The Criterion Collection

Grey Gardens The Beales of Grey Gardens Box Set

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!”

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

Beauty and the Beast

Jean Cocteau

Nathan W.: “Love this movie, magical and surreal, brilliant in its dreamlike atmosphere, excellent makeup and special effects, a brilliant film, one of the best!”

Hard Boiled

John Woo

Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg

Nathan W.: “What a fantastic film, I could watch Jenny Agutter swim around in a lagoon all day...”

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

Dead Ringers

David Cronenberg

Nathan W.: “One of my top 3 Cronenberg films, depressing and fucked in equal measures”

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!”

M

Fritz Lang

Nathan W.: “On of my favorite film classics, actually an early favorite, one that got me into the classics to begin with, learned a lot from this one. LOVE LORRE!”

Diabolique

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam

Fishing with John

John Lurie

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

Nights of Cabiria

Federico Fellini

Nathan W.: “My favorite Fellini film, I fell in love with this upon first viewing. Masina is fantastic in this, amazing! Also it's an OOP DVD, so that's cool...”

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

Nathan W.: “My introduction to the Criterion Collection, and still one of my favorites.”

Carnival of Souls

Herk Harvey

Nathan W.: “I've come to like this more and more over the years, some Horror 101 stuff right here, despite being light on the scares, love the organ music!”

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

Nathan W.: “First time I saw it, didn't like it. 2nd time wasn't sure what my problem was the 1st time; guess I wasn't hooked up to the films rhythm, now I am.”

Orpheus

Jean Cocteau

Nathan W.: “I love Cocteau's Beauty & Beast, so I blind bought this at the last B&N sale; have yet to watch it. Will report back later with my findings......”

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese

Sisters

Brian De Palma

Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

L’avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni

Nathan W.: “Wrote a paper on this in college, bought the movie afterwards, don't think I've watching it in the 8 years since....”

Beastie Boys Video Anthology

Various

Nathan W.: “B-Boys makin' with the freak-freak!”

The Hidden Fortress

Akira Kurosawa

Nathan W.: “$8 pawn shop find! Long ago I saw this, because of the Star Wars connection, didn't really stick; revisiting it now, it's a great film, lots of fun”

Diary of a Chambermaid

Luis Buñuel

Nathan W.: “Christmas OOPresent!”

Withnail and I

Bruce Robinson

Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock

8½

Federico Fellini

Nathan W.: “Bought this in a pawn shop, $10. Classic!!”

Traffic

Steven Soderbergh

Nathan W.: “$6 find at a pawn shop, in mint condition; worthy every dollar!”

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.”

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”

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

Nathan W.: “EPIC!”

Man Bites Dog

Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde

Down by Law

Jim Jarmusch

Band of Outsiders

Jean-Luc Godard

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

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!”

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah

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

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One

Stan Brakhage

Nathan W.: “Brakhage is SO good!”

Night and Fog

Alain Resnais

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

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!”

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.”

Knife in the Water

Roman Polanski

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

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!”

La strada

Federico Fellini

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

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”

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..”

Diary of a Country Priest

Robert Bresson

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

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

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...”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

Nathan W.: “LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!”

Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju

Short Cuts

Robert Altman

Burden of Dreams

Les Blank

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

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. ”

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

Two-Lane Blacktop

Monte Hellman

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

The Ice Storm

Ang Lee

Blast of Silence

Allen Baron

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