The Criterion Collection

[IronWaffle]

I can't boil it down to one. Any of the ten listed will be #1 depending on my mood.

[Show spoiler]Focusing on who has made films that have had the greatest effect on me (title in parentheses would be my key title[s]; the order is a touch arbitrary):

1 Billy Wilder (Apartment)
2 Krystof Kieslowski (Bleu/Dekalog)
3 Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
4 Joel & Ethan Coen (Serious Man/Fargo/No Country)
5 Akira Kurosawa (Ikiru)
6 Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window/Rope/Lifeboat)
7 Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude)
8 Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men/Network)
9 Kore-Eda (After-Life/Still Walking)
10 Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters/Zelig)

Hon. Mentions: Kubrick (2001/Strangelove), Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Leone (Once... West), Gilliam (12 Monkeys/Fisher King), Spielberg (my childhood), F.F. Coppola (Conversation), Lubitsch (Shop... Corner), Kazan (Face in the Crowd/East of Eden), Altman (Short Cuts), Wenders (Wings of Desire/Paris,TX) Huston (Treasure) and Malick (who's stock is rising in my mind).

[ShellOilJunior]

I'll follow billzfan's question for my favorite (Not top 5 or top 20, but one).

Woody Allen

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I'll follow billzfan's question for my favorite (Not top 5 or top 20, but one).

Woody Allen

I followed what everyone else was replying, which was more than one. But my number one is Billy Wilder.

seems like we have some more spammers attacking the board as well.

[P@t_Mtl]

Completed the Eclipse set of Roberto Rossellini renaissance movies over the weekend. While I really enjoyed The Age Of The Medici, discovering the movie Blaise Pascal was pure joy, might well be the best movie on the set from my point of view. I know it's not Blu-ray and what not but if you enjoy history I can't recommend this set enough.

[24framesasecond]

1. The Archers
2. Ozu
3. Renoir
4. Wilder
5. Lean
6. Hitchcock
7. Mizoguchi
8. Bergman
9. Wyler
10. Kieslowski

[easyblu]

Originally Posted by Yami

I hope that Criterion nabs Kore-eda's Nobody Knows from MGM.

Me too! Love that movie. Is there any chance Criterion could get Kore-eda's newest movie, Kiseki?

[Abdrewes]

Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Paul Thomas Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
David Lynch
Billy Wilder
Terrence Malick
David Fincher
Jean Luc Godard


Also: Melville, Antonioni, Keaton,
Bergman,*Peckinpah, Renoir, Leone,*
Kieslowski, Ophuls, Lean.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by oildude

It goes without saying that Criterion has an abundance of riches when it comes to great films. Given that, a limited list of favorites would be hard to do. But when I see lists of "top 5" and "next top 5", and don't see Still Walking or The Secret of the Grain, all I can say is, I wish more of y'all would watch these two. Both really are excellent films, among the best Criterion has released, in my opinion, and either one is worthy of a top 10 list, if not both.

I read on another thread somewhere how George Clooney's The Descendants seemed very similar in themes to Still Walking, except Still Walking did it all so much better and more naturally. I haven't seen the Clooney film, but I liked reading that.

Having said this, though, I think many of the best films in the collecton are in the Eclipse sets, or on DVDs screaming to be upgraded to blu-ray.

I second those and add SECRET SUNSHINE.

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by drbikeshorts

Probably Kubrick, but there are so many others!
Hitchcock
Scorsese
Welles
Kurosawa
Malick
Coen Bros
Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Brian De Palma
Godard
Hawks
Wilder
Ford

Damn it, I keep forgetting favourite directors
Leone
Wong Kar-Wai
Kitano
Michael Mann
Melville
del Toro

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by oildude

And I finally watched Branded to Kill this weekend. Wow, loved it. It and Tokyo Drifter are the only two Seijun Suzuki films I have seen. I think he has a film in the Nikkatsu Noir set (too lazy to get up from my computer and verify), but I have not yet watched that set.

Yes, he does: Take Aim at the Police Van is the third film in the Nikkatsu Noir set. That's a pretty fun film, but not as great as Branded to Kill.
I'd really love to see Youth of the Beast, but I don't want to buy if it's going to get a blu-ray upgrade in the future...

[JHas]

Top 5 Directors:

Wilder
Huston
Hitchcock
Tarkovsky
Polanski

[billzfan]

I love all the favorite director lists. It's fun to see which filmmakers speak to different people.

[Brad1963]

My favorite directors

Jean-Pierre Melville
Wong Kar-wai
Preston Sturges
Pedro Almodovar
Martin Ritt
Louis Malle
Alfred Hitchcock
Woody Allen
François Truffaut
Sidney Lumet
Ingmar Bergman

[Monty70]

Favorite Directors
(in no order)

Shohei Imamura
Carol Reed
Billy Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lynch
Roman Polanski
Fritz Lang
F. W. Murnau
Charlie Chaplin
John Huston

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I'll follow billzfan's question for my favorite (Not top 5 or top 20, but one).

Woody Allen

Thank you for pointing out the singularity of the original post that so many others have chosen to either be oblivious to or chosen to ignore.

As Jane's Addiction said... "Idiots rule."

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

seems like we have some more spammers attacking the board as well.

The "list wh0res" come out of the woodwork whenever possible. They scour the internet looking for an opportunity to post a list.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

The "list wh0res" come out of the woodwork whenever possible. They scour the internet looking for an opportunity to post a list.

This is one of the reasons why I avoid lists...

BTW...I agree with John Waters...

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

The "list wh0res" come out of the woodwork whenever possible. They scour the internet looking for an opportunity to post a list.

Not what I was referring to. I was referring to the torrenter post, and the bad translator posts which have since been deleted. Also, I apologise for being a "list *****." We all can't be perfect like you.

[Banned User]

Top 5 forum annoyances

1. lists of favorite movies
2. lists of favorite directors
3. lists of recent purchases
4. lists of B&N coupons applied to a sale.
5. lists of top annoying lists

Originally Posted by unclemat

Lucas? Yeah, one trick pony. But then Scorsese is just as overrated IMO, yet he often makes many folks' top list That really baffles me as I consider him average director at best. The only movie I have a desire to re-watch would be Taxi Driver. The rest - meh. E.g. Gangs of New York is exemplary cinematic garbage. IMO.

For me its impossible to narrow down a list of favorite directors. There are so many here not listed like Visconti , Fellini, Lean, Powell&Pressburger, Clouzot etc. In the case of Scorsesse he could fit into one of my favorite directors list simply on his efforts of film restoration. He seems to be all over the place in this field. That alone would place him in my list.

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

I apologise for being a "list *****." We all can't be perfect like you.

Well, you're a bit younger so you still have time. Also, there's the obvious Canadian thing that has to be addressed at some point.