gryffinmaster

Top CC Want: A Clockwork Orange
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
Nosferatu
King Kong

Cameron

what more could CC do with Casablanca or King Kong that warner hasn't done already?

evenswr

Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Fisher King

james2025a

I second the vote for A Clockwork Orange. I don't know whether it is just me, but i feel that all Kubricks films have been ignored when it comes to DVD. Sure they released the Kubrick collection with the documentary DVD, but that seems very bare bones to me. They could have had commentaries on the DVDs by the actors (which i am sure would be very interesting for stories of Kubricks notorious un-ending takes), and i am sure that materials are available. For example i remember seeing a making of 2001....why wasn't that ever included on the DVD. The only film that had any extra was The Shining which included the excellent making of by Kubricks daughter. Criterion also did a fantastic job with Spartacus....but after reading books on Kubrick you realize that Spartacus was a film that Kubrick seemed to ignore in a way.

There was also an excellent documentary made by Channel 4 in England about a Clockwork Orange that was presented by critic Tony Parsons and included interviews with most of the people and talked about why it was banned (this was screened on television before it had been officially re-released in the UK). That would be good to include.

roomservice

I see Criterion more as a company that releases movies that otherwise would never get released. Not so much as a feature factory for barebones DVDs.

True_Story1011

I dont agree with that statement roomservice

I think that the big companies that own the rights to these properties know that video and DVD sales are higher then most films debut's on the silver screen.

So why would they let outside companies come in and help produce properties they they gain the most with already.

Why not do what they've done now for the past 6 years....

1. Release film with nothing
2. re-release film restored footage
3. add Special Edition w/ 'never before seen fotage'
4. Director's Cuts 'footage added back into film'
5. Anniversary editions

They make a ton of money, and dont have to bring the filmmakers back on board for approval and an extra paychecks.

They now know the consumers track record for what titles are selling... they will not be making the same mistake as they did in the 80's and early 90's as with LD's.

Most companies have independent studies for what films from their studio's you would like to see most.

True_Story1011

I would love to see:

Welcome to the Dollhouse
Dellamorte Dellamore (Anchor Bay is 'supposally' bring out in '06)
Bottle Rockets
The Game
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Battle Royale
Young Frankenstein
Monster Squad
Delicatessen
Brain Dead/Dead Alive
City of God
Eyes Wide Shut
Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
Nosferatu
Bicycle Theif
Godzilla
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
The Unknown
Kin-Dza-Dza
City of Lost Children
Harvey
Faust (1926)

roomservice

Ooh, you've got some good ones on your list True Story1011!

Delicatessen, The Game, Battle Royale.

True, there are many titles Criterion has spruced up for DVD, but most of their catalog are older, classic, foreign, and lesser known titles that cult fans or film buffs are happy just to have features or not.

hardtack

Wise Blood
If
O Lucky Man
Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
The Bed Sitting Room
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End

Peep

Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!

natevines

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but since Criterion recently did Dassin's '49 and '50 film noirs (Thieves' Highway + Night and the City), it makes sense to re-issue his '47 and '48 noirs (Brute Force + Naked City). Both these are available on OOP Image discs with poor transfers, and sell for more than $100, I believe. Fortunately I found a copy of Brute Force at my local library so I was at least able to watch it (excellent film BTW) but Criterions of these would be awesome.

FilmFanSea

If you elect me President of Criterion, I promise to release the following, as quickly as humanly possible (AFAIK, none of these have been rumored or announced, though I've listed a few which have been released, but cry out for better treatment):

7th Heaven (Borzage/1927) [from Fox]
Street Angel (Borzage/1928) [from Fox]
Lucky Star (Borzage/1929) [from Fox]
The River (Borzage/1929) [from Fox]
Belle de jour (Buñuel/1967) [from Buena Vista]
Tristana (Buñuel/1970)
Love Streams (Cassavetes/1984)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies/1988)
Shoeshine (De Sica/1947)
Bicycle Thief (De Sica/1948) [from Image]
Vampyr (Dreyer/1932) [from Image]
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder/1980)
Lonesome (Fejos/1928) [from Universal]
Napoleon (Gance/1927) [from Universal]
Breathless (A bout de souffle) (Godard/1959) [from Wellspring]
Gueule d'amour (Lady Killer) (Grémillon/1937)
Lumière d'éte (Grémillon/1943)
The Story of a Cheat (Guitry/1936)
The Pearls of the Crown (Guitry/1937)
City of Sadness (Hou/1989)
The Puppetmaster (Hou/1993) [from Wellspring]
The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura/1983)
A Tale of the Wind (Une histoire de vent) (Ivens/1989)
Where Is the Friend's Home? (Kiarostami/1987)
Decalogue (Kieslowski/1988)
A Page of Madness (Kinugasa/1926) [from New Line?]
Midnight (Leisen/1939) [from Universal]
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (Marker/2000)
A Wife Confesses (Masumura/1961)
Red Angel (Masumura/1966)
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey/1935) [from Universal]
Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey/1937) [from Universal]
Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Mizoguchi/1939)
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi/1952)
Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho Dayu) (Mizoguchi/1954)
Repast (Meshi) (Naruse/1951)
Mother (Okasan) (Naruse/1952)
Sound of the Mountain (Yama no oto) (Naruse/1954)
Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (Naruse/1955)
The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophüls/1953)
Death by Hanging (Koshikei) (Oshima/1968)
Woman of Tokyo (Ozu/1933)
What Did the Lady Forget? (Ozu/1937)
There Was a Father (Ozu/1942)
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu/1947)
Equinox Flower (Ozu/1958)
Early Spring (Ozu/1956)
Late Autumn (Ozu/1960)
The Baker's Wife (Pagnol/1938) [from Kino]
Limite (Peixoto/1931)
The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali/Aparajito/World of Apu (S. Ray/1959)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir/1936)
Partie de campagne/A Day in the Country (Renoir/1937)
Olympia (Riefenstahl/1938)
Open City (Roma Citta aperta) (Rossellini/1945) [from Image]
Arigato-san (Mr. Thank You) (Shimizu/1936)
La Region centrale (Snow/1971)
*Corpus Callosum (Snow/2002)
Mirror (Tarkovsky/1975) [from Kino]
Stalker (Tarkovsky/1979) [from Image]
Chimes at Midnight (Falstaff) (Welles/1967)
Taipei Story (Yang/1985)
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang/1991)
Mahjong (Yang/1996)