The CriterionForum's recommendations for Criterion

[Steven H]

I'd like to change mine (I recently changed my name from harri to steven h).

1. Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo boshoku, "Tokyo Twilight" (through Shochiku)
2. Robert Enrico's Les Aventuriers, "The Last Adventure" (through Universal)
3. Robert Bresson's Quatre nuits d'un reveur, "Four Nights of a Dreamer" (rights???)
4. Jaques Rivette box set (L'amour Fou, Pont Du Nord, Out 1, Duelle, etc)
5. Shohei Immamura's A Man Vanishes (Toho?)

None of these are available on DVD with english subtitles anywhere on the planet (that I know of...) yet. I couldn't decide between Une Femme Douce and Quatre nuits, so I just went with the one I enjoyed slightly more (I'm talking about a miniscule amount).

[chaddoli]

Spanking the Monkey (1994) Dir. David O. Russell
http://imdb.com/title/tt0111252/

Great one! I love that film and sent it in as a title suggestion a while ago.

[mmiesner]

OK, five titles per person? Here goes:

Europa (Lars von Trier)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Il Deserto Rosso (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Peter Greenaway set (All short films and 'The Falls')

[zedz]

OK, five titles per person? Here goes:

Europa (Lars von Trier)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Il Deserto Rosso (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Peter Greenaway set (All short films and 'The Falls')

The latter are already available in good UK editions. Do you want to roll again?

[pzman84]

Some Neorealism- Open City, The Bicycle Thieves
Some New Wave (other than Godard)- Shoot the Piano Player, Last Year at Marienbad
Some Godard- Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend
Some Parajanov- Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
Some Bertolucci- Il Conformista, 1900
Some 1930s Chinese New Wave- The Goddess, The Big Road
Some 1970s New Hollywood- Reds
Oh and that Eisenstein Box Set (Strike, Battleship Potemkin, Oktyabr) we keep hearing about

[Cinephrenic]

Suna no onna?

Why don't you just rename it to Woman of the Dunes which is better known.

[DrGerbil]

Some Neorealism- Open City, The Bicycle Thieves
Some New Wave (other than Godard)- Shoot the Piano Player, Last Year at Marienbad
Some Godard- Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend
Some Bertolucci- Il Conformista
Eisenstein Box Set (Strike, Battleship Potemkin, Oktyabr)

The Godard and Bertolucci films are very high on my list, along with Potemkin.

[Buttery Jeb]

Jun-Dai, can you remove "Office Space" from my picks, now that it seems definite that Fox will release it themselves?

If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to substitute back-up Fox license "The Ice Storm" in its place. See if that works out as well.

-BJ

[mmiesner]

I'm guessing you are referring to 'Marienbad' and the Greenaways... the Marienbad NO! I want a good US version of that so I can loan it to my less DVD obsessed friends. And because I seriously cannot think of another film I would rather see on a Criterion than that.
The Greenaway set I'll give you, I was more just thinking how nice it would be to see his name on a Criterion set, but the ones unavailable in the US right now are generally not that good... so how about we substitute it with 'The Virgin Spring'?
Also, maybe this is off topic but I'm new here. How available is 'Lost Highway' to Criterion in reality? I mean, I would love to see that on a good DVD, but I would be surprised if it got licensed to Criterion. Am I way off base here?
Thanks dudes

[zedz]

Just the Greenaways. I completely agree about Marienbad. Actually there should be a special category for major films inexplicably unavailable in decent English-subtitled editions, and the Resnais would be near the top.

[batiar]

Tchao Pantin Claude Berri 1983
L'Ete Meurtrier Jean Becker 1983