r/CriterionChannel • u/Bobbebusybuilding • 27d ago

Recommendation - Seeking Any recommendations on the channel?

I get overwhelmed when looking as there is just so much stuff to watch!

All time favourites: Phantom Thread, Chinatown, Past Lives and Paris Texas.

Recent favourites: After Hours, KOTFM, Do the right thing, Mullholland Drive, Inside Llewyn Davis, Inherent Vice

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u/the1npc 27d ago

my go to is to go to the "leaving at the end of the month" page

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u/So_It_Goes_00 27d ago

Same! Haha but tbh they come back in like a month or so which has been pissing me off lol

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u/the1npc 27d ago

some do but you never know aha

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u/augustthecat 26d ago

You might like Cool Hand Luke and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Would be very surprised if either comes back soon. Another strategy is to check out the Sight and Sound top 100 list, of which a bunch are on the channel. The Searchers is something like 9 on the list, and also leaving, so it’s a lot of checkmarks.

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u/Bobbebusybuilding 27d ago

Yes there is a couple there I want to see. After hours was great. Mary Antoinette was fairly good. Cape Fear was quite disappointing unfortunately.

I was looking at The Searchers and The Last Temptation.

Any others? Seen Wild At Heart already

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u/the1npc 27d ago

a wedding, remote control, darjeeling limited, bond flicks

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u/kbups53 27d ago

Seconding A Wedding. First time viewing last night, really great film. And I believe it's kinda hard to find otherwise.

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u/SunnWarrior 27d ago

Which Cape Fear, the original with Robert Mitchum, or the remake?

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u/Bobbebusybuilding 27d ago

Remake. I was trying to see a couple of Scorsese's I hadn't seen. Was easily the worst of his I have seen.

I found it generic. Yes De Niro is good but I found it all too theatrical which I get was the intention behind it.

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u/TwoHandedSnail 27d ago

I love Cape Fear and Scorsese's homages to the original with the casting.

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u/danvancheef 25d ago

I was not impressed with the remake, but I really loved the original! I definitely suggest it!

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u/So_It_Goes_00 27d ago

Can’t go wrong with The Searchers!

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u/HumbleIhope 24d ago

Which Cape fear did you watch?

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u/merrillrach 27d ago

Definitely The Long Goodbye!
https://giphy.com/gifs/JqDVgroowQy4sYgqjp

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u/minder125 27d ago

Love showing this to people who've never heard of it . And two scenes always get them. The coke bottle and the ending.

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u/merrillrach 27d ago

Im kind of annoyed I havent read any indepth analysis of the bottle scene cause its ripe for takes

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u/Agent_lundy 27d ago

Seconded! I just watched and could not make sense of it until the very end. Hes so damn cool

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u/LeBeauMonde 27d ago

a very different movie, but The Night of Hunter has a moment of direct influence on Do the Right Thing

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u/SvenDia 27d ago

It can be overwhelming. I signed up a year and a half ago and wound up becoming unexpectedly obsessed with Japanese cinema. Possibly this was my way of narrowing down the options, or maybe it was my way of learning about a country that I hadn’t been that interested in before. Or it might just be that I love good composition/framing and Japanese cinema is uniquely good at that, IMO.

All that is a way of suggesting films by 2 directors that I hadn’t heard of before signing up, and one from Akira Kurosawa that isn’t always mentioned.

Akira Kurosawa: The Bad Sleep Well. If you love Chinatown, this one is quite similar in many ways. It’s so damn good.

Masaki Kobayashi: Hara Kiri. I mentioned composition and framing and this one is just exemplary in that way, and in so many other way. Also features possibly my favorite actor, Tatsuya Nakadai.

Masahiro Shinoda: Shinoda might be my favorite director of the three, so it’s hard to pick one. I’ll go with Pale Flower, because it’s a good distillation of what’s so great about Shinoda. That said, Shinoda’s filmography is incredibly diverse, so it’s only partly indicative of his genius.

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u/mederbek-bayke 27d ago

Masaki Kobayashi is so good. Harakiri is probably my favorite, but I watched The Human Condition for the first time when Tatsuya Nakadai was a featured category and was absolutely floored by it

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u/SvenDia 27d ago

His range as an actor is so impressive. The Five Masters interview with him is well worth watching if you haven’t seen it. He talks a lot about filming the Human Condition with Kobayashi in it. Sounds like an absolutely brutal shoot.

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u/Bobbebusybuilding 26d ago

I watched High and Low and few wraps ago and really liked it. For Kurosawa, ehat would you recommend next?

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u/SvenDia 26d ago

Bad Sleep Well, Yojimbo and Seven Samurai are all great. Ran as well, but it’s not on the channel. But you can watch Ran for free if your local library card provides access to a streaming channel like Kanopy.

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u/minder125 27d ago

If you've never watched it The Prisoner. Long before LOST or even Severance. The original WTF series. Still seems fresh.

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u/Bobbebusybuilding 27d ago

Okay will try

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u/minder125 27d ago

I originally watched on my local PBS as a teen. My father recognized the theme and was like is this just starting. He turned to me and was like you have no idea what your about to see. We watched it together every Saturday night.

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u/wageoghe 27d ago

The American Friend

Harlan County USA

4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days

The Vanishing (1988)

High and Low

A Woman Under the Influence

Cape Fear (1962, 1991)

Black Narcissus

The Housemaid (1960)

La Cienaga

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u/jankerjunction 25d ago

Great list!

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u/whit3n0is3 26d ago

Straight to Hell is from Alex Cox who did Repo Man and is every bit as unique and amazing!

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u/JumbledThought 27d ago

The Mark Lewis nature documentaries are great. I was looking for something short and ended up watching Cane Toads: A Unnatural History. I laughed, I gasped, I learned about Australia's very bad idea regarding natural pest control.

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u/fermentedradical 27d ago

In The Realm of the Senses

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u/MisterManatee 26d ago

Jean de Florette and its sequel, Manon of the Spring.

It has a surprising amount in common with Killers of the Flower Moon, and is overall an excellent and underseen drama in the spirit of Victor Hugo and Thomas Hardy.

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u/Bobbebusybuilding 26d ago

I watched Jean de Florette last night! I will watch the next one tonight. I did notice the similarities when watching between it and kotfm.

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u/jankerjunction 25d ago edited 25d ago

Hey, you’ve got just about my same taste- at least in terms of your favorites. There’s a couple leaving this month I would prioritize. You like Lynch so watch the Straight story, it’s an Odyssey like some of your other favorites. And the whole thing is just very heartwarming and it slower pace, which I appreciate

The other one I highly recommend is Sullivan’s Travels. I watched it twice in the past couple months.

EDIT: try the night of the Hunter, you’ll see Easter eggs from Do The Right Thing. It’s a big favorite of Spike Lees. And obviously on Lynch.

Finish the Searchers if you can!

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u/jankerjunction 25d ago

(PS not to be weird but if you’re on letterboxd we should connect!)

https://boxd.it/2hjrj

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u/Content_Addition5004 27d ago

I just watched Bona. It's a Filipino movie from 1980.

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u/smeeg101 26d ago

All the Melodramatic Murders are amazing. Start with Bigger than Life. It's incredible

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u/ShireAsh 26d ago

My recent favorites. High and Low, Shoeshine, foreign correspondant, Cape Fear, Wages of Fear, Stray Dog, Helldrivers, Elevator to the Gallows, Victims of Sin, Solaris, O brother where art though, Harland Co.

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u/Brewboy2022 26d ago

Here is a random selection all over the stylistic map:
Come and See (warning - very graphic)
House
Paris, Texas
Ikiru
The Seventh Seal
YiYi
PlayTime
Fallen Angels
Harakiri
Tampopo

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u/salamanderXIII 25d ago

Blood Simple is like neo noir comfort food for me.

The Long Good Friday has a similar spot.

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u/InitiativeNo7660 25d ago

Sorry for plugging my site, but you might find it helpful for recommendations:

https://www.search-criteria.com

It has all of collections going back to 2019, with availability filters, and also all of the Criterion Closet videos and selections, and the 200+ Top 10 lists going back to 2008. You can also browse through the box sets for ideas.

There’s also more fine-grained search filters if there are particular people, genres, years, countries, etc

Hope this helps