The Criterion Collection

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer

Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Laserdisc version.”

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa

Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Guaranteed to make you feel guilty about the way you treat your parents.”

Richard III

Laurence Olivier

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Love and Hate.”

The Human Condition

Masaki Kobayashi

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

The Bad Sleep Well

Akira Kurosawa

High and Low

Akira Kurosawa

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Effectively conveys the oppressive heat and humidity of Japanese summers. ”

Three Outlaw Samurai

Hideo Gosha

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “A lot of classic samurai films don't actually have much swordplay, not a problem here. Recommended if you're craving artful blood splatter.”

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

Pale Flower

Masahiro Shinoda

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Beautiful. Infinitely re-watchable. Narcotic film. Saeko is like a Japanese version of a girl I used to date; poison.”

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Martin Ritt

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Misanthropy.”

Kwaidan

Masaki Kobayashi

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “the perfect movie to watch on a cold winter morning”

Pierrot le fou

Jean-Luc Godard

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Watch this with your significant other and a few tabs of blotter. Trust me.”

The Pornographers

Shohei Imamura

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “good-natured sleeze”

The Sword of Doom

Kihachi Okamoto

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Probably my favorite role of Tatsuya Nakadai, who portrays an enigmatic and brooding killer. Gorgeous cinematography and elegant sword play.”

Tokyo Drifter

Seijun Suzuki

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “beautiful”

Le samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “No one has ever rocked the fedora and trench coat look better than Alain Delon in this film.”

If....

Lindsay Anderson

Army of Shadows

Jean-Pierre Melville

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Grim and suspenseful but also surprisingly humorous at times. Lino Ventura is awe inspiring. ”

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Anything great is built upon sorrow.”

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Peter Yates

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Life is shit and then you die.”

The Night Porter

Liliana Cavani

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Hot candy. ”

Vengeance Is Mine

Shohei Imamura

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Ken Ogata plays such a delightful rogue you can't help but laugh with him as he burns down the world around him.”

Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Laserdisc version.”

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “A highly erotic film with a visual flair that effortlessly combines the human obsessions of sex and death.”

The Element of Crime

Lars von Trier

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Dissociative film.”

Repo Man

Alex Cox

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “2 copies of the 5 disc Laserdisc version. On of the best Criterion editions.”

Down by Law

Jim Jarmusch

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “And now for something completely different. ”

The Killer

John Woo

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Easily the greatest film John Woo directed. More polished than A Better Tomorrow and more grounded than Hard Boiled. I own the Laserdisc version. ”

Insomnia

Erik Skjoldbjærg

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Extremely tense. I expected an explosion of violence at any time.”

The Ice Storm

Ang Lee

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “One of the best films of the '90s, even though it has nothing to do with the '90s. Also Kevin Kline is my hero.”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine.”

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “I used to love this movie. Watching it now, it feels so contrived.”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “i don't really like this any more.”

Antichrist

Lars von Trier

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Visually profound. The story is even better. A crying woman is a scheming woman.”

Yojimbo/Sanjuro Box Set

Akira Kurosawa

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “A+ Mifune action.”