The Criterion Collection

Gimme Shelter

David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival

Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais

Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby

Christopher H.: “finally! and now for bud cort's other major role, BREWSTER MCCLOUD”

Gray’s Anatomy

Steven Soderbergh

Christopher H.: “another off my criterion release dream list. i can't remember if i wrote in a request for this, or if my mind was just read... either way!!!”

And Everything Is Going Fine

Steven Soderbergh

Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave

Christopher H.: “new waves are the best waves!”

Army of Shadows

Jean-Pierre Melville

À nous la liberté

René Clair

A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski

My Life as a Dog

Lasse Hallström

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu

Christopher H.: “ozu's films transcend their subject matter & bring you closer to the heart of humanity in a very spiritual, japanese way. ”

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

Christopher H.: “my first tarkovsky. didn't really care for it until i'd seen more of his films and came back to it. what a beautiful & strange reaction to 2001.”

Short Cuts

Robert Altman

Christopher H.: “quintessential altman. along with THE PLAYER, the masterpiece of his later years. speaking of THE PLAYER...”

Shoot the Piano Player

François Truffaut

Christopher H.: “the pure genius french new wave directors had for turning american pulp into cinema brilliance astounds me. this is one of my favorite examples.”

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

Christopher H.: “my father introduced me to the brilliance of kurosawa when i was a young'n. this film & RAN will forever live in the pantheon of great cinema.”

Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami

Christopher H.: “i'm not normally such a fan of minimalist films, but this one's an exception.”

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah

Christopher H.: “a non-western peckinpah. one of many classic 7o's roles for hoffman. & a pretty disturbing film.”

<i>A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds:</i> Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu

Christopher H.: “i love it when criterion does this--combines two or more versions of the same film. i wish they had done this with GOOD MORNING/I WAS BORN BUT...”

Tokyo Drifter

Seijun Suzuki

The Tin Drum

Volker Schlöndorff

Christopher H.: “a fine adaptation of one of my favorite novels. those eyes...”

Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam

Christopher H.: “one of my favorites of my childhood. definitely shaped & guided my imagination into what it is today. "don't touch it, it's evil!"”

The Third Man

Carol Reed

Christopher H.: “i don't revere this film as highly as some. the zither score is a little repetitive & over the top for my taste. but this one does grow on me.”

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Philip Kaufman

Christopher H.: “this film is an epic. one of my favorites. i have not yet read the book & i hear there is much that was untranslatable to film. nonetheless a beauty”

Traffic

Steven Soderbergh

Christopher H.: “i really enjoy the use of color & film stock in this. soderbergh is quite the sly talent. doing what coppola always claimed--big budget to small art.”

Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa

Christopher H.: “kurosawa samurai classic! although, i'm one of the few who actually likes SANJURO better.”

Withnail and I

Bruce Robinson

Christopher H.: “this is a very unique british comedy. so many classic lines. & a very different perspective on the '60s.”

Walker

Alex Cox

Christopher H.: “bizarro take on a piece of american history. when you see ed harris eating that corpse in the church, you know you have been watching a masterpiece. ”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

Christopher H.: “more burroughsian than NAKED LUNCH. thee surreal masterpiece of his early themes--biology merged with technology, addiction as metaphor... ”

Le cercle rouge

Jean-Pierre Melville

Christopher H.: “there's just something about later melville crime films that just makes you want to sit back & watch them over & over. so clever & visually pleasing.”

Secret Sunshine

Lee Chang-dong

Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Jean Painlevé

Christopher H.: “i love collections like these. bringing us the oeuvre of such an unknown legend & doing it with such style. tre tre fantastique!”

The Scarlet Empress

Josef von Sternberg

Christopher H.: “another one introduced to me by my father when i was younger. the set design will always blow my mind. & the idiot emperor cracks me up every time.”

Sanjuro

Akira Kurosawa

Christopher H.: “one of my favorite kurosawa/mifune collaborations. toshiro is the perfect ronin. the cherry blossoms in the stream is an image etched in my brain. ”

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

Christopher H.: “so emeffing cool! thee kool killer. & i think the masterpiece from this master of french new wave noir.”

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

Christopher H.: “a monumental work! a complete surprise when i 1st saw it. still battles for top position of his films. one of the greatest bill murray roles of all...”

The Ruling Class

Peter Medak

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

Rififi

Jules Dassin

Red Beard

Akira Kurosawa

Christopher H.: “one of his most dostoevsky influenced films & one of my favorite kurosawa films. ”

Ratcatcher

Lynne Ramsay

The Pornographers

Shohei Imamura

Pierrot le fou

Jean-Luc Godard

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Peter Weir

Oliver Twist

David Lean

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock

Nights of Cabiria

Federico Fellini

Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty

Naked Lunch

David Cronenberg

Naked

Mike Leigh

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

Man Bites Dog

Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde

The Magic Flute

Ingmar Bergman

Léon Morin, Priest

Jean-Pierre Melville

Lord of the Flies

Peter Brook

The Long Good Friday

John Mackenzie

Life During Wartime

Todd Solondz