I’ve added the eight movies that Vince Staples picked in his Criterion Closet appearance:
Hollywood Shuffle
Videodrome
The Others
WALL-E
Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films
Lynch/Oz
Vince Staples made one original pick:, Lynch/Oz. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.
145 titles for the 1980s:
2. Lola 1981
3. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982
5. Fitzcarraldo 1982
6. Body Heat 1981
7. Clean Slate 1981
8. Reds 1981
9. Das Boot 1981
10. Blow Out 1981
11. Chariots of Fire 1981
12. Time Bandits 1981
13. Prince of the City 1981
14. Wolfen 1981
15. Flashdance 1983
17. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
18. Deadly Circuit 1983
19. Tootsie 1982
20. Scarface 1983
21. Querelle 1982
22. First Blood 1982
24. Blade Runner 1982
26. Gandhi 1982
27. The Draughtsman's Contract 1982
28. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life 1983
29. Sophie's Choice 1982
30. Never Say Never Again 1983
31. The Evil Dead 1981
32. Rumble Fish 1983
34. The Fourth Man 1983
35. The Big Chill 1983
36. Once Upon a Time in America 1984
38. Nostalgia 1983
39. The Right Stuff 1983
40. Desperately Seeking Susan 1985
41. Paris, Texas 1984
42. The Terminator 1984
44. Ghostbusters 1984
45. Blood Simple 1984
46. Brazil 1985
48. A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
49. Amadeus 1984
50. The Company of Wolves 1984
51. Body Double 1984
53. The Falcon and the Snowman 1985
57. Men... 1985
58. To Live and Die in L.A. 1985
59. The Fly 1986
60. Witness 1985
61. 9½ Weeks 1986
62. Blue Velvet 1986
63. After Hours 1985
64. Prizzi's Honor 1985
65. Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
66. Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985
68. Out of Africa 1985
69. Ran 1985
70. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985
71. Tea in the Harem 1985
72. Top Gun 1986
73. Betty Blue 1986
74. My Beautiful Laundrette 1985
76. The Untouchables 1987
78. Angel Heart 1987
79. Highlander 1986
80. Tampopo 1985
81. Platoon 1986
82. The Green Ray 1986
83. Aliens 1986
84. Down by Law 1986
86. Stand by Me 1986
87. Little Shop of Horrors 1986
89. Something Wild 1986
91. Bird 1988
92. Fatal Attraction 1987
93. Au Revoir les Enfants 1987
94. The Last Emperor 1987
95. Frantic 1988
96. Moonstruck 1987
98. A Chinese Ghost Story 1987
99. Near Dark 1987
100. RoboCop 1987
101. Babette's Feast 1987
102. Die Hard 1988
103. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988
104. Lethal Weapon 1987
105. House of Games 1987
106. Wall Street 1987
107. Big 1988
108. Rain Man 1988
109. Dead Ringers 1988
110. Working Girl 1988
111. The Big Blue 1988
112. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
113. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988
116. Batman 1989
117. Shoot to Kill 1988
118. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988
120. Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989
122. Blue Steel 1990
124. Pretty Woman 1990
126. Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
127. When Harry Met Sally... 1989
128. My Left Foot 1989
130. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1989
131. La Femme Nikita 1990
132. Born on the Fourth of July 1989
133. Sweetie 1989
134. Home Alone 1990
135. Dick Tracy 1990
137. I Hired a Contract Killer 1990
138. Total Recall 1990
139. Wild at Heart 1990
142. Misery 1990
144. Jacob's Ladder 1990
145. Goodfellas 1990
I’ve added the eight movies that Tom Rothman picked in his Criterion Closet appearance:
Down By Law
To Be or Not to Be
Harlan County USA
Winchester '73
To Sleep with Anger
The Ice Storm
The Big Chill
The Philadelphia Story
Tom Rothman made no original picks, but his commentary for each pick was outstanding. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.
74 titles this time, starting in 1896 and running into the early 1930s, but I get why they say 1920s.
1. The Arrival of a Train 1896
3. The Great Train Robbery 1903
4. Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine 1913
6. Cabiria 1914
8. Intolerance 1916
9. Passion 1919
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
11. Erotikon 1920
12. The Golem 1920
13. The Kid 1921
14. Foolish Wives 1922
15. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921
17. Tol'able David 1921
18. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922
20. Häxan 1922
21. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler 1922
22. Safety Last! 1923
23. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
25. Waxworks 1924
27. Sherlock Jr. 1924
28. The Saga of Gösta Berling 1924
29. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924
30. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge 1924
31. The Last Laugh 1924
32. The Navigator 1924
33. Greed 1924
34. The Iron Horse 1924
35. The Gold Rush 1925
36. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925
38. The Big Parade 1925
40. The Phantom of the Opera 1925
42. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927
43. The General 1926
44. The Black Pirate 1926
45. Faust 1926
46. The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
47. Metropolis 1927
48. 7th Heaven 1927
49. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis 1927
50. Napoleon 1927
51. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 1927
52. Sunrise 1927
53. The Jazz Singer 1927
54. The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
55. Asphalt 1929
56. The Crowd 1928
57. Show People 1928
58. The Wind 1928
59. The Little Match Girl 1928
60. The Circus 1928
61. People on Sunday 1930
62. The White Hell of Pitz Palu 1929
63. Man with a Movie Camera 1929
64. Blackmail 1929
65. Pandora's Box 1929
66. Un chien andalou 1929
67. Little Caesar 1931
68. The Blue Angel 1930
69. All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
70. Under the Roofs of Paris 1930
71. Morocco 1930
72. Three from the Filling Station 1930
73. Westfront 1918 1930
74. L'Age d'Or 1930
Over 100 titles yet again, and the list stretches into the early 1980s.
1. Straw Dogs 1971
2. The Beguiled 1971
3. Get Carter 1971
4. Klute 1971
5. Dirty Harry 1971
6. Silent Running 1972
7. Shaft 1971
11. Roma 1972
12. Harold and Maude 1971
13. The Last Picture Show 1971
14. Deliverance 1972
15. Cabaret 1972
16. The Godfather 1972
17. Frenzy 1972
18. The Getaway 1972
19. A Cop 1972
20. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972
21. Solaris 1972
23. What's Up, Doc? 1972
24. The Legend of Paul and Paula 1973
25. Badlands 1973
26. Enter the Dragon 1973
27. Day for Night 1973
28. Westworld 1973
29. Papillon 1973
30. Flesh for Frankenstein 1973
31. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973
32. The Exorcist 1973
34. Don't Look Now 1973
35. The Sting 1973
113. Soylent Green 1973
38. Lacombe, Lucien 1974
39. Lenny 1974
40. The Godfather Part II 1974
41. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
42. A Woman Under the Influence 1974
43. The Great Gatsby 1974
44. Death Wish 1974
45. The Conversation 1974
46. Chinatown 1974
48. Jaws 1975
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
50. The Yakuza 1974
51. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 1975
53. Nashville 1975
54. Supervixens 1975
55. Taxi Driver 1976
56. Barry Lyndon 1975
58. Three Days of the Condor 1975
59. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975
60. 1900 1976
61. Carrie 1976
62. Marathon Man 1976
63. Casanova 1976
64. The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976
65. The Tenant 1976
66. All the President's Men 1976
67. Rocky 1976
68. Network 1976
69. Assault on Precinct 13 1976
70. In the Realm of the Senses 1976
71. The Wing or The Thigh? 1976
73. That Obscure Object of Desire 1977
74. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 1977
75. Eraserhead 1977
77. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
78. Annie Hall 1977
79. Padre Padrone 1977
80. Coming Home 1978
81. Midnight Express 1978
82. The Deer Hunter 1978
83. Superman 1978
85. Days of Heaven 1978
86. The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979
87. Halloween 1978
88. The Last Waltz 1978
89. Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
90. The Driver 1978
91. Autumn Sonata 1978
92. Dawn of the Dead 1978
93. Manhattan 1979
94. Alien 1979
95. The Tin Drum 1979
98. Mad Max 1979
99. Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979
100. Apocalypse Now 1979
102. Being There 1979
103. Cruising 1980
104. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 1980
106. The Last Metro 1980
107. Dressed to Kill 1980
108. Ordinary People 1980
109. Gloria 1980
110. Raging Bull 1980
112. Heaven's Gate 1980
Over a hundred movies in this decade, and once again creeping into the 1970s by the end of the list.
1. One, Two, Three 1961
2. The Hustler 1961
3. Jules and Jim 1962
4. A Taste of Honey 1961
5. Last Year at Marienbad 1961
6. West Side Story 1961
7. Accattone 1961
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
9. That Touch of Mink 1962
10. Birdman of Alcatraz 1962
11. The Longest Day 1962
12. Lawrence of Arabia 1962
13. The Miracle Worker 1962
14. To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
15. 8½ 1963
16. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
17. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
18. L'Eclisse 1962
19. The Trial 1962
20. Cape Fear 1962
21. The Manchurian Candidate 1962
22. Lolita 1962
23. This Sporting Life 1963
24. The Nutty Professor 1963
25. Irma la Douce 1963
26. Contempt 1963
27. Cleopatra 1963
28. The Silence 1963
29. The Birds 1963
30. Charade 1963
31. Tom Jones 1963
32. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
33. The Leopard 1963
34. A Fistful of Dollars 1964
35. Goldfinger 1964
36. A Hard Day's Night 1964
37. The Pink Panther 1963
38. My Fair Lady 1964
39. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964
40. Zorba the Greek 1964
41. The Pawnbroker 1964
42. Mary Poppins 1964
43. Lilith 1964
44. Darling 1965
45. Marnie 1964
46. Repulsion 1965
47. Alphaville 1965
48. The Sound of Music 1965
49. Red Beard 1965
50. Viva Maria! 1965
51. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965
52. Doctor Zhivago 1965
53. Pierrot le fou 1965
54. The Cincinnati Kid 1965
55. The Knack... and How to Get It 1965
56. Django 1966
57. Alfie 1966
58. Arabesque 1966
59. Seconds 1966
60. Persona 1966
61. Blow-Up 1966
62. Fantastic Voyage 1966
63. The Wild Angels 1966
64. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
65. Andrei Rublev 1966
66. Grand Prix 1966
67. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965
68. Trace of Stones 1966
69. A Man and a Woman 1966
70. Hurry Sundown 1967
71. Belle de Jour 1967
72. Bonnie and Clyde 1967
73. Casino Royale 1967
74. The Jungle Book 1967
75. Cool Hand Luke 1967
76. Le Samouraï 1967
77. El Dorado 1966
78. Planet of the Apes 1968
79. The Graduate 1967
80. Go for It, Baby 1968
81. In Cold Blood 1967
82. Playtime 1967
83. The Firemen's Ball 1967
84. The Fearless Vampire Killers 1967
85. In the Heat of the Night 1967
86. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
87. Bullitt 1968
88. Barbarella 1968
89. Hell in the Pacific 1968
90. If.... 1968
91. Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
92. Night of the Living Dead 1968
93. Z 1969
94. The Unfaithful Wife 1969
95. Oliver! 1968
96. Rosemary's Baby 1968
97. The Thomas Crown Affair 1968
98. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
99. 100 Rifles 1969
100. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969
103. Alice's Restaurant 1969
104. Easy Rider 1969
105. Midnight Cowboy 1969
106. The Wild Bunch 1969
101. Patton 1970
102. Zabriskie Point 1970
107. The Aristocats 1970
108. Catch-22 1970
109. Love Story 1970
10. Little Big Man 1970
111. Death in Venice 1971
I’ve added the ten movies that Rian Johnson picked in his Criterion Closet appearance (only four of them are Criterion releases, in bold):
Girlfight
Jennifer's Body
Destroyer
Love & Basketball
The Woman King
Ocean's Eleven
Matchstick Men
Ravenous
Topsy-Turvy
Hell's Angels
Rian Johnson made two original picks: Girlfight and Hell’s Angels. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.
90 titles here, once again stretching into the next decade a bit.
1. The Thing from Another World 1951
2. An American in Paris 1951
3. Der Untertan 1951
4. Quo Vadis 1951
5. A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
6. The African Queen 1951
7. High Noon 1952
8. Singin' in the Rain 1952
9. Ivanhoe 1952
10. The Little World of Don Camillo 1952
11. Limelight 1952
12. Forbidden Games 1952
13. The Crimson Pirate 1952
14. Fanfan la Tulipe 1952
15. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953
16. Ugetsu 1953
17. The Naked Spur 1953
18. Tokyo Story 1953
19. I Vitelloni 1953
20. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953
21. Journey to Italy 1954
22. Roman Holiday 1953
23. The Wages of Fear 1953
24. From Here to Eternity 1953
25. The Caddy 1953
26. A Star Is Born 1954
27. Rear Window 1954
28. Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954
29. Diabolique 1955
30. Seven Samurai 1954
31. Johnny Guitar 1954
32. Godzilla 1954
33. La Strada 1954
34. On the Waterfront 1954
35. Bad Day at Black Rock 1955
36. The Caine Mutiny 1954
37. The Seven Year Itch 1955
38. Rebel Without a Cause 1955
39. The Man with the Golden Arm 1955
40. Smiles of a Summer Night 1955
41. Marty 1955
42. Lola Montès 1955
43. The Night of the Hunter 1955
44. Kiss Me Deadly 1955
45. All That Heaven Allows 1955
46. Rififi 1955
47. East of Eden 1955
48. Forbidden Planet 1956
49. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
50. Moby Dick 1956
51. Giant 1956
52. The Seventh Seal 1957
53. The Searchers 1956
54. The Ten Commandments 1956
55. Funny Face 1957
56. Elevator to the Gallows 1958
57. 12 Angry Men 1957
58. The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
59. Jailhouse Rock 1957
60. The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
61. Wild Strawberries 1957
62. Paths of Glory 1957
63. Witness for the Prosecution 1957
64. Ashes and Diamonds 1958
65. The Defiant Ones 1958
66. Touch of Evil 1958
67. The Tiger of Eschnapur 1959
68. Vertigo 1958
69. Horror of Dracula 1958
70. It Happened in Broad Daylight 1958
71. The 400 Blows 1959
72. Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
73. Breathless 1960
74. Odds Against Tomorrow 1959
75. Some Like It Hot 1959
76. Ben-Hur 1959
77. Look Back in Anger 1959
78. The Misfits 1961
79. Zazie in the Metro 1960
80. L'Avventura 1960
81. Psycho 1960
82. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960
83. Rocco and His Brothers 1960
84. Spartacus 1960
85. Shoot the Piano Player 1960
86. The Hole 1960
87. The Apartment 1960
88. Peeping Tom 1960
89. Purple Noon 1960
90. Eyes Without a Face 1960
I talk about this thing in my work called the shitty technology adoption curve. If you want to do something terrible to people with a computer, you can't start with me. I am a mouthy white guy who speaks English as a first language and has a big platform and a short fuse and I will be a pain in your ass. So what you do is you go find someone who has no agency. You find an immigrant, you find a refugee, you find a mental patient, you find a prisoner, and you sand the rough edges of the technology down on their bodies. And then you work your way up the privilege gradient. Your gig workers, blue collar workers, white collar workers. Eventually, you get to everyone, right?
Excerpt taken from this talk with Cory Doctorow. I remember him from the boing boing blog. He is 54 years old.
A list of 88 for the 1940s, not even an even hundred.
1. The Maltese Falcon 1941
2. The Lady Eve 1941
3. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 1941
4. The Wolf Man 1941
5. How Green Was My Valley 1941
6. Sullivan's Travels 1941
7. The Outlaw 1943
8. Citizen Kane 1941
9. Woman of the Year 1942
10. To Be or Not to Be 1942
11. Bambi 1942
12. Casablanca 1942
13. Mrs. Miniver 1942
14. The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
15. The Black Swan 1942
16. Cat People 1942
17. Shadow of a Doubt 1943
18. Obsession 1943
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943
20. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1943
21. The Ox-Bow Incident 1943
22. I Walked with a Zombie 1943
23. Heaven Can Wait 1943
24. Le Corbeau 1943
25. Double Indemnity 1944
26. Bathing Beauty 1944
27. The Woman in the Window 1944
28. Arsenic and Old Lace 1944
29. Great Freedom No. 7 1944
30. Gaslight 1944
31. To Have and Have Not 1944
32. Cover Girl 1944
33. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne 1945
34. Henry V 1944
35. Laura 1944
36. Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944
37. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot 1946
38. Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
39. The Punch Bowl 1944
40. Children of Paradise 1945
41. The Lost Weekend 1945
42. The Spiral Staircase 1946
43. Mildred Pierce 1945
44. Under the Bridges 1946
45. Rome, Open City 1945
46. Brief Encounter 1945
47. The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
48. Duel in the Sun 1946
49. The Big Sleep 1946
50. A Night in Casablanca 1946
51. Beauty and the Beast 1946
52. It's a Wonderful Life 1946
53. My Darling Clementine 1946
54. Gilda 1946
55. The Killers 1946
56. Notorious 1946
57. Murderers Among Us 1946
58. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
59. Monsieur Verdoux 1947
61. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947
62. Body and Soul 1947
63. The Lady from Shanghai 1947
64. Call Northside 777 1948
65. Red River 1948
66. The Red Shoes 1948
67. Bicycle Thieves 1948
68. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948
69. A Foreign Affair 1948
70. La Terra Trema 1948
71. Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
72. Fort Apache 1948
73. The Big Day 1949
74. White Heat 1949
75. The Third Man 1949
76. On the Town 1949
77. Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
78. Adam's Rib 1949
79. Orpheus 1950
80. Winchester '73 1950
81. All About Eve 1950
82. Rashomon 1950
83. Cinderella 1950
84. The Young and the Damned 1950
85. The Gunfighter 1950
86. La Ronde 1950
87. Broken Arrow 1950
88. Sunset Boulevard 1950
