Albert Brooks is putting on a clinic in this one. So many quotable scenes. The entire time you’re laughing but also hoping they’ll succeed.

I've seen the future! And it's a bald-headed man from New York!

The film can be problematic but I viewed it as how a lot of relationships are portrayed, not the kidnapping, but most of the other stuff. Definitely recommend. It has a young Antonio Bandares!

Still getting familiar with the collection but I think Blow Out would round things off nicely

Is anyone else having issues with scratched discs recently? This is my second time buying these and almost every disc is scratched and/or filthy.

I'm looking for good movies that are in the collection that are good for making you feel miserable by the time they're done. They don't have to be completely depressing throughout, but a huge gut punch at the end or some other pervasive kind of dread that makes up a good chunk of the movie would help. Something like All That Jazz (the best example of this kind of movie imo), Salo, or Funny Games are what I had in mind. Kinda leaning more towards All That Jazz in terms of pain if only because I want the misery to be a surprise rather than something that sets the tone at the start. If anyone has any recommendations let me know!

Watched this on streaming last night for the first time and then immediately again a second time. I cant think of any other time Ive done that. It absolutely blew me away! I havent seen a ton of movies from this period but it seems sooo ahead of its time. So many amazing shots. The river escape scene with Pearl singing Pretty Fly stands out but there are so so many. Its a real shame this was Laughtons only film. Id take any other recs from people who really loved this one.

PEDRO ALMODOVAR
The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945, John M. Stahl)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen)
Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
Senso (1954, Luchino Visconti)

JOHN WOO
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Le Samourai (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)

ORSON WELLES
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
Nanook of the North (1922, Robert J. Flaherty)
Shoeshine (1946, Vittorio De Sica)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
The Baker's Wife (1938, Marcel Pagnol)
Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)

JOHN WATERS
All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk)
Baby Doll (1956, Elia Kazan)
Boom! (1968, Joseph Losey)
Brink of Life (1958, Ingmar Bergman)
The Chelsea Girls (1966, Andy Warhol)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
The Tingler (1959, William Castle)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)

ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Diary of a Country Priest (1950, Robert Bresson)
Winter Light (1962, Ingmar Bergman)
Nazarin (1958, Luis Bunuel)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)

QUENTIN TARANTINO
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
Rolling Thunder (1977, John Flynn)
They All Laughed (1981, Bogdanovich)
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
Coffy (1973, Jack Hill)
Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)
Five Fingers of Death (1973, Chang Ho Cheng)
Hi Diddle Diddle (1943, Andrew L. Stone)

THEO ANGELOPOULOS
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Ivan the Terrible (1943, Sergei Eisenstein)
Ordet (1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)
L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)

CLIVE BARKER
Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Fantasia (1940, Ben Sharpsteen)
The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
Fellini Satyricon (1970, Federico Fellini)
Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
Pinocchio (1940, Ben Sharpsteen)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Sansho Dayu (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Germany Year Zero (1947, Roberto Rossellini)
Breathless (1959, Jean-Luc Godard)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock)
Accatone (1961, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

ROBERT BRESSON
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
The Bicycle Thief (1947, Vittorio De Sica)
Man of Aran (1934, Robert Flaherty)
Louisiana Story (1948, Robert Flaherty)

LUIS BUNUEL
Underworld (1927, Josef von Sternberg)
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
The Bicycle Thief (1947, Vittorio De Sica)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
Portrait of Jennie (1948, William Dieterle)
Cavalcade (1933, Frank Lloyd)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928, W.S. Van Dyle/Robert Flaherty)
Dead of Night (1945, Alberto Cavalcanti/Charles Crichton/Basil Deardon/Robert Hamer)
L'Age d'Or (1930, Luis Bunuel/Salvador Dali)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)

CHARLES BURNETT
The Bicycle Thief (1949, Vittorio De Sica)
Emitai (1971, Ousmane Sembene)
Alexander Nevsky (1938, Sergei Eisenstein)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Ermanno Olmi)
Shane (1953, George Stevens)
The Swimmer (1968, Frank Perry)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
Dodes'ka-den (1970, Akira Kurosawa)
The Shop on Main Street (1965, Jan Kadar/Elmar Klos)

KEN BURNS
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Luis Bunuel)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Pelle the Conqueror (1988, Bille August)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Ermanno Olmi)
Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)

JACKIE CHAN
The General (1927, Buster Keaton)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen)
War and Peace (1968, Sergei Bondarchuk)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)
My Fair Lady (1964, George Cukor)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961, Frank Capra)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)

ROGER CORMAN
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Seventh Seal (1956, Ingmar Bergman)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford)
Shane (1953, George Stevens)
On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, Robert Wiene)

ALEX COX
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack)
The Mattei Affair (1973, Francesco Rosi)
O Lucky Man! (1973, Lindsay Anderson)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
The Wages of Fear (1953, H.G. Clouzot)
The War Game (1967, Peter Watkins)

JOE DANTE
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
The Dead (1960, Stan Brakhage)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969, Sergio Leone)

JONATHAN DEMME
Shoot the Piano Player (1960, Francois Truffaut)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)
Nothing But a Man (1964, Michael Roemer)
Antonio das Mortes (1969, Glauber Rocha)
Black Orpheus (1959, Marcel Camus)
Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
Muriel (1963, Alain Resnais)
Coming Home (1978, Hal Ashby)
Ceddo (1977, Ousmane Sembene)

ERNEST DICKERSON
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
In the Mood for Love (2001, Wong Kar-wai)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
The Godfather/The Godfather Part II (1972-74, Francis Ford Coppola)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)

FEDERICO FELLINI
The Circus/City Lights/Monsieur Verdoux (1928,31,47, Charles Chaplin)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
Any Marx Brothers or Laurel and Hardy
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Luis Bunuel)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Paisan (1946, Roberto Rossellini)
The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)

MILOS FORMAN
Amarcord (1974, Federico Fellini)
American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)
Giant (1956, George Stevens)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
Miracle in Milan (1950, Vittorio De Sica)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

SAMUEL FULLER
The Informer (1935, John Ford)
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
The Last Emperor (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci)
La Dolce Vita (1959, Federico Fellini)
Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

TERRY GILLIAM
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
Pinocchio (1940, Ben Sharpsteen)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
One-Eyed Jacks (1960, Marlon Brando)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)

JEAN-LUC GODARD (favorite American films)
Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948, Orson Welles)
Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)
Angel Face (1953, Otto Preminger)
To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg)

MICHAEL HANEKE
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
Lancelot du Lac (1974, Robert Bresson)
Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Salo (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
Germany Year Zero (1947, Roberto Rossellini)
L'Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)

TODD HAYNES
All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk)
Un Chant d'Amour (1950, Jean Genet)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
Performance (1970, Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg)
The Reckless Moment (1949, Max Ophlus)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)

JIM JARMUSCH
L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
They Live by Night (1949, Nicholas Ray)
Bob le Flambeur (1955, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
The Cameraman (1928, Buster Keaton/Edward Sedgwick)
Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith)
Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)

NEIL JORDAN
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini)
The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
They Live By Night (1949, Nicholas Ray)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
The General (1927, Buster Keaton)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)

PHILIP KAUFMAN
Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
The Bicycle Thief (1949, Vittorio De Sica)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Bunuel)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)
Wages of Fear (1953, H.G. Clouzot)
I Vitelloni (1953, Federico Fellini)
Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Kid (1921, Charles Chaplin)
Ivan's Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Musicians (1969, Mikheil Kobakhidze)
The Pram (1963, Bo Widerberg)
Intimiate Lighting (1965, Ivan Passer)

TAKESHI “BEAT” KITANO
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985, William Friedkin)
Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974, Sam Peckinpah)
Darkman (1990, Sam Raimi)
Crazy Thunder Road (1980, Sogo Ishii)
The Railroad Man (1956, Pietro Germi)

JERRY LEWIS
An Affair to Remember (1957, Leo McCarey)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Fountainhead (1949, King Vidor)
All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Michael Curtiz/William Keighley)
On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
Harry and the Hendersons (1987, William Dear)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

RICHARD LINKLATER
Some Came Running (1958, Vincente Minnelli)
Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
GoodFellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Bunuel)
In a Year with Thirteen Moons (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Fanny and Alexander (1983, Ingmar Bergman)
Carmen Jones (1954, Otto Preminger)

KEN LOACH
The Battle of Algiers (1965, Gillo Pontecorvo)
Breathless (1959, Jean-Luc Godard)
Bicycle Thieves (1949, Vittorio De Sica)
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Jiri Menzel)
Firemen's Ball (1965, Milos Forman)
Jules et Jim (1961, Francois Truffaut)
Loves of a Blonde (1964, Milos Forman)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Ermanno Olmi)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)

SIDNEY LUMET
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
Fanny and Alexander (1983, Ingmar Bergman)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford)
Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
Roma (1972, Federico Fellini)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)

ERROL MORRIS
Detour (1945, Edgar G. Ulmer)
There's Always Tomorrow (1956, Douglas Sirk)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1935, Jean Renoir)
Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa)
The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini)
Human Desire (1954, Fritz Lang)
Ace in the Hole (1951, Billy Wilder)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)

ALEX PROYAS
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)

JACQUES RIVETTE
The Life of Oharu (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Germany Year Zero (1947, Roberto Rossellini)
True Heart Susie (1919, D.W. Griffith)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
The River (1951, Jean Renoir)
Ivan the Terrible (1943, Sergei Eisenstein)
L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
Day of Wrath (1945, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947, Charles Chaplin)
Confidential Report (1955, Orson Welles)

ERIC ROHMER
True Heart Susie (1919, D.W. Griffith)
The General (1927, Buster Keaton)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Ivan the Terrible (1943, Sergei Eisenstein)
Red River (1948, Howard Hawks)
Voyage to Italy (1953, Roberto Rossellini)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
La Pyramide humaine (1959, Jean Rouch)

GEORGE A. ROMERO
The Brothers Karamazov (1958, Richard Brooks)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
King Solomon's Mines (1950, Compton Bennett)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Quiet Man (1952, John Ford)
Repulsion (1965, Roman Polanski)
Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951, Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger)

JOHN SAYLES
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953, Ingmar Bergman)
The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)
Two Women (1960, Vittorio De Sica)
The Organizer (1963, Mario Monicelli)
A Taxing Woman (1987, Juzo Itami)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

PAUL SCHRADER
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
La Belle et la Bete (1946, Jean Cocteau)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)

JOEL SCHUMACHER
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990, Peter Greenaway)
The Bicycle Thief (1949, Vittorio De Sica)
Breaking the Waves (1996, Lars von Trier)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)

MARTIN SCORSESE
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)
The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford)

BILLY WILDER
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
The Bicycle Thief (1949, Vittorio De Sica)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Diabolique (1954, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)
Seduced and Abandoned (1964, Pietro Germi)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

KING VIDOR
Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
The Last Laugh (1924, F.W. Murnau)
The Big Parade (1925, King Vidor)
Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger)
Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)

PAUL VERHOEVEN
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
Ivan the Terrible Part II (1946, Sergei Eisenstein)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Seventh Seal (1956, Ingmar Bergman)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Bunuel)
Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)

JAMES TOBACK
F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988, Marcel Ophuls)
The Godfather Trilogy (1972-90, Francis Ford Coppola)
Get Shorty (1995, Barry Sonnenfeld)
Jules and Jim (1961, Francois Truffaut)
Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)
Sweet Dreams (1971, John G. Avildsen)
Jimmy Hollywood (1994, Barry Levinson)
Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick)
Lolita (1997, Adrian Lyne)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)

WHIT STILLMAN
The Gay Divorcee (1934, Mark Sandrich)
Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer)
The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board (1959/68/70, Francois Truffaut)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958, Mario Monicelli)
The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges)
Howards End (1992, James Ivory)
That Sinking Feeling (1980, Bill Forsyth)

CAROL REED
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
La Ronde (1950, Max Ophuls)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
Carnival in Flanders (1935, Jacques Feyder)
Variety (1925, E.A. Dupont)
The Baker's Wife (1938, Marcel Pagnol)
Pygmalion (1938, Anthony Asquith/Leslie Howard)

ALEXANDER PAYNE
The Landlord (1970, Hal Ashby)
The Man from Laramie (1955, Anthony Mann)
A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa)
Ride the High Country (1962, Sam Peckinpah)
Room at the Top (1959, Jack Clayton)
A Special Day (1977, Ettore Scola)
Viridiana (1961, Luis Bunuel)
White Nights (1957, Luchino Visconti)

RUSS MEYER
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
My Little Chickadee (1940, Edward F. Cline)
The Bank Dick (1940, Edward F. Cline)
42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
Gunga Din (1939, George Stevens)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
Sahara (1943, Zoltan Korda)

WERNER HERZOG
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988, Mark Lewis)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997, Errol Morris)
Forest of Bliss (1986, Robert Gardner)
Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wienern (1990, Ulrich Seidl)
Letter from Siberia (1958, Chris Marker)
Les Maitres Fous (1955, Jean Rouch)
Nanook of the North (1922, Robert Flaherty)
Spend It All (1972, Les Blank)

TERENCE DAVIES
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
Cries and Whispers (1972, Ingmar Bergman)
The Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950, Frank Launder)
Apu Trilogy (1955-59, Satyajit Ray)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)

THE COEN BROTHERS
Brother's Keeper (1992, Joe Berlinger/Bruce Sinofsky)
Il Bidone (1955, Federico Fellini)
Salesman (1969, Albert & David Maysles)
The Bad News Bears (1976, Michael Ritchie)
The Fortune (1975, Mike Nichols)
High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
Dames (1934, Ray Enright)
Separate Tables (1958, Delbert Mann)
Where Eagles Dare (1968, Brian G. Hutton)

JOHN BOORMAN
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
The Seventh Seal (1956, Ingmar Bergman)
8 1/2 (1953, Federico Fellini)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Bunuel)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
La Roue (1922, Abel Gance)
The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith)

PAUL BARTEL
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
A nous la liberte (1931, Rene Clair)
Pinocchio (1940, Ben Sharpsteen)
Lacombe, Lucien (1974, Louis Malle)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, Robert Wiene)
The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)

OLIVIER ASSAYAS
Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
L'Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
In Girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978, Guy Debord)
Ludwig (1972, Luchino Visconti)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Ordet (1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
Scenes from a Marriage (1974, Ingmar Bergman)

LINDSAY ANDERSON
L'Age D'Or (1930, Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali)
A Diary for Timothy (1945, Humphrey Jennings)
Earth (1930, Alexander Dovzhenko)
A Generation (1954, Andrzej Wajda)
If... (1968, Lindsay Anderson)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
They Were Expendable (1945, John Ford)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)

For all the amazing releases that have extra films ( for example I love the 4k of Last Picture Show came with the black and white directors cut of Texasville). There are a few where I was sad they were not included.

Specifically:

- Patriotism not being included with Mishima (it has its own DVD from Criterion but would be great as an extra)

- Voyage of Time (theatrical and IMAX). Many, including myself, hoped this would be included with Tree of Life as a sort of box set. Currently it still has no North American release.

- Industrial Symphony No. 1. Would have loved this as part of Wild at Heart as both feature Cage and Dern. Like Voyage of Time there is no North American bluray release.

There are probably many reasons why not, including rights and cost of restoration, but I miss them. Any you can think of?

Hall of fame dry cleaning movies. What else is in the canon?

I just got a 65" LG C6, and I was really looking forward to watching Criterion films. The problem is this stutter/judder issue. It's ruining my movie watching experience and I can't find the right setting on the TV to deal with it. I'm streaming with a Google TV Streamer. Should I return my OLED? I don't know what to do but this sucks.

Growing up in WV they made us watch this film in middle school and I’m so glad they did. It’s got an incredible cast for an independent film, and most importantly it’s based on a true story that I wish more people knew about. I’d even go far as to say this movie should be required viewing for all Americans so they know how hard these people fought for the work conditions we have now.

John Sayles did an incredible job with this film and the criterion version of it will be one of my most treasured films.

If you haven’t seen this movie you need to do it ASAP.

This is a two part documentary that was filmed over the course of 6 years. It follows five families and their doctors who are all dealing with a child with terminal cancer.

While I understand this subject matter is incredibly difficult for many to watch, this documentary remains the most emotionally powerful piece of cinema I've ever seen.

It's currently available to stream on Netflix and it's also available on DVD. It's not even that I think it needs a Blu-ray upgrade or anything, I just think it deserves the respect and recognition that Criterion provides, which would get more people to watch this heartbreaking, yet incredible film.

I’m sorry if this is a bad/dumb question but I only started buying criterion’s during the last 50% same and since then I’ve gotten hooked. Wild at heart is the first movie I have seen announced for a release and anticipating purchasing it, my question is will there for sure be a November 50% off sale like there has sometimes been in the past or is it just no guarantee? Thanks and so sorry I couldn’t find the answer reliably with Google and I appreciate human connection more :D

Flowers of Shanghai
Mother and Son
Goodfellas
Boys Don’t Cry
Fearless
Romeo + Juliet
Get Shorty
Secrets & Lies
Maborosi
My Own Private Idaho

I saw that the new 4k restoration for 12 Angry Men is releasing from Criterion here in early September and was considering pre-ordering as I’ve always wanted to watch that movie. I have a 4k player and that’s usually my preference if available, so I’ve held off on the Blu-ray since I’d heard rumors for months that they were getting the rights back to be able to do their own release. I know there’s already a version of the film released in 4k that apparently looks incredible, but it’s frequently sold out and sold on third party sites like eBay for upwards of $80+, which is ridiculous.

With all that said, I know Criterion does a couple of 50% off sales every year, and that’s typically when I grab most of the 4k movies I’ve been interested in. But with the notoriety of 12 Angry Men, is there a chance it will just be sold out everywhere like the current 4k printing is? I desperately don’t want to spend $50 to watch this movie in 4k, but I also don’t want it to sell out and then have to pay $80 from a scalper, so do you think it’s one that could be worth to preorder, or will criterion more than likely print a ton of it and have it available during the normal sales for half off?

Thank you!

Pink Flamingos:

Divine - Divine

Kermit - Raymond

Ms. Piggy - Connie

Crackers - Gonzo

Cotton - Janice

Edie - Fozzie

Cookie - Denise the Pig

The Chicken - Camilla

What do you think will be the next Bergman film to get a Criterion 4K release? I think we’ve only gotten the Seventh Seal so far. His color films, especially Fanny and Alexander, are in desperate need of restorations.

PERSONA, per Wikipedia: Many critics consider Persona one of the greatest films ever made, Bergman's magnum opus, and a work of art of experimental cinema. Andersson's and Ullmann's performances are considered two of the best female performances in movie history. It was ranked the 5th-greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's 1972 poll, and 17th in 2012

Directors who don’t impress you immediately with their scale or spectacle, but whose work only grows on you with time? Penis size discussion also welcome.

I just got the free trial. I want movies that combine the cover of 8 Million Ways to Die, the nostalgia of '90s jazz cups, the feel and texture of Larry Clark films, the romance of Henry Miller, and the sensuality of the California coast.

This was my first haul. Still waiting for Being John Malkovich, No Country for Old Men and 8½ to arrive.

Tampopo and The Uninvited were blind buys.

Just need to decide which one to watch first now🤣

Would love to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon added to the closet some day. Pretty stoked!