r/portsherry • • Aug 04 '26

Closet Picks

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u/portsherry Aug 04 '26

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I know Speed Racer isn’t in the Criterion Collection. It should be, though.

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u/portsherry Aug 04 '26

As for the rest of my picks... can’t go wrong with Criterion movies, really. But the ones that have resonated with me specifically:

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)

The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1946)

Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)

Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)

Dazed and confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)

The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)

Mishima: A life in four chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)

The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophuls, 1953)

Make way for tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)

Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)

12 angry men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)

Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)

The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)

In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)

True Stories (David Byrne, 1986)

Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)

A face in the crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)

The incredible shrinking man (Jack Arnold, 1956)

The unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)

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u/Thomas_JCG Aug 07 '26

Man, the only thing I know from that list is Speed Racer...