Richard Linklater’s Top 10

Richard Linklater’s Top10

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. 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.”

Nov 21, 2008
  • Andrei Rublev
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    Andrei Tarkovsky

    Andrei Rublev

  • Au hasard Balthazar
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    2

    Robert Bresson

    Au hasard Balthazar

  • The Flowers of St. Francis
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    3

    Roberto Rossellini

    The Flowers of St. Francis

  • Day of Wrath

    4

    Carl Th. Dreyer

    Day of Wrath

  • Tokyo Story
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    5

    Yasujiro Ozu

    Tokyo Story

  • The Last Temptation of Christ
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    6

    Martin Scorsese

    The Last Temptation of Christ

  • Unfaithfully Yours
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    Preston Sturges

    Unfaithfully Yours

  • Fanny and Alexander: Television Version

    8

    Ingmar Bergman

    Fanny and Alexander: Television Version

  • Pickpocket
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    9

    Robert Bresson

    Pickpocket

  • I Know Where I’m Going!
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    Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

    I Know Where I’m Going!

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