Essential Criterion Titles

List your essentials here. Here is my small collection!

 

Lovestreams
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Ed Wood

 

Well, I wouldn't consider Armageddon essential, but...

The Complete Jacques Tati
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Two-Lane Blacktop

 

Lol, yeah me either. I got it very cheap, not even watched it yet.

 

Could I trade out Che and add Black Orpheus instead? That would work better for me.

 

A Hard Day's Night

 

Looking through my collection, these are the handful I go back to most often:

Breathless
8 1/2
Seven Samurai
Rushmore
F is for Fake
Rashomon

...great packages for each.

 

http://www.criterion.com/my_criterio...?sort_by=title

 

I have only two: Gimme Shelter and A Hard Day's Night.

 

I'm on a Criterion buying ban because I have too many unwatched ones. Haha. My most watched though, off the top of my head;

Grey Gardens
Harold & Maude
Rosemary's Baby
8 1/2 (I'd add La Dolce Vita but my blu-ray is still unwatched...)
Two Lane Blacktop
Days of Heaven
Howard's End
Breathless
Persona
Repulsion
3 Women
Nashville
Easy Rider/Five Easy Pieces/The Last Picture Show from the America Lost and Found set
I would say Shoah is essential but not something you really watch repeatedly...

 

well, here's what I have. I have what I want, what I watch multiple times. I've thought of getting a few like Rififi but we'll see, maybe on sale

THE THIRD MAN
On The Waterfront
400 Blows
Hard Days Night
The 39 Steps
Foreign Correspondent


Also own Man who knew too much, lady vanishes, and Night train to munich, but I wouldn't call them essential.

 

I'm shocked to find out that I have 379 of them. At one point I was trying to get a full set but couldn't keep up.

I pretty much mirror everybody else's essential titles and would add:
Wild Strawberries
All of the Chaplin discs
Most of the silent titles.

 

there's a bunch I think about buying blind, but after having done that with Ministry of Fear, I've instead joined netflix to watch them first, like Paris TX, Tokyo Story... I do have Odd Man Out as a preorder, but I love Third Man and Fallen Idol already

 

I have Watership Down waiting for me when I get home, that's another goodie IMHO.

 

Me too.

 

Considering I own about 95% of them, it's too hard to narrow down a list of "essentials".

 

I want to see their new release of Don't Look Now.
Anyone see that yet?

 

A Hard Days Night
Picnic At Hanging Rock
8 1/2
Brazil
Watership Down
Scanners
The Game
Blow Out
All That Jazz
3:10 To Yuma
Don't Look Now
The Uninvited
The Innocents
Something Wild
Paris Texas
Shoot The a piano Player
Jules and Jim
Foreign Correspondent
The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
Seconds
Rosemary's Baby
Knife in the Water
Night of The Hunter

 

Yep. Looks terrific.

 

Not sure what I all have, but here's some........Robinson Crusoe On Mars, Repulsion, Beauty And the Beast, The Seventh Seal, Time Bandits, W. C. Fields—Six Short Films, The Bank Dick, Fiend Without A Face, The Blob 1958, the Monsters And Madmen set, Island Of Lost Souls, I Married A Witch, The Uninvited.

 

Essential how? The extra features, the transfer quality? Or just because we like the movie? I think the only two I ever purchased (as opposed to rented) were El Norte and A Hard Days Night.

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
BBS Story box
Dazed and Confused
Life Aquatic
Eraserhead
Mad World
Rushmore
Badlands
Sisters
Mr Arkadin

 

ah, but that elusive 5%...

 

Trois Couleurs Trilogy

 

The first of my titles is only on DVD. For some reason, when they did the Blu Ray version of Gimme Shelter, they did not include Hells Angel president Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger's phone call into KSAN-FM in San Francisco, the day after the concert at Altamont. One-and-a-half hours of that programme is available for listening on YouTube.