Breathless. This is the better, more fun film. Contempt is excellent, but I wouldn’t recommend someone buy it blindly. Breathless, I would. My next favorite is probably My Life to Live, which I hope to see in the Criterion Collection soon.
Netflix offers the majority of Criterion’s titles. Why not preview a title first? That said, I’ve made a couple blind purchases. The Complete Mr. Arkadin (worth it) was one. Tokyo Olympiad was another. I had to grab it when I saw it was going out of print. I haven’t watched the whole movie yet. I would not recommend blindly purchasing And God Created Woman or I Am Curious (Yellow).
If you must go out and get something blindly today, get The Double Life of Veronique. If you’re itching to spend a lot more money, get the Cassevetes box.
The obvious moment that jumps out for me is the “You’re my kid brother. I was passed over!” moment from The Godfather, Part II. That was a great moment. I confess it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen Dog Day Afternoon or The Conversation, so I don’t remember those performances very well. I also love the moment in Godfather II when Mike comes to Las Vegas and Fredo has a big reception arranged for him. He thinks hookers will really impress Michael. He’s so excited and then Michael comes in and bursts his bubble. He doesn’t know how to handle the rejection.
In the Mood For Love (this is the greatest film of the past twenty years; if someone mentioned already, I missed it)
GoodFellas
The Piano
Rosetta
Dead Man
The Royal Tenenbaums
Wall-E
Slacker
Dazed and Confused
Boys Don’t Cry
Mulholland Dr.
Zodiac
Brokeback Mountain
Gosford Park
A History of Violence
Yi Yi
Pulp Fiction
Million Dollar Baby
All About My Mother
Terminator 2
There Will Be Blood
The Big Lebowski
Office Space
That was off the top of my head, more or less. I may have missed something.
We may want to accept more than 100 people into this poll. Consider the possibility that the 100 we currently have may not submit their lists on time. Keep accepting people right up until the deadline, with the understanding that only the first 100 lists submitted will be accepted in the poll.
Option 2 — If you insist on only 100 people, but don’t get all the lists in on time, just wait until you get all their lists.
Option 3 — This is a little outside of the box. Who cares how many people submit lists? Let as many join and submit lists as they want, and calculate the votes based on what you have at the deadline. 109? 123? 133 lists? Who cares? This is easy for me to say, of course, I’m not doing any of the work involved.
I haven’t seen Benjamin Button yet, but, that aside, does it occur to anyone that the Criterion Collection needs to make money, too, like any other business?
I haven’t seen Benjamin Button yet, but, that aside, does it occur to anyone that the Criterion Collection needs to make money, too, like any other business?
I’ll try to mention some I don’t think I saw mentioned earlier.
Vanishing Point
Point Blank
Barry Lyndon
Pat Garret & Billy the Kid
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Live and Let Die (come on, nothing says 70s quite like Roger Moore as James Bond, don’t you think?)
Dawn of the Dead
3 Women
Pink Flamingos
Little Big Man
Killer of Sheep
Shaft
Young Frankenstein
The Poseidon Adventure
Serpico
Mean Streets
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
The Sugarland Express
The Stepford Wives
Eraserhead
Kentucky Fried Movie
Animal House
Up In Smoke
Being There
The Jerk
What do you mean everyone bitches about lists? Who bitches about lists? Lists are great! Here’s mine.
No. 1-11 each get 4 stars (out of 4)
1. Rear Window
2. Vertigo
3. Notorious
4. North by Northwest
5. Psycho
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. The Lady Vanishes
8. The Birds
9. Strangers on a Train
10. The 39 Steps
11. Rebecca
12. The Wrong Man
13. Foreign Correspondent
14. Blackmail
15. The Lodger
16. Rope
17. Marnie
18. Lifeboat
I’ve seen a few more but I don’t remember them well. I know none of them would crack the top 10.
As of today, Criterion’s website lists 24 titles as out of print. There’s really no place (that I could find) that concisely lists all these titles. I had to scroll through Criterion’s pages to gather this info. I thought it might be helpful.
The Killer
Hard Boiled
This is Spinal Tap
The Silence of the Lambs
Sid & Nancy
Dead Ringers
RoboCop
Flesh For Frankenstein
Blood for Dracula
Nights of Cabiria
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Third Man
The Bank Dick
Variety Lights
The Harder They Come
Pygmalion
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Rebecca
Spellbound
Notorious
Tokyo Olympiad
Contempt
Straw Dogs
Ran
What is most disturbing about all this is that not one, but several people must have thought this new name was a good idea. Can you imagine? Several people must have run this name past each other and said, “yeah, that sounds good.” Are you kidding me? I suggest you re-think this. My prediction is we’ll see another name change soon. This is embarrassing.
breathless or contempt over 3 years ago
Breathless. This is the better, more fun film. Contempt is excellent, but I wouldn’t recommend someone buy it blindly. Breathless, I would. My next favorite is probably My Life to Live, which I hope to see in the Criterion Collection soon.
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Blind buys over 3 years ago
Netflix offers the majority of Criterion’s titles. Why not preview a title first? That said, I’ve made a couple blind purchases. The Complete Mr. Arkadin (worth it) was one. Tokyo Olympiad was another. I had to grab it when I saw it was going out of print. I haven’t watched the whole movie yet. I would not recommend blindly purchasing And God Created Woman or I Am Curious (Yellow).
If you must go out and get something blindly today, get The Double Life of Veronique. If you’re itching to spend a lot more money, get the Cassevetes box.
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John Cazale over 3 years ago
The obvious moment that jumps out for me is the “You’re my kid brother. I was passed over!” moment from The Godfather, Part II. That was a great moment. I confess it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen Dog Day Afternoon or The Conversation, so I don’t remember those performances very well. I also love the moment in Godfather II when Mike comes to Las Vegas and Fredo has a big reception arranged for him. He thinks hookers will really impress Michael. He’s so excited and then Michael comes in and bursts his bubble. He doesn’t know how to handle the rejection.
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What modern films are great? over 3 years ago
In the Mood For Love (this is the greatest film of the past twenty years; if someone mentioned already, I missed it)
GoodFellas
The Piano
Rosetta
Dead Man
The Royal Tenenbaums
Wall-E
Slacker
Dazed and Confused
Boys Don’t Cry
Mulholland Dr.
Zodiac
Brokeback Mountain
Gosford Park
A History of Violence
Yi Yi
Pulp Fiction
Million Dollar Baby
All About My Mother
Terminator 2
There Will Be Blood
The Big Lebowski
Office Space
That was off the top of my head, more or less. I may have missed something.
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The Auteurs "Sight & Sound" Poll over 3 years ago
Count me in.
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P.T. Anderson's Best Film? over 3 years ago
My vote was for Punch-Drunk Love. Then I saw There Will Be Blood.
Magnolia sucked.
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The Auteurs "Sight & Sound" Poll over 3 years ago
We may want to accept more than 100 people into this poll. Consider the possibility that the 100 we currently have may not submit their lists on time. Keep accepting people right up until the deadline, with the understanding that only the first 100 lists submitted will be accepted in the poll.
Option 2 — If you insist on only 100 people, but don’t get all the lists in on time, just wait until you get all their lists.
Option 3 — This is a little outside of the box. Who cares how many people submit lists? Let as many join and submit lists as they want, and calculate the votes based on what you have at the deadline. 109? 123? 133 lists? Who cares? This is easy for me to say, of course, I’m not doing any of the work involved.
Just some thoughts.
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IS "BENJAMIN BUTTON" WORTHY OF BEING IN THE COLLECTION? about 3 years ago
I haven’t seen Benjamin Button yet, but, that aside, does it occur to anyone that the Criterion Collection needs to make money, too, like any other business?
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Why? about 3 years ago
I haven’t seen Benjamin Button yet, but, that aside, does it occur to anyone that the Criterion Collection needs to make money, too, like any other business?
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American Cinema in the 1970s about 3 years ago
I’ll try to mention some I don’t think I saw mentioned earlier.
Vanishing Point
Point Blank
Barry Lyndon
Pat Garret & Billy the Kid
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Live and Let Die (come on, nothing says 70s quite like Roger Moore as James Bond, don’t you think?)
Dawn of the Dead
3 Women
Pink Flamingos
Little Big Man
Killer of Sheep
Shaft
Young Frankenstein
The Poseidon Adventure
Serpico
Mean Streets
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
The Sugarland Express
The Stepford Wives
Eraserhead
Kentucky Fried Movie
Animal House
Up In Smoke
Being There
The Jerk
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Rate the Alfred Hitchcock Films You've Seen almost 3 years ago
What do you mean everyone bitches about lists? Who bitches about lists? Lists are great! Here’s mine.
No. 1-11 each get 4 stars (out of 4)
1. Rear Window
2. Vertigo
3. Notorious
4. North by Northwest
5. Psycho
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. The Lady Vanishes
8. The Birds
9. Strangers on a Train
10. The 39 Steps
11. Rebecca
12. The Wrong Man
13. Foreign Correspondent
14. Blackmail
15. The Lodger
16. Rope
17. Marnie
18. Lifeboat
I’ve seen a few more but I don’t remember them well. I know none of them would crack the top 10.
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List of Out of Print Criterion DVDs over 2 years ago
As of today, Criterion’s website lists 24 titles as out of print. There’s really no place (that I could find) that concisely lists all these titles. I had to scroll through Criterion’s pages to gather this info. I thought it might be helpful.
The Killer
Hard Boiled
This is Spinal Tap
The Silence of the Lambs
Sid & Nancy
Dead Ringers
RoboCop
Flesh For Frankenstein
Blood for Dracula
Nights of Cabiria
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Third Man
The Bank Dick
Variety Lights
The Harder They Come
Pygmalion
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Rebecca
Spellbound
Notorious
Tokyo Olympiad
Contempt
Straw Dogs
Ran
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Why did we change our name to MUBI? about 2 years ago
What is most disturbing about all this is that not one, but several people must have thought this new name was a good idea. Can you imagine? Several people must have run this name past each other and said, “yeah, that sounds good.” Are you kidding me? I suggest you re-think this. My prediction is we’ll see another name change soon. This is embarrassing.
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