The Criterion Collection

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan

Wallin: “Such a classic film, easily my favorite Kazan and Brando collaboration. I was delighted when Criterion obtained the rights to this.”

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

Wallin: “Guilermo's a fascinating filmmaker who's movies are as chilling as they are campy. One of my favorites.”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

Wallin: “Still my favorite Wes Anderson movie, it really shows his full range of comedy tinged with draining tragedy.”

Belle de jour

Luis Buñuel

Wallin: “A film that would shock modern audiences with its raw sexuality. Though it is regrettable it was made Catherine Denevue so uncomfortable.”

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

Wallin: “The first Wes Anderson movie I ever saw and I never looked back. Hope they get Moonrise Kingdom out there.”

Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze

Wallin: “Kaufman and Jonze first insane and meta masterpiece. Really opened my eyes to possibility of movie writing in the new film era.”

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

Wallin: “Kubrick's stylish and memorable bleak noir thriller, and as a bonus his first noir film Killer's Kiss! Very pleased with this.”

M

Fritz Lang

Wallin: “This is an insanely good movie, Fritz Lang's smack down of facism is ahead of its time in directing as well as subject matter.”

Chasing Amy

Kevin Smith

Wallin: “Kevin Smith's most mature work alongside Clerks, so sad the route his career has gone but this is still a classic.”

Godzilla

Ishiro Honda

Wallin: “Who doesn't love Godzilla? I freaked out when I saw the little pop up Godzilla figure inside the DVD.”

La strada

Federico Fellini

Wallin: “Hoping this eventually gets a better release, this movie is so emotionally gripping and accessible while still very Fellini.”

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

Wallin: “A comprehensive package of Kurosawa's badass Samurai epic that launched a thousand Westerns. One of Mifune's best performances.”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam

Wallin: “As an avid marijuana consumer this was one of the first movies I saw to accurate portray the behavior of someone's who's high, a worthy adaption”

Following

Christopher Nolan

Wallin: “I enjoyed this, possibly my favorite Nolan movie though heavily inspired by Paul Auster's New York Trilogy”

The Game

David Fincher

Wallin: “Not without its flaws but this noirish mind bender is distinctively Fincher and has one of my favorite covers I might add”

Shallow Grave

Danny Boyle

Wallin: “Danny Boyle's first film is all Hitchcock and with a young Ewan MacGregor and Christopher Eccleston what's not to love?”

Down by Law

Jim Jarmusch

Wallin: “Fascinating movie with a fascinating cast I love all three of them and they play off each other so well in this Backwoods Fairy tale”

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater

Wallin: “Probably the movie in my Criterion Collection I've seen the most, this is a gorgeous edition of one of my favorite movies.”

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese

Wallin: “I did not expect to like this one as much as I did, it's become one of my favorite Scorsese films and definitely feels like a very personal work ”

The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci

Wallin: “A gorgeous and moving movie, one of my Dad's favorites which always surprised me because he doesn't seem like the type to enjoy this but I adore it.”

Blow Out

Brian De Palma

Wallin: “Though basically The Conversation told by Brian De Palma in all out 80s excess mode I really enjoy this one and have seen it many times now.”

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah

Wallin: “Managed to get my hands on a Criterion of this, brilliant though understandably controversial movie I'm always entranced by it”

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick

Wallin: “This movie genuinely upset me the first time I saw it, one of Kubrick's most emotionally raw helped by Kirk Douglas is humanistic influence.”

Rosemary’s Baby

Roman Polanski

Wallin: “Rosemary's Baby is another of my favorite movies, and my second favorite Polanski behind Chinatown, a brilliant and twisted examination of feminity”

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

Wallin: “Classic movie not much else to say.”

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

Wallin: “I first saw this Freshman Year of High School in an English class after reading the short stories it was based on, one of my favorite movies now.”