- Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:47 pm
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I live on the criterion channel most of the time.
You can’t go wrong with Kurosawa, or most of the Japanese cinema on there anyway, Throne of Blood and Hidden Fortress are personal favorites.
The current slate of Japanese noir on there is perfect in every way, A Colt Is My Passport is a particular favorite.
If you are in the samurai kick, non Kurosawa samurai I’d recommend that are on there:
Harakiri
Sword of doom
Zatoichi (it’s 25 films so...yeah)
Lady snowblood x2
Lone wolf and cub series
Not strictly samurai but still Japanese period awesomeness:
Kwaidan
Empire of passion
Kuroneko
Onibaba
Hausu
I don’t know if they’ve got a lot of Herzog on there right now, they did have for a while but it isn’t their license so sometimes they aren’t available, but if Aguirre is still on there I can’t recommend enough.
I’ve been collecting them for years, probably around spine 300 or so. Some personal criterion random favs and some of my favorite films of all time and movies that I discovered through them and not just movies they’ve put out that I already knew, these are not always on there but most should still be:
Wise blood
The American Friend
Until The End Of The World
Wings of Desire
Kiss me deadly
Merry Christmas mr Lawrence
The last emperor
The life and death of Colonel Blimp
Withnail and I
I have been in this business a long time. Now if I don't want to do a show, it's not because I got stage fright. It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want me to do the show. Now gangway.