I’m a big fan of Double Indemnity and just a week ago I watched Harakiri for the first time and it’s now one of my all time favorites. Top 30 or so for me...

Great video. I absolutely love the eureka blu rays and you’ve just added a lot more to my list

Really liked this video so looking forward to part II. Cheers!

Loved this video, and I appreciate you recommending these releases. I would be down for another ten recommendations from you!

Great video Elliott. Love Double Indemnity. Killer dialog and so cool to see McMurray play a heel against type. He usually played such squeaky- clean characters.

Fantastic video Elliot! Yet another boutiques label that I need to explore and this is such a great list to get started with! I will say that I do own quite a few of them, but these look gorgeous, so double-dipping may have to be the way to go. Haha! Keep up the great work. Btw, Harakiri is so insanely great!!!

Hey Elliot! Thanks for the shoutout, that. meant a lot!! :) I am also a huge fan of Hausu, Double Indemnity and Sunrise! Especially, Double Indemnity, it instantly turned me into both a Barbara Stanwyck fan but also a fan of the great Billy Wilder! Also, I remember hearing about Harakiri being great, so I'll definitely look into that one. But the movies Punishment Park, Wake in Fright and Bakumatsu Taiyo-Den came directly out of left field, and I can't wait to check those out. In any case, thanks for making this video, and I really do hope you make another one, if that's ok with you. But hope to see more chat come from us soon!

Yes mate! Been looking forward to these Top 10 videos!

Awesome video yet again Elliot, really like how you're delving into the various labels. Cheers for the heads up on Bakumatsu, I hadn't heard of it but I've been getting more and more into Japanese cinema and I'll need to get my hands on it someday, especially after hearing that Spritied Away reference! I also actually recently picked up the same release of Seconds and can't wait to get around to seeing it, I've heard such great things about it. Excellent choices for number 1 and 2 of your list as well, I adore both Hausu and Harakiri. I re-watched Harakiri a month or two ago and I just seem to like it more and more every time I see it, truly a great story and fantastically acted. I still need to get my friends to check out Hausu with me haha, I love it and it's definitely one that would be great to watch with a group. Great stuff mate, look forward to your next video!

Just finished Bakumatsu.. at fist I was unsure, and the bald caps stood out to me, but what a fantastic film! Thank you for sharing your review. I also watched Dreams, and what a beautiful film. I adore your recommendations and thoughtful reviews, it’s unlocking a new world of film for me, which I was hungry for. We live in a bittersweet time when most films being made are less interesting, but we have access to a plethora of stunning restorations of older movies, and you my friend are like a beacon of light guiding my filmic journey. Arigato!

White dog is one of the most underrated films in the collection

Another fantastic list of amazing films.

Great video! I adored Harakiri

An absolutely tremendous list and video. Many films that I would consider special. Masters of Cinema was my gateway label to this wonderful hobby of ours and Sunrise was the third film I watched from the label. It was a transformative experience and started a deep love of silent cinema. I’m very excited for the release of the end of the Mabuse trilogy as the others were brilliant. I’ll have to give some serious thought to my own list. Thanks :)

Thanks for the recommendations! I actually recently bought and watched Paper Moon. My wife has been asking me to watch it with her for years since it’s one of her favorite movies. So glad I did! It’s truly a great movie. A very easy watch as well. Need to get some more MoC titles for sure.

Enjoyed your MOC top 10 and hope you will do another. My own MOC collection is not that big - around 20 titles - and includes the Mabuse films, Nosferatu, Computer Chess, M, Touch of Evil, Le Pont du Nord and others. Good to see you selected Seconds as one of your top 10. Superb film. Keep up the great work!

I wouild love your Criterion top 10 and especially UK Criterion top 10!!! Keep going!

Yet another fantastic video mate, well my to watch list just keeps growing lol i do love MoC releases and i think ill add some of these to my collection. House is at the top of that list now i think only heard wacky things about it. Look forward to the next video mate. Be nice to see your favourite boxset in depth. All the best 👍🏻

Another Top Video Elliot!! Love Harakiri aswell would definitely be up there as my number one masters of cinema along side Lang’s M would love to see a video about your favourite Italian films have only seen a handful some recommendations would be great, anyway keep the great content coming and stay safe

Top ten billy wilder would be great! I’m trying to find the limited edition the apartment it looks amazing, Wilder was one of the best 🙌

Recently introduced a housemate to Hara-kiri, he loved it so much we ended up watching it again a couple of nights later. Enjoyed this video a lot thanks, subscribed!

Value was definitely provided in this video, no doubt...👌🏼💯✔ Your recommendations and input strengthens my ever-growing knowledge on the cinema of yesteryear...👍🏼

Thank you so much for recommending Wake in Fright - I'd never heard of it. I've just ordered it, along with Punishment Park (which I'd already seen and loved) and Seconds (an all-time favourite of mine and my dad's).

Stumbled on HaraKiri on KZfaq. Watched it. Blew me away completely. One of the top Japanese films ever made

Sunrise is a phenomenally beautiful film. Glad you chose to profile it here. And yeah, Double Indemnity is pretty great too haha ;)

Another great video as usual

Another 10 would be great - I have 6 of the ones in your list on this occasion. I studied Murnau at my University in the early eighties. I love silent cinema and Eureka’s recent 4K of Cabinet ofDr Caligari.

TopTen Criterion next, please. 👍👍👍 Great Video mate

Sunrise is definitely on my wish-list!

Good vid. A lot of these movies except house I’ve not seen. Used to record and watch these movies on TCM back when I had cable.

Great video! I watched Sunrise the other day.

Nice list, I've recently just watched a bunch of these. Harakiri is indeed one that was undeniably great. I love MOC because everything you pull out is just wonderful. I have a question for you Elliot, in fact, make it two. 1. How many are you missing in your MOC collection? I'm currently missing 18! But they are all over number 195 so there still readily available. 2. How many have you watched?

Great choice of films

Excellent recommendations!! Love them all but still need to watch Bakumatsu and Punishment Park

I saw Harakiri just the other day. Miike's remake is also absolutely fantastic and is on Amazon prime. I think my favourite is Witness For The Prosecution

Hello from France. Amazing collection. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I see a lot interesting choices here. It is frustrating that this series is apparently not available in the US and that some titles (Bakamatsu taiyoden) are out of print in the UK. Fortunately some of the others are readily available here, even via Netflix. I was also glad you discovered Paper Moon, one of my person favorites.

Seconds is superb! Rock Hudson took a risk taking on this role.

Good video. Harakiri is a wonderful, haunting film. Seconds and Punishment park are just so good (Watkins is a great director). Eureka has so many great films that my wallet objects.

Paper Moon. Must have watched it a dozen times in the big screen in my youth.

Kes I have on criterion and it’s a great classic film. Great films and great picks

Great video! Top 10 Arrow academy

Hey Elliott, great selection, but I would have loved to have seen the following in the list..... Faust, Die Nibelungen, The White Reindeer, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Da Cabinet des Dr Caligari, The Thief of Bagdad and Der Müde Tod. I would love you to extend this list to a further twenty recommendations please!

Interesting selection, I'm still a very new cinephile so I have a long way to go...I've only seen Double Indemnity from that list, but adore it, the mix of Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler and the author of the book James M Cain, that I knew this was a film for me.

Cheers for the recommendations Elliot. I love checking out Arrow releases but MoC somehow often feels a bit daunting and ‘highbrow’ for the likes of me. 😉 The only one I currently own is Kes, but that’s a film that I’ve been a fan of for a long number of years now.

Please do a shelf setup video, I’d love to know where you got those and I need some new ones as I’ve ran out of space haha

I was waiting for you to show harakiri. The booklet is good with that release. One of my favorite films.

Yes please, more masters of cinema recommendations. Do you have any favourite surrealist films?

A french new wave video would be very interesting 🔥

10. Double Indemnity (0:50) 9. Kes (2:05) 8. Bakumatsu taiyôden (3:05) 7. Punishment Park (4:33) 6. Seconds (6:22) 5. Wake in Fright (7:30) 4. Paper Moon (8:21) 3. Sunrise (9:28) 2. House (10:53) 1. Harakiri (12:01)

Are Eureka BDs Zoom Enabled or Disabled? I often find my Oppo 95-and especially my Pioneer Elite LX500- BD player's zoom control to be a very useful and fun tool to use-even if only briefly, to highlight aspects of scenes. While about 55% of my BD collection, from distros like Warners, Twilight Time and Kino, have zoom enabled, those like Criterion Collection, Universal, ShoutFactory and Sony have zoom disabled. But I have no Eureka BDs to know about their BD edition of "Flight of the Phoenix". Would you know if this Eureka BD release is zoomable?

Hey Elliot, I've discovered your channel recently and enjoying what you do. Since you're asking for comments, how about making a video of top Curzon AE picks (if you have any, of course)?

hi elliot! i would like you to make a video on some of your favourite animated films, hope to see some gems. i will always reccomend sylvain chomets triplets of belleville

Seconds is a great film. Plus the film has a rather intresting film score by the late Jerry Goldsmith.

Those bookshelves 😉

And Sunrise is a masterpiece.

Sorry for the tardy comment Elliot. Just catching up on some of your earlier videos. I agree that Double Indemnity is an excellent noir film. I only have a DVD of it currently. How does the Masters Of Cinema Blu-ray print of Double Indemnity hold up? Also, I want to buy a Blu-ray of Nosferatu (1922), but I can't decide which release would be best. There is a few to choose from at this point. Does the MoC version look and sound good? Thanks again.

Adverts... Cool vid dude. MoC have some great titles

Hey Elliot. Could you do a Giallo video across Arrow, Shameless Films and 88 Films please? I've seen a few of them but it seems that the genre is deep and varied. It'd be great to see all sorts of Giallo recommendations and praise for some of these overlooked classics! Cheers!

Hi mate hope your doing well, I'm wondering what do u think about the new erkua releases?

Lots of titles in there i need to check out, especially punishment park. Never heard of it before but it sounds great. Thanks for the recommendations. And you even snuck an Aussie film in there. Represent. 😂 Have you seen The Nightingale?

hey elliot , new subscriber here. i'll love to see your top 10 of Billy Wilder movies

I own 1 masters of cinema film, two lane blacktop. Its brilliant cant lie.

Love the love for HOUSE. Gotta check out HARAKIRI asap. Should I watch a samurai movie before I watch it? SEVEN SAMURAI has been on my watchlist for a while...

Need to get my hands on Kes. My top 10 would be this (out of the top of my head): 10. The Face of Another (DVD) 9. Paper Moon 8. Laura 7. House 6. The Gospel According to St. Matthew 5. The Lost Weekend 4. Harakiri 3. Funeral Parade of Roses (DVD) 2. The Naked Island 1. Edvard Munch

Great vid Elliot!! U reckon u could do a video on ur top documentary blu rays?

These are some awesome recommendations, thanks! I only own 'Faust'. Thoughts on that one?

Great stuff, alot for me to explore as I only own Double Indemnity, which also was my introduction to Billy Wilder in a sense. Before Double Indemnity I had only seen The Private Life of Sherlock Homles (I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan :D ) But Double Indemnity was my gateway to his other films. Maybe you could do a video about Billy Wilder? :D which of his films is your favorite? I can't choose between Witness for the Prosecution or Sunset Boulevard.

Have you seen ‘The Year My Voice Broke’? If you enjoy Australian cinema pre Hollywood influence, very highly recommend it if you can find it. It’s been restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in 4K however it’s only out on dvd. I have upscaled that dvd release to 1080p using Topaz. If you’re interested let me know. It’s such a quintessentially Australian coming of age film set in the 60’s and based on the directors childhood. The soundtrack is beautiful, and I think you will really appreciate the film.

Hey man. I need to buy more Eurika films because they have some cool titles :).

Definitely going to plump for Seconds (didn't realise this was out over here) and Wake in Fright. I love the sound of Wake in Fright - love Australian films - any more recommendations from Oz? I see Masters of Cinema are releasing the Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - one of the greatest Australian films ever.

"Wake in Fright" sounds a little like "Straw Dogs" by Pekinpah.

Could you review Aleksandr Sokurov's Moloch?

I own seconds and Sunrise but haven't watched them yet.

Masters of cinema top ten.I like this. I already own seconds and Sun rise I would like to know more about Masters of Cinema. Bye Stuart.

Kes is a awesome film

So many good films in this list! Kes is a great film, but I have to watch with the subtitles on because the accents are really thick for my American ear. lol (Can't mention Kes without mentioning what a jerk the brother is!)...Seconds was definitely before it's time. I always read that it wasn't a success when it came out, and I always wonder why. It's great...Wake in Fright really makes me uneasy. The locals the teacher gets stranded among are nuts. And that scene with the jeep and kangaroos is very unsettling. But all that being said, it's a film I've scene several times because it's so compelling... And Paper Moon is one of my all-time favorites. When I read about it, it always gets me that Tatum O'Neal won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar when I think she has more screen time than her dad! I hate Oscar category fraud where lead actors get nominated in the supporting category so their chances of winning increase. Still a great performance in a great film. Great selections, Elliot!

You should make a Top film noire video if you haven't already

Elliot, you mentioned Peter Bogdanovich have you ever seen 'Targets' ?

Can you do a top 10 Japanese films in the criterion

I've been trying get a copy of Bakumatsu taiyo den for ages eureka has discontinued it, one on amazon for £112!

👍👍👍👍Harakiri👍👍👍 Awesome movie.

Bogdanovich's two previous movies before Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show 1971, and What's up Doc 1972, are favs. But I don't know where his head was at when he made Texasville 1990, such a disappointing follow up to, The Last Picture Show.

Review A Touch of Zen.

Why specifically did Kes make you cry?

Hello Elliot fantastic video I have an idea maybe you could do a list of 10 underestimated gems of movies that are not as well known as they should be. I 'll look for your email back and if you like this idea I'll send you a sample of 10 movies I feel they're very underappreciated and perhaps you couldn't talk about yours and the list that I present to you as I'll be very curious to know if you're very familiar or familiar at all if you seen the movies that I list but I'll look for your message back Ciao Fulvio

Lady Frankenstein Nucleus films blu ray Region B looks a great transfer. The dvd looked a horrible transfer. Like Creature from black lake blu ray It has been cleaned up. Bye Stuart.

Let me guess, theses are all region B locked and I can't watch them

Stop listing off all my favourite films bro.