The Criterion Collection

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

My wife surprised me with early birthday presents last night. The five below are what she bought me.

Great wife! You must be a happy man!

[Ray Jackson]

Say whatever you want about Tom Cruise.

Personally I've never viewed him as a great actor, in the sense that great actors have the ability to pull off a diverse range of characters in a wide array of different films.

But give the man the right role and he's capable of producing some legitimate movie magic.

...see Top Gun if you don't believe me.

Or this little gem, which I watched last night for the first time in many years.

He should've won an Oscar for this imo.

Would make a great addition to the Criterion Collection, given the bare bones HD release it currently has.

[Scottie]

Say what you will about the man's personal life, but Tom Cruise is a great actor.

His roles in Collateral, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Risky Business, and Vanilla Sky are his greatest performances.

[mrjohnnyb]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Say what you will about the man's personal life, but Tom Cruise is a great actor.

His roles in Collateral, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Risky Business, and Vanilla Sky are his greatest performances.

I think that he almost steals the film in Tropic Thunder. He's also great in Rain Man.

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

He should've won an Oscar for this imo.

Would make a great addition to the Criterion Collection, given the bare bones HD release it currently has.

Eh, I feel like people say this too casually. I mean, just look at what he was up against:

Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V

Some stiff competition. I can't really argue against DDL's win. If he should have won for anything, it's Magnolia, where he was far and away better than everyone else, not to mention he had the clear attention-seeking scene to garner a win. Plus I think he has better material to work with than with Stone and Kovic's script.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Eh, I feel like people say this too casually. I mean, just look at what he was up against:

Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V

Some stiff competition. I can't really argue against DDL's win. If he should have won for anything, it's Magnolia, where he was far and away better than everyone else, not to mention he had the clear attention-seeking scene to garner a win.

The bottom three...no way...no contest against Tom's performance in Born.

I've never seen My Left Foot.

But I would have to judge it based on Robert Downy Jr.'s scientific criteria laid out in Tropic Thunder.

I think Born On The 4th of July is one of the best performances of the 80s.

...TC went full beast mode in that one.

[Bandit Tajomaru]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

My wife surprised me with early birthday presents last night. The five below are what she bought me. Four of them were on my want list, but she picked out Make Way for Tomorrow all on her own. She remembered that I love Ozu and Tokyo Story when she read that Make Way for Tomorrow inspired Ozu to make Tokyo Story. My wife rocks!

Inspired Tokyo Story? I need to add Make way for Tomorrow to my next Barnes & Nobel sale pick up list.

[lemonski]

There's a review of Cat People up on DVD Beaver, the screen shots look very good to me.

If they can get that good a result from elements that I'd read were a bit rough, surely they could do the same thing with the rest of the Lewton films. Come on Criterion, enough of these lame samurai movies, we want a Lewton box set

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

The bottom three...no way...no contest against Tom's performance in Born.

I've never seen My Left Foot.

But I would have to judge it based on Robert Downy Jr.'s scientific criteria laid out in Tropic Thunder.

I think Born On The 4th of July is one of the best performances of the 80s.

...TC went full beast mode in that one.

No, you wouldn't, because it doesn't apply here. You should see it.

Anyways, I think the criticism he often receives for chewing the scenery is a little too prevalent there, and I don't think Stone as a filmmaker serves him well. But that's a discussion for another place.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

No, you wouldn't, because it doesn't apply here. You should see it.

Anyways, I think the criticism he often receives for chewing the scenery is a little too prevalent there, and I don't think Stone as a filmmaker serves him well. But that's a discussion for another place.

Yeah I hate scenery chewing.

...it's annoying.



How do you think Stone didn't serve him well as a director?

I think it's a brilliant film myself.

I get depressed every time I watch it.

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by secretsquirrel

I'm far from having heard her complete catalog but I'd describe Lana Del Ray's music as haunting. Usually dark or moody/brooding and haunting but even her more upbeat songs have this haunting vibe. A small portion (maybe these are the ones considered more 'pop') of her songs - some of her more upbeat songs - have a sickening sweet effect that for me feels false and mildy unsettling coming from her; but if you (collectively) don't enjoy her more pop offerings it's much easier to do so when viewed through a sardonic lens/ear. Having no way to know for sure, obviously, I have a strong gut feeling that some of the more rocky candy sweet offerings are totally written with a sardonic undertone.

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

I don't think I know anything about her/have ever heard her music. What kind of artist is she?

Lana Del Rey is kind of a pre-packaged version of Nicole Atkins, after her failed first style she sloppily ripped off the vocal style and look from her for Born to Die (and obviously became FAR more popular in the process due to being hotter and having a very modern sound instead of Nicole Atkins' wonderful retro stuff). She seems rather "corporate," which isn't surprising considering she started out as something else, and was funded by her incredibly rich father for the first album, her makeover into something more angsty, and the newer stuff. It's not bad considering what it is, but it lacks soul IMO. The fact she only co-writes her songs doesn't help. Born to Die is a good song. I'd avoid the sillier ones.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Say what you will about the man's personal life, but Tom Cruise is a great actor.

His roles in Collateral, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Risky Business, and Vanilla Sky are his greatest performances.

He wasn't bad in Oblivion and Minority Report either. Two solid sci fi films.

[tatterdemalion]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

has anyone seen bwdowiak's top 100? I heard he made it today! now this is a great list!

[Show spoiler]A Man Escaped
Alice in the Cities
Alphaville
Amores Perros
An Autumn Afternoon
Aparajito
Apu Sansar
Army of Shadows
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Bad Education
Barry Lyndon
Bicycle Thieves
Blade Runner
Blue is the Warmest Color
Breathless
Casablanca
Casino Royale
Chungking Express
Days of Heaven
Dog Day Afternoon
Double Indemnity
Drive
East of Eden
Eyes Wide Shut
Fargo
Field of Dreams
From Russia With Love
Ghost World
GoodFellas
Harakiri
Heaven's Gate
Hoop Dreams
Ikiru
In The Mood For Love
Ivan's Childhood
Jules and Jim
Kwaidan
L'Avventura
Laura
Le Boucher
Leon Morin, Priest
Mean Streets
Mulholland Drive
Munich
No Country For Old Men
Nobody Knows
North By Northwest
Notorious
On The Waterfront
Pale Flower
Paris, Texas
Pather Panchali
Pickpocket
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Rapture
Red River
Rififi
Rome, Open City
Rosemary's Baby
Shadow of A Doubt
Sideways
Singin' in the Rain
Stagecoach
Sugar
Talk to Her
Taxi Driver
That Obscure Object of Desire
The 400 Blows
The American
The Apartment
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Big City
The Birds
The Conformist
The Conversation
The Deer Hunter
The Dekalog
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
The Gold Rush
The Lady Vanishes
The Last Metro
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Music Room
The Return
The Secret In Their Eyes
The Shining
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Thin Blue Line
The Third Man
The Tree of Life
There Will Be Blood
Tokyo Story
Tristana
Vivre sa Vie
Wild River
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Yi Yi
Zodiac

Nice. I have about 20 in common with you. On my Facebook page last year I created one myself so this may be a good moment to finally get a bit more involved on this thread since a large part of the films are, or were, in the collection. My only criteria for the list was that I had to own the film. In the order in which I shared them (I'm too lazy to do alphabetical )

[Show spoiler]

Persona
The Man From Laramie
2001: A Space Odyssey
Sherlock Jr.
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Once Upon a Time in the West
The New World
North By Northwest
Metropolis
Kwaidan
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
The Red Shoes
Rashomon
The Searchers
Notorious
Playtime
Brazil
Come and See
Duck, You Sucker
Sunrise
Ikiru
Maborosi
Walkabout
8 1/2
Dr. Strangelove
Touch of Evil
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Russian Ark
Sansho the Bailiff
The Naked Spur
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
The 400 Blows
Rear Window
Black Rain (Imamura)
Howard's End
The African Queen
The Night of the Hunter
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
Black Narcissus
A Matter of Life and Death
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Blade Runner
A Clockwork Orange
Ran
Wild Strawberries
Andrei Rublev
Bicycle Thieves
Wizard of Oz
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Still Walking
Jason and the Argonauts (Harryhausen)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Fires on the Plain
Stagecoach
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (I can't believe I picked a Spielberg film..)
The Wages of Fear
Vertigo
The Empire Strikes Back ( I can't believe I...oh you get it!)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
I Was Born, But...(Yep, this is my favorite Ozu film)
City Lights
Vampyr (Dreyer)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Psycho
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wow, my mind really was screwy last summer )
Forbidden Planet
Throne of Blood
The General
The Life of Oharu
The Fallen Idol
Floating Weeds (My other favorite Ozu film)
Ugetsu
Seven Samurai
The Set-Up (Hoping Criterion picks this one up)
Pan's Labyrinth
Mouchette
Alphaville
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Philadelphia Story
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Forbidden Games (Clement)
Bad Day at Black Rock
Blue (Kieslowski)
Meet John Doe
That Obscure Object of Desire
Unforgiven
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
L'Avventura
Barry Lyndon
The Tales of Hoffman
Days of Heaven
My Darling Clementine
The Seventh Seal
'M'
A Room with a View

It was an interesting test to see where my mind was at that moment. And if you read through it all, Mahalo!

[Martin_31]

I find it hard, difficult to make a top 100 favorite films. Someone try making a top 100 but directors cannot be repeated. For example, one film from Stanley Kubrick, etc.

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Yeah I hate scenery chewing.

...it's annoying.

DDL is as guilty at this as almost anyone, but he also does it better than almost anyone.

He also wasn't guilty of this during his early years.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

DDL is as guilty at this as almost anyone, but he also does it better than almost anyone.

He also wasn't guilty of this during his early years.

He's a great actor, no doubt.

...top five all time imo.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I've never seen My Left Foot.

That's odd. I see it in your mouth all the time.

[oildude]

Oildude's Most Awesome Criterion Top 100 List (short version)

[Show spoiler]Le Samourai looking gorgeous on Blu-ray x 100

[Banned User]

Anyone else pick up Woman in the Dunes ? Amazing film. Still running through my mind after watching it last night. Strange, suspenseful, haunting and utterly engrossing. The minimalist soundtrack was exceptional as well as the great cinematography. Nothing in the film would make you think it was a low budget production.

[blurayisnice]

Question; why is the BN sale so important/hyped?

I purchased a few things during the last sale (on bn.com, I don't live in the US), and I expected lower prices.

Everything was $20 each, and a lot of titles (popular ones) weren't even available.

The blu-ray Criterion prices are standard between $24 and $30 on Amazon, and you get faster shipping and much better customer service, plus there are WAY more titles and there is a lot more competition (which means you usually get to buy new CC titles for less via martket place sellers).

So why all the excitement? Overhyped sale, it's just a few $ off compared to other sites.