5 Criterion films you wouldn't want to be without

There have been so many wonderful releases over the years. Which five would be among the editions you'd first keep (multiple film sets excluded)?

These are a mere five that immediatedly come to mind for me:

Gimme Shelter (David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin) 1970
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini) 1960
Night And Fog (Alan Resnais) 1956
The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy) 1964
Dazed And Confused (Richard Linklater) 1993

 

The Gold Rush (Chaplin) 1925/1942
Rashomon (Kirosawa) 1950
Paths of Glory (Kubrick) 1957
The Black Stallion (Ballard) 1979
Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro) 2006

 

Nashville
Red River
Monterey Pop Festival
Seconds
Some Like It Hot

 

The four Harold Lloyd Blu-rays...

Safety Last
The Freshman
The Kid Brother
Speedy

...and one other I'll have to think about awhile.


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Six Short Films - W.C. Fields
Easy Rider
The Ice Storm
Anatomy Of A Murder
In The Heat Of The Night

 

Midnight Cowboy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Magnificent Ambersons
Head
The Royal Tenenbaums

 

I'd add All That Jazz to that list.

 

Andrei Rublev
The Magnificent Ambersons
Othello
Chimes at Midnight
Blow-Up

 

The Third Man
Notorious
The Silence Of The Lambs
Diabolique
Spartacus

 

The Third Man
Yojimbo/Sanjuro
Night on Earth
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (DVD--where's the Blu-ray already?)
The 7 Samurai

 

Marketa Lazarova
Blow Up
Straw Dogs
Secret Sunshine
McCabe & Mrs Miller

 

Ghost World
Monterey Pop
Lovestreams
Two Lane Blacktop

 

Here's five of my fave Criterion titles off the top...

Only Angels Have Wings
Notorious
Cat People
Vivre Sa Vie
The Breaking Point

 

I don't have enough titles yet to rank them, but I have enjoyed the ones I've purchased recently.

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Ghost World
Don't Look Back
Monterrey Pop

On deck is:
A Hard Day's Night
Quadrophenia
Gimme Shelter
Repo Man
Smithereens

Anyone know when the next sale is going to be?

 

Barnes and Noble sale is typically in July.

Amazon is having a sale right now. Not quite 50% off but close enough it you can't wait another 2 days.

 

Difficult question. The collection is just too good to just choose 5 films, but after a spontaneous look at my Criterion shelf I’d go with:

Kagemusha
Rebecca
In The Mood For Love
The Battle Of Algiers
Hiroshima mon amour

"In the mood for love" is one of my favourite films and I have a couple of different DVDs (Japanese, UK, Criterion) plus the wonderful Soundtrack on 2 CDs.
It's hard to choose a single Kurosawa because the box set is great and so is Rashomon. Kagemusha has a very nice 2DVD set and a fantastic soundtrack. I have the Japanese box sets with all soundtracks. A very expensive but wonderful edition that I never regretted buying.
With Hitchcock it is like with Kurosawa, so I chose "Rebecca" because of the bonus material. It could have been "Notorious" or "Spellbound" as well.

I am looking forward to "War and Peace", it should in a couple of weeks.

 

B&N 50% off sale is on now!

 

Only have 2 Criterion discs in the collection so far, but to me they are essential.

Night Of The Hunter
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Most of mine would be black and white classics from 1930-60....pick a few Fred and Ginger movies, Stage Door Canteen (for the music) and Stage Door itself for the wisecracks....and the rest would be cartoons. From the Miyazaki Hayao catalogue.

 

But none of those, save SWING TIME by Fred and Ginger, are on the Criterion Collection.

 

Yeah, in typical Big Brother fashion, Facebook alerted me of the sale as soon as I got off this thread.

I picked up:
Harold and Maude
Easy Rider
Elevator To The Gallows
I Want To Hold Your Hand
If...

 

Whoo hoo!

Pre-ordered 1984 and Do The Right Thang

 

Brazil
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Repo Man

 

* arrive
I blame the heat.

Punished again for per-ordering. Damn it!

On topic:
I am a huge fan of the Criterion Collection and I spent a lot of money on these films because many editions are just marvelous. I have about somewhere between 100 - 120 titles of the collection, all on DVD.
There was a time when most films were available on Hulu for free years ago (I don't remember when). All I needed was a VPN. I think there were a few commercial breaks though.