The Criterion Collection: Or what distracts me from my goals
In addition to the AFI and IMDB lists, I'm also trying to tackle the Criterion Collection of films. Criterion is a company that remasters films with the best technology available and then re-releases the films as high-quality as is possible. Currently, there are more than 550 films -- all cataloged on the spine of the packaging -- that have been reissued by Criterion.
While some bloggers have attacked the films in the Criterion list one movie at a time in numerical order, I have preferred to skip around the list -- first, watching the movies that have been recommended to me or with synopses that sound interesting and interest me and then going back and watching the rest.
Criterion is one of many predominant reasons as to why I have been so slow at finishing up the AFI and IMDB lists. Check back for updates, reviews or other stuff I post.
Here is what I've seen:
No. 1 Grand Illusion
No. 2 The Seven Samurai
No. 3 The Lady Vanishes
No. 5 The 400 Blows
No. 7 A Night to Remember
No. 11 The Seventh Seal
No. 12 This Is Spinal Tap
No. 13 The Silence of the Lambs
No. 30 M
No. 35 Diabolique
No. 36 The Wages of Fear
No. 40 Armageddon
No. 43 The Lord of the Flies
No. 54 For All Mankind
No. 61 Monty Python's The Life of Brian
No. 64 The Third Man
No. 65 Rushmore
No. 75 Chasing Amy
No. 76 Brief Encounter
No. 85 Pygmalion
No. 97 Do the Right Thing Review
No. 105 Spartacus
No. 118 Sullivan's Travels
No. 123 Grey Gardens
No. 135 Rebecca
No. 136 Spellbound
No. 137 Notorious
No. 138 Rashomon
No. 139 Wild Strawberries
No. 140 8 1/2
No. 151 Traffic
No. 157 The Royal Tenenbaums
No. 158 The Importance of Being Earnest
No. 164 Solaris
No. 175 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
No. 176 The Killers
No. 208 Through a Glass Darkly (A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman)
No. 209 Winter Light (A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman)
No. 210 The Silence (A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman)
No. 220 Naked Lunch
No. 237 Smiles of a Summer Night
No. 249 The Battle of Algiers
No. 273 Thieves' Highway
No. 274 Night and the City
No. 277 My Own Private Idaho
No. 300 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
No. 316 Ran
No. 321 The Virgin Spring
No. 336 Dazed and Confused
No. 374 The Bicycle Thieves
No. 380 The Naked City
No. 383 Brute Force
No. 391 If ...
No. 396 Ace in the Hole
No. 409 Days of Heaven
No. 422 The Last Emperor
No. 450 Bottle Rocket
No. 462 The Last Metro
No. 476 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
No. 477 Bergman Island
No. 478 The Last Year at Marienbad
No. 487 That Hamilton Woman
No. 490 Wings of Desire
No. 496 Che
No. 501 Paris, Texas
No. 516 Stagecoach Review
No. 523 Night Train to Munich
No. 536 The Thin Red Line
No. 537 The Magician
No. 538 Paths of Glory
No. 540 The Darjeeling Limited
No. 541 The Night of the Hunter
No. 543 Modern Times
No. 544 Head (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
No. 545 Easy Rider (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
No. 546 Five Easy Pieces (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
No. 547 Drive, He Said (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
No. 548 A Safe Place (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
No. 549 The Last Picture Show (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
No. 550 The King of Marvin Gardens (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
