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WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? over 3 years ago

Wim Wenders has a lot of films in criterion but I would love to see Paris, Texas and Buena Vista Social Club added to the list and extraordinary director. Elia Kazan probably with A face in the crowd, Sydney Lumet (Serpico, 12 Angry Men, Running on Empty)

Miranda July’s film (me and you and everyone we know) would have a great treatement on criterion, especially after the DVD had no significant features. Takashi Miike, all his films, love to see an essiental Wong Kar Wai collection with Happy Together and 2046 one of them.

Pedro Almondovar period! Viva Pedro! Maybe just his earlier works.

Lastly Atom Egoyan, Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter. And put on more Croenenberg!

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WHICH MOVIES...PUT OUT IN LAST 5 YEARS...DO YOU THINK WILL ONE DAY JOIN THE CRITERION COLLECTION? over 3 years ago

Zodiac
There Will Be Blood
Infernal Affairs
Quinceanera
The Dreamers (Bertolucci)
Half Nelson
Me and You and Everyone we Know (Miranda July)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)

Maybe Larry Clark collection, (Kids, Ken Park, Bully, Wassup Rockers)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Swimming Pool
Maria Full of Grace
Pedro Almondovar! Viva Pedro! Every film from Pedro.
Ghost World
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater)

Probably more then five years, but….

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What was the first Criterion movie you watched? over 3 years ago

Rashomon (first I saw)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (first I brought)

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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago

The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman’s earlier film that got bashed by critics when released same year as the Warriors)
Stand and Deliver (even with the sweep at the Indie Spirit Awards I know many people that think this film is corny and over the top)
She’s gotta have it (Spike Lee’s passive masterpiece)
Finding Forrester (Gus Van Sant’s “Studio” Film, I love it a lot)
The Rules of Attraction (from the “real” writer of Pulp Fiction, Roger Avary)
Selena (Gregory Nava who had a criterion masterpiece with El Norte, highly underrated film about the great latina artist)
Panic Room (David Fincher’s follow-up to Fight Club)

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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago

The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman’s earlier film that got bashed by critics when released same year as the Warriors)
Stand and Deliver (even with the sweep at the Indie Spirit Awards I know many people that think this film is corny and over the top)
She’s gotta have it (Spike Lee’s passive masterpiece)
Finding Forrester (Gus Van Sant’s “Studio” Film, I love it a lot)
The Rules of Attraction (from the “real” writer of Pulp Fiction, Roger Avary)
Selena (Gregory Nava who had a criterion masterpiece with El Norte, highly underrated film about the great latina artist)
Panic Room (David Fincher’s follow-up to Fight Club)

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WHAT FILMS NEED THE TREATMENT? over 3 years ago

Buena Vista Social Club – Wim Wenders
The Watermelon Man – Melvin Van Peebles
The Killing Fields/The Mission – Roland Joffe
The Sweet Hereafter – Atom Egoyan
Trainspotting/28 Days Later/ Sunshine/Shallow Grave/Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle
United 93/Bloody Sunday – Paul Greengrass
Funny Games/Funny Games U.S./Cache/The Piano Teacher – Michael Haneke
Gummo/Kids/Mr.Lonely/ Ken Park – Harmony Korine and Larry Clark
Buffalo 66 – Vincent Gallo
City of God/The Constant Gardener – Fernando Mereilles
Serpico/Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet
The Thin Red Line/Badlands – Terrence Malick
Das Boot/The Neverending Story – Wolfgang Peterson
and
Every Mike Leigh film

Personal one: Strictly Ballroom – Baz Luhrmann

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definitive criterion releases almost 3 years ago

Fanny and Alexander
Brazil
Seven Samurai

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top 10 favourite films from your home country almost 3 years ago

USA:

1. Shadows
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Raging Bull
4. Heat
5. Do The Right Thing
6. Before Sunrise
7. Clerks
8. Dog Day Afternoon
9. The Thin Red Line
10. Lolita (Kubrick’s version)

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top 10 favourite films from your home country almost 3 years ago

Okay, I feel I need to say this, Stanley Kubrick isn’t from the UK. He was born and raised in New York and didn’t move to the UK in till after Dr. Stranglove (where the movie was filmed) No offense, I just feel it’s off to have Kubrick on the UK list.

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Best shot movie(s) and its cinematographer almost 3 years ago

Chungking Express – Christopher Doyle
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly/Saving Private Ryan – Janusz Kaminski
L.A. Confidential – Dante Spinotti
The Thin Red Line – John Toll
Pleasantville – John Lindley

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Your 5 Favourite Directors over 2 years ago

Akira Kurosawa
Paul Thomas Anderson
Terence Malick
Richard Linklater
Alfred Hitchcock

Honorable Mentions: Igmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Wong Kar Wai and Spike Lee.

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