Should i watch every movie in the criterion collection?

should i watch every movie in the criterion collection?

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You can if you want. Probably every movie in the collection is a better experience than your average capeshit flick.

do it user, make it your summer goal.

No, just watch the Criterion release of Michael Bay's Armageddon and stop there.

nah, only most of then

Yes, except for The Killing of a Chinese Bookie because that shit's terrible.

I started going through the CC catalogue and I'd say for half the movies their greatness is completely lost on me while the other half are truly great. Off the top of my head:

Worth watching
- Paths of Glory
- Night of the Hunter
- Sweet Smell of Success
- The Conformist
- M

Total shit
- L'Avventura
- The Searchers
- Anything by Fellini
- My Dinner with Andre
- Tokyo Story

what a pleb

And The Rock, dude!

But yeah, everything else is pretentious trash.

>The Searchers is shit
holy fuck please be bait

Is it that bad? I've got the cassavetes box, and I liked faces, shadows and awuti

Good:
Take Aim at the Police Van
Youth of the Beast
Gate of Flesh
Story of a Prostitute
Tokyo Drifter
Fighting Elegy
Branded to Kill

Shit:
Everything else

Seems like fun. If you're not a pleb start a podcast about it.

You might like the 109 cut if you like capeshit

>I need a story with standard beats and plot points, plus characters with easy and clear goals and motivations, to enjoy a movie

Top Pleb, kiddo.

Cronos

how are you this proud to be such a pleb

I don't like caleshit though...
Is opening night good?

>fantasy shit
>good
kek

I think this is a joke

The searchers isn't shit but it's extremely overrated like many criterion flicks

Jesus -- know this young man: you are a fucking pleb. Your taste is shit. Literal shit.

Paths of Glory
Badlands (probably the best of all of them)
Mulholland Drive
Blood Simple
Nashville
Close Up

Movies most in need of Criterion release-

Ali, Fear Eats the Soul
The Piano Teacher
Hard Eight
Soy Cuba

The entire Western genre of motion picture demonizes Native Americans and paints their genociders as good guys.

Can you imagine being a Native American and having hundreds of films dedicated to portraying your people as simple, savage animals and justifiable targets of slaughter?

I watched The Searchers last week and was utterly fucking disgusted. I'm glad Westerns are dead.

>Total shit
>- L'Avventura
>- The Searchers
>- Anything by Fellini
>- My Dinner with Andre
>- Tokyo Story

Agreed, you have to be a pretentious art fag to pretend to like these pieces of shit.

>I didn't understand The Searchers at all
Go read some secondary literature surrounding the film my dude, because you clearly didn't get it.

Let me tell you 'bout the Comanch.

The Searchers doesn't even have a Criterion edition, and neither does The Conformist

Well old fuckwit, know this, anyone who uses the word "pleb" or "embryo" is a fucking imbecille.

The only one with that second word in their post is you, friendo.

Ali is already in the collection

This is probably the truth. It's not a masterpiece, like Shane or Treasure of the Sierra Madre or the Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, but it has heavily influenced modern filmmakers, like Copolla, PTA, and Tarantino so much, that people assume it is great. The beginning and the end are perfect. And the final shot is one of the most significant shots in all of film. But the bulk of the movie still bores me to tears. I wish it was great, I really do.

>Shane is better than The Searchers
please do the world a favor and kill yourslef, plotbabby

>- L'Avventura
A legitimately obtuse 'art' film, sure
>- The Searchers
A super simple Western, easy viewing
>- Anything by Fellini
The most entertaining 'art' films there are, La Dulce Vita is incredibly accessible and likeable, Mastroianni oozes charisma
>- My Dinner with Andre
Literally people talking, if that's not your thing then sure
>- Tokyo Story
A slow and profound film, too slow and profound for simple folk who like their films to explode and have men in capes I suppose

>implying the audience is meant to empathize with Ethan and not Martin

you do realize he planned to kill Debbie for like 95% of the movie? the movie is clear about this

>Doesn't realize Stagecoach is better than all of these
>Doesn't rate The Searchers
Looks like The Searchers is my new pleb filter

While by in large this is true, especially with Ford, it is not true of other filmmakers, like Huston. Treasure of the Sierra Madre does not depict Native Americans as the bad guys, in fact they are arguably the only good guys in the movie. But I agree, the only positive thing about the Searchers is that it made Scorsese make Taxi Driver

Don't try to explain it to him senpai, if he didn't understand The Searchers maybe movies aren't for him.

Stagecoach is just about perfect desu (tho personally I prefer a few other Ford films to it)

The entire White Male Revenge genre of motion picture demonizes Pimps nad Whores and paints their genociders as good guys.

Can you imagine being a Pimp or Whore and having hundreds of films dedicated to portraying your people as simple, savage animals and justifiable targets of slaughter?

I watched Taxi Driver last week and was utterly fucking disgusted. I'm glad White Male Revenge films are dead.

Shane actually makes normal people feel emotions. The Searchers is the kind of film for people who are dead inside. Also, if it wasn't for Shane, we would not have such kino as Harry and the Hendersons

yes

If you actually did this it would be a spectacular education in film. The Criterion Collection is no joke. Going through the Criterion catalog on Netflix when I was 13 years old changed my life forever.

The protagonist of Taxi Driver wasn't a hero.

criterion collection is bloated. half of the stuff is trash, and for some titles other companies like arrow video have better releases with more extras and shit

I thought the point of the film was that Travis' actions weren't morally justifiable, but in the context of saving a 12 year old girl (who really didn't wanna be saved, but who cares what she thinks) society deems his actions appropriate. At the same time, Travis did not murder the pimps out of compassion, on the contrary, it was just a mindless rampage of violence that will likely reoccur, as show in the final shot of him looking into the rear view mirror.

Also, I really do not think White Male revenge movies are dead at all. The Revenant, Drive, The Dark Knight Rises, There Will be Blood, these are all obviously recent revenge movies about white guys. Not only that, I feel the white male revenge genre has infiltrated television as well, look at Breaking Bad for example.

Neither was Ethan you fucking idiot.

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Jean Renoir
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. John Ford
10. Akira Kurosawa
11. Martin Scorsese
12. Yasujiro Ozu
13. Luis Buñuel
14. Andrei Tarkovsky
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Robert Bresson
17. Carl Theodor Dreyer
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Howard Hawks
22. Fritz Lang
23. François Truffaut
24. Sergei Eisenstein
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
28. David Lynch
29. Jacques Rivette
30. David Lean
31. Vittorio De Sica
32. Luchino Visconti
33. Alain Resnais
34. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
35. Roman Polanski
36. Ernst Lubitsch
37. John Cassavetes
38. Sergio Leone
39. Wong Kar-wai
40. Jean Vigo
41. Satyajit Ray
42. Max Ophüls
43. Robert Altman
44. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
45. Abbas Kiarostami
46. Zack Snyder
47. Werner Herzog
48. D.W. Griffith
49. Terrence Malick
50. Buster Keaton

Watch a film by every person on this list and when you're done, watch the next film by every person on this list. Then pick the directors you like and watch all of the films by that person until you exhaust their filmography. This is assuming you've already seen all of the Sup Forumscore films and are bored by contemporary films.

Nah, he killed injuns.

woooosh

>night of the hunter
>great
its utter shit but a cult film simply because of one iconic character

Half is too much. I'd say maybe a third is trash but it's all significant in some way.

Do this and you'll have more film knowledge than 19/20ths of film critics

Arrow Video is dedicated to trash. You can't pretend like it's a better guide.

Lol you're so fucking wrong

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>The entire Western genre of motion picture demonizes Native Americans and paints their genociders as good guys.

>He's never seen the Outlaw Josie Wales or Unforgiven

clear it up for me then.
the script is shit with some of the cringiest stuff still to this day
set design is a joke
acting sometimes ridiculously shakey
message so hamfisted its pounded again and again

very entry level, but yes if half of Sup Forums did that this place would be glorious, well it would still be a shithole but with more integrity

>set design is a joke
stop memeing, night of the hunter has some of the best cinematography of the 50's, monochrome is amazing
also lilian gish

>b-but muh plot, but muh message
kek, stick to capeshit

I didn't mention cinematography you dolt. do you know what set design is?
>reducing to stick to capeshit excuse
poor form, argue for fucks sake. film is subjective and you cant take a different opinion?

No. NO.

You'll eventually end up watching Sweet Movie, which I had the misfortune of watching.

I guess if you like watching someone literally take a shit onto a plate and crap like that, you might enjoy it.

never said it was a better guide

Sweet Movie is fine, Dusan Mackevejec is just a goose.

>Zack Snyder

>no Kubrick
>no John Huston
>no Fassbinder
>no Michael Haneke
>no Sidney Lumet
>no Jean Cocteau
>no Johnathan Demme

But you include Zach Synder. Trash list is trash

I did not realize that. I will probably get tha tonight.

I didn't know Seijun "Decent B Movies" Suzuki had so many fanboys

Not every movie. Watch the pre-2010s ones. The Criterion selection for the current decade isn't that strong (except Certified Copy, The Dardennes Bros. movies and Inside Llewyn Davis)

set design actually is a part of cinematography because of how it accommodates elements in space you fucking retard

>different opinion
sorry you didn't like the "message"
jesus christ you're a fucking kid kek, learn to watch films

this board is a joke

>leaving griffith in the last spots when he literally created most if not all of the cinematic language used by all the other directors on the list
pleb

I thought Sweet Movie was alright. It was like Jodorowsky, meets Passolini, with a little bit of John Waters. Not something I would really recommend, but I'll probably watch it again eventually.

What's your fucking problem? You know those aren't just any B movies, right?

non realism in films is cancer faggot kys

>still can't argue
>still crying
Grow up yourself wanker

Don't bother arguing with the troll, Night of the Hunter is fucking incredible. It was the first American movie to have a plot that taboo, without it, we never would have had Cape Fear. Robert Mitchum is based as fuck.

Write your own list then faggots. Fuck all of you I'm never sharing my list again. I hate this website

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>zack snyder
yes never share anything made by you again

I have filmstruck, pretty good choice since I don't pirate anymore. They have almost every good movie made on criterion aside from some of the eastern european, early american, indian, etc films.

I watched all of these on filmstruck in the past week, good time. Only way to become patrician.

>It was the first American movie to have a plot that taboo
no, watch more films before saying stupid shit like that

>he likes genres and styles instead of individual offerings
what the fuck is wrong with you

Name one American movie about a child murderer before 1955.

I'm patiently waiting for that to come to Canada

Fritz Lang, M, 1934.

I said an AMERICAN film dumbass.

no, you said "that taboo"
birth of a nation caused fucking riots when it was released
thats a german film you retard learn to read

>they aren't just any B movies
Yeah they're Japanese B movies

No.

Birth of a Nation was not taboo when it was released, it's only taboo now from a normative perspective. Woodrow Wilson screened it in the White House. Keep trying.

that's how i know you haven't watched it, thanks i'm out enjoy being a pleb forever

I have watched it, I had to sit through that bullshit in History class twice. Riots happened all the goddamn time back then, you could cause a riot by whistling at a white woman. Doesn't make it taboo at all to have a movie about the KKK and lynch mobs, the fact is, that shit went on and everyone already knew about it. Way less taboo than a movie about child murderers. How do I know? Because one didn't get made until 40 years later.

>child murderer
Try retard child molestation. 30's are filled with taboo subjects. Watch more than criterionshit, plebbit.

Wow, that is the cover they picked? Like, how many people do you think had to approve that? How many individuals said, Let's just put Lena's big old ham face on there, that's gonna move copies!

Does anyone ITT want to hang out irl? I like all of the posts ITT and want to hang out with yall

no

Let's be honest, that shit ain't a "film" by even the most broad definition. It was a 60 minute shock pic, produced outside of any major studio, and using the bullshit excuse of "educational value" to show child nudity.

NO. It is scientifically proven that movies are best watched in the dark and alone.

What about this? It only recently got a release.

>get proven wrong
>nuh uh, it's not in Criterion Collection and I never heard of it so it's not a film
really makes you think...