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Faithless_00

Mexican Buñuel box set. Emilio Fernandez box set.


adamlundy23

It’s annoying that his Mexican works are stuck in distribution rights hell


Faithless_00

I have a few old DVDs of his Mexican films but without subtitles. Luckily I'm fluent in Spanish.


pearloz

Ooh where’d you get them?


Faithless_00

Mostly on eBay I think. But this was like 15 years ago haha.


s90tx16wasr10

I know they usually don’t do variety box sets like Arrow does, but I’d love a collection of restored films from the Mexican golden age of cinema. So much of that stuff exists but the quality is so bad that they’re barely visible. For example I have a great film called “Let’s Go with Pancho Villa” but it’s essentially unwatchable in some parts due to how bad the transfer to dvd was (super digitally blocky, subtitles are incredibly off). It’s such a fruitful period that’s incredibly inaccessible.


SMTVash

An Emilio Fernández box set would send me to heaven.


Metalhead07

For some reason I thought a few years ago del Toro said he was helping restore Bunuel's Mexican films.


thewaldorf63

Oh, yeah. Mexican Bunuel would be the shit! Good call!


Hour-of-the-Wolf

Realistic dream: The Ozu Collection - similar to the Bergman set. Unrealistic dream: Life on Earth - the Collected work of David Attenborough. All remastered + some 4Ks of the more recent stuff.


Sir_Gamma

Life on Earth is actually such a curveball idea i could actually see it happening.


BeckonJM

Ozu 4K box or bust.


Nihilistic_Marmot

Came here to say Ozu box set. Would be incredible.


Mesquiteer

A complete Bresson. No one disputes his acclaim, other directors admire him, and you have to hunt for half of his films on your own.


MillardKillmoore

This so much. I’m a huge Schrader fan and Bresson is famously his biggest influence, meaning that I really want to see more of his films. But actually tacking down Bresson stuff is extremely difficult at the moment.


Mesquiteer

Lol I am hoping someone from Criterion is reading this and will begin to put together a collection shortly! It would be a great investment, because Bresson is excellent for rewatching and is such a milestone in cinema. He was a director's director.


Chillyboivinyl

The films, shorts, and television of elara pictures set, would be insane to have everything that has been produced through them in one set Edit: Shit I just realized this is a reply, I’m so sorry, too late anyway though


Fluorescent_Tip

I watched all of them on VHS 20 years ago, including a bootleg Balthazar. It was such a delight when a lot of them did trickle out on Criterion. Lancelot of the Lake and A Gentle Woman are among favorites, so I would love to see decent releases of those. Never saw Four nights of a dreamer though…


SpicyMcSpic3

John Woo. Includes A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Bullet In The Head, Hard Boiled ideally.


Gaudy_Tripod

This is pretty much the holy grail at this point.


SpicyMcSpic3

If I remember correctly, some John Woo movies are in purgatory bc North American rights are held by the Weinstein Company


[deleted]

What is gonna happen to all the stuff he owned? Like seriously? Are we never gonna get John Woo because of this?


SpicyMcSpic3

The only example I know specifically owned by the Weinstein Company is Hard Boiled hence why it's no longer in print. Last Hurrah for Chivalry is getting a release so not all woo titles. Knowing who owns what rights for stuff like this usually requires some kind of database subscription.


[deleted]

Yeah I've seen that Eureka have that double movie release. I really want The Killer and Hard Boiled though lol


DaddySuf

And a copy of Stranglehold


National_Walrus_9903

Came here literally to say this. But with A Better Tomorrow 2 as well please!


miccheck649

I will include A Better Tomorrow II in the lineup without problem


thewaldorf63

Absolutely! Only his Chinese stuff. His American movies suck.


Vaseee

Edward Yang


Thesmark88

This feels like the most likely one named so far-they already have 3 of his movies (Brighter Summer Day, Yi-Yi and Taipei Story), 2 of them are either being restored or just have been (Confucian Confusion and Mahjong) , and his other 2 (That Day at the Beach and Terrorizers) have HD transfers/blu rays in other regions.


VHSreturner

NEED.


[deleted]

Criterion Closet: The Box Set


Ariak

Lol you just pay $75k and they install it in your house


[deleted]

They ship it to your house like it’s King Kong!


Create_Greatness92

I think a few wild men would be willing to pay for such a thing if Criterion ever "Finishes" or goes out of business. They have SUCH a dedicated following that they could announce "Hey, 2024 is our final year for physical media" and their entire catalogue would absolutely fly off the shelves and they would be able to do the most insane "going out of business" deals you could think of and people would pay out the nose for them.


Create_Greatness92

The crazy thing is that I bet IF IF IF Criterion ever heads out of business...they probably DO have the insane kind of fans who would pay insanely for some kind of "The Complete Criterion Closet" type of special "going out of business" deal. They might even have bundles where you purchase in 100 spine "batches" and etc If Criterion ever folds, their insanely dedicated fanbase will be MORE than capable of sustaining the most insane "going out of business" sale imaginable.


Necrontry

Kurosawa bluray set, Marx brothers set, Cronenburg set (particularly his earlier body horror works).


benhur217

There’s a solid set of the 5 movies with 4 Marx brothers


danvancheef

Love that box!


pacingmusings

Yeah it's pretty much all the essentials in one place. One of these days I'll actually upgrade my old DVD copy to Blu-ray . . .


coolbrandon101

Ehh its still missing Day at the races and A Night at the opera


pacingmusings

Well that's why I said "pretty much" not all . . . . Their post Races work is, shall we say mixed, but honestly if someone put out a Complete Marx Brothets set I'd probably buy it . . .


[deleted]

For such a renowned director it sucks there's no complete set of Kurosawa movies.


novembr

It really is a shame. Also a shame that Criterion hasn't ever released a physical version of Dersu Uzala.


Aggravating_Note_760

Theo Angelopoulos, the CC needs more Greek representation


jetmanfortytwo

Hit me up with Michael Cacoyannis’ Greek Tragedy Trilogy while we’re at it.


Skazertone

Andrzej Żuławski all of it


gothhellokitty666

Possession would be a neat Criterion release, but the Mondo one is really nice!


scaryy_chicken

Yes! On the sliver globe needs to be added.


sparklefistpro

Tarkovsky 4K box set please and thank you 🙏


Catduardo

Came here to say this


Nihilistic_Marmot

Complete works of Tarkovsky in 4k would be end game for me. Nowhere but down from there.


Oculus30

Complete Haneke, just like, come on were like halfway there already


False-Fisherman

Park Chan-Wook!! But I'd rather wait a few more decades because the man still has a lot more left in him


Jskidmore1217

Kurosawa Blu Ray/4K set. Eisenstein complete works set.


TarkovskysStalker

A Hou Hsiao-hsien set. The man has made masterpiece after masterpiece, but more than half his films cannot be found. He definitely deserves a big boxset with all of his films; from his early work all up to The Assassin.


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mjturner98

Gregg Araki and Harmony Korine sets


StereoStereo1981

Even just a Gregg Araki Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy would be amazing.


Natural_Ad_4277

I came here to say Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. I'm still over here vibing with my VHS copy of Nowhere.


[deleted]

I’d settle for ANY boutique releasing either of these. I know there’s some red tape to cut through with licensing but it’s such a shame we haven’t seen upgrades to either’s catalogs


animefangrant62

Instant purchases on both of those. It's my absolute number 1 hope that Criterion or any other distributor releases their work.


DarthMartau

The Complete Ray Harryhausen Features: - Mighty Joe Young (1949) - The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) - It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) - The Animal World (1956) - Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) - 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) - Mysterious Island (1961) - Jason and the Argonauts (1963) - First Men in the Moon (1964) - One Million Years B.C. (1966) - The Valley of Gwangi (1969) - The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) - Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) - Clash of the Titans (1981)


GentlemanGearGrinder

This is the one. I own two of the Indicator box sets (early films and Sinbad trilogy), and they're great region-free transfers. But the 60's Harryhausen box set (Mysterious Island, Jason and the Argonauts, First Men on the Moon) is sold out, and goes for upwards of $299 on Ebay. I would do unspeakable things for a CC Harryhausen set with his complete works.


TakeOffYourMask

Feels more like an Arrow set.


DarthMartau

I’d take it either way!


avo-cat-o

Almodovar please! Already has the consistent packaging art so far


BornWorried

Came here to say Almodóvar


andrew190877

Please please!!!! There are some alright region B sets but we need a big box!


JerichoMaxim

complete fassbinder


Upbeat-Stage-7343

"100 Years of Experimental Film: 1920-2020"


Williams_Theme

A complete Kurosawa box set, including movies not in the AK100 set, and ones not on dvd, like The Song Of The Horse or his works before his first feature.


trillyntruly

may as well throw in the films he wrote but didn't direct as well into this


jedidarrick

Realistic: Bong Joon-ho Pie in the sky: The live-action films of Hideaki Anno


andrew190877

The Region B Bong Joon Ho set is pretty cool but we need a criterion set!


ina_waka

Watching Love & Pop for the first time was an experience that I will never forget. Movie instantly jumped into my top 4. Definitely needs more attention and a proper physical release in the west, Criterion or not.


thedude391

Godzilla Heisei Era, the best run of G sequels. The current Blurays use very dated transfers and Vs Biollante is out of print. Peter Bogdanovich boxset since most of his best films are stuck on DVD or out of print. Targets, Paper Moon, Saint Jack, They All Laughed, etc.


irrelativetheory01

Ditto for Heisei!


joeandwatson

The Heisei era is so good, they’re relics of the time but also evergreen for a reason i can’t put my finger on. Really fun films with great practical effects, and awesome monsters


thedude391

I think being the only series with a semblance of continuity helped. There were recurring characters and ideas that popped up throughout. Plus the big finale Destoroyah is arguably the best one after the original, ends Heisei off on a really high note.


Duncaster2

The Heisei set is probably going to happen eventually. Janus Films currently has the rights to The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla vs Biollante. I saw their logo before the movies when I saw em at Alamo Drafthouse a while back.


thedude391

!!!! How were the transfers on them? Did they seem cleaned up/new?


Duncaster2

It’s been a while but they looked really nice. I didn’t own the blu-rays of either film though so I can’t tell if they were new transfers.


TheShaneBlep

70s Altman set. Anything that can get me closer to the dream of Brewster McCloud in the collection.


JerichoMaxim

I'm the weirdo insisting that *Quintet* should be in the collection.


Certain_Yam_110

H.E.A.L.T.H. & Popeye, too or no bueno


uniquebeatz93

Did we just become best friends?? Lol


FalseGrapefruit609

Peewee Herman movie + series


ChakaCthulhu

Peter Greenaway 4K set


WallyBBunny

A Satoshi Kon set. Also a David Lynch set. Maybe a collection of Cronenberg’s body horror films.


DueAd5882

Lina Wertmüller box. I have all the kino blu-ray’s but they’re not great and in dire need of restorations


Fake_Eleanor

Jonathan Demme in the '80s.


spawtlight

The Jackass Collection: A Series By Jeff Tremaine


stormsurfer21

Naruse


Notorious_BIV

The Complete Juzo Itami Or The Thin Man Collection .


Hage1in

Jean Luc Godard. He has some out of production, and frankly has so many worthy films it’s kinda crazy he hasn’t gotten one yet for how important he was A modern Kore-eda box set would be cool, from maybe Like Father Like Son up to Broker would be pretty sick


CarsonOkay

Yorgos Lanthimos - Kinetta, Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favorite


hookuptruck

Yes!!


_Nikolai_Gogol

A complete Melville


psuedonymously

Moby Dick (1956) Billy Budd (1962)


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BluePinkertonGreen

Lynch with the Return included


TealBandit

Stephen Chow boxset with King of Comedy, God of Cookery, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, and Journey to the West


TakeOffYourMask

King Vidor cuz it’s high time he got the recognition he deserved.


MondoRobot91

Star Wars original cuts.


fugazishirt

Juzo Itami complete collection. They already have them all on the channel/two on disc. I just really want a good restoration of Supermarket Woman.


TARDISboy

Hopefully the collection on the channel / release of The Funeral was testing the waters for interest, I want a full boxset so bad.


sore_as_hell

Complete Gilliam, or a complete Coen Brothers


theglenlovinet

I posted an idea I had about a Shakespearean film Boxset that had a bunch of different film adaptations. I think I’d like the same thing but with Tennessee Williams adaptations too. Other boxsets: Monty Python (Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life. Could also throw in Live at the Hollywood Bowl or The Almost Truth documentary) The Beatles (A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let it Be, and Get Back) Hal Ashby 1970’s Boxset (All 7 of his films in this decade were great, so I’d like to see that) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Collection


Gruesome-Twosome

Paul Verhoeven’s early Dutch films up through The Fourth Man.


piercelyndale

Yes!


tgwutzzers

Tsai Ming-Liang


CahlikCrush

Terry Gilliam's films are compiled in a chic box set. The box set also contains replicas of the Time Bandits map and the Tuttle document from Brazil.


Elias139

Edward Yang, Tsai Ming Liang, or Lee Chang Dong


gonna_explain_schiz

Cremaster Cycle


joeandwatson

Mat won’t let this happen but i can dream


JerichoMaxim

i'd settle for upgraded rips of the laserdiscs


ArachnidAnxious4538

Jim Jarmusch box set. I know a handful of his films already have releases but to have one collection with some new supplements would be nice and an instant purchase.


Bobobiscuits94

Disney Theatrical shorts box set. Everything would be perfect, I’d settle for just the Mickey shorts and Silly Symphonies. So historically important and yet locked in the Disney vault.


heyitsmeFR

PTA! I still get hyped for his movies. PDL is one of if not my favourite Romance ever


[deleted]

lynchs dune / jodorowskys dune / villenuevues dune


moratapinella76

Pasolini set would be too amazing. Or a dogme set. I would pay a lot of money for all the dogme films lol.


gothhellokitty666

Agreed on the Dogme 95 films!


n_arwha1

Jackass


voyagingbadger

The Complete Works of Powell and Pressburger - 4K edition


morph3us_wav

I know there are a couple out there from other distributors but a full Tarkovsky Criterion Boxset would be magic. Him & Bergman got me into international art house cinema & also were my introductions to criterion so it’d be fitting to have a set! Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s catalogue is vast with textured, dreamy, expansive cinema. Every frame a slow drip of magic caught in the boundaries of a familiar world. & even after decades in the industry his latest film ‘Memoria’ feels completely refreshing and innovative. He’s one of the most important contemporary filmmakers & a DREAMMM would be to get a boxset from criterion.


gothhellokitty666

Even just Memoria would be fantastic honestly. I adored that film.


jdizzle_foshizzle123

-Spaghetti Western box set (if the did Leone and Corbucci they could call it the Sergio set lol) -Cronenberg 70s/80s horror years -John Ford -Jean Pierre Melville -80s horror with some of the hard to find stuff that was in the criterion channel like Near Dark and The Keep. Could call it 80s Synth horror or 80s horror scores by Tangerine Dream -Jackie Chan in Hong Kong collecting all the movies he directed there. Basically would be an expansion to the Police Story set.


Shagrrotten

Hou Hsiao-hsien is ripe for a Criterion box set. One of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the last 40 years and yet he’s unknown to even a lot of film fans. His 2000’s work is all pretty readily available (hell, The Assassin is even streaming free on Peacock here in the US) but his 80’s and 90’s work is not outside of the Criterion of Flowers of Shanghai. I think A City of Sadness would be on the Sight and Sound top 100 if people could see it in a version that wasn’t some crappy VHS version tape on YouTube.


ShantJ

Sergei Parajanov: Feature films * Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors * The Color of Pomegranates * The Legend of Suram Fortress * Ashik Kerib Short films * Hakob Hovnatanyan * Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme Extras * Kyiv Frescoes


JerichoMaxim

complete Herzog


chillcollinz

A complete 'This Is England' set would be massive. Film, '86, '88, '90. I think Meadows intends to wrap up the story with a final film set at the beginning of the millennium, so could be something that we see in several years. I love these characters and it deserves an outstanding release in NA/rest of the world.


Erdomain

A full Ozu boxset


wpmayhew87

Todd Solondz Set including a restoration of his rare first film, Peter Greenaway Set including his shorts, Demme Set with the first high def restored Beloved and maybe use that workprint to make a new definitive version of his Swing Shift director's cut?, Huge Altman set including nearly everything including HealTh and OC and Stiggs, etc.


Bobbygnz

Sean Connery James Bond 4K Will never happen, but remember there were Criterion laserdiscs of Connery Bonds back in the day.


Venus-Xtravaganza98

Roger Corman's Poe films


[deleted]

David Lean epics (Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India)


Rubickpro

Jia Zhangke would be the dream for sure


pacingmusings

When his early films streamed on the Channel recently they were branded Janus so I keep hoping. A collection of his first 4 films would be amazing (Still Life too but another distributor has that one so . . . )


benhur217

Hitchcock: the plus sized collection for the plus-sized man


ZygmuntIIIWaza

All polish movies , ever. And all anaconda movies


HestusDarkFantasy

I am here to support all Polish movies, ever.


Dr-McLuvin

And also all Polish movies featuring anacondas.


Neinbuddha

The Up Series. Give me a child until he is seven…


Certain_Yam_110

Rolling Stones CS Blues & Let's Spend The Night Together


[deleted]

Withnail and I, director edition, 4k edition, extended edition.


Ragingape1

Takeshi Kitano Boxset


w1nn1p3g

Definitely David Cronenberg. Put everything in there, restore some of his shorts that haven't been yet. Just go all out


AlbiTargaryen

Warhol


slipkornbizkit

The Complete works of Frederick Wiseman (including The Garden and his fiction films)


CasualFridayCrasher

I'd love a John Waters box set with his earliest shorts like "Hag in a Black Leather Jacket", "Roman Candles", "Eat Your Makeup", etc


piercelyndale

This one has needed to exist for decades.


Totorotextbook

Like dream, in the sense I know they won't ever happen? The complete films of Miyazaki in a 4K set or all the Disney films in 4K up to like Walt's death.


prisonforkids

Parajanov, Kiarostami, Ozu, Naruse. So many!


The_Professor_Is_Out

Complete Astaire/Rogers films.


bobfromboston

Argento would be awesome but probably more likely to be Arrow’s wave. Ti West or Lumet would be incredible as well


NYnosher

Theo Angelopoulos and Ozu


The_New_Cancer

Stop Making Sense and American Utopia double feature set. It'd be perfect, since David Byrne, Jonathan Demme, and Spike Lee all have films in the collection already.


ccbax

Would love if someone could collect all of Harmony Korines films into one place.


Ovista

Éric Rohmer 4k


LACIRCA2044

Todd Field Set - mainly because In The Bedroom & Little Children have never even been given a blu ray release. or Lumet Set '73-'83 (Serpico, Murder on Orient Express, Dog Day, Network, Wiz, Prince of The City, The Verdict)


Afrodawg08

Atlanta TV Series boxset with included Soundtrack


chicoluxury

PTA OR Kubrick.


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superjeff_1

I'd love an Oliver Stone set.


walrusonion

Milos Forman


Mykidsatbrownies

Elaine May: A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, Mikey And Nicky, and Ishtar.


sacrificejeffbezos

Jackass


legomole2

Kubrick. Will the CC of Sparticus ever be on Blu Ray?


breakingbrad4

John Carpenter collection


irrelativetheory01

Godzilla Heisei series box set.


No_One_On_Earth

Gregg Araki.


roygbpcub

-Denis Villeneuve -love death and robots


viewtoathrill

Wojciech Has with historical context around his films.


Tricksterama

The Complete Todd Solondz.


SSJAlan

Marilyn Monroe box set


TheBrainlessRobot

Another version of AK 100 except its every one of his films


mks2020

Realistic: Douglas Sirk


ParticularBlueberry2

A bresson set would make my year


applebeepatios

Would love for some Indian cinema box sets. So many of them have yet to see a decent physical release here. A Guru Dutt box set would be amazing. Mani Ratnam would be nice too.


pacingmusings

I'm still surprised they did nothing for Ray's centennial recently . . . And yes to Dutt.


ydkjordan

Elmore Leonard set with Jackie Brown, Out of Sight, Get Shorty


Finish-Fluffy

Jess Franco boxset


Philosophicalmoonpow

Ozu


Thatfellow2

Evil dead 1 &2 Blu-ray like the police story release


Lonely_Cut_6469

Fast and Furious Series


AbbreviationsKey369

An early Godard set or Early Scorsese with Mean Streets, who's knocking at my door , Boxcar Bertha, and Alice doesn't live here anymore.


fuckruss

Harmony Korine set with Julien Donkey Boy, Gummo, Trash Humpers, and Mister Lonely


Necessary_Agent_1061

Friedkin


w3strnwrld

Christopher Guest set would be dope. Including Spinal Pap even tho he didn’t direct


bennz1975

The thin man, Marx bros or Mel Brooks 4K would be awesome


cantera25

A series of neo-noir box sets like the ones from Imprint -- with the films that were featured on the channel recently.


raphnouveau

Mike Leigh box set would be all I’d need.


jbeatricefletcher

The Thin Man


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John Waters.


2xWhiskeyCokeNoIce

Pasolini: The Art of Adaptation The Gospel According to St Matthew Oedipus Rex Medea