The Criterion Collection

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer

Night Train to Munich

Carol Reed

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.”

Diabolique

Henri-Georges Clouzot

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. ”

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

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.”

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.”

Pierrot le fou

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Kwaidan

Masaki Kobayashi

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

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Martin Ritt

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Misanthropy.”

Tokyo Drifter

Seijun Suzuki

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “beautiful”

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.”

The Pornographers

Shohei Imamura

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “good-natured sleeze”

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.”

Repo Man

Alex Cox

The Element of Crime

Lars von Trier

Tleilaxu_Eyes: “Dissociative film.”

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. ”

Shallow Grave

Danny Boyle

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.”

Insomnia

Erik Skjoldbjærg

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

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.”