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Old 12-05-2004, 07:53 AM   #1 of 497
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The Complete CRiTeRioN CoLLeCTioN Tournament

Yep I'm bored

Rules
Vote for the better film, short, anthology or whatever.

Presentation such as Extras, A/V quality, etc. should not be a factor.





MASTER LIST

8 1/2
3 Women
A Constant Forge
A Night to Remember
À Nous la Liberté
A Story of Floating Weeds
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Under the Influence
Alexander Nevsky
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
All That Heaven Allows
Alphaville
Amarcord
And God Created Woman
And the Ship Sails On
Andrei Rublev
Armageddon
Autumn Sonata
Ballad of a Soldier
Band of Outsiders
Beastie Boys Video Anthology
Beauty and the Beast
Bed and Board
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Billy Liar
Black Narcissus
Black Orpheus
Blood for Dracula
Blood of a Poet
Bob le Flambeur
Branded to Kill
Brazil
Brief Encounter
by Brakhage
Carnival of Souls
Charade
Chasing Amy
Children of Paradise
Cleo from 5 to 7
Closely Watched Trains
Contempt
Coup de Grâce
Coup de torchon
Cries and Whispers
Day of Wrath
Dead Ringers
Diabolique
Diary of a Chambermaid
Diary of a Country Priest
Do the Right Thing
Double Suicide
Down by Law
Early Summer
Elena and Her Men
Eyes Without a Face
Faces
Fanny and Alexander
Fat Girl
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fiend without a Face
Fishing with John
Flesh for Frankenstein
Floating Weeds
For All Mankind
French Cancan
General Idi Amin Dada
George Washington
Gertrud
Gimme Shelter
Good Morning
Grand Illusion
Great Expectations
Grey Gardens
Hamlet
Hard Boiled
Häxan
Hearts and Minds
Henry V
High and Low
Hiroshima mon amour
Honeymoon Killers
Hopscotch
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
I Am Curious—Blue
I Am Curious—Yellow
I Fidanzati
I Know Where I'm Going!
I Vitelloni
Ikiru
Il Posto
In the Mood for Love
Indiscretion of an American Wife (Terminal Station)
Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
Insomnia
Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II
Jubilee
Juliet of the Spirits
King of Kings
Knife in the Water
Kwaidan
L' Avventura
La Strada
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Corbeau
Le Million
Le Trou
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Life of Brian
Lola
Lord of the Flies
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Love on the Run
Loves of a Blonde
M
M. Hulot's Holiday
Maîtresse
Mamma Roma
Man Bites Dog
Mon Oncle
Mona Lisa
Monterey Pop
My Life as a Dog
My Man Godfrey
My Métier
Naked Lunch
Nanook of the North
Night and Fog
Nights of Cabiria
Notorious
Oliver Twist
Onibaba
Opening Night
Ordet
Orpheus
Peeping Tom
Pépé le Moko
Pickup on South Street
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Playtime
Port of Shadows
Pygmalion
Quai des Orfèvres
Rashomon
Ratcatcher
Rebecca
Red Beard
Richard III
Rififi
RoboCop
Rushmore
Salesman
Salò
Salvatore Giuliano
Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai II - Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Samurai III - Duel at Ganryu Island
Sanjuro
Scenes from a Marriage
Schizopolis
Secret Honor
Seven Samurai
Shadows
Shock Corridor
Short Cuts
Sid & Nancy
Silence of the Lambs
Sisters
Slacker
Smiles of a Summer Night
Solaris
Spartacus
Spellbound
Stolen Kisses
Straw Dogs
Stray Dog
Sullivan's Travels
Summertime
Tanner '88
Taste of Cherry
Testament of Orpheus
That Obscure Object of Desire
The 39 Steps
The 400 Blows
The Bank Dick
The Battle of Algiers
The Blob
The Cranes Are Flying
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Element of Crime
The Firemen's Ball
The Golden Coach
The Harder They Come
The Hidden Fortress
The Horse's Mouth
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Killer
The Killers (Siegel)
The Killers (Siodmak)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Lady Eve
The Lady Vanishes
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Wave
The Leopard
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Long Good Friday
The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)
The Lower Depths (Renoir)
The Magic Flute
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Most Dangerous Game
The Naked Kiss
The Night Porter
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Pornographers
The Red Shoes
The Rock
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rules of the Game
The Ruling Class
The Scarlet Empress
The Seventh Seal
The Shop on Main Street
The Silence
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Third Man
The Tin Drum
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Vanishing
The White Sheik
This is Spinal Tap
Throne of Blood
Through a Glass Darkly
Time Bandits
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Olympiad
Tokyo Story
Traffic
Trouble in Paradise
Tunes of Glory
Umberto D.
Under the Roofs of Paris
Vagabond
Variety Lights
Veronika Voss
Videodrome
Wages of Fear
Walkabout
Wild Strawberries
Winter Light
Withnail and I
Written on the Wind
Yojimbo

WILD-CARDS

Jimi Plays Monterey
Shake! Otis at Monterey
Pool Sharks
The Barber Shop
The Dentist
The Fatal Glass of Beer
The Golf Specialist
The Pharmacist




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Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Akira, The Dark Knight, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Death Proof, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Incredible Hulk, JFK, La Femme Nikita, Live and Let Die, Planet of the Apes (Evolution Collection), Planet Terror, Poltergeist, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Third Man, Thunderball, WALL E DVD: Budd Boetticher Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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Old 12-05-2004, 08:05 AM   #2 of 497
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ROUND 1

Black Narcissus
vs.
In the Mood for Love

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Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
vs.
My Métier

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The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)
vs.
The Lower Depths (Renoir)

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Alphaville
vs.
Brazil

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WILD-CARDs

The Golf Specialist
vs.
The Fatal Glass of Beer

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Jimi Plays Monterey
vs.
Shake! Otis at Monterey



The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)

Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Akira, The Dark Knight, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Death Proof, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Incredible Hulk, JFK, La Femme Nikita, Live and Let Die, Planet of the Apes (Evolution Collection), Planet Terror, Poltergeist, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Third Man, Thunderball, WALL E DVD: Budd Boetticher Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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Old 12-05-2004, 09:21 AM   #3 of 497
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triple abstain

Brazil

abstain

Shake! Otis at Monterey



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Old 12-05-2004, 10:13 AM   #4 of 497
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Black Narcissus—an extremely tough one right off the bat.

Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie

Brazil

The Golf Specialist

Shake! Otis at Montere



¡Time is not my master!
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Old 12-05-2004, 12:41 PM   #5 of 497
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Oh goody, another opportunity to vote for some weird stuff

Maybe this will be a tournament that Jim will actually finish this time!

Black Narcissus
abstain - own both, seen neither
abstain - own both, seen neither
Brazil

WILD-CARDs

The Fatal Glass of Beer
abstain - seen neither




My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pretty Boy (1993,Carsten Sønder) 3/5, From the Edge of the City (1998,Constantine Giannaris) 3/5, The Holy Child (2001,Stéphane Clavier) 3/5, Boy's Choir (2000,Akira Ogata) 3/5, The Fire That Burns (1997,Christophe Malavoy) 4/5, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,Nicholas Stoller) 3/5, Ong-bak (2003,Prachya Pinkaew) 3/5, I Want to Live! (1958,Robert Wise) 2/5, Nancy Drew (2007,Andrew Fleming) 3/5, But Forever in My Mind (1999,Gabriele Muccino) 3/5, Death at a Funeral (2007,Frank Oz) 3/5, Pumpkinhead (1988,Stan Winston) 4/5, Beach Cafe (2001,Benoît Graffin) 2/5, 15 (2003,Royston Tan) 3/5, Lonely Boy (1962,Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor) 3/5
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Old 12-05-2004, 06:23 PM   #6 of 497
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Black Narcissus
Abstain
- Have both, haven't watched 'em yet.
Abstain - Haven't watched the Renoir version yet.
Abstain - No Alphaville.
Abstain - Have the DVD, haven't watched it yet.
Shake! Otis at Monterey - Very tough!



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Old 12-06-2004, 02:39 AM   #7 of 497
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I'll be abstaining quite a bit, but i'm slowly making my way through Criterion titles.

Abstain
Abstain
Abstain
- Haven't watched Kurosawa's version yet
Brazil
Abstain
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