 | Andrei Rublev (Criterion Collection Spine #34)
Buy new: $26.49 / Used from: $16.00 One of the most spiritually uplifting movies you'll ever see. Made me want to run in the streets and scream for joy.
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 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection Spine #62)
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $22.75 Powerfull. Falconetti gives what is undoubtedly the finest performances by an actress in screen history.
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 | Ikiru - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $18.07 The first of 2 Kurosawa films. Inspirational. A lowly clerk and his redemption before dying.
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 | The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $18.79 So much has been said about this film there's nothing more to say but watch it. You won't be sorry.
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 | Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $16.49 Fritz Lang may arguably be the most influential film maker of all time.
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 | The Tales of Hoffmann - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $19.99 Sureallism meets opera and ballet. A film too make you catch your breath.
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 | Cries & Whispers - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $15.20 Bergmans most painfull movie. Harriet Andersson is divine.
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 | Once Upon a Time in the West
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.75 Yes, this is a foreign film. I just had to throw in a Sergio Leone film for fun. It's also one of the great westerns of all-time.
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 | L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $15.50 My personal favorite Italian film(sorry Fellini.) A movie about angst and loneliness.
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 | Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.00 One take,no edits. Hollywood could learn alot from this film.
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 | After Life
Buy used from: $50.00 What memory would you keep if you were asked to keep just one "After Life?" This great film by the best Japanese director today asks this profound question.
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 | Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $21.00 Who knew an art film could be so much fun. The best Beauty and the Beast film. Period.
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 | The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $14.99 Truffaut's moving autobiographical film of his life as a teenager. May be his best.
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 | The River - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.50 One of the great color films ever. Renoir was a master.
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 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Extraordinarily Deluxe Three-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $8.41 A funny little film. Monty Python's most inspired movie.
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 | Sansho the Bailiff - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $23.98 Replacing my earlier choice of Ugetsu, this is a haunting movie of the loss of family & freedom.
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 | Forbidden Games: The Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.98 A small film about a little girl whose parents are killed during WWII. Heartbreaking.
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 | Mouchette - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $16.79 Any choice by Bresson will do. A girl and her determination to make her own decisions in life. Touching.
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 | M. Hulot's Holiday - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $16.50 Also see Mon Oncle & Playtime. Tati is only second funniest to Buster Keaton and that's saying alot.
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 | Seven Samurai - 3 Disc Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine # 2)
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $24.99 THE greatest action/adventure film of all time. Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. What fan of Japanese films could ask for anything more?
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 | Come and See
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $19.12 An extra edition to my original list. If you want to see how horrible the Nazi's atrocities were then you must see this harrowing and moving film.
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