One movie that should definitely be in the collection but completely flew under the radar in 2018 was the film “Leave No Trace”. A very quiet, understated film about a war veteran with PTSD, who lives off the grid where he raises his young daughter. It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in years.

We can name unpicked classics all day, but what I find particularly aggregous is how out of over 1000 spines, only SEVEN are animated films. The work of Satoshi Kon, Hideaki Anno, Mamoru Oshi, titles like The Wolf House and more are in desperate need of archival/redistribution.

The Lego Movie should be in Criterion. No Joke. People don't realize how revolutionary the story was, and the animation was amazing.

Some films not mentioned on this list that I think should be in the collection: Sleuth (1972) After Hours (1986) O Lucky Man (1973) Marat/Sade (1967) The Devils (1971) The Wicker Man (1973) Bedazzled (1967) Endless Night (1972) Seven Psychopaths (2012) Wake In Fright (1971) Akira (1988) Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966) Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (1972) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) Privilege (1967) Get Carter (1971)

These are surely great lists and they do deserve the Criterion treatment. The larger issue at hand is the fact that they have already been released by other prestigious distributors that have already been given a supplementary amount of prestige more than what Criterion has to offer. Arrow, Kino Lorber, Shout Factory, Vinegar Syndrome, Second Sight, Severin, DECAL, and etc. These films would look good on Criterion, but it's probably too late for it.

It is kinda weird to realize that the movies you mentioned (and more) aren’t in the collection. I was actually surprised to hear some of those. The idea that Park Chan Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy (not just Oldboy) isn’t on Criterion is baffling, especially because you can’t really find a region 1 version of any of them on Blu Ray. But Drive My Car was recently added, Sound of Metal is coming soon, and Power of the Dog is a little further along.

The one film that always comes to mind is Master And Commander (2003). It's an amazing film and seems to have been ignored in the physical media dept. Criterion would do an incredible job with it.

Lots of good ideas there and I’m sure a lot will eventually get their own release like good time and barking dogs never bite

The list is silly because a large portion of these movies already have great releases, and won’t be licensed out. Most of the studios, other than Disney and Paramount, have put out stellar discs. Yes, Criterion is nice and prestigious, but they’re doing a great job restoring and releasing movies that truly deserve saving.

THANK YOU for adding ROPE (1948) and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) to your list of recommended movies for THE CRITERION COLLECTION.

Lots of great ones. I think Dogtooth would fit right in as well as Man on the moon, After Yang, and Minari.

Here’s my wishlist: The Green Knight, Excalibur 1981, Legend 1985, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, A Clockwork Orange, The Shape of Water, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Tale of Tales, Akira, Coraline, Paranorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings

Blade Runner was a Criterion laser disc and had a lot of unique extras. I assume they lost they rights to it and since the move is mainstream and in print on bluray, they moved on.

I asked my dad what his top pick would be for a Criterion film, he said Gladiator (2000). A controversial one I'd say, but his reasons are definitely good ones. Like you said, The Truman Show (1998) is definitely my top pick for a Criterion film.

Drive(2011) Nightcrawler(2014) Atame(1990) Pain and Glory(2019) Almodovar films The Dreamers(2003) Stealing Beauty (1996) Los Olvidavos(1950) New Order(2021) Sundown(2021) Belfast(2021) The Sacrifice(1986) City of God(2002) Shame(2011) Nebraska(2013) Ida(2013) Cold War(2018) Oldboy(2003) Should be in The Criterion Collection PS: Any more films that should be in the collection any film from all over the world.

"Drive My Car", "Sound of Metal" and "Power of the Dog" have joined the Criterion Collection since you posted this video. 152 to go! I'm also sure Criterion would love to add a lot the films you listed but in a lot of these cases, the reason a classic or an acclaimed art-house film hasn't been added may be due to rights issues.

Zulu was a pleasant surprise at the end. Seen it a half dozen times.

In case I have not posted on this video: MEET JOHN DOE!!! It's in the public domaine, and all the editions of it are TOTALLY SCREWED UP!! IMHO (Just a little screwed up, but a little is a LOT when it's the BEST FILM!)

A couple of them made it into he collection: -Drive My Car -The Power of the Dog -Sound of Metal

A movie that 100% needs to be in the criterion collection is The Handmaiden by Park Chan Wook. That movie is absolutely phenomenal one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen and I’m so mad it’s out of print because I’d love to have that in my collection 😪

Very mainstream and some with major recency bias, Criterion at their best are about undiscovered and weird gems; foreign language films, under acclaimed masterpieces, weirdo films like pink flamingos and eating raoul. I feel like if they added most of these, they'd be losing their way (which maybe, they have been recently)

Kind of stunning that, in the year since this video was made, the only films in this list (unless I've missed something) which have been added to the Collection are Drive My Car, The Power of the Dog, and Sound of Metal.

Great choices! I also wish they would add: 1. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly 2. The Iron Giant 3. Tangerine 4. 21 Grams 5. Atonement- I don’t think they have this and they really should 6. Sideways 7. The Big Lebowski 8. Edward Scissorhands 9. Big Fish 10. Once

Three of them have already made it to the Collection: Drive My Car, Power of the Dog and Sound of Metal. You made some excellent picks and I predict that all of Robert Eggers movies will be in the Collection someday soon.

no After Hours?

First when they were Lazer Discs Blade Runner and Zulu were part of the CRITERION COLLECTION. Also I thougtht transpotting was, though I have never seen it. Also a film that they did have, and I wish they would bring back is HIGH NOON. I have the Lazer disc, and the audio commentary was fantastic and very funny. Also classics they had in the past were JOHN WOO THE KILLER and HARD BOILED. Also they had WIZARD OF OZ. Who can forget there three JAMES BOND films, Saw all of them, and listened to the commentaries, which upset Alber Brocolli that they were forced to take them off.

You forgot to include Stanley Kubrick's " Lolita" from 1962. By the way...How many Criterion DVD or/and Blu Rays do you own?📀

Half of them should never be in criterion collection

Pretty much any PTA or Darren Aronofsky film. Also I’m Thinking Of Ending Things from Charlie Kaufman.

Nice list. Pretty sure some of them have been added no rebel without a cause? That's crazy

a lot of these will for sure be coming eventually! some are already to mainstream and that's not really what they do. great list overall

Some good titles there. I imagine titles that haven’t been given the Criterion treatment comes down to rights. How The Rock and Armageddon ever got the royal treatment is beyond me. Don’t get me wrong: they are great films, just not Criterion worthy.

I know that this was released in March and it has been released since then, we can scratch Drive My Car off of the 155 now.

I have a list of movies I would personally love to see on the Criterion Collection: New Additions: 25th Hour (2002) 12 Years a Slave (2013) 20th Century Women (2016) 21 Grams (2003) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 28 Days Later (2002) (500) Days of Summer (2009) About Schmidt (2002) The Abyss (1989) The African Queen (1951) After Hours (1985) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) All is Lost (2013) Almost Famous (2000) Amadeus (1984) Amelie (2001) American History X (1998) An American Werewolf in London (1981) Amour (2012) Angel Heart (1987) Annie Hall (1977) Anomalism (2015) Another Round (2020) The Apartment (1960) Apocalypse Now (1979) At Eternity's Gate (2018) Atonement (2007) The Artist (2011) August: Osage County (2013) Awakenings (1990) Bambi (1942) Barton Fink (1991) Beautiful Boy (2018) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Black Swan (2010) The Blair Witch Project (1999) The Big Lebowski (1998) The Birds (1963) Birdman (2014) The Breadwinner (2017) Brick (2005) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Burning (2018) Burn After Reading (2008) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) The Big Country (1958) C'mon C'mon (2021) Call Me by Your Name (2017) Capote (2005) Carnage (2011) Casablanca (1942) Chaplin (1992) Children of Men (2006) City of God (2002) Climax (2018) A Clockwork Orange (1972) Close Encounter of the Third Kind (1977) Coco (2017) CODA (2021) Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) Collateral (2004) Cool Hand Luke (1967) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Dead Poets Society (1989) Death Wish (1974) Deliverance (1972) Detroit (2017) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The Dollars Trilogy (1964 - 1966) Donnie Darko (2001) Dracula (1931) Dracula (1958) Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Drive (2011) East of Eden (1955) Elephant (2003) Escape from New York (1981) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Ex Machina (2014) Everybody Wants Some (2016) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Fantasia (1940) The Fall (2006) The Farwell (2019) Fargo (1996) The Farther (2020) Fight Club (1999) Finding Forrester (2000) First Man (2018) First Reformed (2018) The Fly (1958/1986) Forbidden Planet (1956) Ford v Ferrari (2019) Foxcatcher (2014) Frankenstein (1931) The French Connection (1971) The French Dispatch (2021) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Gattaca (1997) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Get Out (2017) A Ghost Story (2017) Giant (1956) Gone Girl (2014) Gone with the Wind (1939) Good Time (2017) Good Will Hunting (1997) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) The Green Mile (1999) Hanna and her sisters (1986) Heat (1995) Her (2013) House of Wax (1953) The Hunt (2012) High Noon (1952) Ida (2013) In Bruges (2008) Incendies (2010) Inside Out (2015) Into the Wild (2007) Isle of Dogs (2018) It Follows (2014) Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Jackie (2016) Jaws (1975) Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) The King of Comedy (1982) The King’s Speech (2010) The King and I (1956) Kundun (1997) Lady Bird (2017) Licorice Pizza (2021) Let the Right One In (2008) The Lighthouse (2019) The Lion King (1994) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Lolita (1962) The Lobster (2015) Locke (2013) Lost in Translation (2003) Mad Max (1979) Mandy (2018) Magnolia (1999) The Master (2012) Memento (2000) Midsommar (2019) Misery (1990) Mommy (2014) Moon (2009) Moonlight (2016) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Munich (2005) My Life as a Zucchini (2016) Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Network (1976) Nightcrawler (2014) Nightmare Alley (2021) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) No Country for Old Men (2007) Nomadland (2020) North by Northwest (1959) Oldboy (2003) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Ordinary People (1980) The Others (2001) Palm Springs (2020) Phantom Thread (2017) The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) The Prestige (2006) Princess Mononoke (1997) The Quiet Man (1952) Rango (2011) Ratatouille (2007) Rear Window (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Reservoir Dogs (1992) The Revenant (2015) Revolutionary Road (2008) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Room (2015) Rope (1948) Schindler's List (1993) A Serious Man (2009) Serpico (1973) The Seven Year Itch (1955) The Shape of Water (2017) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Shining (1980) Shoplifters (2018) Short Term 12 (2013) Sideways (2004) Silence (2016) The Sister Brothers (2018) The Sixth Sense (1999) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Slow West (2015) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) The Social Network (2010) Song of the Sea (2014) Soul (2020) Strangers on a Train (1951) The Straight Story (1999) Suspiria (1977) Sunrise (1927) Sunshine (2007) Spirited Away (2001) Stand by Me (1985) Stranger than Fiction (2006) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Steve Jobs (2015) Synecdoche, New York (2008) Taxi Driver (1976) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Three Will Be Blood (2007) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Trainspotting (1996) A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Truman Show (1998) Under The Silver Lake (2018) Under the Skin (2013) Up (2009) The Warriors (1979) We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) The Wicker Man (1973) The Wild One (1953) Whiplash (2014) The Witch (2015) The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) You were Never Really Here (2017) Zodiac (2007) 4K/DVD Releases: Akira (1988), (DVD/4K Release) Blade Runner (1982), (DVD & 4K Release) Boogie Nights (1997), (DVD & 4K Release) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), (DVD & 4K Release) Seven (1995), (DVD & 4K Release) Pulp Fiction (1994), (DVD & 4K Release) And that is my entire list of movies I want to see on the Criterion Collection; I know some of these will never get a release on this service but hey it's the thought that counts.

1. The Heartbreak Kid 1972 2. Thieves Like Us 1974 3. To Live and Die in LA 1985 4. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 6. The Stuntman 1980 7. Performance 1970 8. Napoleon Dynamite 2004 9. Bone Tomahawk 2015 10. Hardcore 1979 11. Targets 1968 12. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice 1969 13. Bad Lieutenant 1992 14. The Truman Show 1998 15. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960

Good list. I don’t disagree with any of your choices…but many on your list are pretty easily available on other releases. Personally I look to Criterion to do high quality presentation of films that are difficult to find or maybe out of print from other studios. For example I want them to release the original 1972 The Heartbreak Kid. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a good looking version of that film.

You got Drive my Car and Power of the Dog and Sound of Metal they both came along a few months after your video. I don' actually agree with a lot of the them though some are far too commercial. I would add - The White Ribbon, Titane,, Elle, Leaving Las Vegas, The Tragedy of Macbeth and Tommy and where is Yorgas Lanthimos? Killing of a sacred deer , Dogtooth or The Lobster.

The Uninvited, Buckaroo Banzai.

Other than 1964's "Zulu," where are the pre-1970 titles? For example, 1947's hilarious "Life with Father" has never had a proper DVD/Blu release. Maybe that is due to a rights issue, but I sure would love to own a good copy. This October Criterion is releasing 1944's "Arsenic and Old Lace," which is also a Warners film.

Three O’Clock High The Defiant Ones Diary of a Mad Housewife

Cruising Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. The Hunger Serpico Drop Squad One Hour Photo Narc Frozen River Half Nelson Jackie Brown Who Killed Teddy Bear? The Proposition The Ugly Unfaithful Play Misty for Me Less than Zero The Station Agent Ravenous Strange Days Sunshine (2007) American Psycho The Swimmer

3 to be exactly has entered the collection at the time I saw this ;) there you go man!

At least one of your wish list has recently came through ;)

As far as I know, there have been 4 from this list that have, or will soon be, released from Criterion: Drive My Car, Trainspotting, The Power of the Dog and Sound of Metal. 151 more to go 😁

I'm pretty sure in five to ten years' time, all or most of them will be on the Criterion list.

Definitely submarine that’s a perfect movie for the criterion collection

Peter Weir's Fearless should be included.

Lifeboat To Kill a Mockingbird Lolita

Catch-22, The Heartbreak Kid, Choose Me, After Hours, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, The French Dispatch

The film that most needs to be claimed and added to the Criterion Collection right now is the full, uncensored version of Ken Russell's The Devils. It is near impossible to find this 1971 film on the market save for some offbeat European video labels, likely of dubious quality (on DVD, no less) featuring the censored version, which are being privately sold on websites like Amazon. The film was deemed "controversial" if not offensive at the time of its original release and Warner Brothers, who produced and distributed it, has apparently grown ever-more gun shy over the years about re-releasing it. The hilarity of this is that not long after releasing The Devils, Warner Brothers released The Exorcist, certainly as controversial if not more so, and they've been perpetually re-releasing that film in various "new versions" ever since. Go figure.

Straight Time is the film I want to see most on criterion. There’s a Warner Archives blu ray that has commentary with Hoffman and the director, which is great, but I’d love some more content to go with it

Aaron!! Love your list!! My name is Mac and I too am a huge lover of the Criterion Collection!! I absolutely adore the movies they have and I buy like a shit ton of them on Blu ray when the summer sale is around 🎥🎬😊 I do believe Criterion needs to add many more titles! It does take a while for them to add films since there’s a lot of licensing and copyright stuff involve that takes months for Criterion and film studios to agree on. Here’s my list of films that must be on Criterion: Chariots of Fire (1981) Good Will Hunting (1997) The Sixth Sense (1999) Magnolia (1999) No Country for Old Men (2007) There Will be Blood (2007) Phantom Thread (2017) Isle of Dogs (2018) French Dispatch (2021) It’s not all but this is the list I love! Criterion, you better listen!!!! 🎬🎥

Eyes Wide Shut City of God There Will Be Blood Pleasantville The Man Who Wasn't There

Pretty good list (though I’d gladly trade JAWS for Kurosawa’s RAN or Gaspar Noe’s INTO THE VOID just for starters). APOCALYPSE NOW merits inclusion, but for prestige purposes only as it’s hard to see how the transfer and supplemental materials of the current release could be improved-upon. 2001 was a deluxe Criterion laser disc back in the day - I still have my copy, though I haven’t watched it in many years - and have no idea why that didn’t result in a DVD and Blu Ray version, which would be awesome.

I personally would love to see Jacob's Ladder (1990) in the collection. Tim Robbins was phenomenal in it and it's a very underrated and underappreciated film.

Great list... quite a few from my own list in there. I'd add... His House Josep Assassins (documentary) I Lost My Body Mank American Animals Del Toro's Pinocchio

I just bought Drive My Car on Criterion this past July. Great film! I didn't care for Power of the Dog, but it is getting a Criterion release as well. Sound of Metal is coming as well.

A lot of recent stuff that doesn’t belong. The Wild Bunch is far and away the most significant omission of both criterion and your Wishlist.

there's some of these that I guess would be cool to see in Criterion like Jaws but I don't see it ever happening just because the companies that own the rights to them probably would never give that up. Also some of these like Jaws, Rear Window, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, etc already have high quality 4K releases out

Great choices... and touches on all genres 👍 I personally would have added Friedkins 'The Exorcist' and David Leans 'Ryan's Daughter'

Just saw this. Legit list 3 of them already in the collection a year after. 👍🏻👍🏻

Always thought Training Day should be in criterion

The single man👏👏👏

American Psycho Lolita (both versions)

I'd like to see: >Melancholia >The House That Jack Built >Eyes Wide Shut >Full Metal Jacket >2001: A Space Odyssey >The Shining >Spartacus >We Need to talk about Kevin >The Social Network >There Will Be Blood >The Master >Boogie Nights

This made me realize how few films ive seen. Heaps of those are in my top hundy though.

This is a great list. I’ve seen most of them. Short Term 12 is amazing. Some films on this list, I’ve seen but have forgotten about (Submarine, Slow West). Idiocracy needs to get a Criterion release, if not released on some boutique label. Such a prescient and hysterical film, but the current release gives no reason to purchase it.

Distribution rights are complicated. The films of Hungarian Bella Tarr is an aspect of film culture missing from Criterion. Tarr was distributed in the U.S. by FACETS years ago.

What about Kon-Tiki?

I would add: 30. The Devils (Russell, 1970) 29. The Man Who Laughs (Leni, 1928) 28. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997) 27. The Train (Frankenheimer, 1964) 26. Roman Holiday (Wyler, 1953) 25. City of Life and Death (Chuan, 2009) 24. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi, 2021) 23. No Man's Land (Tanović, 2001) 22. All Quiet on the Western Front (Berger, 2022) 21. The Handmaiden (Chan-wook, 2016) 20. Mother Joan of the Angels (Kawalerowicz, 1961) 19. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki, 1984) 18. Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka, 1937) 17. Heidi (Gsponer, 2015) 16. Joker (Philips, 2019) 15. Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997) 14. Ghost in the Shell (1995) 13. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Oshii, 2004) 12. Air Doll (Kore-eda, 2009) 11. Benedetta (Verhoeven, 2021) 10. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002) 09. The White Dove (Vlacil, 1960) 08. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001) 07. Our Little Sister (Kore-eda, 2015) 06. Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos, 1988) 05. The Skin I Live in (Almadovar, 2011) 04. Millennium Actress (Kon, 2001) 03. The Quiet Girl (Bairead, 2022) 02. Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos, 1998) 01. Wonder Woman (Jenkins, 2017)

still waiting for requiem for a dream, possession(1981), and the sacrifice.

Did you start off with "12 Angry Men'⁉' It's already Criterion released...

The Killing Fields

Everything by Bela Tarr

"Birth" 2004

37 0f those, definitely. Glad ZODIAC made the cut. Three others deserve the full Criterion package: Michael Ritchie's SMILE from 1975, Jack Smight's NO WAY to TREAT a LADY from 1968, and Fred Coe's A THOUSAND CLOWNS from 1965.

Hard to take this Criteron thing too seriously when they include Dazed and confused, Incredible Shrinking Man, Blowout, and Barry Lyndon (this got more razzies for worst movie ever) and they omit, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting and many other greats......it is all rather silly.....and hard to find this credible.

Drive my Car is scheduled for July.👍

So many of these I want so bad. Sound of metal ad the power of the dog are coming!!!

Strongly agree with Sexy Beast !!

What?! No "The Wild Bunch"?

If not already covered, the following by Alain Resnais; Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Providence.

I would absolutely buy Oldboy and Brick. Sound of Metal is now on Criterion.

I think I’ve figured Criterion out. They love having movies from directors they want to talk/hangout with. Since most directors “approve” the blu ray or 4K transfer for each of the new releases. Hence why we have almost every David Lynch and Wes Anderson movie on criterion now. Also no shot they ever put a Spielberg movie on criterion haha.

This is extremely fast U should have reduced that undue talking in the beginning and slowed down instead

Taxi Driver was already part of the Criterion Collection.

Vertigo 🤨

The wizard of oz

GOODFELLAS

Birdman

Some films on the Criterion collection are pretty poor transfers, I recently watched Sword of Doom and was very disappointed with the quality of the transfer, it was grainy and in some scenes almost unwatchable, this coupled with the lack of any extras leaves me a little cold with Criterion, we need a great transfers of this great film, Arrow I am looking at you.

Did you say 12 Angry Men when I see it is 12 Years of slave :)

This Criteron Closet is obvisously some Good ole boys club........not including the English Patient, one of the greatest films ever made? C'mon.....this is a crock........

I think boogie nights should be on the criterion collection

12 angry men is on the criterion collection

Panther for sure

The fact that there is NO Christina Ricci films in the collection is baffling. Buffalo 66 needs a Criterion release.

CO:DA?

I would add Knives Out, Full Metal Jacket, Harmonium, Magnolia, and Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother.

I think you forgot Morbius on your list