The Criterion Collection

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Claude Sautet

The Last Days of Disco

Whit Stillman

Metropolitan

Whit Stillman

Shock Corridor

Samuel Fuller

The Naked Kiss

Samuel Fuller

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

Shallow Grave

Danny Boyle

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam

Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze

La haine

Mathieu Kassovitz

World on a Wire

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Traffic

Steven Soderbergh

FromConcentrate: “The first Soderbergh film that I saw. I didn't know much about film at the time and had never seen a film with colors like Traffic.”

Army of Shadows

Jean-Pierre Melville

FromConcentrate: “Melville is just great.”

White Dog

Samuel Fuller

Under the Volcano

John Huston

Naked Lunch

David Cronenberg

My Own Private Idaho

Gus Van Sant

FromConcentrate: “Such an amazing film. Phoenix is a revelation.”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

FromConcentrate: “My favorite production design. Amazing long shots.”

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

FromConcentrate: “He's a bad ass. Period.”

Le doulos

Jean-Pierre Melville

Kicking and Screaming

Noah Baumbach

FromConcentrate: “I love his films. I relate to his characters more than any other characters in film history. We are very alike.”

Kes

Ken Loach

If....

Lindsay Anderson

House of Games

David Mamet

FromConcentrate: “Mamet can write man...I just love the performances and suspense.”

Homicide

David Mamet

FromConcentrate: “Another Mamet film that knocks it out of the park!”

Europa

Lars von Trier

FromConcentrate: “My introduction to Von Trier and I've been very attached to his films ever since.”

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

FromConcentrate: “Fincher is my hero. I look up to him and his intense work ethic.”

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

FromConcentrate: “The first French New Wave film I saw in film school. I love it.”

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo

Antichrist

Lars von Trier

FromConcentrate: “So very beautiful and disturbing!”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

FromConcentrate: “Long live the new flesh! Cronenberg has become one of my favorite filmmakers around. From "The Fly" to "A Dangerous Method".”

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick

FromConcentrate: “Malick has some of the greatest shot compositions in modern film history.”

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

FromConcentrate: “Anderson's attention to detail, original color schemes, and great storytelling has always left me speechless.”

Revanche

Götz Spielmann

FromConcentrate: “Second chances are rare. Revenge is complicated.”

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick

Le cercle rouge

Jean-Pierre Melville

FromConcentrate: “Melville is cool.”

Gomorrah

Matteo Garrone

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski

The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson

FromConcentrate: “I want to ride the trains.”

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

FromConcentrate: “Very original and entertaining. Del Toro's style is unmistakable.”

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai

Carlos

Olivier Assayas

FromConcentrate: “This was great. Mesrine and Carlos were my favorite mini-series of last year.”

Che

Steven Soderbergh

FromConcentrate: “Soderbergh says that he regrets shooting this film because the time, money, and emotion wasn't worth it. I don't agree. I appreciate this film.”

Broadcast News

James L. Brooks

FromConcentrate: “This and "Network" keep me enthralled all the way through. Albert Brooks' drunken song is my favorite moment ever, haha.”

Ride with the Devil

Ang Lee

Three Colors

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson

FromConcentrate: “The beginning of my Wes Anderson admiration. Just a good story.”

Blow Out

Brian De Palma

FromConcentrate: “I had never even heard of this film until it came out on Criterion blu-ray. I am a big De Palma fan and I'm so happy I bought this.”

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

FromConcentrate: “One of my favorite films of all time. Such a masterpiece of art direction, production design, and writing/directing/acting etc...”