My Top Ten Criterions

Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater, whose groundbreaking Slacker we released in 2004, and whose Dazed and Confused we released in 2006, offers up his list of favorite Criterion DVDs (without commentary). About his "ever-changing but current top ten," Linklater says, "I've been revisiting spirit and the flesh titles, with a little comedy mixed in."

1. Andrei Rublev     Andrei Tarkovsky

2. Au hasard Balthazar     Robert Bresson

3. The Flowers of St. Francis     Roberto Rossellini

4. Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set     Carl Theodor Dreyer

5. Tokyo Story     Yasujiro Ozu

6. The Last Temptation of Christ     Martin Scorsese

7. Unfaithfully Yours     Preston Sturges

8. Fanny & Alexander Box Set     Ingmar Bergman

9. Pickpocket     Robert Bresson

10. I Know Where I'm Going!       Powell & Pressburger