Ryan Gallagher
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Ryan Gallagher, James McCormick, David Blakeslee and West Anthony discuss their top 5 choices for future Criterion blu-ray upgrades.
James McCormick
Alex Cox’s Walker
Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus
Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession
John Huston’s Wise Blood
The Thief of Bagdad
David Blakeslee
Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries
Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan
Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter/Branded To Kill
Hiroshi Inagaki’s The Samurai Trilogy
Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story
West Anthony
Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel
Any Samuel Fuller Film
Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers
Any Powell & Pressburger Film
All Akira Kurosawa’s Films
Ryan Gallagher
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris
Any Wes Anderson Film
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil
Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love
Akria Kurosawa’s Rashomon
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Do The Right Thing
Bicycle Thieves
The Rules of the Game
the rest of their Godard catalog
(very excited for Solaris now that it appears to be on tap)
Only counting what hasn’t been announced or hinted at in drawings (thank the gods for YI YI and SOLARIS both coming) and what isn’t out of print (though I might’ve missed one or two in here that are), with both lists in order of how badly I want them…
Full-on Reissues (with new transfers and/or supplements in Blu-Ray):
-ANDREI RUBLEV
-PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
-WITHNAIL & I
-THE SAMURAI TRILOGY
-SISTERS
-CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS
-THE SCARLETT EMPRESS
-THE VANISHING
Simple Blu-Ray Upgrades:
-THE SECRET OF THE BEEHIVE
-IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
-MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS
-LE HAINE
-THE ELEMENT OF CRIME & EUROPA
-SALÃ’, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
-HEAVEN CAN WAIT
-LE SAMOURAI
-MON ONCLE
-RATCATCHER
-THE BICYCLE THIEF
-METROPOLITAN & THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO
-HOOP DREAMS