The Criterion Collection

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan

Jason Michael Brescia: “Awesome. The transfer is perfect. Picture and sound are both amazing.”

Kicking and Screaming

Noah Baumbach

Armageddon

Michael Bay

Fanfan la Tulipe

Christian-Jaque

Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby

Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam

Metropolitan

Whit Stillman

The Last Days of Disco

Whit Stillman

Jason Michael Brescia: “A really fine, underrated film. A fun time piece with timeless themes and dialogue. A bold comedy. I love it.”

Godzilla

Ishiro Honda

Jason Michael Brescia: “I love how they gave us both the American and Japanese versions. ”

Henry V

Laurence Olivier

Jason Michael Brescia: “Good, classic Olivier, but I prefer Branagh's version if only for it's modernity. Olivier's St. Crispin's speech is phenomenal. ”

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

Jason Michael Brescia: “My copy has the artwork with the actual human characters on the front.”

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese

Jason Michael Brescia: “A great piece of philosophy but merely an interesting film. At times the acting is weak. That being said I need to rewatch it.”

Insomnia

Erik Skjoldbjærg

Jason Michael Brescia: “The original and superior version. The concept works better with Scandinavians than it does in Nolan's Alaskan remake.”

The War Room

Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker

Jason Michael Brescia: “An interesting documentary. Overall it's average. I never feel that the campaign is in any serious trouble and we see little personal life insight.”

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick

Jason Michael Brescia: “The movie that made me look at war completely differently. Having never served, this film opened my eyes to the psyche of WWII, and war in general.”

Gimme Shelter

David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin

Jason Michael Brescia: “Mick Jagger is the quintessential flawed protagonist. At times it's alarming that this is real life. The best rock doc ever.”

Slacker

Richard Linklater

Jason Michael Brescia: “A film that I can watch over and over again. Some friends consider it boring, and others consider the dialog boring, I find inspiration. A favorite.”

Scenes from a Marriage

Ingmar Bergman

Jason Michael Brescia: “Bergmans use of close up is a little outdated, but the content itself was so ahead of itself that contemporary film is just catching up.”

Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais

Jason Michael Brescia: “Some of the images in this film haunt my philosophy and outlook.”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

Jason Michael Brescia: “I have the single disc with reversible cover art work. At the time I am writing this I have the artwork set to the drawing.”

Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze

Jason Michael Brescia: “Cool that they give this film the Criterion treatment. Sound and picture were clear. A solid film and a favorite of mine in film school.”

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

Eisenstein: The Sound Years

Sergei Eisenstein

The Flowers of St. Francis

Roberto Rossellini

A Night to Remember

Roy Ward Baker

The 400 Blows

François Truffaut