Exactly how could Criterion improve upon the existing Fight Club and Seven releases? Both are among the finest DVD releases ever, equalling the finest Criterion has to offer (although the artistic quality of both films is maybe less than Criterion's usual standards).

A few:

1. The Magnificent Ambersons (if only so that I don't have to drop $50+ on the CC LD)
2. The Ballad of Narayama (I mean the Imamura one. It's conceivable due to their scheduled release of The Pornographers sometime this summer.)
3. more Wong Kar-Wai (I know that there are passable versions of Ashes of Time and Days of Being Wild on HK DVDs, but his stuff is really intellectual and really benefits from supplements. And plus Chungking Express, despite being perfectly serviceable on the release it has now, just BEGS for a proper release )
4. La Strada (seeing as how it's the Fellini movie that I actually DO like...)
5. F For Fake (the more Welles, the better. This movie is SCREAMING for a DVD release, though, especially if the DVD producers decided to have a little fun with the release and put in lots of fraudulent supplements.)

Just a few. I'd love to get some Carax or more Kiarostami or Donen in the CC, but it doesn't look likely. I tried to keep my list to films not entirely outside of the realm of possibility.

Exactly my point. I think everyone needs to realize that a Criterion Collection is generally no better than a stacked New Line Platinum or Fox 2-disc set (which Se7en and Fight Club were, respectively). I think Criterion is about taking films that haven't been treated well and doing them the justice that the major studios will not. That is why we see so many foreign/classic films given the treatment. It's not about seeing your favorite film with a spine number, it's about a forgotten gem in a pile of coal getting the polishing that it needs and deserves.

I'd like to see a box set of Kurosawa's "early period" films, say:

• The Most Beautiful
• They Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
• No Regrets For Our Youth
• Drunken Angel
• Stray Dog
• The Idiot

or some Val Lewton classics:

• Cat People
• The Leopard Man
• The Seventh Victim
• Ghost Ship
• The Body Snatcher

or perhaps a long-awaited expansion into gay porn!

Final Countdown
Then I would be happy!

The 5 films or sets I would most like Criterion to release (excludes already announced or suspected titles):

The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles/1942/Warner)*
The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, World of Apu) (Satyajit Ray/1954,1958,1959)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman/1983/MGM/UA)*--with both cuts
Kings of the Road (Wenders/1976)
Greed (von Stroheim/1925/Warner)*

plus . . . as many of Jean Renoir's films as they can get their hands on (including the long-anticipated La Regle du jeu, plus A Day in the Country, La Chienne, The River . . .)

*Note that Ambersons, Fanny and Alexander, and Greed are virtual impossibilities for Criterion release due to the studios which control them. But it's fun to dream, isn't it?

my picks for films that are NOT on dvd in R1 yet:


La Dolce Vita

Viridianna

Phantom of Liberty

The Milky Way

Simon of the Desert

Trainspotting
Velvet Goldmine
Peyton Place
Wild in the Streets
Zabriskie Point

Sling Blade

City Of God

Trainspotting

Planet Of The Apes

Ran

Hustler / Color Of Money

Blade Runner

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Home Vision put out the VHS tape)

The Thief and the Cobbler: Director's Cut (Disney owns rights, but has done little publicly)

Abel Gance's Napoleon (Universal and CanalPlus+ still have video rights to the film. Criterion would make a wonderful DVD edition!)

The Paramount Marx Bros. films (Universal owns them)

Battleship Potemkin

Malle's My Dinner with Andre
Anderson's Bottle Rocket
Coppola's Apocalypse Now (both cuts + A Filmmaker's Apocalypse)
Flaherty's Clifford
Robbins' Good Burger

Yes, MD does look and sound good and I agree ..content is king.

However, since we are talking Criterion, I think it fair to say that the buyer expects a bunch of extras for the dollars they charge (whenever those extras are possible). Btw, the Korean version and the French versions would be a big stretch to call them SEs.

As to my list:

1) Mulholland Drive with commentary by Mary Sweeney (editor) and another track with Peter Deming (cinematographer). A movie location site tour. MD Pilot, Actor discussion with the main cast etc. etc.

2) Lost Highway

3) Hitchcock Collection - restored versions of Alfred Hitchcock's Number 17, The Ring, Murder! and The Lodger.

4) Good Burger. The film request that would not die.

5) Danger Diabolik

These will never happen, but life in my dream world is quite nice...

1) Bertolucci's The Conformist
Imagine a 2 disc set of this? And the extras they could get? How about a Scorsese/Coppola commentary...

2) Wender's Paris, Texas
Commentary by Wenders, Ry Cooder, Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, and Nastassa Kinksi

3) Fukasaku's Graveyard of Honor and Humanity
Miike's Graveyard of Honor
2 disc double feature, like The Killers

4) Weir's Fearless
Letterboxed, pristine print...

5) Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev
3 disc set - 1st disc is the 180 minute "official" version, 2nd disc is the 205 minute workprint, both anamorphic, 3rd disc of extras, I can't think of any title more deserving...

1) Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
2) Vampyr
3) King Kong
4) Yojimbo (let's get it right, this time!)
5) Macbeth (w/Orson Welles) or Chimes at Midnight (also Welles, that isn't even f***in' AVAILABLE! I would buy this on VHS!)

The following classic hindi movie.

1) Sholay (1975)
2) Sholay (1975)
3) Sholay (1975)
4) Sholay (1975)
5) Sholay (1975)

At this point I'd be happy with almost any release of The Conformist, but this films deserves a major release. Why couldn't Bertolucci do a commentary (maybe with Vittorio Storaro)?
The R2 Anchor Bay release has deleted scenes and a very nice commentary by Wenders. All in all a great release.

Would be great, but sadly Warner owns this......

A few months ago an Australian versions was released, but Warner just repackaged their existing R1 dvd (that's also encoded for R4) over there.

Sure, the more the merrier!

AFAIK The Conformist is owned by Paramount. So, like the rest of the titles on my list, I don't think a Criterion is even a vague possibility. If Paramount ever gets around to putting it out, we'll be lucky if we get a trailer.

Leave Her To Heaven - Gene Tierney (It's coming out from Fox but its brilliant color photography would be done right by CC)
Forbidden Games (Foreign)
La Dolce Vita
Portrait of Jennie (Cotten/Jones)
Dinner At Eight

1. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
2. Billy Madison
3. Frank Zappa movie(s) (Baby Snakes, 200 Motels)
4. Spaceballs
5. Mulholland Dr.

I'm all for Fearless. Warner's doesn't seem to care about providing a non P&S release. I'd settle for a bare-bones release as long as it's anamorphic widescreen.

Others I'd like to see:

Last Night
Badlands
Exotica
Picnic at Hanging Rock (re-release with anamorphic transfer)
Andrei Rublev (re-release with anamorphic transfer)
Blowup

wow, thanks for the info!
Hopefully they're the same films I have on the volume 1 vhs from Mystic Fire Video. That and Un Chien Andalou are the only two pre-recorded vhs I still own, lol.

http://www.fantoma.com/ff_preview.html

HOLY SH1tt !!!!!!!!!


I can't believe what I see!


Audio commentaries have been recorded by Kenneth Anger himself for all the films.




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Raging Bull

Goodfellas

Battle Royale

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Apocalypse Now

The Killer - for a good transfer
Ran - for a good transfer
BladeRunner - would be great