my absolute fav criterions. i capitalized the ones i'm particularly fanatical about.
- all godards (though especially pierrot le fou, tout va bien, and I heard week end is coming out through criterion, which would be awesome... though all my favorite godard stuff is later, like slow motion and hail mary)
- HAUSU
- spirit of the beehive
- the killer
- CLEO FROM 5 TO 7
- THE FIRE WITHIN
- shock corridor
- HIGH AND LOW
- long good friday
- picnic at hanging rock
- andrei rublev
- BRANDED TO KILL (in my top 10 films ever, they're re-releasing it with a new print finally)
- BLOW OUT (ditto)
- TOKYO DRIFTER
- ARIEL
- WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGOO?
- taste of cherry
- insomnia
- unbearable lightness of being
- NAKED (almost in my top 10 films ever)
- life of brian
- VAGABOND
- element of crime
- L'AVVVENTURA and any other Antonioni films they released - DOG STAR MAN
- MAN BITES DOG!
- IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
- 8 1/2!
- WILD STRAWBERRIES
- THE VANISHING
- how to get ahead in advertising
- symbiopsychotaxiplasm take 1
- KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE
- CRIES AND WHISPERS and any other Bergmans
- DOUBLE SUICIDE
- schizopolis
- ali: fear eats the soul (they've released a few fassbinder things -- including the 16 hour berlin alexanderplatz, but to be honest, they haven't released any of his best films -- pretty much the first 15 films he did are all masterpieces, especially love is colder than death and god of the plagues)
- THE PORNOGRAPHERS
- KNIFE IN THE WATER
- DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST and all other Bresson films (especially if they released Pickpocket)
- FLOATING WEEDS and other Ozus
- 3 WOMEN and any Altmans
- VIDEODROME
- SLACKER
- EYES WITHOUT A FACE
- my own private idaho
- f for fake
- phantom of liberty
- THE GAME (this isn't out yet, but it's a cool film being criterion'd soon)
- bad timing
- RAN
- MURMUR OF THE HEART
- AU REVOIRE LES ENFANTS
- LA COMBE LUCIEN
- ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS
- TAKE AIM A TTHE POLICE VAN
- LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON
- CLEAN, SHAVEN
- DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE
- SWEETIE
- la haine
- VENGEANCE IS MINE
- SWEET MOVIE
- IF....
- FACE OF ANOTHER
- NIGHT ON EARTH
- two-lane blacktop
- CHUNGKING EXPRESS
- MISSING
- FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
- THE HIT
- LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
- JEANNE DIELMAN 23 QUA DU COMMENCE 1080 BRUELLES (actually, that chantal akerman box set is probably my favorite criterion release, period, especially for the movie "NEWS FROM HOME")
- PARIS, TEXAS
- COLOSSAL YOUTH
- CLOSE-UP
- REVANCHE
- CRUMB
- FIVE EASY PIECES
- DRIVE, HE SAID
- safe place
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