The Criterion Collection

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

The Golden Age of Television

Anatomy of a Murder

Otto Preminger

Something Wild

Jonathan Demme

Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze

Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

Vengeance Is Mine

Shohei Imamura

Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju

Godzilla

Ishiro Honda

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai

M. Hulot’s Holiday

Jacques Tati

Ratcatcher

Lynne Ramsay

Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller

Carl G.: “Love this set. Steel Helmet is great, and I Shot Jesse James is a great way to see a movie made on the fly.”

AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

Carl G.: “Kurosawa is a master. An absolute genius.”

Kiss Me Deadly

Robert Aldrich

Carl G.: “Sordid. That's the word.”

Fish Tank

Andrea Arnold

Carl G.: “So fantastic. I wish more people would see it.”

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

Carl G.: “Never stop, Guillermo. Stay immortal. ”

Antichrist

Lars von Trier

Carl G.: “She did what? To his? And then to her?”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

Carl G.: “Robert Mitchum comin'. A great American fairy tale.”

House

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Carl G.: “The biggest WTF in all of WTFdom. I made a drinking game for it.”

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick

Carl G.: “Philosophy and war mix.”

Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray

Carl G.: “Scary than it looks. That ending HAS to be a joke.”

Homicide

David Mamet

Carl G.: “Oh Mamet, you silly.”

Bergman Island

Marie Nyreröd

Carl G.: “Party at Ingmar's”

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Peter Yates

Carl G.: “So that's how you rob a bank.”

The Hit

Stephen Frears

Carl G.: “Quiet gunshots.”

White Dog

Samuel Fuller

Carl G.: “Fierce. Fuller was not a quiet man.”

Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson

Carl G.: “I always come back to this one of Wes'. Don't know why yet.”

The Ice Storm

Ang Lee

Carl G.: “Understated and underrated.”

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

Carl G.: “Goddamn.”

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

Carl G.: “I still think it's the best tragedy ever.”

Equinox

Jack Woods

Carl G.: “Saw this when I was learning to use a Bolex. If someone could shoot this with that, well... anything is possible.”

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater

Carl G.: “Alright alright.”

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

Carl G.: “Hell. Yes.”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

Carl G.: “Fun times with Team Zissou.”

F for Fake

Orson Welles

Carl G.: “How Orson Got His Groove Back”

Burden of Dreams

Les Blank

Carl G.: “Great documentary. Inspiring/horrifying.”

Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman

Carl G.: “One of my favorite movies ever. In a fantastic box set. With a fantastic extended edition. And a fantastic documentary.”

John Cassavetes: Five Films

Carl G.: “Cassavetes is a master. Woman Under the Influence: guh! Love.”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

Carl G.: “Worst. Porno. Ever.”

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir

Carl G.: “In which there is a love octagon and you can still follow what's happening. Octavio always makes me cry.”

Umberto D.

Vittorio De Sica

Carl G.: “Lol that fukken dog.”

Pickup on South Street

Samuel Fuller

Carl G.: “Fuller's sweatiest, noiriest, movie. Cinema du Kickass.”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam

Carl G.: “Mania.”

Man Bites Dog

Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde

Carl G.: “I'm of the belief that great satire must stop being funny and become scary. Here is a prime example. Comedic genius.”

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

Carl G.: “An epic of its own.”

8½

Federico Fellini

Carl G.: “For those times when I just don't what I'm doing with myself. Helps as much as it hinders.”

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

Carl G.: “Bergman at his finest.”

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock

Carl G.: “Hitchcock you wonderful son of a bitch.”

Beastie Boys Video Anthology

Various

Carl G.: “Worth it for Intergalactic alone.”

Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Carl G.: “As sad as it is blazingly colorful.”

Sisters

Brian De Palma

Carl G.: “The finest tip of the hat to Hitch that I know.”

Chasing Amy

Kevin Smith

Carl G.: “Kevin Smith gets touching.”

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese

Carl G.: “I don't think there's a better Jesus movie.”

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

Carl G.: “Hilarious. Penetrating.”

The Third Man

Carol Reed

Carl G.: “One of the greatest movies ever made. No doubt in my mind. It was also Baby's First Blu-ray.”

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

Carl G.: “The world will not end with a bang, but with red tape.”

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Carl G.: “Love love love love LOVE LOVE LOVE.”