As proven by our monthly newsletters and right here on our website, everyone has their favorite Criterion titles. Now Film.com has released a list of its own, and rather than ten–the number our friends and contributors whittle their selections down to—writer Amanda Mae Meyncke has included twenty titles. With choices ranging from Dreyer to Tarkovsky to Guy Maddin, it’s a fun, eclectic list and nicely representative of the breadth of films in the collection. So if everyone has their favorites, what are yours?
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Thu 20 Aug at 04:00 PM
Jean-Michel Decombe
What an impossible task! Here are twenty favorites, by spine number:
- Beauty and the Beast
- Andrei Rublev
- I Know Where I’m Going
- Playtime
- Ordet
- Tokyo Olympiad
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- Salvatore Giuliano
- The Battle of Algiers
- Eyes Without a Face
- La Commare Seca
- Heaven Can Wait
- The Browning Version
- Le Samouraï
- Samurai Rebellion
- Yi Yi
- The Naked City
- Days of Heaven
- The Lovers
- The Age of the Medici
Thu 20 Aug at 04:50 PM
Jacob B.
1. Do the Right Thing
2. The Rules of the Game
3. Cria cuervos
4. 8 1/2
5. The Ascent
6. Fanny and Alexander
7. Ran
8. Wild Strawberries
9. Jeanne Dielman, 23…
10. Yi Yi
11. The Red Shoes
12. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
13. Equinox Flower
14. Grand Illusion
15. The Passion of Joan of Arc
16. Two-Lane Blacktop
17. Le corbeau
18. Beauty and the Beast
19. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One
20. Breathless
Fri 21 Aug at 12:06 PM
S. B. Prime
1. Sid & Nancy
2. The Rock
3. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
4. Videodrome
5. The Man Who Fell To Earth
6. Equinox
7. The Complete Mr. Arkadin
8. Symbiopsychotaxplasm: Take One / Take Two and a Half
9. Schizopolis
10. My Own Private Idaho
Sun 23 Aug at 03:11 AM
Ezra Mark
1. L’amour fou
2. Paris Belongs to Us
3. Out 1
4. Duelle
5. Noroit
6. Le Pont du Nord
7. Celine and Julie Go Boating
— when you finally get around to releasing some Rivette!
8. 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her
9. Au Hasard Balthasar
10. Mouchette
11. Sans Soleil
12. In the Mood for Love
13. Six Moral Tales
14. 4 by Varda
15. Jeanne Dielman
16. Tokyo Story
17. Early Summer
18. Late Autumn
19. The BRD Trilogy
20. Lubitsch musicals
Tue 25 Aug at 10:01 PM
Stephen
1. Army of Shadows
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Rushmore
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Diary of a Country Priest
6. Metropolitan
7. L’Avventura
8. 8 1/2
9. Short Cuts
10. Double Life of Veronique
Favorite new release: The Furies (great job on that one!)
Sun 30 Aug at 11:01 AM
Wolfeman
What fun, always wanted to do this!
1. Ikiru- Tenderness from the original master of the sword 2. 8 1/2- Cinematic magic at its most exuberant 3. Peeping Tom-The greatest Horror film of all time, perfect perversion! 4. Rules of the game/ Grand Illusion- Renoir at his peak, 5. Contempt- Sexy, smart and beautiful. Godard most accesible film! 6. Pickpocket- A dance of celluloid deftness, unmatched in content and style 7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- One word…. Delectable! 8. The Passion of Joan- Perhaps the most interesting DVD in the collection, from its history, content and supplements 9. Good Morning- not my favorite Ozu, but his funnest to behold 10. Le Samurai- Pick a Melville, any MelvilleTue 15 Dec at 03:15 PM
Daniel Kremer
MY TOP 20 CRITERIONS
1. BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ
2. TWO-LANE BLACKTOP
3. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
4. THE LEOPARD
5. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DE COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
6. THE HUMAN CONDITION
7. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
8. AMARCORD
9. SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM
10. 3 WOMEN
11. THE CHILDREN OF PARADISE
12. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
13. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS
14. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
15. MOUCHETTE
16. LE CERCLE ROUGE
17. KAGEMUSHA
18. F FOR FAKE
19. SHORT CUTS
20. IF….
Once Criterion releases some Rivette, all the top notches will be taken over.
Tue 16 Feb at 06:04 PM
Peter
L’amour fou & Celine and Julie Go Boating are a close tie for me. Rivette needs to be on disc.
Wed 10 Mar at 12:02 PM
futurestar
here is another list (by release) in no particular order:
andrei rublev
the third man
la strada
the double life of veronique
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the wages of fear
the ascent/wings (larisa shepitko – eclipse)
night in the city
the burmese harp
rashomon
mishima: a life in four chapters
vampyr
hiroshima mon amour
paris, texas
wings of desire
the rossellini war triology
pigs, pimps, & prostitutes – imamura triology
ace in the hole
an autumn afternoon
europa
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