Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Movies I Would Like to See in the Criterion Collection

Greed (1924) (Erich Von Stroheim)

The Unknown (1927) (Tod Browning)

The Crowd (1928) (King Vidor)
1. The American Ego
2. A Man On the Brink
3. Optimism Turned Bleak and Back Again

Man With A Movie Camera (1929) (Dziga Vertov)

Freaks (1932) (Tod Browning)
1. Pre Code
2.
3. One of Us

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) (Powell and Pressburger)
1. Absence of Love
2. Wartime Fantasy
3. Power of Love
Out of the Past (1947) (Jacques Tourneur)
1. The dialogue
2. Mitchum
3. Nicholas Musaraca's Photography


The Asphalt Jungle (1950) (John Huston)
1. All Star Cast
2. Small Town Crooks
3. The Heist
Los Olvidados (1950) (Luis Bunuel)


Hour of the Wolf (1968) (Ingmar Bergman)
1. Nightmares of the Past
2. Madness of the Mind
3.  Von Sydow and Ullman
Petulia (1968) (Richard Lester)
Midnight Cowboy (1969) (John Schlesinger)
1. New York Life
2. Joe Buck and Ratso
3. The bonds of friendship
The Devils (1971) (Ken Russell)

Images (1972) (Robert Altman)
1. Altman does psychological terror
2. The sound design
3. Mind Games

The Day of the Jackal (1973) (Fred Zinneman)

Barry Lyndon (1975) (Stanley Kubrick)
Dersu Urzula (1975) (Akira Kurosawa)

After Hours (1985) (Martin Scorsese)

Raising Arizona (1987) (Joel Coen)
1.
2. The chase scene
3. Dreams of the future
The Decalogue (1988) (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) (Peter Greenaway)
1. The Colors
2. The Lust
3. The Gluttony

Wild At Heart (1990) (David Lynch)
1. Cage and His Snakeskin Jacket
2. Lovers On the Lam
3. Lynch's dark comedy

Barton Fink (1991) (Joel Coen)
1. The Frustration of Writer's Block
2. Turturro
3. The Life of the Mind

The Age of Innocence (1993) (Martin Scorsese)

Paradise Lost Trilogy (1996- 2011) (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky)


Cure (1997) (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) (on Hulu)


Fireworks (1997) (Takashi Kitano)

After Life (1998) (Hirokazu Koreeda)

The Insider (1999) (Michael Mann)

The Limey (1999) (Steven Soderbergh)

Memories of Murder (2003) (Bong Jon-Ho)


Spring, Summer, Winter...and Spring (2004) (Kim Ki-duk)


Birth (2004) (Jonathan Glazer)
1. Desplat's Score
2. Love Reincarnated
3. Kidman

Primer (2004) (Shane Carruth)


There Will Be Blood (2007) (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1. Ambition
2. Family Ties
3. Daniel Plainview

Synecdoche, New York (2008) (Charlie Kaufmann)
1. The Existentialism
2. The Psychology
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman


Shame (2011) (Steve McQueen)
1. Fassbender
2. Addiction
3. McQueen

Boyhood (2014) (Richard Linklater)

COMPILATIONS/BOX SETS
The Cinema of Peter Watkins
The Short Films of Frederick Wiseman
The Short Films of Jan Svnkmajer
The Before Trilogy by Richard Linklater

BLU RAY UPGRADES
The Exterminating Angel
The Human Condition
Mishima: A Life In Chapters
Peeping Tom
Straw Dogs
Le Trou (OOP)
Ugetsu
Three Films By Hiroshi Teshihagara
A Film Trilogy By Ingmar Bergman
Four Masterworks By Ingmar Bergman
*note only Virgin Spring needs the upgrade from blu to complete the original box set

3 comments:

  1. Great list, I'd buy The Decalogue Criterion, though of course you can't include new Kieslowski interviews or audio commentaries.
    Haven't seen short films of Frederick Wiseman, which do you think are the best?

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    1. I want his films on Criterion for that very reason- I haven't seen any! The one I keep hearing about is Titicut Follies.

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  2. Interesting selections, I would definitely fork out for The Asphalt Jungle and The Age of Innocence.
    Top of my personal Criterion wishlist would be Flesh and Bone from 1993.

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