Jacques Rivette
there is a “suggestions” email somewhere on CC that I sent some of my choices for this thread to…
I’m starving for:
- some in-depth doc on Svankmajer (in English)
- special features on the Brothers Quay shorts
- the CC treatment of Maya Deren’s work along with The Mirror doc
- a box of neo-noir nineties (Red Rock West, Palmetto, Bound, Romeo Is Bleeding, etc.)
- the early Spanish masterpiece La Aldea Maldita
- Basquiat (so much could be done with that)
- The Good Thief (it seems like there are some great tales and insights that haven’t been tapped into)
- more Latin American collections
Here are some I haven’t seen on listed yet.
Jerome Boivin, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Michael Tolkin, Nicolas Philibert, Curtis Hanson
I would also love to see Hirokazu Kore-Eda get the criterion treatment. I can’t believe there somebody else out there that liked The Good Thief.
Darren Aronofsky
The treatment of The Fountain on DVD is a travesty.
Raoul Walsh, King Vidor, Leo McCarey, F.W. Murnau, Otto Preminger, Vincente Minnelli
Eric Mendelsohn the guy who directed Judy Berlin, it’s his only feature but I just love that movie deserves top treatment. Also Hal Hartley’s should definitely be added cause pretty much all of his early stuff is nearly impossible to find. Kitano for sure, and I’d even say John Hughes’ best work, oh and Alan Rudolph. The classic directors are always gonna be remembered and cheered for but I just get this feeling a lot of the contemporaries and obscure new/semi-new guys are getting forgotten or shruged off. Mamet’s Homicide absolutely needs to be given a proper dvd, I know he’s already got House of Games but so few people have even heard of Homicide let alone seen it. I do believe same could be said for Demy’s Model Shop.
The works of Chantal Akerman too (only heard of her year ago yet she’s been around for a long time), damn seems to be so few great female filmmakers.
Dario Argento!!!
how about Jacques Rozier and Sacha Guitry!
Jan Svankmajer. He’s done amazing surrealist movies like Faust, Alice, Little Otik, and (my favorite) Lunacy.
Bela Tarr. Maybe a 3-5 disc set of his films
David lynch
Kubrick
Alex Proyas
The Coen Brothers
in point of fact, david lynch was doing an edition of eraserhead (which pre-bloggers-leaked to the press) and he cancelled the edition.david has said elsewhere that film is a continuum and not a book, therefore there are no chapters on any of his new dvds.
angel p- in the good old laserdisc days of the cc they did release annie hall and crimes and misdemeanors. unfortunately ted turner (who owned all the mgm/ua titles (annie hall and the cancelled manhattan) sold these to aol time warner and criterion’s rights lapsed. orion pictures who owned crimes and misdemeanors went out of business during criterions transition to dvd and the title ended up being owned by (you guessed it) warners. i agree woody is sorely lacking, but not from cc ignoring him. in fact there are no definitive versions of any of his films by any studio. hopefully, this will be rectified now that blu-ray is here but if warners are involved you can bet they’ll f-it up.
Russ Meyer, Jack Hill, Kent Mackenzie, Daivd Fincher, Sofia Coppola
More votes for David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Takashi Miike (and Bela Tarr because I have never seen his works and would love to see Criterion make them more available).
Id like to see included Philippe Fourastié who directed La Bande A Bonnot in 1969 with Jacques Brel (the legendary singer) and the amazing Bruno Cremer (Sorcerer by William Friedkin, Shock Troops by Coast Gavras, Under the Sand by Jean Drillon)
He has a couple already, but I’d love to see a decent version of Orson Welles’ ‘Chimes at Midnight’.
Definitely Almodovar, Ray, and PTA
Elia Kazan deserves a nice box set. A lifetime’s worth of valuable and revolutionary work!
Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton (even though both have more than enough collections out there from other companies)
F.W. Murnau
D.W. Griffith
Nagisa Oshima
Marco Ferreri
I think Todd Solondz’ first feature “Fear, Anxiety & Depression” would be fantastic to see again.
A zed and two noughts from Peter Greenaway would be great, as well as The Draughtman’s Contract, how about some films from chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin? I Suggest “El chacal de Nahueltoro” and “Alsino y el Condor”
George A. Romero
Man Ray
Guillermo Del Toro
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
David Lynch
David Lynch, Wim Wenders, all Cronenberg
We definitely need some more Cronenburg. Specifically Existenz and Eastern Promises (whenever the time is right, I know it just came out). Other than that, Peter Jackson’s Meet The Feebles is deserving of a good release and I’m sure there is plenty of bonus stuff just waiting to be unveiled for that one. David Lynch deserves some, even though I’m not much of a fan. Maybe Criterion should whip out a sweet copy of the Twin Peaks movie, or even the pilot. I understand that the pilot is relatively hard to find. A George Melies colleciotn would be nice, as well as a Kenneth Anger and/or Maya Deren collection. The Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Conner are also very deserving of collections. I’d love to see some Jean-Pierre Jeunet Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron. And lets not forget the biggest Criterion let down to date…Pedro Almodovar!!!!!! How in the world does Michael Bay have two and Almodovar have none. Come on guys, we need it. Live Flesh, Matador, What Have I Done To Deserve This, Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, these are some of the greatest movies ever made! Anyone else? Jon Waters, Martin Scorsese, P.T. Anderson, Danny Boyle and definitely a little Guy Ritchie. Give us a sweet copy of Lock, Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels, or Punch Drunk Love, or Sunshine, or Female Trouble.
oh, I forgot Sergio Leone and Tarantino.
Grigori Kozintsev (His “King Lear” is a masterpiece), maybe a Kenneth Anger retrospective, Jack Arnold (I’d love to see what Criterion could do with “The Incredible Shrinking Man!”), Alexander Dovzhenko, Abel Gance (“Napoleon” baby! Do it!), Yilmaz Guney (The Palme D’or winning “Yol” has yet to be released on DVD), Hal Hartley must have at least one film worthy of inclusion, Miklos Jancso, Emir Kusturica, Nanni Moretti, Len Lye, Ken Loach, Victor Sjostrom (I know not much of his films remains, but what survived is definitely worth seeing), Jean-Marie Straub, Raul Ruiz is LONG overdue for inclusion, King Vidor (It’s a CRIME that “The Crowd” isn’t available on DVD), and it would be nice to see some african cinema by the likes of Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ousmane Sembene or Youssef Chahine.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas is out of print I believe)
Bela Tarr
Jacques Rivette
David Lynch
Maya Deren
Early Ivan Passer
Peter Greenaway
Bramdom
Man!
Malick, Kitano, Koreeda, Tarr, Angelopoulos, Kon
I love you guys.