Well, you've started with my two favourite Criterions and two of my all-time favourite films :D
I'm also very happy I bought Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie (my favourite Godard), Pierrot le fou and Chungking Express (both blind buys with no regrets), the Yojimbo / Sanjuro double.
I also recommend both Last Year at Marienbad and Le mépris (I have the StudioCanal versions, but both great films). edit: I've just noticed there isn't a Criterion Le mépris yet.
I also have The Leopard (BFI version), which is also one my all-time favourite films. I watched my blu-ray (which is gorgeous) and then had the opportunity to see a 35mm print a couple of months later on a very large screen. Such a masterpiece! :D

Last night I watched my copy of Pierrot le Fou I got this week as part of the ongoing B2G1 sale at B&N. I have mixed feelings about this one. I am glad I own it and I plan to keep it, especially since it is OOP, but I feel it is definitely the weakest entry in my growing collection of Criterions. I don't know how many times I will revisit it, unless it is to admire the cinematography or the eye candy of a young Anna Karina. I liked Breathless and Vivre Sa Vie, so I am thankful it is not the first Godard I watched.

Definitely an experimental film. Part of me thinks "what a pretentious pile of pseudo-intellectual crap". But I also recognize it as a product of mid-1960s France, Godard's ego, and his views of the world at that time. I see in it the director's satire of growing commercialization of society, on top of the anger of the French left after 16 years of Vietnam and Algerian wars. There is a good plot line running through the movie, and I found the use of the ominous music effective. It does appeal to me on a certain level, but there are so many random elements thrown into it that to me they just overwhelm everything.

I have a French co-worker who, when I mentioned to her I had watched it, told me she loathes this movie. I wouldn't go that far. We did, however, have a great conversation about French cinema.

I just finished watching the DVD of The Double Life of Veronique, which I borrowed from the library. I'm not sure what I feel about it. On the one hand I was very impressed with the beauty of it (the cinematography, the cities, and Irene Jacobs), but I don't get the movie itself. At first I enjoyed the idea of the Weronika/Veronique, but

Is there something I'm missing? I'd really like to see what other people's feelings are.

Why is something new always "pretentious" to people?

Personally, I'd go for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, For All Mankind or M.

The America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set is amazing.
I absolutely love The Thin Red Line, and based on that I'd recommend Days of Heaven, athough the extras on the disc are very slim for a Criterion.

Criterion Blus I own and am very proud of:

Seven Samurai
Yojimbo / Sanjuro
Kagemusha
M
The Third Man
Paths of Glory
The Wages of Fear
The Night of the Hunter
The Seventh Seal
Modern Times
Stagecoach
Army of Shadows
Black Narcissus
The Red Shoes
The Last Emperor
8½
Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live)
Breathless
Pierrot le fou
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Chungking Express

Will get:
Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle)
The Great Dictator
Les Diaboliques
Wild Strawberries

I'm debating whether or not to blind-buy Amarcord. I really like Fellini's films Nights of Cabiria, La Strada and 8½. But this one has yet to catch my interest... would anyone suggest?

Amarcord is a wonderful film. It fits well with Fellini's earlier work that you've listed. If you love those titles there's no reason you shouldn't enjoy Amarcord as well.

I think you missed how . Weronika ; Veronique decides not to pursue singing. It's about having a strong feeling (in this case, Veronique felt she was not alone until ) you can't explain but you still feel it.

At least that was what I took away from it. It might help to think about the film for a while, and then watch it again.

The more idiotic comments I read that are posted over on Criterion's Facebook page, the more I find myself appreciating the idiotic posts that appear in this thread.

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How soon until people start realizing that Facebook = AOL for the 21st century?

With Facebook you get too many "friends" who post too often and which you have no common interests.

The end result is, I rarely use Facebook anymore. Mostly, I just check-in every month or so and see who changed their avatar and check if one or two of my friends might have posted a new picture or two.

"Black Narcissus" will be on TCM tonight at 8pm est, for those that haven't seen it.

Thanks, I'll DVR it, give it a watch and see if it's worth adding to my Criterion collection.

Anyone willing to look at my collection and recommend a Criterion blu based on it? I never know what to buy, but will buy something if someone (who seems like they know what they are talking about) recommends it.

So, do you not know your own likes and dislikes when it comes to film? Except for me, and maaaaaybe one or two others in the world, no one knows what they're talking about for the most part.

Here are the steps I take when trying to decide if I should watch a film, or not. They may also work for you and other people.

1. Read a brief synopsis of a film and/or seek out the film's trailer for watching.

That's it. It's that easy! I know myself well enough, more so than any other person on an internet forum would know me, that I know what I'll want to watch or purchase with my money. I hope it works out for you as well as it does for me.

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Lucky stroke! I was at a used bookstore and they had a nice copy of "Sid & Nancy" Criterion for $14.

Definitely pick up Paths of Glory. Such a brilliant film.

Nice find, I've seen it sell for 100.00 + on eBay.

I've owned my copy since it was first released along with This is Spinal Tap.

Excellent price.

That is one movie among many from Criterion, that is hard to find at a reasonable price. I am still hunting.