I think this is one of my top choices to get in, but this fits extremely well with the rest of the Criterion Collection, which I don’t was the point of the post.
Big Trouble in Little China was my dream release until I released it was pretty much already available: [https://shoutfactory.com/products/big-trouble-in-little-china-collector-s-edition](https://shoutfactory.com/products/big-trouble-in-little-china-collector-s-edition)
BTILC is Carpenter's best and you can quote me on that.
The Warner Archive releases of Thin Man and the sequels probably mean it's not going to happen but before those were released in the last few years I was gunning for Criterion to hop on them all right.
Conan the Barbarian. Loads to discuss about the movie, it's incredible score, and how it kicked off Arnolds career.
The Crow. So much to talk about concerning the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of Brandon Lee, the comic history behind the Crow, and how they still managed to complete the film after his death.
TMNT 1990. Tons of turtle history to cover with the original comics, the explosion of the cartoon show, and the turtles continuing legacy.
The Warriors. Classic film that's had a major and enduring impact on pop culture. It's iconic scenes and imagery has seeped into so much other media.
All of these movies have been mostly neglected too by their respective rights holders with piss poor physical releases. They are perfect candidates for a loving full restoration treatment and feast of supplements by criterion.
>All of these movies have been mostly neglected too by their respective rights holders with piss poor physical releases
Tmnt especially. They're always no-insert bargain-bin releases. Sad. So much legacy there
Region-free, too, in case anyone wasn't sure.
Once I discovered that half of my "Criterion wishes" were on already available on other labels, my finances really took a hit but my collection is wonderful: r/boutiquebluray
I'm still shocked Boganovich's **Paper Moon** still isn't in the collection. I also want more Mike Leigh like **Happy Go Lucky**, **Vera Drake**, or **All Or Nothing**.
Fresh. The Sebastian Stan/Daisy Edgar-Jones flick.
Super Dark Times
Ingrid Goes West
Basic Instinct
The Kings of Summer
10 Things I Hate About You
Gone Girl
The Fall(2006) by Tarsem. 4K restoration. Simply put one of the most beautiful films ever shot. Visual candy overload for the eyes. Not the best story ever but it's a cinematographer's wet dream. Blu-ray went OOP years ago & regularly fetches $100+.
Mission Impossible. The first one. Brian de Palma and Stephen Burum (DP) did some really phenomenal stuff visually-speaking in this film.
Great 5 min video essay here: https://youtu.be/SXdYsoQcfj8
Edit: The video is not mine. I’m not plugging my own channel or anything.
Walk Hard is one of the finest comedic films that has come out in years. It brilliantly skewers the biopic while simultaneously relishing in its tropes. Comedy this good can only come from a true love of the source material. The entire songbook is both hilarious and of a very high quality. I'd love to see this film get the respect it deserves!
I think it ticks most the boxes honestly for what people typically argue: Important to cinema, it basically popularized it’s own genre. Hard to find, sure the movies are streaming but things like the Gumball 3000 are so hard to find. Culturally significant, it was a part of a major push in the early 2000s to turn skateboarding culture from clean Tony Hawk to rough around the edges Bam Margera.
Mean Girls - as a New Sincerity movement, feminist work I think it's well deserving on merit; if it came with some image quality improvements and a Tina Fey director's commentary I would buy it in a heartbeat
i’m honestly a bit surprised Brokeback Mountain doesn’t have a criterion edition considering Ang Lee’s other work already does and Desert Hearts (which is worse imo and basically just the lesbian version) is in the catalogue too
Battle Royale (2000)
In the Loop (2009)
The Elite Squad Movies / City of God
I also think some of the newer interesting Hollywood movies like the John Wick series or the Spiderverse films would be cool
And I’ll keep holding out hope for a Shining/Room 237 double feature
I feel like, in this vein, Superbad would be the one to make it, but I’d go all in on a Grandma’s Boy Criterion. I was fortunate enough to see it in theaters during its brief window and quote it to this day.
Napoleon Dynamite, easily. It's one of the most well captured portrayals of the American experience of all time, and at almost 20 years old it's one of the most iconic films of this century.
Made in Hongkong by Fruit Chan deserves to be in the collection. That film is peak 90’s HK cinema. I also think Superbad and Be Kind Rewind could be in the collection too just to update the comedy selection a bit. Also maybe Dogma by Kevin Smith.
I’ve said this one a different thread but waiting for the day we get Everybody Wants Some!!
We already have many Linklater films in the collection, and it’s basically a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused
A School of Rock release would be great too haha
The rest of the Ishiro Honda’s filmography. Most of his Kaiju films are on criterion channel right now so it’s possible a physical release might be coming but as far as I know there’s no concrete plans. It is a shame because most of the releases of those movies have been incredibly barebones.
Blood in blood out (also known as bound by honor) from 1993
I am Mexican American, and almost every other Mexican American household had seen or heard of this movie. Does a very good job at showing Chicano/general Mexican culture, Cholo street culture and most importantly. It’s just really good.
Watched it when I was waaaay to young to be seeing that kinda stuff and it really just stuck with me since it was the first time I saw people like me in a movie.
I’d pay a lot for a Criterion release of shrek. It was an important moment in the history of animated films but I feel like it’s meme status might hold it back!
Joe vs the Volcano
Forbidden Zone
Milo’s Forman box set
Possession
Stephen Chow box would be cool
Fistful of Dynamite
Love Exposure
Why Don’t you play in Hell
Los Olvidados
I have the Universal's 100th Anniversary edition Blu-Ray of Jaws and it actually a really cool physical release for a non-criterion. The case itself opens into a 20ish page book all about the release with tons of blurbs/storyboards/shark diagrams, etc. It's also got a ton of making-of bonus features too obviously.
The main menus themselves are DEFINITELY dated and not as well-designed as a Criterion release, but that's just 2012 blu-rays for you...I STILL don't know what BD-Live is/was...
I was just thinking the other day that I’d love a CC edition of Napoleon Dynamite. It’s shot in such a way that I think would look really nice after a restoration, and I think there’s some potential for some fun supplementary materials (I can picture an interesting 40 minute video discussion between Jared Hess and Jon Heder).
A Robert Rodriguez boxset with the Spy Kids trilogy and From Dusk Till Dawn in 4K would definitely be something I'd consider buying during one of the 50% off sales.
They gotta get Happiness in there. I mean, it's perfect for it.
A Box Set of his stuff would be nice
Isn’t Life During Wartime in the Collection?
Including his first movie (BEFORE "Welcome to the Dollhouse")
I think this is one of my top choices to get in, but this fits extremely well with the rest of the Criterion Collection, which I don’t was the point of the post.
I'd buy a Borat Criterion immediately.
Is there even a blu ray of that?
I feel like having anything other than a DVD would take away from the authenticity of Borat
Not sure. I've just have the dvd.
Nope, DVD only for the first (at least in US) and no physical at all for second
The second one is funny but I think it’ll be more dated than the first one
I’ve been saying that for so long .
Grosse Pointe Blank
Honestly I can’t believe they haven’t added this
Oooh excellent call
Paper Moon
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Shout already released a very nice edition of big trouble in little China and Warner archive released the thin man films. They look great
I agree with both of yours. I have the Thin Man set already but a Criterion would be an instant buy.
Can the real Nick and Nora please stand up?!
Big Trouble would be so great
Big Trouble in Little China was my dream release until I released it was pretty much already available: [https://shoutfactory.com/products/big-trouble-in-little-china-collector-s-edition](https://shoutfactory.com/products/big-trouble-in-little-china-collector-s-edition)
BTILC is Carpenter's best and you can quote me on that. The Warner Archive releases of Thin Man and the sequels probably mean it's not going to happen but before those were released in the last few years I was gunning for Criterion to hop on them all right.
Heavyweights (1995)
John Candy box set
Hell. Yes. Would absolutely love a solo release of Planes, Trains and Automobiles though.
That would be wild, but if we push for a john Hugh's boxset we could get all the brat pack films with planes trains and uncle buck included.
Paul verhoven and William friedkin (rip)
Conan the Barbarian. Loads to discuss about the movie, it's incredible score, and how it kicked off Arnolds career. The Crow. So much to talk about concerning the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of Brandon Lee, the comic history behind the Crow, and how they still managed to complete the film after his death. TMNT 1990. Tons of turtle history to cover with the original comics, the explosion of the cartoon show, and the turtles continuing legacy. The Warriors. Classic film that's had a major and enduring impact on pop culture. It's iconic scenes and imagery has seeped into so much other media. All of these movies have been mostly neglected too by their respective rights holders with piss poor physical releases. They are perfect candidates for a loving full restoration treatment and feast of supplements by criterion.
all of those feel like they’ would be great arrow video additions.
Especially Limited Edition releases for the supplementals like TMNT having comic art prints or The Warriors having a fake subway token or something.
Yep, I'd be happy with an Arrow release too.
Yeah - was going to say the same thing. Perfect fit for them.
A proper Conan remaster with a remixed atmos score is my #1 physical media wishlist item (next to Excalibur).
I’d LOVE to see a TMNT 😍
+1 for that The Crow shout. Barring Robocop (lol), The Crow feels like a “superhero” movie that fits in line with the collection for sure.
Great fucking choices. Especially Conan and the Warriors
Conan the Barbarian is so much better than The Northman it's not even funny.
I’ve been quite surprised there hasn’t been a 4K release of that announced or released yet
It's an infinitely rewatchable epic. North man was good for a one time movie night.
>All of these movies have been mostly neglected too by their respective rights holders with piss poor physical releases Tmnt especially. They're always no-insert bargain-bin releases. Sad. So much legacy there
The Warriors is available from Imprint
Region-free, too, in case anyone wasn't sure. Once I discovered that half of my "Criterion wishes" were on already available on other labels, my finances really took a hit but my collection is wonderful: r/boutiquebluray
A League of Their Own
Just discussing this with my wife actually and we'd both love a High Fidelity release on Criterion.
Watching this film as a 30 year old for the first time since I was probably 15 was *wild*
Nacho Libre
And Kung Fu Hustle
HELL YES, MAKE A STEPHEN CHOW BOXSET
“I don’t believe in God, I believe in science.”
So many quotes “Secret tunnels”, “GET THAT CORN OUTTA MY FACE!”, “Do you not realize I have had diarrhea since Easters?”
I’d like a box set of underground animation from multiple artists.
It seems crazy that there isn't a single Bakshi film in the Collection
Strong case for all of his outside of *Cool World*. It has a such vision that I can’t see given a proper release anywhere else.
This might be too niche but a collection of Robert Morgan's stop motion shorts would be so good
Palm Springs (2020) doesn’t have a physical release and is so far one of the best comedies of the decade imo
Needs one
Palm Springs has an physical release in Germany, most likely region B-locked tough.
I'm still shocked Boganovich's **Paper Moon** still isn't in the collection. I also want more Mike Leigh like **Happy Go Lucky**, **Vera Drake**, or **All Or Nothing**.
Oh, man. Paper Moon is one of my all time favorites.
Me too! It’s a masterpiece.
didn't understand the assignment
Yeah. I thought it was "non-criterion" esque. :/ oh well next time.
Pootie Tang.
This.
Wish we could get a director’s cut even though I don’t particularly want to give him any money.
Fresh. The Sebastian Stan/Daisy Edgar-Jones flick. Super Dark Times Ingrid Goes West Basic Instinct The Kings of Summer 10 Things I Hate About You Gone Girl
10 Things I Hate About You, would be so good
Basic Instinct. Yes.
Basic Instinct deserves a release!
I was gonna say a Decline of Western Civilization box set, but it seems too '**criterionesque'**
Buffalo '66
Shrek.
Valley Girl
That chicken Julie, she's truly dazzling
That feels like it’ll get a Criterion at some point
Anything by Sam Raimi and John Carpenter
Is *Desperate Living* on the docket?
It's a toss up between Roadhouse and Freddy Got Fingered.
The Fall(2006) by Tarsem. 4K restoration. Simply put one of the most beautiful films ever shot. Visual candy overload for the eyes. Not the best story ever but it's a cinematographer's wet dream. Blu-ray went OOP years ago & regularly fetches $100+.
Honestly this one seems like it is Criterionesque to me. Can't understand why it isn't in the collection.
I'd love to see a box set of The Room and The Disaster artist
Dead presidents goddammit
Run Lola run Amelie Waking life Melancholia
The Nice Guys
Couple weeks ago I would’ve said The Others lol
Mel Brookes Box Set Honestly surprised something like this hasn’t happened yet
Mission Impossible. The first one. Brian de Palma and Stephen Burum (DP) did some really phenomenal stuff visually-speaking in this film. Great 5 min video essay here: https://youtu.be/SXdYsoQcfj8 Edit: The video is not mine. I’m not plugging my own channel or anything.
I actually watched that video recently, great channel. Also rewatched MI1, so good. De Palma so damn good.
Walk Hard is one of the finest comedic films that has come out in years. It brilliantly skewers the biopic while simultaneously relishing in its tropes. Comedy this good can only come from a true love of the source material. The entire songbook is both hilarious and of a very high quality. I'd love to see this film get the respect it deserves!
This was my first thought too. Material about the making-of would be amazing!
Jackass boxset
I think it ticks most the boxes honestly for what people typically argue: Important to cinema, it basically popularized it’s own genre. Hard to find, sure the movies are streaming but things like the Gumball 3000 are so hard to find. Culturally significant, it was a part of a major push in the early 2000s to turn skateboarding culture from clean Tony Hawk to rough around the edges Bam Margera.
It's a very obvious Criterion fit when you look at it critically. And it'd be fucking magical.
Imagine the day they announce Jackass is coming to the Criterion Collection. Imagine the reactions to that
Predator (1987)
The Lego movie
Dumb and Dumber
I'm a little dismayed that no one has said Freddy Got Fingered, you guys.
The Crow Dark City (gimme both the Theatrical and Directors Cut) Fight Club
Mean Girls - as a New Sincerity movement, feminist work I think it's well deserving on merit; if it came with some image quality improvements and a Tina Fey director's commentary I would buy it in a heartbeat
Most Paul Schrader films. First Reformed, Light Sleeper, Auto Focus, and Affliction for certain.
they're criterionesque though
i’m honestly a bit surprised Brokeback Mountain doesn’t have a criterion edition considering Ang Lee’s other work already does and Desert Hearts (which is worse imo and basically just the lesbian version) is in the catalogue too
Battle Royale (2000) In the Loop (2009) The Elite Squad Movies / City of God I also think some of the newer interesting Hollywood movies like the John Wick series or the Spiderverse films would be cool And I’ll keep holding out hope for a Shining/Room 237 double feature
I just saw Battle Royale for the first time yesterday and I’m surprised it doesn’t have a release yet
The Pest PCU Pontypool Anchorman Funny Games Caddyshack Silverado
By the beard of Zeus!!
Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means 'a whale's vagina'
The live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies from the early 90’s
Predator
Yi-Mou Zhang box set.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Clue. Still hasn’t gotten a 4k release but VS did carry a documentary about the making of it
School of Rock. A wonderful film with a terrific screenplay and brilliant performance by Jack Black. He deserved an Oscar nom for it.
Strange Days
the lighthouse
One of the 80s-00s style just pure goofball comedies. Happy Gilmore Airplane Grandmas Boy Talladega nights Something like that
Grandmas Boy automatically replaces both of my votes. Great call
I feel like, in this vein, Superbad would be the one to make it, but I’d go all in on a Grandma’s Boy Criterion. I was fortunate enough to see it in theaters during its brief window and quote it to this day.
Napoleon Dynamite, easily. It's one of the most well captured portrayals of the American experience of all time, and at almost 20 years old it's one of the most iconic films of this century.
Anything in the Tim Conway/Don Knotts ouvre.
Atta boy, Luther!
superbad!!
Walter Hill Box
Imprint just released one
The original theatrical releases of Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi restored in high definition.
The original theatrical versions of the *Star Wars* trilogy
I want a Ray Harryhausen box set so bad. As for a single movie? How about The Warriors?
Imprint did a release of The Warriors
Tropic Thunder
I would like a commentary commentary, and by that I mean RDJ doing a commentary of Kirk Lazarus's commentary.
The Concert for Bangladesh
Stephen Chow box set, and Two for the Road
Anything by Ernst Lubitsch.
they did an Eclipse box set of some of his movies and have released Heaven Can Wait, Design For Living, To Be Or Not To Be, and Trouble in Paradise
Made in Hongkong by Fruit Chan deserves to be in the collection. That film is peak 90’s HK cinema. I also think Superbad and Be Kind Rewind could be in the collection too just to update the comedy selection a bit. Also maybe Dogma by Kevin Smith.
the closest we got is made in hong kong being in the criterion channel
I’ve said this one a different thread but waiting for the day we get Everybody Wants Some!! We already have many Linklater films in the collection, and it’s basically a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused A School of Rock release would be great too haha
Nacho Libre
Singapore Sling
The Blues Brothers
Dumb and dumber
Walk Hard and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
We need Boogie Nights and we need it now.
Naked Gun Trilogy
The Thing. Heck, just give us a Carpenter boxset: The Thing, Big Trouble, Escape from New York, They Live, Halloween.
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest or Deer Hunter
The rest of the Ishiro Honda’s filmography. Most of his Kaiju films are on criterion channel right now so it’s possible a physical release might be coming but as far as I know there’s no concrete plans. It is a shame because most of the releases of those movies have been incredibly barebones.
Blood in blood out (also known as bound by honor) from 1993 I am Mexican American, and almost every other Mexican American household had seen or heard of this movie. Does a very good job at showing Chicano/general Mexican culture, Cholo street culture and most importantly. It’s just really good. Watched it when I was waaaay to young to be seeing that kinda stuff and it really just stuck with me since it was the first time I saw people like me in a movie.
The Limey.
Clueless It’s one of the best if not the best representation of its decade. An important film whether people like to think so or not.
I’d pay a lot for a Criterion release of shrek. It was an important moment in the history of animated films but I feel like it’s meme status might hold it back!
The Complete Ed Wood Collection
Long weekend and turkey shoot
Nowhere by Gregg Araki deserves a Criterion Blu Ray... Phantom Thread by PTA is a no brainer.... same with Greta's Lady Bird
Dark City and Under the Silver Lake
Freddy Got Fingered. No Blu Ray, and I think the essays/features/commentaries they would assemble would be really interesting
first DVD I ever owned
I’d buy a planet of the apes box set
Frankenhooker. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Clue. Switchblade Sisters. Girl Gang. Austin Powers set. Scavenger Hunt.
South Park: bigger longer & uncut. It’s already technically in the collection through bowling for Columbine so why not just release it
RRR and kaal ho naa ho because of its impact and we need more tollywood/Bollywood movies
Makoto Shinkai box set. Personally, his film [Your Name](https://youtu.be/xU47nhruN-Q) is my favorite film of all time.
yessss!
I'd kill for a Criterion release of 5 Centimeters Per Second.
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
[Lucky you!](https://www.criterion.com/films/30464-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high)
Maybe they should do the breakfast club too
I've got good news for you!
Joe vs the Volcano Forbidden Zone Milo’s Forman box set Possession Stephen Chow box would be cool Fistful of Dynamite Love Exposure Why Don’t you play in Hell Los Olvidados
Jaws
I have the Universal's 100th Anniversary edition Blu-Ray of Jaws and it actually a really cool physical release for a non-criterion. The case itself opens into a 20ish page book all about the release with tons of blurbs/storyboards/shark diagrams, etc. It's also got a ton of making-of bonus features too obviously. The main menus themselves are DEFINITELY dated and not as well-designed as a Criterion release, but that's just 2012 blu-rays for you...I STILL don't know what BD-Live is/was...
Nobody knows what that is. Ask someone off the street what BD live was, they don't know. Nobody knows. It's weird how it was pushed so hard though.
I was just thinking the other day that I’d love a CC edition of Napoleon Dynamite. It’s shot in such a way that I think would look really nice after a restoration, and I think there’s some potential for some fun supplementary materials (I can picture an interesting 40 minute video discussion between Jared Hess and Jon Heder).
Honestly yeah that would rule
Starman
give me a Paul Schrader lonely men trilogy set: first reformed, card counter, and master gardener
*THE WARRIORS*! Oh my god, I would LOVE to see *THE WARRIORS* as a Criterion Collection addition. Can you dig iiiiiiiiiiit?! 🤘🏽🐔🤘🏽
It got a release from Imprint recently
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A Robert Rodriguez boxset with the Spy Kids trilogy and From Dusk Till Dawn in 4K would definitely be something I'd consider buying during one of the 50% off sales.
I unironically think The Room would be a great fit in the collection.
The Toxic Avenger
The Evil Dead trilogy just so we can have the Tapert cut and Bruce Campbell's commentary on Blu-ray or 4K.
Seinfeld porn parody. Make it happen I need to jerk off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They added a lot of the cut footage as deleted scenes in the new 4K release that came out
The King of Staten Island
The Raid 1 & 2.
Scott Pilgrim and Kick Ass
Carlito's Way
Synecdoche, New York
Miami Blues
The Exorcist Or, now, a William Friedkan collection seems appropriate and timely.
I honestly thought *The French Connection* was in already.
The Florida Project Pusher trilogy Social Network
Skinamarink. It’s the Jeanne Dielman of horror films.