The Criterion Collection

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

Eclipse Series 16: Alexander Korda’s Private Lives

Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller

Brocktune: “Hell of a Fuller set!”

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

Brocktune: “If you haven't seen it, stop what you are doing and watch it. Right the fuck now.”

The Great Dictator

Charles Chaplin

Brocktune: “Blew me the fuck away. Chaplin's monologue towards the film's conclusion never fails to give me goosebumps!”

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

Brocktune: “Leave it to Chaplin to make cocaine interesting 40 years before Super Fly!”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

Brocktune: “I also own the Criterion Laserdisc. In fact, I refused to buy it in any other version.... that is, until now!”

House

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Brocktune: “THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!”

Louie Bluie

Terry Zwigoff

Brocktune: “Priceless. An excellent addition to an already superior and still growing music documentary library from our friends at Criterion!”

Stagecoach

John Ford

Brocktune: “I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!! The quality of the transfer on this Blu-Ray absolutely must be seen to be believed!”

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Peter Yates

Brocktune: “We cant talk about Mitchum without bringing balls up again. RM in rare form here. Would make a bitchin double feature with Malle's "Atlantic City".”

The Hit

Stephen Frears

Brocktune: “Criterion has assembled some of the most amazing and badass gangster flicks of all time. The Hit is absolutely no exception. Hurt is tough as nails.”

Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Jean Painlevé

Brocktune: “Unreal. Pop it in, pack a bowl and stfu. Had a hard time believing half of what I saw was real.”

Empire of Passion

Nagisa Oshima

Dodes’ka-den

Akira Kurosawa

White Dog

Samuel Fuller

Brocktune: “Figures those fuckers in suits would malign important work like this. Another winner from Fuller!”

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer

Brocktune: “Wow. How did I ever have Halloween film festivals without this?! Maybe the creepiest thing I have ever seen. ”

Mafioso

Alberto Lattuada

Two-Lane Blacktop

Monte Hellman

Drunken Angel

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “Y'know, everyone always talks about Mifune. Not without good cause of course. However, Takashi Shimura was just as powerful, only less scene chewing!”

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Byron Haskin

Brocktune: “Laserdisc. Now that it's finally available in a Criterion Blu-Ray, methinks it be time for the double dip.”

Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder

Brocktune: “Ok, the only set of Hollywood balls larger than Lancaster's was Kirk Douglas. Every time I watch him in anything, he floors me. One of the GREATEST!!!”

If....

Lindsay Anderson

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Chris Marker

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Mikio Naruse

Monsters and Madmen

Brocktune: “Karloff was a genius. Had some truly amazing chops!”

The Fallen Idol

Carol Reed

A Canterbury Tale

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Equinox

Jack Woods

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater

Young Mr. Lincoln

John Ford

Brocktune: “My introduction to John Ford. I fucking love this film. "It was moon bright" is now a permanent part of my lexicon.”

The Bad Sleep Well

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “Not to undermine or gloss over the rest of the film, but WHAT A CAKE!!!!!!!!”

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “Kurosawa at his most pessimistic. His contempt for humanity never more fiercely and bluntly expressed than it is here.”

Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics

Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi

Heaven Can Wait

Ernst Lubitsch

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “Absolutely breathtaking! So nice I had to buy it twice!”

Short Cuts

Robert Altman

Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju

Brocktune: “I had been a Combustible Edison fan for years before I saw this. Needless to say, I was doing cartwheels during the opening credits!”

Häxan

Benjamin Christensen

Fiend Without a Face

Arthur Crabtree

Brocktune: “Priceless.”

The Blob

Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

Brocktune: “Among the film's many merits, one that doesn't get much mention is the amazing color palette used in it. The Criterion version is positively luminous!”

Carnival of Souls

Herk Harvey

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

The Lower Depths

Brocktune: “This is so reprehensible of me, but I never bothered with the Renoir one. Nothing against him, but why would I watch his, when there is Kurosawa's ;)”

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

Brocktune: “Amazing. This movie fuckin rules. Sorry for the pedestrian sentiment, but it's very apropos.”

Pickup on South Street

Samuel Fuller

Brocktune: “I fucking defy you to show me a cooler gangster pic. The Killing excluded.”

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “Also a laserdisc.”

The Pornographers

Shohei Imamura

Jubilee

Derek Jarman

Brocktune: “I came for Adam Ant (no pun intended). But I stayed, because i just couldn't break my eyes away! Plastic Surgery!!!!!!!!”

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “My favorite Kurosawa film, and the one that caused me to fall in love with him. Truly, this film is a masterpiece.”

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah

Brocktune: “Peckinpah is the patron saint of man films. If you don't know, then you have my sincerest condolences!”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam

Brocktune: “I would have paid just for the Thompson commentary. But then you guys go adding all of those other wonderful bonuses. Christ, I love you Criterion!”

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival

Brocktune: “Otis & Ravi Shankar steal this whole show. Honorable mention to Hendrix for visibly reducing the crowd to mere drooling witnesses to history!”

Red Beard

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “Why did you two have to have a falling out? I suppose Tatsuya Nakadai would be the silver lining to that cloud?”

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

Sullivan’s Travels

Preston Sturges

Brocktune: “Joel McCrea had Harrison Ford nailed before Ford ever even existed. And Veronica Lake?! Ooof!!! Oh yeah, and then there is that Sturges guy...”

The Hidden Fortress

Akira Kurosawa

Brocktune: “Don't even know where to begin. If you haven't seen it, you should probably fix that right now.”

Spartacus

Stanley Kubrick

Brocktune: “Given my druthers, nobody other than Criterion would ever touch Kubrick's films again!”