Essential Criterion Titles

My modest collection of 45 titles : http://www.criterion.com/my_criterion/2089-mike/collection

 

Focusing mainly on some that haven't yet been mentioned:

Chungking Express
In the Mood for Love
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure
The Essential Jacques Demy
All of the Powell & Pressburger discs
L'Avventura
La Notte
L'Eclisse
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
All of the Godard discs
All of the Truffaut discs

 

My List of Ten:

A Hard Days Night
Brazil
The Gold Rush
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Monterey Pop Festival
Paths of Glory
The Red Balloon
Safety Last
Seven Samurai
The Third Man

 

My beginner's collection, which is growing slowly but surely:

A Hard Day's Night
A Night To Remember
Babette's Feast
The Big Chill
For All Mankind
It Happened One Night
Tootsie

Hoping to acquire the following titles in reasonably short order:

12 Angry Men
Dazed and Confused
Foreign Correspondent
Weekend (2011)

 

Robinson Crusoe On Mars

 

Off the top of my head:

Badlands
The Third Man
In the Mood For Love
Three Colors Trilogy
Paths of Glory
Black Narcissus
Anything from the 30s

 

Gimme Shelter
Spartacus
Two Lane Blacktop
Wild Strawberries
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Beauty And The Beast
Eyes Without A Face
The BBS Story
F For Fake
Repulsion
8 1/2
Black Narcissus

 

Essential to my library, anyway:

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Spartacus (DVD)
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (DVD, but coming on Blu-Ray)
Seconds
Do The Right Thing (DVD)
Harold & Maude
Harlan County USA (DVD)
Gimme Shelter
Rififi
Hoop Dreams (DVD, but coming on Blu-Ray)
This Is Spinal Tap (DVD, for the commentary, unique to this edition)
Rosemary's Baby
Salo (just kidding)

 

My kids and I have watched this DVD (and now blu-ray) dozens of times.

 

If the term genius is to be bandied around, Kurosawa definitely fits the bill!

 

For a Kurosawa newbie is seven samurai the best start? I almost feel like it can't live up to the hype

 

Seven Samurai is as good a place as any to start. If I were to categorize the work of Kurosawa, it's that his films portray a great sense of humanity.

Yojimbo and Rashomon are also fine films. So is Ikiru. So is Throne Of Blood. So is.......you get my point! An awesome body of work.

The Kurosawa/Mifune partnership is one of the classic director/actor pairings.

 

Hype is always bad, but that really is a cool show.

 

Ran is terrific, too. And gorgeous.

 

50% off flash sale from their site. I think I am skipping as I've too many unwatched ones from the last sale. But fyi....

The one thing I like about their flash sales vs B&N or Amazon sales is no tax(unless you are in NY or KY).

http://www.criterion.com/sale

 

Must..... resist.

 

Yeah I wonder how long before I break down... I do want that Watership Down. And you need to buy 3 to get the free shipping...

Must.... resist...

 

Yes, Watership Down is on my short list. I wonder what else they've released recently....?

Must... resist!

 

Sid and Nancy
Alphaville
Brazil
Peeping Tom
Cleo From 5 to 7
Do the Right Thing
In the Mood For Love
Trouble In Paradise
Band Of Outsiders
Breathless
Chungking Express
Mystery Train
Design For Living
Repo Man

I hope at some point Criterion does the films of Theo Angelopoulos. It seems a natural fit for them.

 

I should probably resist. Told myself I was gonna reign in the spending, and there are so many Blu-rays sitting on my shelf I haven't even watched yet. But, man, I really want Don't Look Now and The Palm Beach Story...

(Edit: OK, thanks, Don't Look Now Blu-ray buyers for making it sell out already. Now it's a bit easier to stay away... just a bit...)

 

If my resistance were to break down, I'd get:

Watership Down
Fellini Satyricon
It Happened One Night
The Palm Beach Story

 

I try and only buy films I'll rewatch, otherwise it's just baseball card collecting, and after a big moving purge last year...

Anyway picked up badlands, days of heaven, and a blind buy of seven samurai. Free shipping and no Texas sales tax. Can't beat it.

 

I'm sorry I missed Don't Look Now but I have so many movies I've bought recently that I haven't got to yet

 

Sale is useless to me. I have everything I want already, and The Thin Blue Line won't be released for another 2 weeks.

 

seriously thinking about buying a few more before the sale ends, happy birthday to me?
M, Ace in the Hole (blind), and something else to push me into free shipping