The Criterion Collection

Kwaidan

Masaki Kobayashi

Chasing Amy

Kevin Smith

Mamma Roma

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Magic Flute

Ingmar Bergman

The Virgin Spring

Ingmar Bergman

Charade

Stanley Donen

Secret Honor

Robert Altman

Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set

Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson

Kliffoth: “Bresson simply portrait how cruel and hard life on earth is for those innocent and weak. Emotional masterpiece!”

Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais

Kliffoth: “An open and confusing icecold lovestory! ”

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick

Kliffoth: “Profound psychological depth, one-of-a-kind warfilm! Beautiful as only Malick can unfold”

A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

Kliffoth: “Brilliant masterpiece set in the wild Japanese marshes. Black hole of death and decay”

Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Jean Painlevé

Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman

Autumn Sonata

Ingmar Bergman

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

Kliffoth: “Tarkovskian black waters in thy astral domain. Highly sucidal hallucinations of the meditative force.”

Smiles of a Summer Night

Ingmar Bergman

Short Cuts

Robert Altman

Kliffoth: “Altman really makes me taste the essence of L.A. ala 93, and I like it!”

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

Kliffoth: “Jef Costello is pure perfection! Brilliant millimeter precise assassin, minimalistic clarity! Alain Delon is the definition of coolness, anno 1967!”

Rosemary’s Baby

Roman Polanski

Kliffoth: “One of my absolute favorite films. Praise the satanic occultism ;-) Polanski perfection”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

Kliffoth: “Its hard to obtain sucess when you are bottom.”

The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci

Kliffoth: “Beautiful 4-disc box and a interesting film from a historic point of view.”

House

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Kliffoth: “Beyond crazy! Suspiria looks like Walt Disney compared to this.”

The Game

David Fincher

Kliffoth: “I love San Fran, even if they dont have an B&N. I love the game even more! Psychotic trip of adventure, Fincher's best!”

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

Kliffoth: “Great piece of Finscher craftmanship, both beautiful and emotional story of a reverse life.”

Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kliffoth: “A great capture of the neurotic lost humanbeing in the industrial modernistic inhuman desolate grey surroundings.”

Secret Sunshine

Lee Chang-dong

Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman

Kliffoth: “Bergmans masterpiece touching on every aspect of human relations! Perfected on every scale, an emotional deep grasping jewel”

Three Colors

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Kliffoth: “My favorite trilogy, three great emotional and beautiful films. ”

The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock

Kliffoth: “Being 1935 this is really the scemathics of what the thriller genre is to become. Well structured and smooth from the fingertips of Hitchock”

The Magician

Ingmar Bergman

Kliffoth: “Metaphoric brilliant, Bergman uses the criticism towards him into the film, carefully tailored characters! And what a face!”

The Wages of Fear

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Knife in the Water

Roman Polanski

Kliffoth: “Polanski is making amazingly much out of a simple, but knifesharp plot in this warm summerbreeze mix of both jealousy and manhood.”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo

Kliffoth: “Powerful force of independence! It really feels authentic.”

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

Kliffoth: “An astonishing epic gem, signed by Kurosawa. Not a second too long.”

My Own Private Idaho

Gus Van Sant

Identification of a Woman

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kliffoth: “Once wounded and broken. Love gets forever more complicated and difficult. Quality slowpaced Antonioni craftmanship.”

Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick

Cul-de-sac

Roman Polanski

Repulsion

Roman Polanski

Kliffoth: “When the walls are grabbing after me, I will consider getting professional help! Pure Polanski brilliance! May CC release all his films”

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer

Kliffoth: “Impressive visual art together with vampyric grimness. LVCIFER”

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

Summer Interlude

Ingmar Bergman

Kliffoth: “Young love, sharp as a blade and painful as a deep stab!”

Summer with Monika

Ingmar Bergman

Kliffoth: “Monika, cursed be thy name, and I am certainly not just talking about the character, but every Monika. Splendorous Bergman”

Orpheus

Jean Cocteau

Harakiri

Masaki Kobayashi

Kliffoth: “One of the absolute best films from Japan! A story of such great strength”

The Makioka Sisters

Kon Ichikawa

Kliffoth: “Beautiful and soft view upon Japan in prewar time. A struggle to keep their head and apparance up, within the complexed and strict rules of the period”

Beauty and the Beast

Jean Cocteau

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

Kliffoth: “Death is the color of my soul. In the mirror there's only everlasting darkness! Och når lammet bröt det sjunde inseglet...”

Naked

Mike Leigh

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Antichrist

Lars von Trier

Kliffoth: “Psychologic art from the depths of the wounded human depression. Stunningly beautiful, von Trier's praise to Tarkovsky.”