Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection

gummo and any svankmajer film as well…

ideally alice or faust

I second “Bad Day At Black Rock” what about “The Secret Adventures Of Tom Thumb”?

Definitely Breaking the Waves.

@Z.Bart and Maurice

For the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World some awesome supplements would be some audio commentaries with actors, the writer and artists of the graphic novels, edgar wright and some of the crew. There is a special edition version of this film on DVD already that have all of these commentaries. However i think a CC release could also include some footage on adapting the film from the comic. I know that footage was shot behind the scenes for this but i’m not sure if it was released. That would be a great addition. Also some essays on the art of adapting a film from a comic series/graphic novel series; i think SPvtW did this better than any film out currently, and it would be a very relevant and timely release given all of the comic book franchise films being released currently. Scott Pilgrim was on a significantly lesser budget than any of this films released thusfar. I also think that some special features involving the editing and special effects process would be absolutely fascinating. I think Scott Pilgrim would have a great potential in getting inducted into the Criterion Collection, as it opens up film connoisseurs to a type of movie they may be hesitant to watch, as well as a newer american film, which is something Criterion has been shying away from (however the recent announcement of Tiny Furniture is exciting!)

C’mon Maurice, all Z.Bart was asking for was what the special features could be. And i agree 100% with him, there is no point in buying a Criterion for the box and essay, it’s the complete package that makes it worth its money.

also, this was in the Fake Criterion thread and is literally a perfect box for the film, if Criterion ever picks it up I hope they just commission this:

@Ethan
i would love to see Breaking the Waves in the collection

I think that Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy would be a fun and awesome addition (assuming the final film actually comes out!) and some of the special features could be comparing its references, homages and inspiration to Kieslowski’s Three Colors which is already in the collection!

Suspiria
City of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Gummo
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Watchmen
The Thing

La Dolce Vita
The Trial
Night Of The Living Dead
Rocco & His Brothers
Marketa Lazarova
Popioly
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Hour Glass Sanatorium
Come Back To The Five & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean
City Of Hope
Man Facing Southeast
The Decalogue
The Kingdom (von Trier’s)
The Idiots (von Trier’s)
Flowers Of Shanghai
A City Of Sadness
Boat People (Ann Hui)
Darling
Porgy & Bess
The Servant
Underground (film & tv versions)
Black Cat White Cat
Father and Son (original unedited cut)
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown

Lukas Moodysson’s First three films (Fucking Amal, Together and Lilya 4 ever)

Shane meadows pretty much every film he’s done especially Dead Man Shoes and This is England

Adam and Paul

The beat that my heart skipped and the Prophet

Drive

Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day along with The Terrorizers

Kiarostami’s Life and Nothing More along with Through The Olive Tree’s

Tomu Uchida’s The Mad Fox

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

Heard somewhere on this site that criterion is going after Wim Wenders Road Trilogy!!

Krzysztof Zanussi’s Camouflage.

Shuji Terayama’s Throw Away Your Books and Rally in The Streets along with Pastoral To Die in The Country

Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Dust in the Wind…and so many more masterpieces they need to get there hands on.

Apparently they tried to get A Brighter Summer Day but the Taiwanese government intervened.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – I’d love that and buy it immediately.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Eraserhead
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
I’d love to see an awesome release of The Fountain, too.

Oh, and Synecdoche, New York/Eternal Sunshine, plus anything from Woody Allen or PTA.

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Roman Polanski’s Frantic.

Also, I’d add Todd Haynes’ Safe, which I believe has been out of print for a while.

Also, I’d add Todd Haynes’ Safe, which I believe has been out of print for a while.

CRASH (1996)
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
DON’T LOOK NOW (1973)
AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972)
SATANTANGO (1994)
BLUE VELVET (1986)
IRREVERSIBLE (2002)
THE DECALOGUE (1987)
MANHATTAN (1979)
ZULU (1964)
BREAKING THE WAVES (1996)
ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968)
DUCK SOUP (1933)
PERSONA (1966)
FELLINI SATYRICON (1969)

..just to name a few of my favorites that deserves to be included by The Criterion Collection

Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves
Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy (Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, Nowhere)

GUMMO
ZODIAC
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
WILD ZERO
THIS IS ENGLAND (it would be great if the TV program was included)
INFERNAL AFFAIRS
DEAD MAN’S SHOES
ROCCO & HIS BROTHERS
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
McCABE AND MRS. MILLER
SORCERER
SECONDS
THE DEVILS
THE CONVERSATION
TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM
HUSBANDS & WIVES

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World DVD is quite excellent with its commentaries that range from insightful to outright hilarious (there were two groups of the cast who did the commentaries and both seemed inebriated during their sessions).

I think they need something (anything) directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
La Belle Captive perhaps.

The Island

Complete the Bay Trilogy.

@ Takashi Miike McCabe

I agree with you on both BREAKING THE WAVES and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, & HER LOVER. :)
Although, I haven’t seen THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, & HER LOVER yet but I still have it on my “to-watchlist” for quite a while now.
Have heard of both TOTALLY FUCKED UP and THE DOOM GENERATION, might check those out soon.

Some Herzog, for god sake!
There isn’t any classic Herzog films in HD anywhere in the world, Criterion should do the work, at least with the Kinski ones.

@matheus: Herzog (or The Herzog Foundation?) is pretty stingy when it comes to the rights to his films. This has been an issue for quite some time now.

The Dude: i heard about it, the reason why it’s so difficult to find his films. But it’s a crime against humanity not allow to have something like Aguirre on Blu-ray or even a decent dvd edition, not the terrible transfers of the R1 editions (and i think that they’re the same worldwide, at least in R4).

I would be very pleased if David Gordon Green’s ‘All the Real Girls’ received a Criterion release at some point. It’s by far my favourite of his films, even if it’s not critically acclaimed, and I would relish the opportunity to see it in high-definition with more extras than are on the DVD edition.

Russ Meyer’s Supervixens
Johnny Guitar
The Wim Wenders Road Trilogy: Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, & The Wrong Move
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Pink Flamingos
Maedchen in Uniform (Original)
The Decline of Western Civilization
Breaking the Waves
The Mother and the Whore
Every Man for Himself