The Criterion Collection

Europa

Lars von Trier

Martin: “Really need to watch this.”

The Thief of Bagdad

Tim Whelan, Michael Powell and Ludwig Berger

Martin: “Such a guilty pleasure movie. Makes you feel like a kid.”

Jigoku

Nobuo Nakagawa

Martin: “Really need to watch this.”

Antonio Gaudí

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Martin: “Absolutely amazing film and extras. A world I never knew existed.”

Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Jean Painlevé

Martin: “One of the truly truly great Criterion releases. So much terrific content.”

Empire of Passion

Nagisa Oshima

Martin: “Oshima's only genuine horror movie, and a masterpiece at that.”

Vengeance Is Mine

Shohei Imamura

Martin: “One of my all time favorites. Imamura is a genius.”

Sansho the Bailiff

Kenji Mizoguchi

Martin: “Classic Ichikawa. Really great.”

Patriotism

Yukio Mishima and Domoto Masaki

Martin: “Wonderful package all together with great supplements.”

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Paul Schrader

Martin: “Really really surreal. Strange film that takes the right mood.”

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

Martin: “One of the "movies that got me into movies" and a huge favorite.”

Pandora’s Box

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Martin: “Really excited to watch this.”

The Golden Age of Television

Martin: “Really need to get around to this.”

Two-Lane Blacktop

Monte Hellman

Martin: “Not quite up to par with Easy Rider, but still an amazing road movie.”

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer

Martin: “Wonderful early silent horror.”

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Martin: “Really want to tackle this in a single day. Just waiting for the perfect time.”

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura

Shohei Imamura

Martin: “Gotta love Imamura. Great set.”

World on a Wire

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Martin: “Stunning, surreal, sexy sci-fi. Just amazing.”

Anatomy of a Murder

Otto Preminger

Martin: “Need to watch.”

The Moment of Truth

Francesco Rosi

Martin: “Need to watch.”

Godzilla

Ishiro Honda

Martin: “Stunning transfer. Such a deep film. Really amazing.”

Belle de jour

Luis Buñuel

Martin: “Really excited to watch this.”

Traffic

Steven Soderbergh

Martin: “Like watching the movie for the first time. Just... Absolutely amazing. Really really great extras.”

Design for Living

Ernst Lubitsch

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Rushmore

Wes Anderson

Martin: “Classic Andersonian fare. Pure enjoyment.”

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

Martin: “Still need to watch”

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Identification of a Woman

Michelangelo Antonioni

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Kuroneko

Kaneto Shindo

Martin: “Definitely on the list of "Halloween Movies" to watch every year.”

Harakiri

Masaki Kobayashi

Martin: “The best anti-Samurai movie ever made.”

Les cousins

Claude Chabrol

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Le beau Serge

Claude Chabrol

Martin: “Still need to watch”

3 Women

Robert Altman

Martin: “Still need to watch”

My Life as a Dog

Lasse Hallström

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Orpheus

Jean Cocteau

Martin: “Really wanted to like this, but just wasn't for me.”

The Complete Jean Vigo

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Cul-de-sac

Roman Polanski

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Secret Sunshine

Lee Chang-dong

Martin: “Supposed to be very sad. Still need to watch.”

Léon Morin, Priest

Jean-Pierre Melville

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Naked

Mike Leigh

Martin: “Best director and actor at Cannes? Really need to watch this.”

High and Low

Akira Kurosawa

Martin: “My first non-Samurai Kurosawa film - really enjoy seeing early Mifune and Nakadai. Movie almost seems like two movies, in a very good way.”

Beauty and the Beast

Jean Cocteau

Martin: “So excited, can't wait to watch this.”

Pale Flower

Masahiro Shinoda

Martin: “I've heard this is very good. Excited to watch!”

Fat Girl

Catherine Breillat

Martin: “Still need to watch”

Blow Out

Brian De Palma

Martin: “Very well done. Love the special lens shots.”

Yojimbo/Sanjuro Box Set

Akira Kurosawa

Martin: “Watched the first, still need to watch the second.”

The Music Room

Satyajit Ray

Martin: “One of Criterion's best releases in its history. So much attention to packaging detail. Transfer is UNGODLY beautiful. Extras longer than the film.”

Tokyo Drifter

Seijun Suzuki

Martin: “Music is absolutely spot on. A bit of classic Nikatsu with a heavy dose of Suzuki style. Almost seems like a movie that Nicolas Roeg would have made.”

Branded to Kill

Seijun Suzuki

Martin: “Still need to watch”

The Makioka Sisters

Kon Ichikawa

Martin: “Still need to watch.”

The Phantom Carriage

Victor Sjöström

Martin: “So so so good. Really great scores and extras.”

Le cercle rouge

Jean-Pierre Melville

Martin: “Really need to watch this.”

Zazie dans le métro

Louis Malle

Martin: “Still need to watch.”

Yi Yi

Edward Yang

Martin: “Really charming movie. Very good, but nothing special.”

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders

Martin: “After Paris, Texas, I was so excited to pick this up. Unfortunately, this is one of my least favorite movies that Criterion has released. Really slow.”

White Material

Claire Denis

Martin: “Need to watch this.”

Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg

Martin: “My favorite movie ever. No other movie can match the cinematography, acting, music, setting and story. Like I said - the best ever made.”

The Wages of Fear

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Martin: “Ah such a great hammy French thriller. Shades of Hitchcock for sure.”

Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard

Martin: “Still need to watch this.”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

Martin: “David Cronenberg is just amazing. This movie is truly a precursor to the likes of Hostel / Touristas / Antichrist / A Serbian Movie.”