Jerzy Skowlimowski
Im not sure how “underappreciated” Jodorowsky actually is…..
Frank Perry
Edward Yang
A Jodorowsky release would be largely redundant, as the recent Anchor Bay set collects most of his popular works (restored beautifully, as well).
Region 1 has yet to do Satyajit Ray’s films justice. An Eclipse release of The Apu Trilogy would certainly be a promising step on the road to atonement.
Glauber Rocha
How about Hiroshi Shimizu? Well, how extraordinary, i see there’s a set of his due out next week!!
I agree with Samuryan; Satyajit Ray is among the very greatest directors, so why the neglect? On this site there’s hardly anything by him- not even Pather Panchali- in the film library.
HAL HARTLEY
Jon Jost and Mark Rappaport.
Raoul Ruiz
Mike Leigh. He made half a dozen films for TV in the seventies and eighties which rival his theatrical films.
@ Kenny
Nice suggestion!!
im going to 2nd Yang, though it would be a miracle if anyone could officially release A Brighter Summer Day & Terrorizers
Yang thirded. :-P
Martin Ritt.
Yang or Skowlimowski, because they are so difficult to procure and no one has collected them into a DVD release.
Mike Leigh or Peter Greenaway would be easy to do though, given that their films are perserved and exist in R2 or R4. Both are underappreciated in North America.
Satyajit Ray is definitely the biggest international ‘name director’ missing from criterion. I’m sure they’re working on it because it seems to me to be the most glaring hole in the collection. I wouldn’t expect an eclipse release on the Apu Trilogy though. I would expect if they ever get the rights they’ll give those the full (expensive) remastering and we might see some of his lesser known works on eclipse.
Colin Low. He was a brilliant documentarian who worked for the National Film Board of Canada, and his films have been overlooked for too long. His film Universe prompted Kubrick to make 2001 (He even invited Low to work on the film with him), and Ken Burns claims to have taken his now infamous “Ken Burns Effect” from Low.
Corral is my favorite of his films. A beautiful, wordless short about nothing more than a cowboy rounding-up wild horses set to a lonesome acoustic guitar. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival (Documentary Subject).
Here it is. Enjoy:
not sure how reliable the information is but I remember reading somewhere that Criterion is having a hard time acquiring rights for Satyajit Ray’s films from Indian studios and producers because they were asking too much money.
Yeah, they’ve been planning on releasing Ray titles for years now but they always get delayed. I e-mailed them a few weeks ago and they gave me a vague response about pursuing rights but nothing was definite, so basically the same response they would’ve given in 2007.
One of the first directors that came to my mind was Ken Russell. Many of his films have only been released on Region 2 DVD and they’re out of print now.
I’d really welcome two 3 film collections. One featuring The Music Lovers, Lisztomania and Savage Messiah and the other featuring The Devils, The Boy Friend and The Rainbow.
Okay, there’s already an Eclipse set for Rossellini (collecting his later historical films) but he could surely use another one. Much of his earlier work is unavailable or ill served by dvd. Criterion has shown that they regard him as an important filmmaker. I hope they’ll continue to revive his catalog. I know this series is a great way to shine light on underappreciated filmmakers but I’m most excited when they use it to put out important lesser known works by major directors (ala the Ozu and Kurosawa sets). It’s a great way to delve deeper into the legends work for an affordable price. Also De Sica. I would dance for a good De Sica Eclipse set.
I agree on the Hal Hartley front. Up through Amateur would be awesome, including his shorts. Films, that is. Also, another director who came up with Hartley, Nick Gomez and his first feature Laws of Gravity. A great American film that is unavailable. It would be great to see an eclipse of Mike Leigh’s early work from the seventies and eighties but I would love to see a full release of Life is Sweet. One of his best films and never available on DVD in the States.
How about Ross McElwee? Sherman’s March, Time Indefinite
Nicholas Ray
A couple of additions:
Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man, The GoodTimesKid, Nobody Needs to Know)
Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy, River of Grass)
definitely Edward Yang
Chang-dong Lee
Abbas Kiarostami
Juzo Itami
Jafar Panahi
Majid Majidi
a Tinto Brass set would be hilarious
Some more:
Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queen, Playing ’In the Company of Men, My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument, The Sentinel)
Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven, Head-On, Short Sharp Shock)
Anthony N
My picks would be Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and Jean-Claude Lauzon (Léolo, Night Zoo).