Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection

I don’t know if anyone’s said it before, but LEAVING LAS VEGAS

Some films that are not available on dvd at all:

Blanche (Borowczyk) In D. Thomson’s “Have you seen..”, Derek Malcolms 100 personal best list, but no release other than a vhs in the mid 90s!
Out 1 (Rivette) +/or Out One Spectre
The Lusty Men (N. Ray)
The Long Farewells (Muratova) + other Muratova films
Wednesday (Kossakovsky)

Out 1
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
A Brighter Summer Day
Limite
Du Côté d’Orouet
Le Pont du Nord
L’amour Fou
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Red Psalm
L’eau Froide

Dead Ringers – Cronenberg
Images – Altman
The Damned – Visconti
The Story of Adele H. – Truffaut
Possession – Zulawski
Sophie’s Choice – Pakula
Klute – Pakula
The Age of Innocence – Scorcese
Interiors – Allen
The Devils – Russell
Cruising – Friedkin
Secret Ceremony – Losey
Darling – Schlesinger
Don’t Look Now – Roeg
Straw Dogs – Peckinpah
Women in Love – Russell

I’m sure I’d be able to think of more in the future.

Public-domain silent films, simply because Criterion does a solid job of cleaning them up. Kino is also a good boutique label for sharp-looking silent films.

I’d really like to see a Criterion edition of The Wild Bunch and I hope they getthe licensing rights one more to release another edition of Straw Dogs.

Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard.

William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer”
John Frankenheimer’s “Seconds”
Ingmar Bergman’s “The Touch”
Federico Fellini’s “Il Bidone”
Valerio Zurlini’s “Family Diary”
Costa-Gavras’ “The Confession” and “State of Siege”
Bo Widerberg’s “Joe Hill”
Jan Troell’s “The Emigrants” and “The New Land”
Raoul Coutard’s “Hoa Binh”

Roman Polanski’s “What?”

90s gems:

King of the Hill (Soderbergh)
Safe (Todd Haynes)
Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Breaking the Waves (Von Trier)

Oh and some John Sayles esp. Matewan and Lone Star.

I don’t think there should be any more movies in the Criterion Collection. I think their collection is pretty definitive now and they should just close up shop.

But not before they release Stalker.

Resnais’ Providence, so I can finally see that damn movie

Maya Deren’s films
Jean Genet’s Un Chant D’amour
A bunch of Almodóvar
More Fassbinder
Some Erich von Stroheim
Flaming Creatures
La Ceremonie
Buñuel’s El, The Criminal Life of Archibald de la Cruz, Nazarin and Los olvidados
Cocteau’s Les Parents Terribles
Rossellini’s L’amore
Peking Opera Blues
Ozu’s The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Kenneth Anger’s films
Ulmer’s Detour (needs a good restoration)
Sjöström’s The Wind
Paris is Burning
Visconti’s Bellissima
and a Björk music video anthology.

Both Bresson’s THE DEVIL PROBABLY (1977) and L’ARGENT (1983) since they haven’t gotten American DVD/Blu-Ray releases yet.

Ed Wood!!!

the crowd (1928) king vidor’s masterpiece on american life

the big parade (1925) his template for the war film

and i’ll second todd haynes’ safe, one of the greatest films of the 90s. why is it so difficult to see??

The World According to Garp

I actually saw Garp recently, that film is very bad….

^oh come on! Lithgow in drag – you can’t go wrong! hahaha

Reconstruction – Lucian Pintilie
Death of a Bureaucrat – Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Face – Tsai Ming-liang
The Scarlet Letter – Victor Sjöström
Dealer – Benedek Fliegauf
The Way You Wanted Me – Teuvo Tulio
Distant Thunder – Satyajit Ray
Trial of the Road – Aleksei German
Children of Hiroshima – Kaneto Shindô
The Seedling – Shyam Benegal
Few of Us – Šarūnas Bartas
Orderers – Michel Brault
Happy End – Oldřich Lipský
Older Brother, Younger Sister – Mikio Naruse
Guelwaar – Ousmane Sembène
Kisses – Yasuzo Masumura
Time to Die – Arturo Ripstein
Berta’s Motives – José Luis Guerín
At Sea – Peter Hutton
Mother Dao, the Turtlelike – Vincent Monnikendam
Trails – João César Monteiro

I don’t know if it has been mentioned on this forum before, but,
SLC Punk! from James Merendino. One of my favorite films, a total knock out if you haven’t seen it. It’s owned by Sony and needs an upgrade soon from it’s cheap DVD-only status

The Age of the Earth by Rocha is not available to see anywhere. (if anyone can prove me wrong, please, do!!!)

Tropical Malady – Apichatpong
The Hole – Tsai
Maborosi – Kore-eda
Peppermint Candy – Chang-dong
Slingshot – Mendoza

At last, finally got my list of films Criterion should release at last. (Featuring more titles on the way.)

http://mubi.com/lists/films-that-deserve-a-criterion-release

How about some Marx Brothers films for collection. The commentary on them would be amazing!

Safe (1995)
Fellini’s Casanova
Wim Wender’s Road Trilogy
The Apu Trilogy
Nostalghia
In A Year With 13 Moons
Secrets and Lies
La Dolce Vita
Persona

@ROB4535

Agreed on Wim Wenders, Nostalghia, and Persona.