The Criterion Collection

The Naked Kiss

Samuel Fuller

OlderHultgren: “the musical number is unnerving”

Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin

Jean-Pierre Gorin

OlderHultgren: “so so crasy”

A Woman Is a Woman

Jean-Luc Godard

OlderHultgren: “the best karina”

Masculin féminin

Jean-Luc Godard

OlderHultgren: “so much vitality”

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Peter Yates

OlderHultgren: “could watch it every week”

Le cercle rouge

Jean-Pierre Melville

OlderHultgren: “my favorite policier”

Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais

OlderHultgren: “deep”

Slacker

Richard Linklater

OlderHultgren: “the best first hour around”

The Spirit of the Beehive

Víctor Erice

OlderHultgren: “gorgeous all around”

Brief Encounter

David Lean

OlderHultgren: “afraid to watch this again...afraid i'll unleash snarkiness”

Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Jean Painlevé

OlderHultgren: “when they cut open the pregnant seahorse...”

Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami

Dodes’ka-den

Akira Kurosawa

OlderHultgren: “a precursor to Slacker?”

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

Good Morning

Yasujiro Ozu

OlderHultgren: “i can't stand the kids ozu used in any of his films but especially this one”

À nos amours

Maurice Pialat

All That Heaven Allows

Douglas Sirk

OlderHultgren: “so much better than the remakes”

That Obscure Object of Desire

Luis Buñuel

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai

OlderHultgren: “nearly perfect”

In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai

OlderHultgren: “achingly powerful”

Charade

Stanley Donen

Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais

Cría cuervos . . .

Carlos Saura

OlderHultgren: “best child actors in the collection”

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

OlderHultgren: “i cried”

An Autumn Afternoon

Yasujiro Ozu

OlderHultgren: “the last ozu and one of the best”

Bob le flambeur

Jean-Pierre Melville

OlderHultgren: “what a beautiful casino”

Rififi

Jules Dassin

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

Magnificent Obsession

Douglas Sirk

OlderHultgren: “so preachy yet so steamy”

The Sword of Doom

Kihachi Okamoto

OlderHultgren: “an insane samurai? why not?”

Youth of the Beast

Seijun Suzuki

OlderHultgren: “joe shishido at his best”

Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky

Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu

The Thief of Bagdad

Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan

OlderHultgren: “i can't believe how much i love this movie”

Naked Lunch

David Cronenberg

OlderHultgren: “the julian temple scenes are tops”

Ivan’s Childhood

Andrei Tarkovsky

Fiend Without a Face

Arthur Crabtree

OlderHultgren: “definitely in my top ten--”

White Dog

Samuel Fuller

Mon oncle Antoine

Claude Jutra

Monsters and Madmen

OlderHultgren: “so trash-tastic”

Equinox

Jack Woods

OlderHultgren: “so gnarly”

The Element of Crime

Lars von Trier

OlderHultgren: “it must be next week”

Carnival of Souls

Herk Harvey

OlderHultgren: “that neighbor is the creepiest thing in the movie”

Europa

Lars von Trier

OlderHultgren: “more von trier please”

Vengeance Is Mine

Shohei Imamura

OlderHultgren: “the father in-law”

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

Touchez pas au grisbi

Jacques Becker

OlderHultgren: “even the French use the "one last heist" trope”

Downhill Racer

Michael Ritchie

OlderHultgren: “like Junior Bonner but in the snow (a compliment)”

Written on the Wind

Douglas Sirk

OlderHultgren: “my favorite sirk”

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta

OlderHultgren: “seem familiar to anyone?”

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa

Homicide

David Mamet

OlderHultgren: “you know what the old whore said?”

Brand upon the Brain!

Guy Maddin

OlderHultgren: “more guy maddin please”

Stranger Than Paradise

Jim Jarmusch

OlderHultgren: “best B&W from the 80's ”

Walker

Alex Cox

OlderHultgren: “Another genius script from Rudy Wurlitzer”

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah

OlderHultgren: “more peckinpah needed in the Collection”

Close-up

Abbas Kiarostami