dvdlover20

I have just started to collect criterion dvds and i have noticed alot of really good movies that are not on criterion such as

Titanic
Bottle rocket
citizen kane

and many more

and i was wondering if anybody has a list of their own they would like to see get put on criterion

Pants

Daredevil
American Beauty
Casablana

Sunday Morning

charlie's angels 2: full throttle.

ok,

rules of the game.

home vision put out the video.

wendersfan

You might want to look for the dozens of other threads with roughly the same subject.

FWIW, Titanic is an awful movie, Bottle Rocket is decent, but not worthy of Criterion, and the existing Citizen Kane release is the equal of anything Criterion has produced.

dvdlover20

originally posted by wendersfan

You might want to look for the dozens of other threads with roughly the same subject.

FWIW, Titanic is an awful movie, Bottle Rocket is decent, but not worthy of Criterion, and the existing Citizen Kane release is the equal of anything Criterion has produced.


well sorry if you don't like the same movies that i do but i just wanted to remind you that Titanic received alot of awards including best picture does that even matter to you?

wendersfan

Well no, it doesn't matter to me at all, which a search for this thread would have told you:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=251727

I don't base my opinions of movies on which awards they've won, and if I did, it certainly wouldn't be based on the Academy Awards.

lisadoris

Several other threads address this topic but I'll still add my say:
Malcolm X is my first choice for a criterion release.

Mr. Salty

Well then, instead of criticizing dvdlover20's list, which isn't the point of the thread, why not stay on topic and contribute films you do consider worthy?

On topic, my dream Criterion would be a three-disc set of "Apocalypse Now," with the original theatrical cut on Disc One, "Apocalypse Redux" on Disc Two and the documentary "Hearts of Darkness" on Disc Three.

VincentVega

Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
12 Monkey's
Pulp Fiction
Plan 9 From Outer Space (I'm serious)
King Kong
Evil Dead 2

I know some of those titles already have some pretty loaded disc's out there and I'm not sure what else could be added but I'm sure Criterion could come up with something.

Coral

How about films that aren't on Criterion, but have some chance (however slim) and should be.

I'm thinking of smaller films that aren't mainstream, and either aren't well done on DVD, or even released at all on DVD.

Last Night
Exotica
Shallow Grave
The Double-Life of Veronique
Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring
Delicatessen
Short Cuts
The Sacrifice
The Mirror
Slums of Beverly Hills
Breathless (Godard)
Jesus of Montreal
The Conformist
Badlands
Fearless
New Waterford Girl

gutwrencher

The Other from '72. nobody else seems to care about it, so let them give it a little love.

lesterlong

Agree with Short Cuts

I'll add:

Kagemusha
Dodes' Ka-Den
Dial M for Murder
Footlight Parade
The Public Enemy
Lost Highway
Clockwork Orange
Ed Wood

Seeker

I just want them to get Devil & Daniel Webster out on DVD...

Coral

BTW, what's with the the lack of Canadian films on Criterion?

Canada's only represented with Dead Ringers, which is a Canada/USA venture.

dvdlover20

i would also like to add:

jaws
grease
escape from alcatraz(1971 with clint eastwood)
and Ran(akira kurosawa)

FilmFanSea

My 2¢---the titles I'd most like to see on Criterion. I've indicated how likely it is that each film ends up on the Criterion label: L=Likely, P=Possible, U=Unlikely. Note that, up to now, Criterion has only licensed films for DVD release from two of the major studios: Universal & Disney (Miramax/Touchstone); they also have a working relationship with Wellspring (formerly Fox Lorber/Winstar):

Michaelangelo Antonioni: L'eclisse/The Eclipse (1962/L)

Ingmar Bergman: Fanny and Alexander (1983/MGM/U)

Bernardo Bertolucci: Il Conformista/The Conformist (1971/Paramount/U)

Robert Bresson: Au Hasard Balthazar (1966/L), Le Journal d'un curé de campagne/The Diary of a Country Priest (1950/L), Un condamné à mort s'est échappé/A Man Escaped 1957/New Yorker/U), Pickpocket (1959/New Yorker/U)

Luis Buñuel: L'Age d'Or (1930/Kino/U), Los Olivados (1950/P), Viridiana (1961/P), Tristana (1970/L)

Marcel Carné: Le Jour se lève/Daybreak (1939/L)

Vittorio De Sica: Ladri di biciclette/The Bicycle Thief (1948/Image/P), Sciuscià/Shoeshine (1947/Image/P), Two Women (1960/P)

Victor Erice: El Sur (1982/New Yorker/U), El Espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive (1973/L)

W.C. Fields: It's a Gift (1934/McLeod/Universal/P), Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935/Bruckman/Universal/P)

Jean-Luc Godard: À bout de souffle/Breathless (1959/Wellspring/P), Vivre sa vie/My Life to Live (1962/Wellspring/P), Pierrot le fou (1965/Wellspring/P)

Howard Hawks: Bringing Up Baby (1938/Warner/U), Twentieth Century (1934/Columbia Tristar/U), To Have and Have Not (1944/Warner/U)

Hsaio-Hsien Hou: City of Sadness (1989/P), The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985/P)

Kon Ichikawa: The Burmese Harp (1956/L)

Shohei Imamura: The Ballad of Narayama (1982/L), The Insect Woman (1963/P)

Aki Kaurismaki: Drifting Clouds (1996/P), The Man without a Past (2002/Columbia Tristar/U)

Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Decalogue (1988/Facets/U)

Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru/To Live (1952/L)

Emir Kusturica: When Father was Away on Business (1985/P), Underground (1995/New Yorker/U)

Mitchell Leisen: Midnight (1939/Universal/P)

Harold Lloyd: The Freshman (1925/Newmeyer/P), The Kid Brother (1927/Wilde/P)

Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be (1942/Warner/U)

Leo McCarey: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935/Universal/P), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937/Universal/P)

Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Samourai (1967/New Yorker/U)

Kenji Mizoguchi: Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939/L), The Life of Oharu (1952/L), Sansho Dayu/Sansho the Bailiff (1954/L), Ugetsu (1954/L)

Mikio Naruse: Ukigumo/Floating Clouds (1955/P), Mother (1952/P)

Ermanno Olmi: L'Albero degli zoccoli/The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978/New Yorker/U)

Max Ophüls: The Earrings of Madame de ... (1953/L)

Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Story (1953/L), There was a Father (1942/P), Late Spring (1949/P), Autumn Afternoon (1962/P)

Satyajit Ray: The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali, Aparajito, World of Apu (1954-9/Columbia Tristar/U), The Music Room (1958/P)

Jean Renoir: La Règle du jeu/Rules of the Game (1939/L), Une Partie de campagne/A Day in the Country (1937/P), La Chienne (1931/P), The River (1951/L)

Victor Seastrom (Sjöström): The Scarlet Letter (1926/Warner/U), The Wind (1928/Warner/U)

George Stevens: Gunga Din (1939/Warner/U)

Preston Sturges: The Palm Beach Story (1942/Universal/P), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944/Paramount/U)

Béla Tarr: Sátántangó (1994/P), Kárhozat/Damnation (1988/P), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000/P)

Jacques Tati: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1951/P), Playtime (1967/P)--re-releases featuring restored prints

King Vidor: The Big Parade (1924/Warner/U), The Crowd (1928/Warner/U)

Jean Vigo: Zero for Conduct (1933/L)

Luchino Visconti: Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (1963/L)

Josef von Sternberg: The Last Command (1928/Paramount/U)

Erich von Stroheim: Greed (1928/Warner/U)

Orson Welles: Chimes at Midnight (1967/P), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942/Warner/U)

Wim Wenders: Im Lauf der Zeit/Kings of the Road (1976/P)

Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity (1944/Universal/U)

Zhang Yimou: Raise the Red Lantern (1991/MGM/U)

My apologies--I didn't mean for the post to be so long. I think I got carried away . . .

shill66

The Plague Dogs
Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People)
The Quiet Earth
and I sure wouldn't mind a nice special edition of Kundun.

darkflounder

But Bob and Doug MacKenzie's Strange Brew and a compilation of CBC Hockey Night in Canada aren't exactly great Criterion fodder. However, a 9 disc Ken Burn's historical documentary on Curling would be fascinating.

I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist.

darkflounder

I'm still waiting for a Criterion release of Battleship Potemkin.

And I think some Criterion releases of Marx Bros movies would be outstanding.

TomOpus

In case you missed this from another thread...slated for September:

The Devil and Daniel Webster
Jabez Stone is a hard-working farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the Devil himself. For seven years of good fortune, Stone promises “Mr. Scratch” his soul when the contract ends. When the troubled farmer begins to realize the error of his choice, he enlists the aid of the one man who might save him: the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster. Directed with stylish flair by William Dieterle, The Devil and Daniel Webster brings the classic short story by Stephen Vincent Benét to life with inspired visuals, an unforgettable Oscar®-winning score by Bernard Herrmann, and a truly diabolical performance from Walter Huston.

Special Features
-New restored digital transfer of the full-length 106-minute version
-Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder and Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith
-Video comparison between The Devil and Daniel Webster and William Dieterle’s “preview version” of the film, entitled Here Is a Man
-The Columbia Workshop’s radio dramatizations of Stephen Vincent Benét’s stories The Devil and Daniel Webster and Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent, both with music by Bernard Herrmann
-Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional materials
-New essay by author Tom Piazza (Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories)
-English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
-Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

mwj

Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Samourai I have wanted to see this movie for ten years.

Sam See

casino

Class316

umm….most Criterions are awful movies! I always wondered why so many pay so much for them!

And if you are going to collect them, You may want to make sure the Criterion isn’t actually a bad version of the movie.

http://www.dvdcompare.org.uk/comparisons/

GmoneyOwnsYou

Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 !

Coral

Hey, they're still better choices than Armageddon and The Rock. (actually, I'm not really kidding either).