The Criterion Collection

Badlands

Terrence Malick

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese

My Life as a Dog

Lasse Hallström

John Robert Hammerer: “Oh so sweet”

The Gold Rush

Charles Chaplin

John Robert Hammerer: “This was a Christmas gift, sight unseen. I'll check back with you guys later.”

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

John Robert Hammerer: “It goes from fascinating backstage story to dark psychological drama with ease, bridged by that excellent ballet. Walbrook is electrifying.”

Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman

John Robert Hammerer: “This was a blind buy, I'll update it when I see it. But I love Bergman anyway, so I'm expecting it to live up to the hype.”

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders

John Robert Hammerer: “A deeply moving tale of being lost in America. Both epic in the Homeric style and and gently, hauntingly intimate. Harry Dean Stanton forever!”

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

John Robert Hammerer: “A profound mystery in the spiritual sense, posing questions about human nature and desire. Oh, and the single most beautiful film I've ever seen.”

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

John Robert Hammerer: “It was made over fifty years ago and is set in a time centuries before us, yet in the way it probes existence it's about now and it's about us.”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

John Robert Hammerer: “Probably the only Southern Gothic social realist expressionistic fairy tale chiller. Unlike anything you'll ever see.”

The Thief of Bagdad

Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan

John Robert Hammerer: “The images give me a child's wonder all over again. And Sabu!”

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

John Robert Hammerer: “1984 meets Monty Python without ever clashing - or losing the fundamental horror.”