Jacques Rivette and Satyajit Ray first-and-foremost.
Then a lot of everybody else.
Michael Cimino, John Frankenheimer, John Carpenter, Spielberg, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Coens(blood Simple for example should get a treatment or miller’s crossing) .
Wim Wenders early stuff would be nice (though I realize there’s already 2 box sets). But… Criterion would do well to put these films together with some of his writing from the time. Some of the most endearing and wonderful cinemastalgia writing out there.
Filipino directors: Lino Brocka (“Maynila sa Kuko ng Liwanag”), Ishmael Bernal (“Himala”), Mike de Leon (“Batch ’81”).
John Waters (early films boxset maybe?), Hal Hartley, Greg Araki (Nowhere),
David Lynch and Woody Allen would be great additions, particularly Blue Velvet and Crimes and Misdemeanors. Although this doesn’t exactly fit with the thread in that he isn’t a director, but most definitely is an auteur, I’d like to see some Paddy Chayefsky represented. The Hospital, Network, Marty. There’s some films worth commentaries and extras.
Almodovar, Bela Tarr, Rivette, Kusturica…
Ray Harryhausen. I guess although he didn’t technically direct his most famous works, his stamp is so firmly on it. I’d love to see a nice Criterion of some of his films.
Shinya Tsukamoto, Miike Takashi, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo Del Toro, Tom Tykwer, Todd Solondz, Todd Haynes, Mike Nichols, Mario Bava, and Satoshi Kon & Hiyao Miyazaki for some much-needed anime.
Peter Bogdanovich. Namely The Last Picture Show.
i completely agree david lynch, coen bros and almodovar
How about Francis Ford Coppola? I can’t believe no one has mentioned him, so many cassics and none in criterion, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Rumblefish, etc, etc, etc. comment on this please.
^ Don’t forget The Conversation. The Apocalypse Now set is pretty nice, so I can’t see Criterion jumping on that any time soon. It’s a shame that no decent R1 release of Dracula has surfaced yet, though.
i would love to see criterion do abel gance’s napoleon (1927?) justice, a film to which coppola controls the rights. i can see it making a nice five-disc set.
Would let Flicker Alley Do Napoleon. However Criterion could do Murnau’s Sunrise. Woody Allen,Coppola,Ray all yes yes yes.Still would like to see some arm twisting to get Bruce Connor. Also could go to the Hitchcock well again.
It’s not strictly necessary as his films are on DVD already (albeit in bare-bones WB discs) but I’d freak if Criterion did a box-set of the Hammer films by Terence Fisher with absurdly lavish booklets, docs and commentaries: a 6-disc boxset – HORROR OF DRACULA, CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN, FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT and THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES…
Sorry completely geeked out there for a moment.
Then they could follow ot with a MICHAEL REEVES set: THE SORCERERS and WITCHFINDER GENERAL…
Bliss.
I’d like to see the Dardenne bros works as part of the CC.
What is up with the lack of animation? Miyazaki? Back? Ocelot? Laloux? The list goes on…
I heard that Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire are in the works. This is very exciting. Woody Allen DVDs are extremely out of date. To have Criterion release some would be a dream.
Atom Egoyan.
Takeshi Kitano. Or Hirokazu Kore-Eda, I would love to see a remastered version of Maborosi and After Life.
I second Takeshi Kitano.
Chantal Akerman.
I would like to second the recommendation of John Waters, one of the true greats of trash cinema
Paul Thomas Anderson.
Akerman
Satyaji-Ray
HANEKE (sorry, to obsess about it in other threads as well)
more animated stuff would be a nice welcome, to create more of broad selection. But not really sure if it’ll happen, if it does than I want to see more experimental stuff.
Here here to more Kubrick. A Clockwork Orange, or more important, the older lost movies like Killer’s Kiss getting the Criterion treatment would be fantastic.
And of course, to finish off the Wes Anderson series… once Darjeeling’s contract is up, rerelease it as a Criterion!
Johnny To – no contest, the most cinematically engaging, dynamic, and energetic “action” director working today. While tapping into complex fraternal loyalties, TO’s films work together as an alternately gritty and elegant, but always creative and impeccably crafted document of the city of Hong Kong.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien – the enduring father of Taiwan New Cinema. He and his compatriots of the New Cinema movement, with its penchant for unvarnished accumulating autobiographical narratives, are responsible for reconstructing the taiwanese identity through film. It is unconscionable that Criterion has neglected him thus far.
Kim Ki-duk – explores the emotional marginalization and existential wracking that can occur in an affluent progressive society like South Korea. He has a knack for very base humanism, and employs a brand of visceral cinema that can challenge in its amalgam of quietude and violence.
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu – understands the fullest and most urgent scope of cinema. He is a master at using disperate elements and seeming narrative convolution to illustrate an ironic connectivity and universality of emotions, places, and concerns the world over.
David Lynch
More Keislowski!! Bring THE DECALOGUE!!!
Takashi Miike – come on, man. He’s earned it! If ‘audacity’ were a disease, this guy would be in permanent quarantine!
Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Wim Wenders.
Jonathan Wing
Well, regardless of Woody Allen’s objections to DVD features, I think he needs the Criterion treatment. It’s way overdue.
Also: P.T. Anderson, The Coen Bros. (Fargo would be a great release), Michel Gondry…