The Criterion Collection

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme

D_Morris: “One of the great American horror films”

Short Cuts

Robert Altman

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa

Youth of the Beast

Seijun Suzuki

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

D_Morris: “More than any other Wes Anderson movie, his style, characters, and story really came together to create a delightful film. Still his best.”

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

D_Morris: “Wes Anderson's stab at creating a New York fable and what a fable it is.”

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

World on a Wire

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby

D_Morris: “This is a quiet masterpiece of an American film. Funny, dark, and beautifully human.”

The Vanishing

George Sluizer

Godzilla

Ishiro Honda

D_Morris: “The greatest monster movie ever made.”

Good Morning

Yasujiro Ozu

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

The Pornographers

Shohei Imamura

D_Morris: “A surreal delight, no one chronicles the underbelly of society like Imamura. There isn't a film quite like this one.”

Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju

Sisters

Brian De Palma

D_Morris: “Frightening and suspenseful, easily one of DePalma's best.”

Alphaville

Jean-Luc Godard

D_Morris: “Godard at his absolute pulpiest and some of Raoul Coutard's most dynamic cinematography. It's sci-fi as only Godard could envision it.”

Repulsion

Roman Polanski

D_Morris: “My friend told me this was one of the greatest horror movies ever, and it did not disappoint.”

Down by Law

Jim Jarmusch

D_Morris: “This is a prison break film as only Jim Jarmusch could make one.”

Trafic

Jacques Tati

D_Morris: “Beautifully choreographed chaos that never fails to be visually engaging.”

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Beauty and the Beast

Jean Cocteau

D_Morris: “Easily the greatest fantasy film by any standard, no one does dreamlike and magical as Cocteau does.”

Mystery Train

Jim Jarmusch

D_Morris: “One of the all time great road trip movies, this is filled with so many things I love. It's hard for me to hate this film.”

Diabolique

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Heaven Can Wait

Ernst Lubitsch

D_Morris: “This is one of the all time great screen romances and one of the great comedies. Rarely are films this perfect.”

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Robert Hamer

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

D_Morris: “This is the great epic of Japanese Cinema. It's a film that everyone should own and see at least once.”

Vengeance Is Mine

Shohei Imamura

D_Morris: “This movie is much like the violence it portrays; explosive, gruesome, captivating, and most importantly, bewildering.”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

D_Morris: “The closest that Wes Anderson will get to creating an out and out fantasy film and easily one of Bill Murray's best performances as a lead to date.”

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

D_Morris: “Del Toro's first film is not just one of the all time great vampire movies but also a film with a great, morbid sense of humor.”

House

Nobuhiko Obayashi

D_Morris: “Saying that this movie is totally bonkers is an understatement. There's nothing else like it and its so much fun. Must be seen with a group!”

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

D_Morris: “This is a film where everything from the characters to the editing to the direction is as daring as it is reckless.”

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

D_Morris: “One of my favorite crime films. It's a film where every action has a consequence and nothing is wasted. Storytelling at it's finest.”

Band of Outsiders

Jean-Luc Godard

D_Morris: “This is how I want to tour Paris.”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

Spartacus

Stanley Kubrick

Island of Lost Souls

Erle C. Kenton

D_Morris: “Any movie that Devo named an album after is okay by me. Also great make up effects and amazing camera work in this.”

Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi

The Thief of Bagdad

Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan

D_Morris: “This is a film of sheer imagination, beauty, and adventure. Fantasy film making has rarely looked better.”

Kuroneko

Kaneto Shindo

D_Morris: “Kuroneko is a great mash-up of folktale, jidaigeki, and horror film with sexual politics and stylish cinematography thrown in for good measure.”

Yojimbo/Sanjuro Box Set

Akira Kurosawa

D_Morris: “Yojimbo is Kurosawa and MIfune at their best and atypical. A samurai movie with satirical bite. Sanjuro is a fine follow up with a great final image.”

The Sword of Doom

Kihachi Okamoto

D_Morris: “The greatest samurai movie ever made. 'Nuff said.”

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai

D_Morris: “After seeing this movie, I wanted a woman to come into my life and change everything around for me without my knowing.”

RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven

The Only Son/There Was a Father: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu

Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais

D_Morris: “A movie that really defies classification other than to say that it's exceptionally beautiful. Also I'm 90% certain the root of all foreign film jokes”

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

D_Morris: “If Time Bandits is Terry Gilliam's equivalent of a fairy tale, then this is his cinematic version of a nightmare.”

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer

D_Morris: “This film feels like a ancient parable from the old world and never relents on it's creeping dread.”