I'm Glad This Movie Exists #3

The Ice Storm (1997)

Directed by Ang Lee

Links to The Criterion Collection page (watch the trailer there) with this nice article by Bill Krohn as well as the Roger Ebert review.  How about a link to an Ang Lee documentary on YouTube?

The image above is the cover to the sweet Criterion Collection DVD.

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).

In the Mood for Love (2000)

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai

There are transcendent moments in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love when the characters play-act the roles of their spouses (involved in an affair).  Simultaneously, you feel their pain, empathize with their spouses, and experience their connection—pushing you to understand what has happened, is happening, and could happen. 

Here's the french movie trailer and an extended trailer/montage with great images from the film.
The image above is the original Hong Kong poster from Posterdemic. Watch the US Criterion Collection release. 

Film reviews in fifty words (2011): Movies in need of a bluray release.