The Criterion Collection

[jshaide]

It's too bad Criterion couldn't include the weird short COUCH on the PUNCH DRUNK LOVE disc.

[rocknblues81]

I'm probably going to have around 200 bucks to spend on Criterion's next week.

[castor]

Originally Posted by Disturbed Blu 1

Okay, guys. My second FS order was delivered yesterday (originally scheduled for tomorrow), but it's not at my house. Do I contact Criterion or USPS? Or both?

I'd bet that it's going to be delivered tomorrow. This has happened to me a few times.

[theater dreamer]

Trying to come up with an all-time top ten list is going to be difficult for me, in fact, nearly impossible, because I really love a great number of films. All I do know, right now, is that Casablanca will be at the very top.

[theater dreamer]

Great list, PB. I think Woody Allen would be the hardest one for me on this list. Manhattan is such a great film. But, I really love Annie Hall, and have a sweet spot in my heart for Mighty Aphrodite. My favorite of those might just depend on my mood.

Scorsese and Kubrick would take some mulling over, too. Raging Bull might just be the best film of the 80s, but do I personally like it better than Taxi Driver or Goodfellas? Tough call. Really tough. And, I've watched The Aviator three times in the last month; I've always loved it, but how I view it in comparison with his other truly great works is slowly changing. I'm thinking it belongs in the discussion with the others I've mentioned. Just a masterful production.

Kubrick...man, I don't know if I could pass over Paths of Glory. If you ask me, it's one of those films that belongs in every single collection, and it's clearly one of the most underappreciated films in the whole Criterion Collection.

The one director I just don't think I could pick a single film from would be Billy Wilder. Not a chance in hell.

Originally Posted by Popcorn_Bliss

Good idea!

I'll just rank mine by my favorite director still going...

1. Woody Allen - Manhattan 1979
2. David Lynch - Mulholland Dr 2001
3. William Friedkin - The Exorcist 1973
4. Steven Spielberg - Jaws 1975
5. Ridley Scott - A Good Year 2005
6. Oliver Stone - JFK 1991
7. Martin Scorcese - Raging Bull 1980

And three directors who are no longer with us, but have provided a top 10 film for me...

8. Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo 1958
9. Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita 1960
10. Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

[pedromvu]

Yeah coming up with a top 10 list of all time without any restriction is too hard, it could change anytime.

But I guess based on films I always think about when trying this there has to be at least:

Red
Casablanca
City Lights
Schindler's List
Magnolia
Mulholland Dr.
Metropolis
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Viridiana
It's a Wondeful Life

[pedromvu]

So in preparation for Dekalog I decided to watch the three earlier films of him on Hulu (actually there are 4 but I've already seen Blind Chance via the CC release).

The Scar After having seen all 8 films of the first Masterpieces of Polish Cinema series, it is quite clear to me a lot of Polish Cinema deals with their politics and censorship in one way or another, in that way this movie reminded me more of those other movies than what I am used with other Kieslowski works, nothing wrong with that but I just find this good not great. (7/10)

Camera Buff While this also deals with similar themes although a bit less overtly political, this really starts to show a more personal side since it deals with the filmmakers struggles directly, I thought this was his early masterpiece, this is no ordinary love letter to cinema kind of movie but it showcases the main character and I assume Kieslowski's own passion for cinema in an excellent way. (9/10)

No End Since the beginning of this we can see this is a kind of turning point, the first that starts to show a supernatural side to the story like in some later works, it is kind of similar to Blue, but there are really two stories with one of them being very political which in a way affected my enjoyment of the other half which was really great. (8/10)

All transfers look pristine, similar to Blind Chance, it looks like they are all ready to be released on blu-ray to me, I don't know what are Criterion plans for them but I really wish they release Camera Buff at least.

Now I just need to watch both A Short Films before starting Dekalog and be Kieslowski complete (kind of since I haven't seen any of his early TV work )

[jw007]

My top ten directors with fave. films of theirs I like the most:

1. Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey / A Clockwork Orange (tie)
2. Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
3. Martin Scorcese - Taxi Driver
4. Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
5. Michael Mann - Heat
6. Roman Polanski - The Pianist
6. David Lynch - Mulholland Dr. / Blue Velvet (tie)
7. Jim Jarmusch - Down by Law
8. Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing
9. Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
10. Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by Popcorn_Bliss

How many of your "ten greatest films" are on Criterion? Or have been on Criterion? And what are the odds of seeing them on Criterion at some point in the future?

Psycho
Three Colors: Red
Apocalypse Now
Only Angels Have Wings
Repulsion
Persona/Seventh Seal
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Belle Noiseuse (coming from Cohen)
Sweet Smell of Success
Escape From New York

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by mja345

Variation on the top 10 or 20 list just for shits and giggles. Name your 10 favorite directors and your favorite film by each one.

Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca
Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr.
Robert Altman: Short Cuts
Ingmar Bergman: Wild Strawberries
Dardenne Brothers: The Kid with a Bike
George Cukor: My Fair Lady
Danny Boyle: 28 Days Later
Francois Truffaut: Jules & Jim
Charles Chaplin: The Kid
David Fincher: The Social Network
Fritz Lang: Metropolis
John Cassavetes: Faces
Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List
Billy Wilder: Witness for the Prosecution
Brian de Palma: The Untouchables
David Lynch: Mulholland Dr.
Federico Fellini: Nights of Cabiria
Stanley Kubrick: Pahts of Glory
Terrence Malick: Tree of Life
Luis Bunuel: Viridiana
Krzysztof Kieslowski: Red
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
Satyajit Ray: The Big City
Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums
Woody Allen: Broadway Danny Rose
Darren Aronofsky: Black Swan
F.W. Murnau: Sunrise
James Cameron: Terminator 2
Jean-Luc Godard: Band of Outsiders
Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Cercle Rouge
John Ford: Stagecoach
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger: Black Narcissus
Yasujiro Ozu: Early Summer
Tim Burton: Big Fish
Spike Jonze: Being John Malkovich
Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in the West
Akira Kurosawa: Seven Samurai
Alfonso Cuaron: Children of Men

Went a bit overboard , but I think I can't name any other director for which I love at least 3 of his movies, that is until I see more movies of them.

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

Raging Bull might just be the best film of the 80s, but do I personally like it better than Taxi Driver or Goodfellas? Tough call. Really tough. And, I've watched The Aviator three times in the last month; I've always loved it, but how I view it in comparison with his other truly great works is slowly changing. I'm thinking it belongs in the discussion with the others I've mentioned. Just a masterful production.

[tisdivine]

Originally Posted by mifunefan

my guesses / wishes:

Night of the living dead
call northside 777
the grand budapest hotel
floating weeds (or any other ozu)
roman holiday
blow up
klute
pink panther films

yes yes yes to all of this. Times one thousand. To infinity.

[ThisKid]

What I would like for next year-
-Straw Dogs
-Grand Budapest Hotel
-Any Altman films we are missing
-Blow Up
-The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
-Sisters (on blu-ray)
-Wild at Heart
-Blue Velvet, and
-The Beastie Boys Video Anthology (Updated Blu-ray edition)

[Sifox211]

Originally Posted by mja345

Variation on the top 10 or 20 list just for shits and giggles. Name your 10 favorite directors and your favorite film by each one.

[Show spoiler]Mine would be...

1. Altman-"McCabe and Mrs. Miller"
2. Kubrick- "2001"
3. Scorsese-"Taxi Driver"
4. Allen- "Crimes and Misdemeanors"
5. Hitchcock-"Vertigo"
6. Fellini - "8 1/2"
7. Kurosawa - "High and Low"
8. Lumet - "Network"
9. Peckinpah - "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"
10. Carpenter - "The Thing

"

Nice idea

Impossible to list only ten, so here is an off-the-top-of-me-head list that undoubtedly leaves out something important!

Apart from the two top, in no particular order:

Powell & Pressburger - A Canterbury Tale
Miyazaki - My neighbour Totoro
Kubrick- 2001
Wes Anderson - The Life Aquatic
Godard - Contempt
Rohmer - L'Ami de mon ami
Truffaut - Love so many but can't identify one above the others!
Allen - As for Truffaut
Tati - Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Hitchcock- Vertigo
Fellini - 8 1/2
Kurosawa - Stray Dog
Bergman - Wild Strawberries
Coen Bros - The Big Lebowski
Jeunet - A very long engagement
Malick - The Tree of Life

[malakaheso]

A Very Long Engagement is better than Delicatessen and City of Lost Children? C'mon! and around 2-3 of you nutjobs have said that!

[Sifox211]

... but actually, it is favourite, not greatest! I did swither about putting in one of those two instead but decided to follow a sentimental urge and put in something that is more lovely if less quirky

[Nuck Horris]

Originally Posted by malakaheso

A Very Long Engagement is better than Delicatessen and City of Lost Children? C'mon! and around 2-3 of you nutjobs have said that!

[Show spoiler]

[bwdowiak]

Here's my top 10:

1 The Third Man
2 Vertigo
3 The Conversation
4 Barry Lyndon
5 Jules and Jim
6 The Talented Mr. Ripley
7 Breathless
8 Y Tu Mamá También
9 Pather Panchali
10 Talk To Her

here's to hoping that #10 is released by Criterion in 2017!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

Here's my top 10:

1 The Third Man
2 Vertigo
3 The Conversation
4 Barry Lyndon
5 Jules and Jim
6 The Talented Mr. Ripley
7 Breathless
8 Y Tu Mamá También
9 Pather Panchali
10 Talk To Her

here's to hoping that #10 is released by Criterion in 2017!

I think you'll be in luck. If not a solo release, then I think we'll get an Almodóvar boxset next year from CC.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by malakaheso

A Very Long Engagement is better than Delicatessen and City of Lost Children? C'mon! and around 2-3 of you nutjobs have said that!

I lie in that camp too. (Gulp) Although, I've got to admit that Delicatessen is a more essential work. It's pretty much peerless whereas AVLE has many siblings/parents in the World War Weepie genre.

But looking at the cast I can see why others share the opinion: Audrey Tautou and Marion Cotillard.