The Criterion Collection

Down by Law

Jim Jarmusch

Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock

Sisters

Brian De Palma

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

Withnail and I

Bruce Robinson

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

Diary of a Chambermaid

Luis Buñuel

Nathan W.: “Christmas OOPresent!”

Diabolique

Henri-Georges Clouzot

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick

Rosemary’s Baby

Roman Polanski

Hard Boiled

John Woo

Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson

Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam

Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby

Gray’s Anatomy

Steven Soderbergh

And Everything Is Going Fine

Steven Soderbergh

Godzilla

Ishiro Honda

Nathan W.: “GODZILLA IS ATTACKING THE CITY!!”

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa

Nathan W.: “Blew me away upon watching it last year at the Olympia Film Festival. Moving, affecting, perfectly nails a lot of my feelings on life, a masterwork..”

Cul-de-sac

Roman Polanski

Nathan W.: “Polanski! Pleasance! Blind buy I felt safe buying for these two chaps are involved..”

World on a Wire

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Nathan W.: “Brilliant film, lucky enough to have seen it at the 2011 Olympia Film Festival, bizarre, hilarious, and heady, 3 things need for quality sci-fi..!”

Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson

The Gold Rush

Charles Chaplin

Nathan W.: “Chaplin does it again!”

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

Nathan W.: “A beautiful horror film, expertly crafted thrills and chills. ”

Short Cuts

Robert Altman

The Long Good Friday

John Mackenzie

Nathan W.: “Bob Hoskins fucking rules in this, the final scene is a standout, the whole movie is a standout, an $8 super-score at the local swap-shop.....OOP!”

Fishing with John

John Lurie

Nathan W.: “Another $10 score! Liked this a lot back in college...”

Slacker

Richard Linklater

Nathan W.: “Classic 90's indie film, I love movies where nothing happens, and this is one of those in spades. I want to visit Austin...”

Island of Lost Souls

Erle C. Kenton

Nathan W.: “Saw this on 16mm back in 2009 at the Olympia Film Festival. Great, classic stuff; best version of this story, and I love the 70's Island of Dr. Moreau”

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

Nathan W.: “Great film noir, Sterling Hayden is awesome, sharp Jim Thompson dialogue, love all the wide ties! Bonus Disc of Killer's Kiss: best thing ever!!”

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

Nathan W.: “One of the best box sets. . . ever. From the films, to the presentation (dig those menus..), to the exhaustive supplementals, this is a stellar set!”

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

Nathan W.: “Film School stuff right here, classic American cinema, and it's FUNNY, too!”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

Nathan W.: “One of the best American films ever made, period.”

The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson

Nathan W.: “Some people don't like this one, but I dig it. Wes Anderson plays all of his familiar notes and melodies, but he does it all so damn well..”

House

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick

Nathan W.: “Kubrick's OTHER great war film....”

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two

Stan Brakhage

Nathan W.: “Brilliant work from a pioneer of experimental cinema!”

Repulsion

Roman Polanski

Blast of Silence

Allen Baron

Nathan W.: “Gritty, low budget, NY noir, I love the hard boiled narration, another underappeciated and underseen gem!”

The Ice Storm

Ang Lee

Two-Lane Blacktop

Monte Hellman

Nathan W.: “One of the greatest final shots in film history..”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

Nathan W.: “The David Bowie songs by Seu Jorge are enough to make me love this film, but also, it's one of Bill Murray's finest performances. ”

Burden of Dreams

Les Blank

Nathan W.: “Fantastic document, Les Blank deserves more coverage on the Criterion label, maybe an Eclipse set or something....?”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

Nathan W.: “LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!”

Diary of a Country Priest

Robert Bresson

Naked Lunch

David Cronenberg

Nathan W.: “A full body mugwump puppet from the film hangs from the ceiling of Mike's Movie Madness here in Portland. I stare at it every time I'm in there. COOL”

La strada

Federico Fellini

Nathan W.: “Great film, Fellini, master, etc..”

Le cercle rouge

Jean-Pierre Melville

Nathan W.: “$8 pawn shop find, love the wordless heist that takes place in the middle of the film; classic stuff!”

Knife in the Water

Roman Polanski

Nathan W.: “Kniiiiiiiiiiife on theee waater....”

The Honeymoon Killers

Leonard Kastle

Nathan W.: “Very dark and brutal, but very funny at times, this gritty NY crime film is underseen and underappreciated.”

Schizopolis

Steven Soderbergh

Nathan W.: “Just a brilliant piece of gobbledegook, an exercise in excessive compulsive narcissistic fun making. Great film, one of my favorite Soderberghs!”

Night and Fog

Alain Resnais

Nathan W.: “Really depressing, but important work. Can't say I watch it all that often...”

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One

Stan Brakhage

Nathan W.: “Brakhage is SO good!”

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah

Nathan W.: “Was Dustin Hoffman ever more badass? ”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam

Nathan W.: “THIS IS BAT COUNTRY! One of the finest editions in the collection, packed with quality extras....I Love Gilliam!”

Band of Outsiders

Jean-Luc Godard

Nathan W.: “Pawn shop blind buy, was only $10, very very good and fun Godard film!”

Man Bites Dog

Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

Nathan W.: “EPIC!”

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

Nathan W.: “Maybe my fave Anderson film, this and Rushmore... so funny and sad and rich with life and characters... a great one”

George Washington

David Gordon Green

Nathan W.: “Damn I love DDGreen; wish he'd stop making stoner comedies in Hollywood and get back to shit like this, Undertow, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels.”