Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Top Ten Criterion Collection Films (personal collection)



















All Criterion Collection, Eclipse, and Essential Art House series (brands of Criterion) titles are on sale at Barnes & Noble (50% off) until August 1st, both at stores and online. I just got Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) on bluray and it looks fabulous. Image from DVDBeaver.com. 















What are the Top 5 or 10 discs from your collection? Mine are as follows (all regular ray/dvd):
  1. The Double Life of Véronique  (Kieślowski, 1991) - Slavoj ŽiŽek's essay from included booklet
  2. In the Mood for Love  (Wong, 2000)
  3. Children of Paradise  (Carné, 1945)
  4. Red Beard  (Kurosawa, 1965) - roger ebert's the great movies
  5. Contempt  (Godard, 1963)
  6. The Royal Tenenbaums  (W. Anderson, 2001)
  7. The Rules of the Game  (Renoir, 1939)
  8. Trouble in Paradise  (Lubitsch, 1932) - 'lost treasure' from sense of cinema
  9. Jules and Jim  (Truffaut, 1962)
  10. A Woman is a Woman  (Godard, 1961)
Honorable Mentions (bluray): Chungking Express, Days of Heaven, and Seven Samurai

Revised 7/20/11: Real Honorable Mention (dvd) is A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961).
Revised 8/4/11: replaced M with A Woman is a Woman (i have the older version of M).



1 comment:

harvey zissou said...

real honorable mention (dvd): a woman is a woman (godard, 1961)--the difference between the original dvd and the criterion version is night and day.

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