Need a quickie Criterion recommendation.
 

The only movie I've seen is Chasing Amy. It's easier to list the ones I DON'T have, so if it's not on the following list, I have it.

What movie would you recommend for mom and I to see first?

Akira Kurosawa Box - Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Hidden Fortress, Seven Samurai

1 Grand Illusion
4 Amarcord
8 The Killer OOP
9 Hard Boiled OOP
10 Walkabout
12 This is Spinal Tap OOP
13 Silence of the Lambs OOP
15 Samurai II
16 Samurai III
17 Salo OOP
18 Naked Kiss
20 Sid & Nancy OOP
21 Dead Ringers OOP
23 Robocop OOP
24 High and Low
25 Alphaville
29 Picnic at Hanging Rock
31 Great Expectations
33 Nanook of the North
36 Wages of Fear
39 Tokyo Drifter
45 Taste of Cherry
46 The Most Dangerous Game
47 Insomnia
50 And the Ship Sails On
57 Charade OOP
70 Last Temptation of Christ
73 Cleo from 6 to 7
77 And God Created Woman
81 Variety Lights
82 Hamlet
84 Good Morning
85 Pygmalion
91 The Blob
92 Fiend without a Face
93 Black Narcissus
94 I know where I'm Going!
96 Written on the Wind
99 Gimme Shelter
100 Beastie Boys VideoAnthology
106 Coup de Torchon
107 Mona Lisa
109 The Scarlet Empress
110 M Hulot's Holiday (JAN 2004)
111 Mon Oncle (JAN 2004)
112 Playtime OOP (COMING SOON)
117 Diary of a Chambermaid
119 Withnail and I
120 How to get Ahead in Ad OOP
122 Salesman
123 Grey Gardens
124 Dreyer Box set 125 Day of Wrath 126 Ordet 127 Gertrude 128 My Metier
130 The Shop on Main Street
138 Rashomon
139 Wild Strawberries
142 The Last Wave
146 The Cranes are Flying
148 Ballad of a Soldier
150 Bob le Flambeur
151 Traffic
152 George Washinton
154 The Horse's Mouth
159 Red Beard
160 A Nous la Liberte
165 Man Bites Dog
166 Down by Law
171 Contempt
174 Band of Outsiders
177 Lost Honor of KatharinaBlum
183 Les DamesdyBoisdeBoulogne
184 by Brakhage - an Anthology
191 Jubilee
199 Scihzopolis
217 Tokyo Story
219 La Strada

The Killer. Thats a real chick flick.

Traffic is pretty "mainstream".

Picnic at Hanging Rock might be interesting for you and mom to watch.

So, wait, we should pick from the titles NOT on your list? I can see this is already confusing.

My recommendation - either Notorious or That Obscure Object of Desire.

139 Wild Strawberries. I got this one for Christmas and I loved it.

Charade!

Definitely Salo is the movie for you and your mother. Grab some Jiffypop and enjoy.

Seriously, Tokyo Story is a touching story about the generation gap as it occurs (occurred) in post war Japan. A good movie for you and mom to watch together. Ozu's style is not as western as Kurosawa's but the story transcends style.

The Tati trilogy is something for the whole family too. My son, who can't read the subtitles, loves Mon Oncle and Playtime. The slapstick stiutations and sight gags don't need subtitles.

Rashomon is a great story about aspects of truth. And the first half of High and Low is the best Ed McBain crime drama on film.

Some of the other films from your list are an acquired taste. Alphaville, Man Bites Dog, Tokyo Drifter, How to Get Ahead .

Your DVDProfiler says that you have all those that you listed? Anyway, I'd recommend Solaris because that movie is great.

Armageddon! That's my answer to all Criterion questions!

So you have ALL the Criterions that are not on that list. Well that would be nearly 100 films or more. Yet you need our advice on what to watch?

Anyone who has aquired all those titles and doesn't know what to watch is beyond me.

It's ironic isn't it. The more DVDs I have the more time I spend deciding what to watch :D

Wages of Fear or George Washington

or Rashomon

Seventh Seal...maybe...

Ballad of a Soldier

:eek:

I say definitely, but then, that's just me.

I'll also second Picnic at Hanging Rock and Rashomon.

Maybe also I Know Where I'm Going?

Maybe you could tell us more what you're in the mood for, or what you're looking for in watching a movie with Mom? I mean, I don't know if you'd really want to watch Dead Ringers or The Night Porter with her. ;)

(both of which are trippy flicks I'd recommend) :)

Very cute, Dick Dastardly. :)

I'm dying to watch The Pornographers with her but she'd skin me alive. :)

I pretty much like most movies I see and these are lauded the world over, and I'm going to get to see all of them at some point :)

We ended up watching Lord of the Flies (I'd read the story). I fell asleep, she hated it because . I told her that was the whole point of the movie, how human beings revert to that if placed in a salvage environment, but she hated it.

Then we watched Fiddler on the Roof - first time for her, second for me - and she loved that. Same for The Kid. Maybe we'll watch a Hitchcock... she says she likes that :)

Red Beard!

definitely charade. also, if you or her are christians or spiritual (but not devout in church traditions), i suggest last temptation of christ....

Jason x.

We watched Se7en and she liked it better than Fight Club. She doesn't like Fincher's films. I thought Fight Club was brilliant (I'd seen both once before a long time ago and remembered Se7en better than Fight Club). We're watching K-Pax next (following Spacey :D)

It's so easy to pick movies she'll like if they're not Criterion. I have her taste pretty much down. I knew Fight Club wasn't her thing but I want to expose her to everything :) (she'll watch whatever I watch). I know K-Pax, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Kid are her thing - some melodrama, some humor.

Watch Signs. Not criterion but still a good Melodrama/comedy.

Black Narcissus and Written on the Wind should work well with mom. I made my mom sit through Serial Mom once and she hated it - at least it wasn't Desperate Living!

Stay away from Salo. I'm sure you're mom won't appreciate it.

I'd say go with the Kurosawa Samurai set --- Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro

This has got to be the funniest thread ever. Every single person who responded fundamentally missunderstood the original post.

Go back and read it again guys. Hint: She doesn't own Salo ;)

I just re-read the original post. It was an awkward way of phrasing the question. It might be easier for her to list the CC dvds that she doesn't have which probably means that wants us to give her recommendations from the titles she hasn't listed, which is not very easy for us to recommend since we'd have to look up the titles that she has. This is added work, so I don't think I could be of much help, since I'm too lazy to look up the titles.

But giving the list a quick glance, I'd highly recommend 'M'. Its so great that I have been trying to convince my wife to watch it.