i would definitely have to say:
BigFish
The Motor Cycle Diaries
Barfly ( Someone just needs to rerelease this)
A Clockwork Orange
Dead Man
12 Angry Men
Bad Lieutenant
Being John Malkovich
Dr.Strangelove
The Edukators
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Some old Clint Eastwood Spaghetti films like The good the bad and the ugly
Good Bye Lenin
and a bunch more…
I’d really love to see POWWOW HIGHWAY get the Criterion treatment. :]
Dear Kohen Bukowski:
YES! Someone else out there liked “Big Fish!” This is probably my most favorite movie, since it so reminds me of my grandfather!
These Terence Davies titles are just itching for the Criterion treatment. (In fact, after all these years, I’d settle for any kind of DVD issue.):
THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY (1984)
DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (1988)
THE LONG DAY CLOSES (1992)
Lots of interesting titles I’m seeing here. Here are mine:
The Shipping News
Punch Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
The Maltese Falcon
Chinatown
The Blair Witch Project
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
El Mariachi
Badlands
Schindler’s List
Minority Report (Letting Spielberg into the collection with these two stellar works would be a good move, if rights can be gotten).
Minority Report
Lots of interesting titles I’m seeing here. Here are mine:
The Shipping News
Punch Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
The Maltese Falcon
Chinatown
The Blair Witch Project
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
El Mariachi
Badlands
Schindler’s List
Minority Report (Letting Spielberg into the collection with these two stellar works would be a good move, if rights can be gotten).
Minority Report
I see a lot of movies on this list that already have nation wide distribution on DVD.
CONTOUR (2006) – I have said it before and I will say it again, CONTOUR IS THE BEST ACTION MOVIE TO EVER BE MADE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES
I have posted a link to the trailer before and I will post it again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J35adpK9wo&feature=channel_page
Joe-A lot of those films have very good releases already. I prefer Criterion stick with films that have not had a good release or any release at all. Personally I think The Blair Witch Project was all hype & no substance-a dull film.
paris, texas
Last night, I stumbled upon “Ordinary People” (Robert Redford-1980) I’d had forgotten how incredible it is!
Taxi Driver doesn’t need it.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Tall Target
Desperate (both better movies than The Furies)
The Roundup
Zero for Conduct
Rosetta
Last Chants for a Slow Dance
Kuchar Anthology
The Horse Thief
River’s Edge, Female Trouble/Pink Flamingos/Desperate Living, Repulsion, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Big Fish, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spider, Ghost World, Hour of the Wolf, Watership Down
The Shipping News
Punch Drunk Love
Lone Star (let’s get some John Sayles in the collection, PLEEEEEASE!)
El Mariachi
Vanishing Point
Trilogy of Terror
Rosemary’s Baby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Leaving Las Vegas
Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset
Schindler’s List
The Bill Douglas Trilogy
Highway Patrolman, Three Businessmen & Death And The Compass from Alex Cox
McKendrick’s The Maggie and The Ladykillers
Parents
The Long Goodbye
California Split
Play it as it Lays
Celine and Julie Go Boating
More movies with Tatsuya Nakadai
The Last Adventure
Freaks
The Sicilian Clan
A Thousand Clowns
Diva. even though a new dvd came out with great extras the sound quality is awful
I think Persona and The Conformist would both be nice additions.
I think Persona and The Conformist would both be nice additions.
Joe Nelson-Agree on John Sayles-Matewan especially.
“Christopher Strong” 1933 – Dir. Dorothy Arzner
“Johnny Guitar” 1954 – Dir. Nicholas Ray
“Eight Men Out” 1988 – Dir. John Sayles
“Stop Making Sense” 1984 – Dir. Jonathan Demme
“Osama” 2003 – Dir. Siddiq Barmak
“David and Lisa” 1962 – Dir. Frank Perry
Wanted to list mostly domestic films, which seem outnumbered by foreign films in the Collection.
I just want to be realistic. Stalker!
Buena Vista Social Club – Wim Wenders
The Watermelon Man – Melvin Van Peebles
The Killing Fields/The Mission – Roland Joffe
The Sweet Hereafter – Atom Egoyan
Trainspotting/28 Days Later/ Sunshine/Shallow Grave/Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle
United 93/Bloody Sunday – Paul Greengrass
Funny Games/Funny Games U.S./Cache/The Piano Teacher – Michael Haneke
Gummo/Kids/Mr.Lonely/ Ken Park – Harmony Korine and Larry Clark
Buffalo 66 – Vincent Gallo
City of God/The Constant Gardener – Fernando Mereilles
Serpico/Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet
The Thin Red Line/Badlands – Terrence Malick
Das Boot/The Neverending Story – Wolfgang Peterson
and
Every Mike Leigh film
Personal one: Strictly Ballroom – Baz Luhrmann
trust-Hal Hartley It dosen’t have a region 1 release.
Filmy
I have said million times and this is that +1 time…. Satyajit Ray’s work is monumental and needs the treatment and a release from criterion, so every cinephile has access to it.