I’m sure I’m only repeating what hundreds of others have already listed, but this is still my personal list of films I feel deserve a Criterion DVD treatment.
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965)
The Trial (Welles, 1962)
Begotten (Merhige, 1991)
Nadja (Almereyda, 1994)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) (IMO Herzog is pure Criterion material. Most of, if not all of his films should be on Criterion)
Barfly (Schroeder, 1987)
Tokyo Fist (Tsukamoto, 1995) (My opinion on Tsukamoto is the same I just said about Herzog)
The Tenant (Polanski, 1976)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Polanski, 1971)
Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)
Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
Until the End of the World: Director’s Cut (Wenders, 1991)
Arizona Dream (Kusturica, 1993)
Buffalo ‘66 (Gallo, 1998)
Seul contre tous aka I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)
Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
Inferno (Argento, 1980)
Sonatine (Kitano, 1993)
Hana-bi (Kitano, 1997)
Violent Cop (Kitano, 1989)
Le Clan des Siciliens aka The Sicilian Clan (Verneuil, 1969)
Shogun’s Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Fukasaku, 1978)
A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
Nowhere (Araki, 1997)
The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006)
Damn….there’s so much more, but I don’t feel like sitting here and typing them all out all night.
Magnolia
Blade Runner
Vampyros Lesbos
The Legend of God’s Gun
Halloween (‘78)
Lost in Translation
Taxi Driver
Buffalo ’66
Boogie Nights
Venus in Furs
Nosferatu (’79)
Aguirre
The Third Man
Rushmore
Cashback
The Fire Within
Suspiria
Until the End of the World
There Will Be Blood
Irreversible
Austin Powers
Gummo
The Ice Storm
Lust, Caution
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
All of Gregg Arak’si films
All of Stanley Kubrick’s films
All of David Lynch’s films
John Barry’s work on the 007 series
Too many to name from Ennio Morricone
Same applies to Bernard Herrmann
Scorsese’s another with a habit of having awesome s/t’s for his films, though I haven’t been impressed by all of them (The Departed, for example. Awesome film; horrible s/t)
They’re trying to push 3D into the market like it’s the next HD. Part of this is obviously to try and break down the numbers of pirated movies from flowing on the net, but I think their heads have just gotten too big. Whenever 3D tech is advertise, they try so hard to evoke the feeling of “wow, this is the next generation”. They’re already talking about manufacturing and distributing televisions with 3D technology. As cool as a 3D experience is capable of being, something tells me a lot of people don’t really care to have that experience all the time. Who the hell wants to watch a show like ER in 3D? or football, for that matter. Not to mention how many people get motion sickness from it or have something wrong with their eyes (for ex: glass eye) that completely obstructs the 3D experience.
I think it’s going to be another dud, another lame advancement in modern technology, like the segway. Hopefully they’ll realize this before they invest too much of our country’s debt-ridden billions into it. Now, if they just keep it in the theaters, then I’m alright with it, as the only movies I see this happening to are family/animated, horror and a small amount of action movies. By that, I mean I could see them putting the next Bad Boys sequel out in 3D, but not something like The Hurt Locker or the Bourne movies.
In the end, I think auteurs like ourselves won’t be that affected by 3D.
Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection almost 3 years ago
I’m sure I’m only repeating what hundreds of others have already listed, but this is still my personal list of films I feel deserve a Criterion DVD treatment.
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965)
The Trial (Welles, 1962)
Begotten (Merhige, 1991)
Nadja (Almereyda, 1994)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) (IMO Herzog is pure Criterion material. Most of, if not all of his films should be on Criterion)
Barfly (Schroeder, 1987)
Tokyo Fist (Tsukamoto, 1995) (My opinion on Tsukamoto is the same I just said about Herzog)
The Tenant (Polanski, 1976)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Polanski, 1971)
Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)
Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
Until the End of the World: Director’s Cut (Wenders, 1991)
Arizona Dream (Kusturica, 1993)
Buffalo ‘66 (Gallo, 1998)
Seul contre tous aka I Stand Alone (Noe, 1998)
Irreversible (Noe, 2002)
Inferno (Argento, 1980)
Sonatine (Kitano, 1993)
Hana-bi (Kitano, 1997)
Violent Cop (Kitano, 1989)
Le Clan des Siciliens aka The Sicilian Clan (Verneuil, 1969)
Shogun’s Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Fukasaku, 1978)
A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
Nowhere (Araki, 1997)
The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006)
Damn….there’s so much more, but I don’t feel like sitting here and typing them all out all night.
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Favorite Movie Soundtracks? over 2 years ago
Too many. Way too many to list.
Magnolia
Blade Runner
Vampyros Lesbos
The Legend of God’s Gun
Halloween (‘78)
Lost in Translation
Taxi Driver
Buffalo ’66
Boogie Nights
Venus in Furs
Nosferatu (’79)
Aguirre
The Third Man
Rushmore
Cashback
The Fire Within
Suspiria
Until the End of the World
There Will Be Blood
Irreversible
Austin Powers
Gummo
The Ice Storm
Lust, Caution
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
All of Gregg Arak’si films
All of Stanley Kubrick’s films
All of David Lynch’s films
John Barry’s work on the 007 series
Too many to name from Ennio Morricone
Same applies to Bernard Herrmann
Scorsese’s another with a habit of having awesome s/t’s for his films, though I haven’t been impressed by all of them (The Departed, for example. Awesome film; horrible s/t)
That’s all I can come up with at the moment.
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Is 3D the future? over 2 years ago
They’re trying to push 3D into the market like it’s the next HD. Part of this is obviously to try and break down the numbers of pirated movies from flowing on the net, but I think their heads have just gotten too big. Whenever 3D tech is advertise, they try so hard to evoke the feeling of “wow, this is the next generation”. They’re already talking about manufacturing and distributing televisions with 3D technology. As cool as a 3D experience is capable of being, something tells me a lot of people don’t really care to have that experience all the time. Who the hell wants to watch a show like ER in 3D? or football, for that matter. Not to mention how many people get motion sickness from it or have something wrong with their eyes (for ex: glass eye) that completely obstructs the 3D experience.
I think it’s going to be another dud, another lame advancement in modern technology, like the segway. Hopefully they’ll realize this before they invest too much of our country’s debt-ridden billions into it. Now, if they just keep it in the theaters, then I’m alright with it, as the only movies I see this happening to are family/animated, horror and a small amount of action movies. By that, I mean I could see them putting the next Bad Boys sequel out in 3D, but not something like The Hurt Locker or the Bourne movies.
In the end, I think auteurs like ourselves won’t be that affected by 3D.
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