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[CrossRhodes94]

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

[mja345]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

In no order...

La Dolce Vita
The 400 Blows
City Lights
Days of Heaven
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Paris, Texas
La Haine
High and Low
Stalker
Naked

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "8 1/2", "Rififi", "Mulholland Drive", "The Night of the Hunter", "Nashville", "The Killing", "Le Samourai", "Sweet Smell of Success", "The Thin Blue Line" could easily make my top 10 as well. So many great titles.

Edit: "Down by Law" and "Persona" are two others that could easily be in my top 10 depending on my mood.

[nitin]

Purely on quality of film, my top 100 (I know 10 were asked for but too hard) would be:

Au Revoir Les Enfants
Winter Light (DVD only)
Wings (DVD only)
The Double Life of Veronique
Sweet Smell of Success
Woman in the Dunes
On the Waterfront
The Wages of Fear
The 400 Blows
The Battle of Algiers

The Third Man
The Seven Samurai
The Silence of the Lambs
Three Colors: Blue
Rosemary's Baby
In the Mood For Love
Only Angels Have Wings
The Killers (1946)
Repulsion
The Royal Tenenbaums

Ordet (DVD only)
Day of Wrath (DVD only)
The Bicycle Thieves
Samurai Rebellion (DVD only)
Being John Malkovich
The Seventh Seal
Le Cercle Rouge
Dr Strangelove
The Last Picture Show
Solaris

Paths of Glory
Harakiri
Brief Encounter
Elevator to the Gallows
Dont Look Now
Spirit of the Beehive (DVD only)
McCabe and Mrs Miller
In a Lonely Place
The Graduate
This Sporting Life (DVD only)

Day For Night
The Cranes Are Flying (DVD only)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Mulholland Drive
Cries and Whispers
The Killing
Anatomy of a Murder
Days of Heaven
Army of Shadows
Red Beard (DVD only)

Ran (DVD only)
Diabolique
The Naked Island
Tokyo Story
Forbidden Games (DVD only)
The Fallen Idol (DVD only)
The Manchurian Candidate
Summer Hours
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist

Three Colors: Red
Children of Paradise
Mr Arkadin (DVD only)
The Leopard
The Bad Sleep Well (DVD only)
Diary of a Country Priest (DVD only)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Lacombe Lucien (DVD only)
12 Angry Men
Le Corbeau (DVD only)

A Short Film About Killing
Down by Law
The Browning Version (DVD only)
Le Samourai
High and Low
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Earrings of Madame De
Onibaba (DVD only)
Night and the City
Odd Man Out

The Insect Woman (DVD only)
La Notte
Kind Hearts and Coronets (DVD only)
Ballad of a Soldier (DVD only)
The Lady Vanishes
Death of a Cyclist (DVD only)
Kapo (DVD only)
Pickpocket
Straw Dogs
L'Avventura

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Modern Times
To Be or Not To Be
Z (DVD only)
Jules and Jim
Cria Cuervos (DVD only)
Peeping Tom (DVD only)
Hunger
Ace in the Hole
Brazil

[biglou114]

Most of my top ten are already in the Collection, but here’s what I’d consider my CC Top 10:
City Lights
Kind Hearts and Coronets (DVD OOP)
The Philadelphia Story
The Third Man (OOP)
The Night of the Hunter
A Hard Day’s Night
Life of Brian (DVD)
Brazil
Before Sunrise
The Royal Tenenbaums

[Knaldskalle]

How many Criterion titles do you guys have in non-Criterion editions (DVD and/or BD)?

I have about 15 or so titles that I either bought before Criterion editions came along or because I went for UK versions instead (BFI or Eureka MoC).

[moviebuffed]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

Diabolique
The Gold Rush
Kwaidan
Fantastic Planet
Harakiri
Marketa Lazarova
Paris, Texas
Woman In The Dunes
Hobson's Choice (DVD)
The Virgin Spring(DVD)

[dwk]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

Seven Samurai
RoboCop
Naked Kiss
Army of Shadows
Night of the Living Dead
Kwaidan
Repo Man
The Killing
The Killer
House

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

Very hard to limit to 10, but off the top of my head and in no particular order:

The Third Man
Last Year at Marienbad
PlayTime
The Leopard
The Long Good Friday
Great Expectations
High and Low
Notorious
Solaris
Billy Liar

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

How many Criterion titles do you guys have in non-Criterion editions (DVD and/or BD)?

I have about 15 or so titles that I either bought before Criterion editions came along or because I went for UK versions instead (BFI or Eureka MoC).

I have the following BD "upgrades" of Criterion releases I originally bought on DVD:

Great Expectations - Region B / ITV UK
Oliver Twist - Region B / Filmedia France
Hobson's Choice - Region B / Studio Canal UK
Billy Liar - Region B / Studio Canal UK
Summertime - Region A / Paramount Japan
The Long Good Friday - Region B / Arrow UK
Mona Lisa - Region B / Arrow UK
Notorious - Region A / MGM USA
Spellbound - Region A / MGM USA
The Fallen Idol - Region B / Studio Canal UK
Peeping Tom - Region B / Optimum UK
Salvatore Giuliano - Region B / Arrow

And the following titles on BD that I did not have on Criterion DVD or BD:

The Tales of Hoffmann - Region B / Studio Canal UK
Le Cercle Rouge - Region B / Studio Canal UK
Hands Over the City - Region B / MoC UK
Roberto Rossellini: The War Trilogy - Region B / BFI UK
Harakiri - Region B / MoC UK

[mja345]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

How many Criterion titles do you guys have in non-Criterion editions (DVD and/or BD)?

I have about 15 or so titles that I either bought before Criterion editions came along or because I went for UK versions instead (BFI or Eureka MoC).

Yeah, I have some MoC/Studio Canal/Arrow editions that are on Criterion DVD or OOP on BD.

The Naked Prey
Onibaba
Pickup on South Street
Youth of the Beast
White Dog
Thieves' Highway
Sisters
The Third Man
Last Year at Marienbad
Contempt
Closely Observed Trains
Firemen's Ball
Salvatore Giuliano
The Naked City
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgiouse
Billy Liar
The Grand Illusion
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Pierrot Le Fou
The Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
Ran
Le Trou
That Obscure Object of Desire
Hands Over the City
Withnail and I
How to Get Ahead in Advertising

[theater dreamer]

Wow, just ten?

On The Waterfront
The Sweet Smell of Success
Mulholland Drive
The Asphalt Jungle
City Lights
Charade
The New World
Seven Samurai
Le silence de la mer
Trois couleurs: Bleu

I have a lot to watch yet. Ask me in a month, and this list probably changes some. So many great films, it's almost impossible to just narrow it down to ten.

Others right behind those ten right now:

Vivre sa vie
Paths of Glory
Persona
It Happened One Night
The 400 Blows

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

[thinredline]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

The Silence of the Lambs (upcoming)
The Thin Red Line
All that Heaven Allows
Il Sorpasso
A Room with a View
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (haven't bought this yet)
Howards End
Rebecca (haven't bought this yet)
The Double Life of Veronique
His Girl Firday

[CrossRhodes94]

I’ve been trying to watch more and more. I’m kind of choosing at random. I haven’t seen very many. I don’t own many as well. I literally only have like five that I own currently. I own Ikiru, Blue is the Warmest Color, The Ice Storm, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Bridge. I’ve enjoyed every single one of them. In fact, I watched The Bridge tonight. Others I’ve seen but don’t own get. 12 Angry Men, A Night to Remember, 3 Women, Badlands, Weekend (2011), Election, The Breakfast Club, The Silence of the Lambs, The 400 Blows, My Beautiful Laundrette, and The Night of the Hunter... I’ve really enjoyed them all. Do you guys have any suggestions on things I should watch next? Feel free to give a list. Haha.

[theater dreamer]

Seven Samurai is a must if you liked Ikiru. Can't go wrong with any of the Kurosawa films in the Collection.
Day For Night is another great Truffaut flick.
Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger, is fantastic. Great to pair with 12 Angry Men.
Two great selections from birthday boy Kirk Douglas, Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder) and the anti-war film Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Have you seen any Ingmar Bergman films? Both The Seventh Seal and Persona are brilliant. Bergman is all over the collection. But Fanny and Alexander might be a great place to start.
Sweet Smell of Success is riveting, too. One of my favorite films in the collection. Alexander Mackendrick directs Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.
If you haven't seen Mulholland Drive, that's an easy choice, for me, at least. You'll be thinking about it long after the credits roll.
My last suggestion would be Charade, the best Hitchcock film not directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn. Cary Grant. Paris. Enough said.

I have more, but those are some good ones to start off with.

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

I’ve been trying to watch more and more. I’m kind of choosing at random. I haven’t seen very many. I don’t own many as well. I literally only have like five that I own currently. I own Ikiru, Blue is the Warmest Color, The Ice Storm, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Bridge. I’ve enjoyed every single one of them. In fact, I watched The Bridge tonight. Others I’ve seen but don’t own get. 12 Angry Men, A Night to Remember, 3 Women, Badlands, Weekend (2011), Election, The Breakfast Club, The Silence of the Lambs, The 400 Blows, My Beautiful Laundrette, and The Night of the Hunter... I’ve really enjoyed them all. Do you guys have any suggestions on things I should watch next? Feel free to give a list. Haha.

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

It's extremely difficult to narrow it down to 10 (out of the ones I've watched so far), but here it goes (in no particular order)...

Charade
Foreign Correspondent
Gilda
It Happened One Night
Kiss Me Deadly
Moonrise Kingdom
On the Waterfront
Rebecca
Sullivan's Travels
To Be or Not to Be

[MifuneFan]

It seems like it's every week someone asks people for a top 10 list..

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

It seems like it's every week someone asks people for a top 10 list..

If they ever get Spinal Tap back, all the lists should go to 11.

[Rory]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

It seems like it's every week someone asks people for a top 10 list..

I think you do lists when you have nothing more to talk about.

I feel a sad irony that 20th Century-Fox's VALLEY OF THE DOLLS has a Criterion edition BD, but my favorite Fox film, '68s PLANET OF THE APES, will probably never get a Criterion edition. Damn them all to hell.

[plateoshrimp]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

What are you guys top 10 favorite films from the Criterion Collection?

Days of Heaven
City Lights
It Happened One Night
Summer with Monika
Vivre Sa Vie
Repo Man
Night of the Hunter
Paris, Texas
The Hidden Fortress
Safety Last!

[LPMA]

Originally Posted by Rory

I think you do lists when you have nothing more to talk about.

I feel a sad irony that 20th Century-Fox's VALLEY OF THE DOLLS has a Criterion edition BD, but my favorite Fox film, '68s PLANET OF THE APES, will probably never get a Criterion edition. Damn them all to hell.

You can remove that 'probably' when Disney owns it in a couple of months.