The Criterion Collection

Jubal

Delmer Daves

Autumn Sonata

Ingmar Bergman

Mala Noche

Gus Van Sant

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

M

Fritz Lang

Repo Man

Alex Cox

Pickup on South Street

Samuel Fuller

Night Train to Munich

Carol Reed

A Hard Day’s Night

Richard Lester

armand muniz: “The Beatles were actually quite clever and funny. Self parody works well here. ”

I Married a Witch

René Clair

The Ice Storm

Ang Lee

armand muniz: “reminds me of growing up in suburban Connecticut. ”

The Wages of Fear

Henri-Georges Clouzot

armand muniz: “Tense and gripping. ”

Hearts and Minds

Peter Davis

armand muniz: “Love documentaries about Vietnam. This one is brutal. ”

Chasing Amy

Kevin Smith

armand muniz: “In my opinion the least obnoxious Kevin Smith film. ”

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick

All That Heaven Allows

Douglas Sirk

armand muniz: “Beautiful technicolor visuals”

Safety Last!

Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

Blast of Silence

Allen Baron

armand muniz: “One of my favorite movies. The narration gives a claustrophobic feel. Juxtaposition of NYC Christmas and a mob hit worked for me”

The Freshman

Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer

armand muniz: “One of the most clear and beautiful transfers I have ever seen. Showed it to someone recently and they thought it was a modern homage to silent films.”

The Last Days of Disco

Whit Stillman

armand muniz: “Resonates today. One of the first in a much copied lost twenty somethings film theme.”

Homicide

David Mamet

armand muniz: “Mamet has a knack for dialogue and Joe Mantegna is very good in the title role. Asks us to examine ourselves And looks at both sides of prejudice. ”

The Naked Kiss

Samuel Fuller

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

armand muniz: “Dark future dramadey, contemporary fantasy, the plight of the working man, and the danger of the bureaucracy. ”

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Peter Yates

armand muniz: “Robert Mitchum is amazing”

The Naked City

Jules Dassin

armand muniz: “New York City, dirty back when it was supposedly squeaky clean. ”

Nashville

Robert Altman

armand muniz: “Altman can juggle multiple characters and multiple stories in one cohesive plot like no other. Everyone has a purpose. ”

Foreign Correspondent

Alfred Hitchcock

Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler

armand muniz: “This is the movie that made me want to make my own films and always carry a camera. And Peter Boyle never had hair I guess.”

Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder

armand muniz: “This is today. Only now its called TMZ. ”

The Lady Vanishes

Alfred Hitchcock

The Uninvited

Lewis Allen

armand muniz: “Watched this with my dad. He told me about how movies like this used to scare him as a kid. Its all in the atmosphere. ”

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

armand muniz: “Didn't like this at first viewing but it has grown on me. ”

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan

armand muniz: “What made Marlon Brando into Brando”

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Martin Ritt

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

armand muniz: “My favorite by Kubrick. Simple and raw. ”

Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick

armand muniz: “One of my favorite films. To see the dark side of fame and show business in a contemporary light as opposed to a reflective period piece. ”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

armand muniz: “A warning of sorts. And we didn't listen. ”

Anatomy of a Murder

Otto Preminger

armand muniz: “Such frank talk of sex and violence at the time was surprising. And compared to other films of this period, refreshing.”

Metropolitan

Whit Stillman

armand muniz: “Pretentious behavior under a microscope. The emptiness is sad.”

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese

armand muniz: “Raging Bull King of Comedy Last Temptation of Christ”

The Great Dictator

Charles Chaplin

armand muniz: “Brilliant. Just brilliant. ”

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater

armand muniz: “Pretty much my high school experience but replace football with baseball and Kiss with Nirvana”

Slacker

Richard Linklater

armand muniz: “another example of characters making a simple story much more interesting, or in this case several stories. ”

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Nagisa Oshima

armand muniz: “Brutal. Simply brutal. ”

Godzilla

Ishiro Honda

armand muniz: “So impressive. Almost timeless. Like our bad dreams as kids came to life. ”

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Abdellatif Kechiche

Armageddon

Michael Bay

armand muniz: “Michael Bay is like a 40 year old child with a camera. Takes our big ideas as a kid and makes them real on the screen. Great ensemble cast. ”

A Christmas Tale

Arnaud Desplechin

armand muniz: “Funny, touching, and sad. ”

The Hidden Fortress

Akira Kurosawa

The Devil’s Backbone

Guillermo del Toro

armand muniz: “Del Toro makes films that feel like adult bedtime stories except that theyre all violent and frightening. ”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

armand muniz: “Horrifying. Again, its about atmosphere. And the shady Southern preacher is a big help. Like a nightmare. ”

Kiss Me Deadly

Robert Aldrich

Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa

armand muniz: “Didn't get the hype about Kurosawa until seeing this film. I could just watch and before I knew it the film was over. ”

Tiny Furniture

Lena Dunham

armand muniz: “Basically a longer episode of HBO's Girls. ”

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

Thief

Michael Mann

armand muniz: “James Caan is one of the most underrated cool "bad guys" in film”

The Hit

Stephen Frears

armand muniz: “As breezy as a mob thriller can get. Waters and Clapton's music is a character itself. ”

The Four Feathers

Zoltán Korda

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

armand muniz: “Gene Hackman at his best.”