Criterion Film Club: Suggestions and General Discussion

[Mr Sausage]

To celebrate Arrow getting its own subforum, here are five Arrow Academy titles randomly chosen.

[Mr Sausage]

The Conformist it is!

[Mr Sausage]

As your current member of the year, swo17 is curating a vote. If it wasn't for that reason, it'd be for being instrumental in making the Film Club run. Take a moment to appreciate everything he does for the Film Club and the forum by participating in the vote and discussion for these five hand-picked Criterions.

[TMDaines]

SCHULTZ!

[swo17]

Please note that all of these films are eligible for the all-time list. That was intentional.

[mfunk9786]

Le Trou is sneakily one of the best films in the collection and my personal choice for best prison film of all time

[beamish13]

I'm teaching Macbeth now, so I went with Throne of Blood

[domino harvey]

I've seen all of these and To Be or Not to Be is the best followed by Le Trou, though I'm not sure I have much to say about the latter. I taught the former though and it's aged well for me-- I always forgot how hilarious the opening is, surely Lubitsch's second-funniest beginning after Heaven Can Wait. The Sturges is of course a Sturges film so it's great. Don't like the Kurosawa or Ozu films at all, though Throne of Blood fares better of the two.

[Drucker]

Not a fan of any really early Ozu. Seeing the Sturges in 35mm on Tuesday night. So this will motivate me to go, even though it's running far behind.

[matrixschmatrix]

These are all movies with a lot of stuff to talk about in them- though I worry I'd be infected by Marian Keene's awful commentary in trying to talk about The Lady Eve- but To Be or Not To Be is just the strangest thing, like all the rest of these seem like they should work, it seems like it absolutely should not.

[Mr Sausage]

To Be or Not to Be is our winner!

[Mr Sausage]

To further celebrate Arrow getting its own separate section, here's a random selection of 5 Arrow Video titles. Vote away!

[Drucker]

Folks, we all have that fancy new edition of Alfredo Garcia sitting, unwatched on our shelves. Let us all commit to doing our kevyip a favor and watching this film. Thank you.

[Mr Sausage]

Have we ever had such a lopsided victory?

Anyway, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is our winner.

[ando]

This dvd is a challenge to find. Only the blu-ray seems to be in wide circulation. Can it be that the last time I saw this was a vhs viewing?

[ando]

Friend has a copy, thank goodness. Guess blu-ray was a given with the "Arrow Video" description.

[Mr Sausage]

To coincide with our Auteur List project, here's a vote of five random Bergman films picked from the collection.

[Mr Sausage]

Through a Glass Darkly it is!

[Mr Sausage]

Here are five randomly selected films from the collection. Select away!

[Mr Sausage]

House of Games is our winner.

[Mr Sausage]

Here are five films randomly drawn from the collection. Vote away.

[Mr Sausage]

Before Sunset it is.

[Mr Sausage]

To coincide with the Cannes Festival Mini List, here are five Cannes winners pulled randomly from the collection.

[Mr Sausage]

It's a three-way tie. Have we ever had one of those before? With a two-way tie I can at least be somewhat impartial, but a three-way seems to demand the exercise of arbitrary power. So, arbitrary power as embodied by yours truly declares The Wages of Fear our winner.

[Mr Sausage]

On the occasion of our pre-1920's decade list, here're a random choise of five pre-20's films from the collection.