The Criterion Collection

[jw007]

Has everyone posted their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions? I have collected 35 posts that people posted on this forum in the last few days and have put together a final tally of the most re-watched films.

I will post the final results later today or tomorrow, but if anyone has yet to submit their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions, please do so now, so you can be included in the final results! Thanks!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by jw007

Has everyone posted their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions? I have collected 35 posts that people posted on this forum in the last few days and have put together a final tally of the most re-watched films.

I will post the final results later today or tomorrow, but if anyone has yet to submit their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions, please do so now, so you can be included in the final results! Thanks!

I posted mine a few days back, but I'm not going to look, because I'll probably want to change them already.

Off topic, but related to your avatar... Under the Skin is opening here in Atlanta on Friday, and I cannot wait!

[Polaroid]

Im not sure if I want to get Shoah or not, its packaging is stunning and I'm sure the documentary is - just not sure if its my sort of thing? not fussed about run time but just not sure subject matter will hold me :/

DYING to see Under The Skin, but not being shown anywhere near me - wish it was VOD

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by jw007

Has everyone posted their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions? I have collected 35 posts that people posted on this forum in the last few days and have put together a final tally of the most re-watched films.

I will post the final results later today or tomorrow, but if anyone has yet to submit their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions, please do so now, so you can be included in the final results! Thanks!

To choose right, I should have seen most Criterion Blurays, which I haven't. But anyway, my top5 that have a re-watchable quality to me are:


Howards End
Double Vie de Veronique
The Thin Red Line
Charade
All that Heaven Allows

[LegacyCosts]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I posted mine a few days back, but I'm not going to look, because I'll probably want to change them already.

Off topic, but related to your avatar... Under the Skin is opening here in Atlanta on Friday, and I cannot wait!

Your head is going to explode Owl. It's amazing. I hope Criterion can release it.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by jw007

Has everyone posted their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions? I have collected 35 posts that people posted on this forum in the last few days and have put together a final tally of the most re-watched films.

I will post the final results later today or tomorrow, but if anyone has yet to submit their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions, please do so now, so you can be included in the final results! Thanks!

Holy cow, I didn't know this was going on.

I'm assuming these are just the current Criterions. Otherwise, RoboCop and Hard Boiled might have to be at the top.

My top 5 rewatchables would be:

01: Koyaanisqatsi
02: Antichrist
03: Brazil
04: The Third Man
05: Eating Raoul

[Egbert Souse]

Originally Posted by rock, stone

I think part of this recent Tati contempt (dismissal?) is rooted in the fact it is comedy and it is easy to overlook his strengths as a filmmaker.

But then I like Tati, even though he doesn't make me laugh super hard. But then Chaplin doesn't make me laugh super hard either.

Tati isn't for everyone. Truffaut described Playtime as "a movie made on another planet where they make films differently". I think his films are funny, but they're slow burn. One evaluation I've read is that Tati satirizes modernity in a bitter way, yet I think he's simply trying to get the audience to see how funny everyday life can be. His comedy is very similar to Buster Keaton's, where a big setpiece would be made just for one gag.

Comedy isn't measured by the amount of laughs, but rather the complexity. I can't say I laughed constantly during The General, but it's one of the most brilliant comedies ever made. Tati's more conventional Mr. Hulot's Holiday has a lot of slow burn gags, such as the door spring (which might be the best use of a sound effect to be funny).

But I think it would be safe to say that Tati is easy to get into if you're already into silent film, especially Buster Keaton.

[RipleyLV426]

Another Chaplin title in announcements tomorrow and ill be happy. .. As for the rest, I like to be surprised.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by LegacyCosts

Your head is going to explode Owl. It's amazing. I hope Criterion can release it.

Speaking of which, an announcement of Cronenberg's Scanners would be nice.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I posted mine a few days back, but I'm not going to look, because I'll probably want to change them already.

Off topic, but related to your avatar... Under the Skin is opening here in Atlanta on Friday, and I cannot wait!

I actually saw Under the Skin last week in a movie theater near Union Square in NYC. I hate to say this, but I didn't really "get" the film. It's the kind of movie you need to surrender yourself to. It can be quite meditative, hypnotic and entrancing. There is hardly much dialogue spoken in the movie. At first I felt it was going to be a snoozefest and that was after I thought it was already slightly pretentious (I know, this is a word I shouldn't use since its abused, but still). In the end, its a film that needs to be seen multiple times to be understood. I started to make sense of what little story there was after I left the theater, but it definitely is a creepy and unnerving film, leaning on horror. Scarlett is stunning and quite naked throughout the film which I appreciated. Nevertheless, I'm not sure I can recommend this film when its released on Blu-ray as I think it should be rented/viewed before purchasing. That's just my opinion though.

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Off topic, but related to your avatar... Under the Skin is opening here in Atlanta on Friday, and I cannot wait!

Ditto. So stoked to see this.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by jw007

I actually saw Under the Skin last week in a movie theater near Union Square in NYC. I hate to say this, but I didn't really "get" the film. It's the kind of movie you need to surrender yourself to. It can be quite meditative, hypnotic and entrancing. There is hardly much dialogue spoken in the movie. At first I felt it was going to be a snoozefest and that was after I thought it was already slightly pretentious (I know, this is a word I shouldn't use since its abused, but still). In the end, its a film that needs to be seen multiple times to be understood. I started to make sense of what little story there was after I left the theater, but it definitely is a creepy and unnerving film, hedging on horror. Scarlett is stunning and quite naked throughout the film which I appreciated. Nevertheless, I'm not sure I can recommend this film when its released on Blu-ray as I think it should be rented/viewed before purchasing. That's just my opinion though.

I quite like films that are more of an experience or visual treat than a standard film with plot, its quite nice to be absorbed into this world full of unique sounds and brilliant imagery - even if it doesn't make sense ^^

[jw007]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

I quite like films that are more of an experience or visual treat than a standard film with plot, its quite nice to be absorbed into this world full of unique sounds and brilliant imagery - even if it doesn't make sense ^^

True, there is a place and time for movies like this, but I'm just not sure this film was effective at even doing that...however, it was an incredibly atmospheric film.

I might have to change my avatar now as I'm becoming embarrassed by it.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by jw007

True, there is a place and time for movies like this, but I'm just not sure this film was effective at even doing that...however, it was an incredibly atmospheric film.

I might have to change my avatar now as I'm becoming embarrassed by it.

Keep it! its beautiful artwork !

[spargs]

The 5 Criterions (BD or DVD) in my library that I believed I've watched the most:

Seven Samurai
The Third Man
Dazed and Confused
Ran
Brazil

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by jw007

I actually saw Under the Skin last week in a movie theater near Union Square in NYC. I hate to say this, but I didn't really "get" the film. It's the kind of movie you need to surrender yourself to. It can be quite meditative, hypnotic and entrancing. There is hardly much dialogue spoken in the movie. At first I felt it was going to be a snoozefest and that was after I thought it was already slightly pretentious (I know, this is a word I shouldn't use since its abused, but still). In the end, its a film that needs to be seen multiple times to be understood. I started to make sense of what little story there was after I left the theater, but it definitely is a creepy and unnerving film, leaning on horror. Scarlett is stunning and quite naked throughout the film which I appreciated. Nevertheless, I'm not sure I can recommend this film when its released on Blu-ray as I think it should be rented/viewed before purchasing. That's just my opinion though.

I've heard that it differs quite a bit from the source novel, which I read a few weeks ago, and that it's almost more like a series of visually-unnerving vignettes than a cohesive story. I go for that sort of thing, though. After seeing Tarkovsky's Solaris on the big screen recently, I'm all the more eager to see Under the Skin at a theater.

Scarlett Johansson has really been putting the rest of the world to shame lately. She was excellent in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which I quickly decided is my favorite comic book adaptation that I have ever seen, and it's great that they gave her character a lot more to do.

It goes without saying that Criterion ought to tackle Ghost World and Lost in Translation.

[willieconway]

Top 5 rewatchables:

Eating Raoul
Five Easy Pieces
Repo Man
Shallow Grave
Something Wild

[natureboy]

Originally Posted by jw007

Has everyone posted their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions? I have collected 35 posts that people posted on this forum in the last few days and have put together a final tally of the most re-watched films.

I will post the final results later today or tomorrow, but if anyone has yet to submit their top 5 most re-watchable Criterions, please do so now, so you can be included in the final results! Thanks!

1. Blood for Dracula (Flesh for Frankenstein would probably be #2, but trying to have a diverse list)
2. Rushmore
3. Le cercle rouge
4. The Battle of Algiers
5. The Third Man

HM: Life of Brian, Robocop, Army of Shadows, Three Colors: Red, Bottle Rocket, Days of Heaven, The Harder they Come

[Visco.]

My top 5 rewatchable criterions:

1. Dazed & Confused
2. The Thin Red Line
3. Thief
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Being John Malkovich

[manunited1]

Top 5 re-watchable titles
1. La Haine
2. Samurai Seven
3. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
4. Life aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. Dazed and confused