Thinking about making 25 films you should watch on the Criterion Channel KTT edition for any newcomers

All That Jazz 😍

only 25 gonna be hard as s***

also gotta make it reasonably accessible
maybe even make it tiered with different levels of exposure.
No point in telling someone who's only pre-2000 film is Pulp Fiction to watch Mabuse The Gambler

Nobody wants to watch der Spieler due to long runtime but I can get the point of being more accessible. Will try.

yeah I just remember some entry-level, mid-level arthouse etc infographics floating around the web and that felt right

As long as it includes Chungking Express (if not, that’ll be the bonus #26 pick)

Films You Should Watch on the Criterion Channel

as of April 2020

Essentials

• Chungking Express
• City Lights
• Modern Times
• Breathless
• The 400 Blows
• Stalker
• Black Narcissus
• 8 1/2
• The Seventh Seal
• Seven Samurai
• Yojimbo
• Belle de Jour
• The Lady Vanishes
• M (1931)
• The Rules of the Game
• Tokyo Story
• The Wages of Fear
• Elevator to the Gallows
• Le Samourai
• Aguirre, Wrath of God
• A Man Escaped
• Paris, Texas
• Metropolis
• Close-Up
• Mulholland Drive

Classics

• Sanjuro
• The Hidden Fortress
• The Sword of Doom
• High and Low
• The Big Heat
• The Stranger
• The Lady From Shanghai
• On the Waterfront
• Nosferatu
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Graduate
• Gilda
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• The Red Shoes
• Contempt
• Stagecoach
• Klute
• Walkabout
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Shaft
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• The Last Picture Show
• Night Of the Living Dead
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Life Is Sweet
• In the Heat of the Night
• Rome, Open City
• Wild Strawberries
• La Notte
• Battleship Potemkin

Fan of Horror?

• Nosferatu
• Night Of the Living Dead
• House
• The Phantom Carriage
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Carnival of Souls
• Eyes Without a Face
• Godzilla
• Vampyr

Directed By

Currently available (in ABC order):

• Agnes Varda
• Aki Kaurismaki
• Akira Kurosawa
• Alice Rohrwacher
• Andrea Arnold
• Chantal Akerman
• Charlie Chaplin
• David Lynch
• Eric Rohmer
• Errol Morris
• Federico Fellini
• Herschell Gordon Lewis
• Jean Renoir
• Larisa Shepitko
• Luis Bunuel
• Luis Garcia Berlanga
• Maren Ade
• Maurice Pialat {!}
• Peter Greenaway
• Powell & Pressburger (The Archers)
• Raffaello Matarazzo
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Sacha Guitry
• Seijun Suzuki
• Vera Chytilova

{!} Pialat's actual collection won't be put together on the service until later this month, but all 10 of his films that will be in it are available to watch right now.

@sace I think it’d be a great idea to make a Letterboxd list for these so newcomers can track it easily. Great list

aite

musical uncut gems. love all that jazz

@sace You should also add the "Directed By" collections that still available too tbh.

Currently available (in ABC order):

• Agnes Varda
• Aki Kaurismaki
• Akira Kurosawa
• Alice Rohrwacher
• Andrea Arnold
• Chantal Akerman
• Charlie Chaplin
• David Lynch
• Eric Rohmer
• Errol Morris
• Federico Fellini
• Herschell Gordon Lewis
• Jean Renoir
• Larisa Shepitko
• Luis Bunuel
• Luis Garcia Berlanga
• Maren Ade
• Maurice Pialat {!}
• Peter Greenaway
• Powell & Pressburger (The Archers)
• Raffaello Matarazzo
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Sacha Guitry
• Seijun Suzuki
• Vera Chytilova

{!} Pialat's actual collection won't be put together on the service until later this month, but all 10 of his films that will be in it are available to watch right now.

Loving these Noir Films. The Crimson Kimono has been my fav so far

You talking about that "Columbia Noir" collection right? Nightfall, Human Desire, In a Lonely Place, and The Lady from Shanghai are all godly

Been meaning to watch some of the stuff in that collection myself tbh, especially those Phil Karlson films.

Nightfall

cant wait to watch that restoration of In A Lonely Place

Ordered To Sleep With Anger, L’Avventura, and Sansho the Bailiff. Haven’t seen any of em

All excellent. What a blessed order.

pls no, not uncut gems

just when i go region free amazon stops shipping to EU. f*** this rona s***

hopefully this wont hold out to july

L'Avventura

lately i've been obsessed with edward yang. saw the documentary that came with a brighter summer day and it's made me sad that there aren't more taiwanese films in the criterion collection. a brighter summer day and yi yi really left an impression on me. haven't felt this way about a movie in a while.
i'm going to get into hou hsiao-hsien soon and i wish there was a better release of a city of sadness out there.

Damn. Is eBay still shipping there?

yeah the issue isn't shipping companies, it's amazon suspending "unnecessary" ( ) deliveries like films for international customers.
There's plenty of 3rd party sellers on amazon tho but i'd rather order a bundle of stuff straight from the warehouse

also I can finally get that arrow rivette set (which is sold out now in EU) and cohen's release of joan the maid

only available release for merry-go-round, duelle and noroît is without english subs here

Which version of the rivette set you getting? The one that includes Out 1 & Spectre, or just the 3 features (Duelle, Noroit, Merry-Go-Round)?

I've already got out 1 from arrow, so I'll just go for the 3 feat one, should hit $50 around sale, eh?