maha1’s Collection (76)
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CloseBadlands
Terrence Malick
maha1: “Brilliant, elliptical, earthy, human-all-too-human”
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CloseKiss Me Deadly
Robert Aldrich
maha1: “wild, crackling, funny, super tough, wisecracking, apocalyptic little gem”
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CloseDown by Law
Jim Jarmusch
maha1: “Waits, Lurie, Begnini, Jarmusch, a New Orleans jail cell, beautiful B & W, it's all atmosphere and sneakily luminous poetry. Definitely rewatchable”
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CloseFloating Weeds
Yasujiro Ozu
maha1: “Caught a glimpse of it on youtube and I have complete faith in both Criterion and Ozu's taste that I figured I'd get it. It was free. Lookin forward”
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CloseHarold and Maude
Hal Ashby
maha1: “Finally! So glad to finally own it in a georgeous edition at last!”
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CloseRepulsion
Roman Polanski
maha1: “everyone's entitled to at least one elliptical, macabre, surreal(ist) flick that they just..get.This one's mine- meticulous, mesmerizing,eerie as hell”
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Jules Dassin
maha1: “I love Dassin.This is a compelling bit of honest, insightful storytelling with a deeply observant sense of society. Very underrated noir/ road movie”
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Jacques Tati
maha1: “eye-popping...artifice without artificiality. Perfect C title. Lots of intricacy and re-watch value.”
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Kenji Mizoguchi
maha1: “Very glad to own it. A moving, bleak, ultimately redemptive study on human frailty and ambition from an underrated filmaker (for the West, that is)”
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Jean-Pierre Melville
maha1: “A raw slice of real history; brutal, artful, suspenseful and powerful. Testimony from a witness and master filmmaker. Compells repeat viewings”
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CloseLate Spring
Yasujiro Ozu
maha1: “I'll never forget teaching this movie in my first-ever class. It's so modern, subtle, obscure, and yet consistently powerful in quiet, small moments.”
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Steven Soderbergh
maha1: “One of the funniest movies I've ever seen- so brilliantly, boldly absurd that I can't help myself. Nose Army! Maximum Busy Muscle! Generic greeting!”
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CloseNight and the City
Jules Dassin
maha1: “love the gloomy, intricate noirish London and the losing, desperate Richard Widmark trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.great 2ndary cast too”
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CloseVanya on 42nd Street
Louis Malle
maha1: “Loved it for years, thought it was a great C title. Great acting, great adaptation, Chekhov by way of Malle and Mamet...heart in the throat finale”
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CloseContempt
Jean-Luc Godard
maha1: “Wanted it forever, finally added it! I think it's one of the great films of the 20th Century. Always captivating and so beautifully, painfully true.”
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CloseDo the Right Thing
Spike Lee
maha1: “Great humor, political power, visual zest, wit and compassion- yup, I mean it- ebert's note is exactly on point. Total rewatch value, too.”
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CloseCharade
Stanley Donen
maha1: “Sort of the big Hitchcock thriller Hitchcock himself never actually made.”
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CloseThe Naked Kiss
Samuel Fuller
maha1: “Glad to have completed my Samuel Fuller "trilogy"...I love the art and journalism scrapping with pulp melodrama. Fuller knows whereof he speaks”
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CloseNotorious
Alfred Hitchcock
maha1: “Beautiful, richly shadowed, suspenseful, romantic old-school masterpiece. So exquisitely subtle you almost don't notice how sinister it is. it's OOP!”
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CloseThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Wes Anderson
maha1: “Got cheap by chance. The cast in matching gear..the boat..the dance..bill murray..glimmering starfish! soundtrack's great, too. Not a bad find, eh?”
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Hiroshi Teshigahara
maha1: “Such unique, penetrating, elegantly probing films. Woman in the Dunes is the best of a very compelling set. Georgeously packaged and supplemented too”
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Mike Leigh
maha1: “I hated it until I started to see the humor, the subtlety & bitter social satire..and once I started laughing. Strange, erudite, incendiary script”
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CloseSullivan’s Travels
Preston Sturges
maha1: “Wonderfully wise and witty film.Seen it about 5 times. So rewatchable. Never let politics get in the way of a good joke (or your life) and vice versa”
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CloseGimme Shelter
David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
maha1: “Mick and Keef watch a film about Mick and Keef playing a show wherein Mick and Keef watch 60's anarchy combust before their very eyes...”
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Fritz Lang
maha1: “OOP version. The first and still the best of its kind. Haunting, subtle and interesting thoughout. The ending meets and confounds your expectations.”
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Jonathan Demme
maha1: “OOP. Technically flawless and slyly assured. Feminist parable about American self-hatred and the amorality of the technocratic elite. ”
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CloseFear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Terry Gilliam
maha1: “I kind of had to buy this- not only because it's great but because of the framed art print that hung on the wall of my living room for several years.”
DVD Spine #175 Learn more » -
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Akira Kurosawa
maha1: “Bought sight-unseen out of respect for The Emperor. Beautiful collection of his painstakingly vivid storyboards. The last effort from a great artist.”
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CloseBelle de jour
Luis Buñuel
maha1: “One of my first foreign films. Saw it, studied it, wanted more. Elegant, posh, kinky and subversive. I always thought would be a perfect C title....”
DVD Spine #593 Learn more » -
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Louis Malle
maha1: “Long-wanted, one of my early faves. Absorbing, wryly funny. Cryptic, subtle Noir. Malle films as Miles serenades Ms Moreau..What more could you want?”
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CloseL’avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
maha1: “finally added it- going to rewatch & study it, want to write in depth about M.A. someday and this film is the radical cornerstone of his work”
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CloseDazed and Confused
Richard Linklater
maha1: “cheap, loaded, fun, colorful, frisky, wild, true-to-life, candid, daffy, hazy, lazy, dazy, crazy, funny, painfully accurate-& the film's good, too!”
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CloseJules and Jim
François Truffaut
maha1: “got it for 8 bucks! wanted this for a long time, and I'm thrilled to have it- fresh, sexy, fluid, classic, joyous- bubbling over with joie de vie”
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Vittorio De Sica
maha1: “heartbreakingly bleak, class-conscious, muted, mournful and socially exact. Very quietly realized devastating character study. Umberto is everywhere”
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CloseThe Third Man
Carol Reed
maha1: “actually the OOP. Love this film- it's technically perfect, fun, dark &unique- gotta love Orson's amoral soliloquy on the ferris wheel.”
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ClosePierrot le fou
Jean-Luc Godard
maha1: “"it's not blood, it's red"- the georgeous, fresh edition of an ecstatically anxious flick. Bright, intricate, knowing and witty. JLG at the crest”
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CloseDays of Heaven
Terrence Malick
maha1: “one of the most beautifully realized films of all time. A personal favorite, an example of the perfection of film”
DVD Spine #409 Learn more » -
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CloseThe Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick
maha1: “one of these days I'm gonna hole up and drink and watch this and meditate on the folly of man and conflict and human endurance”
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CloseThe Fallen Idol
Carol Reed
maha1: “not wild about it, it was a gift. Interiors are georgeous, the English landscape is interesting, though I would really want to re-watch to get it”
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CloseHigh and Low
Akira Kurosawa
maha1: “OK, Criterion, your dvd holder sprocket thingies suck- tried to take the disc out and I fucking fractured the disc...I bought a new one; all is well”
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CloseThe Rock
Michael Bay
maha1: “great popcorn flick, way to go Criterion for putting this out. loved it before I really knew what film was”
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CloseThe Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir
maha1: “one of those classics which you can never quite rewatch enough times. Just gave it another spin and can't wait to get a master class from the bonuses”
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CloseThe Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
maha1: “much livelier and more life-affirming than its reputation would indicate. The women are lovely, too”
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CloseWild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
maha1: “the whole thing is great, of course, but the last line makes me tear up every time”
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CloseThe Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot
maha1: “Bleak, powerful, suspenseful, raw, epic...crackling with tension & character. Works its suspenseful spell every single time. Great for newcomers, too”
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CloseThe Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin
maha1: “love the comedy, the political criticism, the guts grace and wit. Let's play the finale every new years' day around the world, ok?”
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CloseMonty Python’s Life of Brian
Terry Jones
maha1: “Brilliant satire. Great to rewatch over and over again. Pythons at their best. Hilarious, erudite, pitch-perfect. Sacrilicious!”
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CloseThe Last Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese
maha1: “not perfect, a few misfires here and there, but some great stuff too. Love the topic, love the man, love the passion project and heartfelt heresy”
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CloseThe Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
maha1: “the sort of film which does Criterion good. Epic, complex, magisterial. I got it because I wanted to learn a little bit about the time and place. ”
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CloseAu hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson
maha1: “inexplicably moving. JLG said it was the entire world in 95 minutes- brilliant insight. Bresson's best, I think.”
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CloseTout va bien
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
maha1: “love this film. A masterful juxaposition of the personal and the political and I'm obsessed with that kind of thing”
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Jean-Luc Godard
maha1: “exhilarating! and that goes for every time you see it- the dance, the plot, the mise en scene, the youthfulness, satire, the raw joy and spontenaiety”
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CloseMasculin féminin
Jean-Luc Godard
maha1: “a personal favorite. Love the title song to bits and pieces, goofy as it is. Love this whole film about 'the children of Marx and Coca-Cola'”
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CloseUgetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi
maha1: “Blew me away when I watched it two years ago. Unsparing yet sympathetic, grand yet intimate, subtle yet epic. I'm going to be moved and awed again”
DVD Spine #309 Learn more » -
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CloseThe Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Th. Dreyer
maha1: “luminous...a secular holy artifact. Very proud to have this in my collection”
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CloseLe cercle rouge
Jean-Pierre Melville
maha1: “new addition, didnt get all it had to offer the first time through. Cooly glimmering with atmosphere, toughness, and fatalism. Can't wait to rewatch”
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CloseThe Exterminating Angel
Luis Buñuel
maha1: “elegant, mordant, surreal, satiric, new addition which I'm thrilled to add to the collection. Can't wait to rewatch it forever”
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CloseChasing Amy
Kevin Smith
maha1: “just a cheap addition to the collection, but I've also lived it. Sigh.”
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CloseShock Corridor
Samuel Fuller
maha1: “Crackling, brooding, dementedly paced satire on the madness that is everything in society. Surreal, wild, courageous and coruscatingly entertaining”
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ClosePickup on South Street
Samuel Fuller
maha1: “rowdy, canny, sneakily populist, charismatic, raw, burst of fire. One of the first films which singed my eyebrows. Very glad to have it ”
DVD Spine #224 Learn more »
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