for certain films, but I just think it’s weird they can’t get a hold of Persona while they’ve got so many other Bergmans.
Buffalo 66
Brown Bunny
Any Herzog
transformers 2
only kidding
America, America
Red Desert
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Chimes at Midnight
Didn’t read the whole thread, but:
“Tampopo”
“Death In Venice.”
Cosign on “Prince of the City”.
Also:
Sorcerer (especially considering they’ve released Wages of Fear)
Hickey and Boggs
Coonskin
Sore demo boku wa yattenai
ZGDK, Hey! How’d you get into my brain? Get outta there!
Scola’s La Nuit de Varennes
Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (available only in full screen)
Johnny To’s Election I and Election II
Refn’s Pusher Trilogy
Kurosawa’s Cure
Greenaway’s Baby of Macon
Kozintzev’s Hamlet (the best Shakespeare film EVER)
Kazan’s America, America
Losey’s The Go-Between
Clayton’s The Pumpkin Eater
Clayton’s Sons and Lovers
Many of the titles mentioned are available in foreign region 2 and 3 versions — go to DVD Aficionado.com to find obscure titles
Paths of Glory, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange (From Kubrick alone)
Reservoir Dogs, There Will Be Blood, Apocalypse Now, Nosferatu, Downfall, Fight Club, City of God, Memento, Schindlers List, Raging Bull and Lawrence of Arabia (More modern and more well known films). Maybe Psycho and Pulp Fiction also.
Turkish Delight
Safe
Shivers
Brewster McCloud
I Only Want You to Love Me
Faster, Pussycat Kill Kill
The Cremaster Cycle-at least the Order segment of Cremaster 3
36 fillette
Red Desert
The Qatsi Trilogy
Eclipse
John Waters’ shorts
François Ozon’s shorts
John Warthen
Giorgio Amelio’s LAMERICA and STOLEN CHILDREN are well-known, but THE WAY WE LAUGHED deserves a lot more attention
Cantet’s TIME OUT
but if I had one vote that mattered, I would put it on Jan Troell’s EMIGRANT/NEW LAND diptych, which have passed into the twilight where the DVD-less masterworks reside