Your Ideal Criterion Box Set? (1 Viewer)

[DouglasBr]

Accidental triple post

 

[DouglasBr]

Accidental triple post

 

[DouglasBr]

I'll second the Terry Gilliam set.

My only other would be the Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring set with all the fixin's, please oh please.

 

[george kaplan]

Double Indemnity - with the lost gas chamber scene
Playtime - restored version
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Robert Harris fully restored roadshow version with complete intermission
The Prisoner of Zenda
Up in Arms
A Matter of Life & Death
Get Back - the original Let it Be cut
The Blue Dahlia
The Exterminating Angel
The African Queen
Night Train to Munich
The Farmer's Daughter
Above Suspicion
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Sea Wolf
The Major & the Minor
Berlin Express
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
The Great McGinty
Young & Innoncent
The Devil & Miss Jones
In Name Only
Christmas in July
The Great Gildersleeve
Footsteps in the Dark
Ball of Fire
Once Upon a Honeymoon

That would do for Volume 1.

 

[PaulaJ]

The Complete (and I mean COMPLETE) Powell and Pressburger -- not only the films already released but others we haven't seen in R1 yet, like A Matter of Life and Death (yes, I know, it belongs to Sony now, doesn't it?) and A Canterbury Tale and Gone to Earth and The Small Back Room, the post-Archers collaboration They're a Weird Mob,etc., etc.

The set would include a selection of Powell's early quota quickies and Powell's and Pressburger's non-P&P films, like Peeping Tom, Miracle in Soho and the rest.

And lots of extras -- commentaries and so forth.

 

[Richard>S]

Alejandro Jodorowsky!!!!!

By Brakhage - Vol.2

Chris Marker collection

 

[Nathan V]

Elijah, you beat me to it. As soon I saw this thread, I was thinking, "Terrence Malick box!"

Regards,
Nathan

 

[Brook K]

The Complete Rainer Werner Fassbinder - includes every feature, TV movie, and TV series directed by Fassbinder.

Eric Rohmer: Comedies et Proverbs
Eric Rohmer: Tales of the Four Seasons
Eric Rohmer: Uncollected Works - Perceval, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, The Tree The Mayor & The Mediatheque, Marquis of O, etc.

The Jean Eustache Collection

Ozu - every extant Ozu film in as many collections as it takes to get 'em all out. As long as we're dreaming, it comes in boxes covered with Tatami.

Giallo Argento!

Hail The Genius - Preston Sturges At Paramount

Women In Revolt - The Jack Hill Collection (Spider Baby, The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Swinging Cheerleaders, Switchblade Sisters)

 

[Jay*W]

The Complete British Hitchcock

Jay

 

[Peter Neski]

Im for The Malick set,why not add commentary by terry?

How about A godfather The Complete Epic ,with new
commentary by Deniro ,Pacino,Willis ect and uncut
with scenes cut from Trilogy
1000 photo still frame gallery,new Documentary


Apocaylse Now SE Blue Ray SE with 2.35:1 Transfer
extras would be 5 hour work print plus Commentary
by Coppolla,still frame file ect

A new Picnic at Hanging Rock SE

Victor Erice Box set with all three of his films

Bertollucci box set with all his color films

 

[Ted Todorov]

Everything that Brook says, plus:
Eric Rohmer - Six Moral Tales
The Complete Jacques Rivette - Includes every version of every one of his movies, especially both versions of Out 1; the long version of both parts of Joan The Maiden; L'amour Fou; Duelle; Le Pont du Nord; etc. Plenty of supplements.
Kenji Mizoguchi - especially Genroku chushingura and Sanshô dayû
OK, enough, I'm drooling on the carpet now.

Ted

 

[Ali B]

I'm all for the Complete British Hitchcock too, although by all accounts the French editions are pretty good already. My three wishlist boxsets would be (assuming the usual commentaries etc on each disc):

Julio Medem: The Complete Films
1. Vacas
2. Red Squirrel
3. Tierra
4. Lovers of the Arctic Circle
5. The Basque Ball (at least 3 disc set with the extended TV material)
6. Early shorts and documentaries

Lukas Moodysson: The Complete Films

1. Show Me Love
2. Together
3. Lilya 4-Ever
4. Terrorister (2 disc set with more news footage etc)
5. A Hole in My Heart
6. Early shorts and documentaries

The Dardenne Brothers: From Utrecht to Cannes

1. Le Chant du rossignol / Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois
2. Pour que la guerre s'achève, les murs devaient s'écrouter / R... ne répond plus
3. Leçons d'une université volante / Regard Jonathan/Jean Louvet, son oeuvre
4. Falsch / Il court... il court le monde
5. Je pense à vous
6. La Promesse
7. Rosetta
8. Le Fils (2 disc set due to length)
9. L'Enfant (2 disc set due to length)
10. Guardian Interview with the Dardennes Bros. Filmed in London, Feb 2006.

Discs 1-4 are early documentaries, with each disc being around 100 minutes of feature material.


ali

 

[Marc Colella]

Some really nice wishlists already mentioned with sets of Rohmer, Malick, Dardenne Bros, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring.

I'd add:

Krzysztof Kieslowski Set (Three Colours, Dekalog, Double Life, and his 4 earlier films)

Atom Egoyan Collection

Herzog Collection (all dual-layer with nice extras)

 

[Lars Vermundsberget]

Some great suggestions here - but I'd hope the titles to be included in the largest sets would also be available separately...

 

[Lord Dalek]

The Films of Hayao Miyazaki 1978-2005

Cagliostro No Shiro (16:9)
Includes two episodes of New Lupin III directed by Miyazaki.
Japanese 2.0 mono
English 2.0 Stereo (streamline version)
English 2.0 Stereo (Animaze version)
Commentary
Storyboards
Interviews

Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa (The Uncut Version)
16:9 Widescreen (with the missing World Wildlife Federation logo reinstated)
Japanese 2.0 Mono
English 2.0 Mono
Commentary by Kazuyoshi Katayama and Hideaki Anno
Commentary (in English)

Disc 2 Warriors of the Wind
16:9 Widescreen
English 2.0 Mono
Rules of the Game style comparison between the two versions

Disc 3
Storyboards
Comparisons between Miyazaki's original manga and the film
Trailers
Interviews

Tenkyuu no Shiro Laputa
16:9 Widescreen (not windowboxed
Japanese 2.0 Dolby Surround
English 2.0 Surround (Tokuma Dub)
English 5.1 (Disney Dub)
English 5.0 (Isolated Score)
Commentary

Disc 2
1986 Behind The Scenes Featurette
Storyboards
Interviews
Trailers

Tonari no Totoro
16:9 Widescreen
Japanese 2.0 Surround
English 2.0 Surround (Streamline Dub)
English 2.0 Surround (Disney Dub)
Commentary

Disc 2
Storyboards
Interviews
Totoro Merchandise Gallery
Trailers

Majuu no Tankyuban
16:9 Widescreen (NOT windowboxed)
Japanese Dolby 2.0 Surround
English Dolby 2.0 Surround (Streamline's dub)
English Dolby 5.1 (Disney version)
Commentary

Disc 2
Storyboards
Eiko Kadono reads sections from her novel
Interviews
Trailers

Shiroi no Buta
16:9 Widescreen
Japanese 2.0 Surround
English 2.0 Surround (JAL)
English 2.0 Surround (Disney)

Disc 2
Storyboards
Comparison between Zasso Notte and Porco Rosso
Interviews

Mononoke Hime
16:9 Widescreen
Japanese 5.1
English 5.1
Commentary

Disc 2
The Birth Story of Princess Mononoke (the complete documentary)

Disc 3
Storyboards
Trailers
Interviews
Miyazaki X Kurosawa

Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
16:9 Widescreen (NOT Windowboxed)
Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Japanese DTS 6.1 ES
English Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Commentary

Disc 2
2000 Making of Documentary
Storyboards
Arrigato Lassiter-san
Interviews
Toronto Film Festival coverage
Trailers

Howl no Ugoku Shiro
16:9 Widescreen
Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Japanese DTS 6.1 ES
English Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Commentary

Disc 2

2004 Making of Documentary
Storyboards
Trailers
Miyazaki X Moebius
Paris premiere footage
Interviews

 

[Adam_S]

THe miyazaki films are already released at an extremely decent price with 98% of the stuff you mentioned, do we really need the Warriors of the Wind cut and the horrendous original dub of Totoro and pay 39.95 for each of them just to have the criterion name slapped on what amounts to an identical copy of an existing release?

Sorry but the current releases are so good I don't understand why it should be Criterion other than a desire for a Criterion cachet.

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

Peter Neski, wrote: Are you aware of this:
www.wernerherzog.com/main/index_html.htm

 

[LarryDavenport]

The Complete Woodstock (40th Anniversary edition) including everything that was filmed with commentary's by the performers, the director, etc. "Where are they now's?" with some of the people interviewed. Period TV news, advertising, etc.

Original stereo and 5.1 DTS mix.

Bonus 5.1 SACD hybrids of the entire audio portion.

 

[Junior_V]

Well, I hope Criterion could get the rights back for the hitchcock movies that they used to have.

And also, some Lon Chaney movies would be nice. Including Hunchback Of Notre Dame

 

[Bradley-E]

I would go for a Complete Preston Sturges Box Set including some of the titles he only wrote screenplays for.