The zooms in Barry Lyndon speak volumes!!!! They are literally laying out the picture and showing the beautiful and PERFECT blocking!!! Recreating many of the artworks that motivated Kubrick! Omg….the zoom where Barry is found in the garden cheating is just purely perfection and hits like a hammer on a 6 inch nail!
Grand Budapest is EASILY my most rewatched film. As you said, everything about it is perfect to me. From the tone and the set design to the casting and score. Excellent
As a budding, teenage cinephile I became a Kubrick fanboy having only seen Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and Spartacus, either only on TV or in second run movie theaters. Seeing Barry Lyndon during it's opening run in December 1975, at the tender age of 19, still stands out as an amazing moment in my life. Hopefully, we can look forward to a 50th Anniversary 4K from Criterion next year.
If I had to start over, I would pick up Come & See, Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Secrets & Lies, Three Colors trilogy, The Night of the Hunter, On the Waterfront, Naked, and Raging Bull.
Geeze, there are some psychologically rough choices there. Come and See and Naked. I owned Naked but parted with it. Not something I really need to own
"Secrets and Lies" is the real must have on that list. It's a universal story. It's THE BEST kitchen sink drama ever made and it's Mike Leigh's masterpiece. Essential.
@@mmayer1558I didn't think about it before reading your comment, but almost all of my favorite films are major downers. I do like some comedies, too, like Happiness...🤣
On "DIABOLIQUE," you nailed it. It has such a universal, visual appeal that everyone can get behind it. My dad HATES subtitles, yet "Diabolique" is his favoeite film of all time. Now that's power 😂
This is as good a selection of 10 films as I've seen from any one individual. Mine would be much different (except for The Red Shoes, which is my no. 1 favorite film), and all of your picks are great.
I dunno which one came first off the top of my head but little big man I’d put over Barry Lyndon any day and twice on Sunday. It’s just more my bag although I do like Lyndon as well. Dances and it’s wolves never out did either imho
Very heartfelt regarding Barry Lyndon - I tend to feel the same with regard to 2001 it’s my favourite Kubrick film. I actually don’t think I could start over with my Criterions it would be just too hard.
While I'm definitely going to have a look at the films shown here I instead finally ordered the criterion release of WALL-E through your link and I'm super excited. Enjoyed the video, subscribed and will be checking out some of your other stuff:)
I got Barry Lyndon cause you mentioned it but I also like Kubrick. Great movie glad I got it but definetly not one of my favorites. But Its a good recommendation
I can confirm that your glowing recommendations convinced me a few years ago to check out Barry Lyndon. Now, I impatiently await an overdue 4K upgrade. 🤔 If you've never seen it, you might want to see if you can snag a copy of Mad magazine's issue #185 from September 1976. It includes the movie spoof, "Borey Lyndon." 😁
I need to get to watching Double Indemnity, it's on my shelf along with The Red Shoes and Diabolique. It'd be exciting if we get Paris, Texas on 4K in the future, it's just a bit of a waiting game with what may or may not get upgraded to 4K these days.
Great list! I’d love to see Barry Lyndon because of your recommendation, I’m just always on the fence about whether to wait for the 4K. I’m sure I’ll break one of these days and just stream it or buy the blu ray. My own list would include Ikiru, The Battle of Algiers, Ghost Dog, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Great, unique question for a video! For me, I would prioritize The Killing-probably the Criterion disc I’ve watched more than any other. Other titles I’d be sure to grab would be Following, Andrei Rublev, and then the works of Richard Linklater and David Lynch.
Great Place to start with Double Indemnity. On the Waterfront. Would love for them to do a 4K. Don’t Look Now thanks to your recomendation. The Orson Welles catalogue they have.
I'd be more than content restarting with just the Criterion Fellini, Bergman, Pasolini, Demy, Varda, Kurosawa, Dekalog, Ranown Westerns, BBS: America Lost and Found and Janus Anniversary box sets.
For me, Barry Lyndon, All About Eve, The Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Persona, Double Indemnity, Grand Budapest Hotel, Rashomon, Ikiru, , After Life, Fanny and Alexander, Tampopo, A Hatd Day's Night, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, the Before Trilogy, Tokyo Story, Carnival if Souls, Throne of Blood, Secrets and Lies, The Heiress, Inside Llewyn Davis, Notorious, Leave Her to Heaven, Kagemusha, Seven Samurai, The Innocents, Kwaidan. Just to name a few.
I have the UK 4K of Double Indemnity on pre-order and really looking forward to watching it. Not being region free is extremely limiting as far as Criterion releases are concerned. Fortunately, with a bit of digging, it’s possible to find the same masters on discs from various U.K. labels here (eg, Mike Leigh films). Heck, they’re often better encoded than some of Criterion’s low bit rate encodes. At the end of the day, I buy to watch great films in good quality, and although I do appreciate Criterion releases, I’m not a collector but a film lover. The label is kind of irrelevant to me but I do appreciate a nice package with interesting interviews and documentaries as well as well written essays.
Worth mentioning that the German Arthaus release of Paris, Texas is currently the best version as it's from a 4K restoration. Criterion's old disc looks vastly inferior.
It would be heartbreaking but if I had to start over now I’d go: The Ascent The Before Trilogy Inside Llewyn Davis The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp The Naked Kiss Paris, Texas Raging Bull Roma Tokyo Story The Tree of Life
I suppose we can play the "top 10" game many other hobbyists do with their board games, watches, fragrances, etc. My might be something like this (English only, and in no particular order...never mind boxed sets!): Silence of the Lambs, 12 Angry Men, Detour, Following, The Others, Double Indemnity, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Blowout, To Be or Not To Be, The Game.
If I had to start over, I wouldn't. I have everything 1 to present, incl. box sets, and I already know the time and money it would take would be best spent elsewhere.
Out of the 200 Criterions I own, I'd have to restart with the ten movies I've watched the most: Hedwig and the Angry Inch A Face In the Crowd Pink Flamingos Lost In America Defending Your Life Ghost World Five Easy Pieces My Dinner With André The Player The Before Trilogy (cheating, but it's one purchase)
I think I would just rebuy the few Criterion's that I have (12 Angry Men, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, On the Waterfront, Miller's Crossing and The Asphalt Jungle). Losing the whole Collection on the other hand...yea, I'm not sure that I would start again, given that some Editions are either heavily overpriced by now or OOP already. Do you know by any chance a website, besides Amazon and Ebay, where I could import US Blu rays from ?
i would argue kino lorbers release of 12 angry men is better because its a great 4k and comes with the 1997 remake with james gandolfini. not many releases come with an entire movie as a bonus feature
Well this isn't really a hypothetical for me. I actually sold off the Criterions that I could live without. I'm left with Powell & Pressburger films, Taste of Cherry, Fantastic Mr Fox, King of Kings
Hi I love most of Stanley Kubrick’s films, but I find Barry Lyndon one of the most boring films I’ve seen. Citizen Kane though I’ve seen multiple time and I think it’s one of the greatest films I’ve seen. Just my personal opinion, but we’re all different.
01. Memories Of Murder 02. After Life 03. Barry Lyndon 04. Seven Samurai 05. Tokyo Story 06. 12 Angry Men 07. Yi Yi 08. Parasite 09. Pan's Labyrinth 10. Tampopo Next ten films would all be Japanese...
They can't all be winners for everyone! I commend you on getting rid of the film if you know you'll never watch it again - I know lots of collectors who don't have the guts to do that.
I had 1-750 and sold the lot. Used to love them but it means being locked in one label who are not world-friendly or world-minded. I will be buying the jean eustache blu-ray or 4K box set. La Maman et la Putain (1973) is one of the best films ever made. Criterion: don't hold it over for a year from the U.S to U.K release. That would be criminal and parochial.
Fair enough! Yeah, a Jean Eustache set would be most welcome. I don't know what the rights situation for those films is within the UK. Thanks for watching!
@@ElliotCoen According to the BFI, Criterion have the U.S and U.K rights (via Sony). if I could understand French, I'd have bought the newly released French box set. At least it'll get a release at some point after his family have been holding out for huge amounts of money for the rights'. It'll be an event when it's finally released. I enjoy your content- very soothing and informative.
Marvelous list. I gotta check out Hoop Dreams. Only from the ones I own myself: Being There, Five Easy Pieces, Girlfriends, Tampopo, Secrets & Lies, Smithereens, The Lure, One Night in Miami, Something Wild, Life Aquatic. A lot of Criterion films I have from another company. I can’t afford them all in Criterion format.
My favourite FILM NOIR in the Criterion Collection ---> czcams.com/video/prU2RvNZ1aY/video.html
If I had to start over, I think I'd get down on my knees and cry 😂
I would need time to heal
Too traumatised to be thinking about restarting. 😅
The zooms in Barry Lyndon speak volumes!!!! They are literally laying out the picture and showing the beautiful and PERFECT blocking!!! Recreating many of the artworks that motivated Kubrick! Omg….the zoom where Barry is found in the garden cheating is just purely perfection and hits like a hammer on a 6 inch nail!
dreaming of the day a 4K arrives…
Grand Budapest is EASILY my most rewatched film. As you said, everything about it is perfect to me. From the tone and the set design to the casting and score. Excellent
It’s a comfort film!
Great video concept, would love to see more like this!
@@RyanDudziak thanks Ryan!
Restarting Barry Lyndon over again. Happy bityhday, mr. Kubrick!
As a budding, teenage cinephile I became a Kubrick fanboy having only seen Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and Spartacus, either only on TV or in second run movie theaters. Seeing Barry Lyndon during it's opening run in December 1975, at the tender age of 19, still stands out as an amazing moment in my life. Hopefully, we can look forward to a 50th Anniversary 4K from Criterion next year.
Brilliant idea for a video! I'd love to make a video like this, but I don't know if I could ever narrow it down.
I’d definitely watch yours if you do it!
If I had to start over, I would pick up Come & See, Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Secrets & Lies, Three Colors trilogy, The Night of the Hunter, On the Waterfront, Naked, and Raging Bull.
Stunning choices, my friend! I’ve got them all on the shelf
Geeze, there are some psychologically rough choices there. Come and See and Naked. I owned Naked but parted with it. Not something I really need to own
Great film taste mate
"Secrets and Lies" is the real must have on that list. It's a universal story. It's THE BEST kitchen sink drama ever made and it's Mike Leigh's masterpiece. Essential.
@@mmayer1558I didn't think about it before reading your comment, but almost all of my favorite films are major downers. I do like some comedies, too, like Happiness...🤣
The Roger Ebert commentary of Citizen Kane is an incredibly insightful one about filmmaking. Would recommend.
If I had to start over, Mishima would definitely be my first port of call. A compelling and interesting portrait of a person and their preoccupations
On "DIABOLIQUE," you nailed it. It has such a universal, visual appeal that everyone can get behind it. My dad HATES subtitles, yet "Diabolique" is his favoeite film of all time. Now that's power 😂
This is as good a selection of 10 films as I've seen from any one individual. Mine would be much different (except for The Red Shoes, which is my no. 1 favorite film), and all of your picks are great.
When in the heck is Barry Lyndon gonna get the 4K treatment? Feels like a no-brainer to me.
I love your passion for films.
Charulata is breathtakingly beautiful
Just got Sisters…definitely scratched my itch! Completed my De Palma collection.
I dunno which one came first off the top of my head but little big man I’d put over Barry Lyndon any day and twice on Sunday. It’s just more my bag although I do like Lyndon as well. Dances and it’s wolves never out did either imho
Very heartfelt regarding Barry Lyndon - I tend to feel the same with regard to 2001 it’s my favourite Kubrick film. I actually don’t think I could start over with my Criterions it would be just too hard.
Thanks Steve, I appreciate that!
While I'm definitely going to have a look at the films shown here I instead finally ordered the criterion release of WALL-E through your link and I'm super excited. Enjoyed the video, subscribed and will be checking out some of your other stuff:)
I got Barry Lyndon cause you mentioned it but I also like Kubrick. Great movie glad I got it but definetly not one of my favorites. But Its a good recommendation
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
Great minds think alike! My very 1st Criterion Blu-ray was Double Indemnity, the quintessential film noir movie
great pick with Hoop Dreams, might be the best docu I have seen
i dont have many criterion releases myself but my top 3 priorities would be barry lyndon, the irishman, and pinnochio in that order
I’m about to order Charulata. Thanks for the recommendations.
I hope you like it! Enjoy
Ray's movies are fantastic! I hope you'll love it
Tess (Roman Polanski); Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese); The Leopard ( Luschino Visconti) all look gorgeous on criterion bluray.
Since the last 2 sales I've heard a lot of people talk about Barrt Lyndon so I just ordered it from Amazon
Just bought Barry Lyndon from The Criterion Collection, even though I already owned it in the boxset.
The 4K restoration used on Criterion’s disc is a step up from older versions, so enjoy!
I can confirm that your glowing recommendations convinced me a few years ago to check out Barry Lyndon. Now, I impatiently await an overdue 4K upgrade. 🤔
If you've never seen it, you might want to see if you can snag a copy of Mad magazine's issue #185 from September 1976. It includes the movie spoof, "Borey Lyndon." 😁
I found Double Indemnity to be average at best. Stalker was very good, Burns into the mind like a quality movie should.
I need to get to watching Double Indemnity, it's on my shelf along with The Red Shoes and Diabolique. It'd be exciting if we get Paris, Texas on 4K in the future, it's just a bit of a waiting game with what may or may not get upgraded to 4K these days.
Great list! I’d love to see Barry Lyndon because of your recommendation, I’m just always on the fence about whether to wait for the 4K. I’m sure I’ll break one of these days and just stream it or buy the blu ray.
My own list would include Ikiru, The Battle of Algiers, Ghost Dog, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Great, unique question for a video!
For me, I would prioritize The Killing-probably the Criterion disc I’ve watched more than any other. Other titles I’d be sure to grab would be Following, Andrei Rublev, and then the works of Richard Linklater and David Lynch.
The Ranown Westerns, Dazed and Confused, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and Le Cercle Rouge
Great Place to start with Double Indemnity. On the Waterfront. Would love for them to do a 4K. Don’t Look Now thanks to your recomendation. The Orson Welles catalogue they have.
Probably the same way I started. Seven Samurai, Fear and Loathing, Bottle Rocket, 400 Blow, and Silence of the Lambs
I'd be more than content restarting with just the Criterion Fellini, Bergman, Pasolini, Demy, Varda, Kurosawa, Dekalog, Ranown Westerns, BBS: America Lost and Found and Janus Anniversary box sets.
For me, Barry Lyndon, All About Eve, The Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Persona, Double Indemnity, Grand Budapest Hotel, Rashomon, Ikiru, , After Life, Fanny and Alexander, Tampopo, A Hatd Day's Night, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, the Before Trilogy, Tokyo Story, Carnival if Souls, Throne of Blood, Secrets and Lies, The Heiress, Inside Llewyn Davis, Notorious, Leave Her to Heaven, Kagemusha, Seven Samurai, The Innocents, Kwaidan. Just to name a few.
Elliot you are looking great than your last video. Good to see you happy!
Thanks. It’s likely more coffee!
I have the UK 4K of Double Indemnity on pre-order and really looking forward to watching it.
Not being region free is extremely limiting as far as Criterion releases are concerned. Fortunately, with a bit of digging, it’s possible to find the same masters on discs from various U.K. labels here (eg, Mike Leigh films). Heck, they’re often better encoded than some of Criterion’s low bit rate encodes.
At the end of the day, I buy to watch great films in good quality, and although I do appreciate Criterion releases, I’m not a collector but a film lover. The label is kind of irrelevant to me but I do appreciate a nice package with interesting interviews and documentaries as well as well written essays.
Worth mentioning that the German Arthaus release of Paris, Texas is currently the best version as it's from a 4K restoration. Criterion's old disc looks vastly inferior.
It would be heartbreaking but if I had to start over now I’d go:
The Ascent
The Before Trilogy
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Naked Kiss
Paris, Texas
Raging Bull
Roma
Tokyo Story
The Tree of Life
I suppose we can play the "top 10" game many other hobbyists do with their board games, watches, fragrances, etc. My might be something like this (English only, and in no particular order...never mind boxed sets!):
Silence of the Lambs, 12 Angry Men, Detour, Following, The Others, Double Indemnity, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Blowout, To Be or Not To Be, The Game.
Oh good god, not asteroid city.
It’s definitely coming 😄
Start with all the Hitchcocks, Fords and Kurosawas and go from there. Les Diaboliques is a good inclusion, along with Le Corbeau.
I would like to learn more about French New Wave and some British films too
The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life, Three Colors, Wings of Desire, Stalker, The Passion of Joan of Arc, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, all of the Bergman.
If I had to start over, I wouldn't. I have everything 1 to present, incl. box sets, and I already know the time and money it would take would be best spent elsewhere.
Alice in the cities is also a great wim winders film
I know I'd need My Dinner with Andre, Crumb, Naked Lunch, Le Samouraï, and so on... really hard to narrow it down.
Out of the 200 Criterions I own, I'd have to restart with the ten movies I've watched the most:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
A Face In the Crowd
Pink Flamingos
Lost In America
Defending Your Life
Ghost World
Five Easy Pieces
My Dinner With André
The Player
The Before Trilogy (cheating, but it's one purchase)
Agreed with all other than hoops and double indemnity.
Think your site is the best one out there
Where can I buy the wages of fear/ paths of glory/ the straight story I 4K???
@@tedherman9876 depends where you are in the world but I’d recommend Amazon - amzn.to/4di5TBx
@@tedherman9876 and thank you for the kind words!
I think I would just rebuy the few Criterion's that I have (12 Angry Men, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, On the Waterfront, Miller's Crossing and The Asphalt Jungle).
Losing the whole Collection on the other hand...yea, I'm not sure that I would start again, given that some Editions are either heavily overpriced by now or OOP already.
Do you know by any chance a website, besides Amazon and Ebay, where I could import US Blu rays from ?
i would argue kino lorbers release of 12 angry men is better because its a great 4k and comes with the 1997 remake with james gandolfini. not many releases come with an entire movie as a bonus feature
Well this isn't really a hypothetical for me. I actually sold off the Criterions that I could live without. I'm left with Powell & Pressburger films, Taste of Cherry, Fantastic Mr Fox, King of Kings
Hi I love most of Stanley Kubrick’s films, but I find Barry Lyndon one of the most boring films I’ve seen. Citizen Kane though I’ve seen multiple time and I think it’s one of the greatest films I’ve seen. Just my personal opinion, but we’re all different.
01. Memories Of Murder
02. After Life
03. Barry Lyndon
04. Seven Samurai
05. Tokyo Story
06. 12 Angry Men
07. Yi Yi
08. Parasite
09. Pan's Labyrinth
10. Tampopo
Next ten films would all be Japanese...
I found double indemnity overrated. I liked it and had it on criterion, but gave away on second hand market on basis I wouldn't what again.
They can't all be winners for everyone! I commend you on getting rid of the film if you know you'll never watch it again - I know lots of collectors who don't have the guts to do that.
No Days of Heaven??? Scandalous.
Anyone who says any art is objectively anything is a ridiculous human being.
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
House
Miller’s Crossing
Seven Samurai
Trainspotting
Paris Texas
Ghost World
I had 1-750 and sold the lot. Used to love them but it means being locked in one label who are not world-friendly or world-minded. I will be buying the jean eustache blu-ray or 4K box set. La Maman et la Putain (1973) is one of the best films ever made. Criterion: don't hold it over for a year from the U.S to U.K release. That would be criminal and parochial.
Fair enough! Yeah, a Jean Eustache set would be most welcome. I don't know what the rights situation for those films is within the UK. Thanks for watching!
@@ElliotCoen According to the BFI, Criterion have the U.S and U.K rights (via Sony). if I could understand French, I'd have bought the newly released French box set. At least it'll get a release at some point after his family have been holding out for huge amounts of money for the rights'. It'll be an event when it's finally released. I enjoy your content- very soothing and informative.
Marvelous list. I gotta check out Hoop Dreams.
Only from the ones I own myself: Being There, Five Easy Pieces, Girlfriends, Tampopo, Secrets & Lies, Smithereens, The Lure, One Night in Miami, Something Wild, Life Aquatic.
A lot of Criterion films I have from another company. I can’t afford them all in Criterion format.
Five Easy Pieces ending is so simple and so devastating at the same time.