Make Mine Criterion! – The Master List

• The Romance of the Far Fur Country     (H. M. Wyckoff, Canada, 1920)
• Beggars of Life     (William A. Wellman, United States, 1928)
• Svengali     (Archie Mayo, United States, 1931)
• Freaks     (Tod Browning, United States, 1932)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang     (Mervyn LeRoy, United States, 1932)
• Of Mice and Men     (Lewis Milestone, United States, 1939)
• The Stars Look Down     (Carol Reed, United Kingdom, 1940)
• Hellzapoppin’     (H. C. Potter, United States, 1941)
• Aniki-Bóbó     (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal, 1942)
• Random Harvest     (Mervyn LeRoy, United States, 1942)
• Great Freedom No. 7     (Helmut Käutner, Germany, 1944)
• Dead of Night     (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, and Basil Dearden, United Kingdom, 1945)
• The Chase     (Arthur Ripley, United States, 1946)
• A Matter of Life and Death     (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, United Kingdom, 1946)
• Under the Bridges     (Helmut Käutner, Germany, 1946)
• Miracle on 34th Street     (George Seaton, United States, 1947)
• Alias Nick Beal     (John Farrow, United States, 1949)
• Maya     (Raymond Bernard, France, 1949)
• Such a Pretty Little Beach     (Yves Allégret, France, 1949)
• Winchester ’73     (Anthony Mann, United States, 1950)
• The Lost One     (Peter Lorre, Germany, 1951)
• A Place in the Sun     (George Stevens, United States, 1951)
• 5 Fingers     (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, United States, 1952)
• The White Reindeer     (Erik Blomberg, Finland, 1952)
• The Age of Swordfish     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1954)
• Islands of Fire     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1954)
• The Last Bridge     (Helmut Käutner, Austria, 1954)
• Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji     (Tomu Uchida, Japan, 1955)
• The Court Jester     (Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, United States, 1955)
• Easter in Sicily     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1955)
• Golden Parable     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1955)
• The Phenix City Story     (Phil Karlson, United States, 1955)
• Sea Countrymen     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1955)
• Solfatara     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1955)
• Voici le temps des assassins     (Julien Duvivier, France, 1956)
• A Face in the Crowd     (Elia Kazan, United States, 1957)
• Forty Guns     (Samuel Fuller, United States, 1957)
• Night of the Demon     (Jacques Tourneur, United Kingdom, 1957)
• A Day in Barbagia     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1958)
• The Deadly Invention     (Karel Zeman, Czechoslovakia, 1958)
• Fishing Boats     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1958)
• Orgosolo’s Shepherds     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1958)
• The Forgotten     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1959)
• Jazz on a Summer’s Day     (Bert Stern, United States, 1959)
• The Housemaid     (Kim Ki-young, South Korea, 1960)
• Macario     (Roberto Gavaldón, Mexico, 1960)
• The Savage Eye     (Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, and Joseph Strick, United States, 1960)
• Bandits of Orgosolo     (Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1961)
• Elegant Beast     (Yuzo Kawashima, Japan, 1962)
• Freud     (John Huston, United States, 1962)
• The Temple of Wild Geese     (Yuzo Kawashima, Japan, 1962)
• The Hourglass Sanatorium     (Wojciech Jerzy Has, Poland, 1963)
• Hud     (Martin Ritt, United States, 1963)
• Ikarie XB 1     (Jindrich Polák, Czechoslovakia, 1963)
• In the Midst of Life     (Robert Enrico, France, 1963)
• The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon     (Yugo Serikawa, Japan, 1963)
• The Servant     (Joseph Losey, United Kingdom, 1963)
• The Whale God     (Tokuzô Tanaka, Japan, 1963)
• Kiss Me, Stupid     (Billy Wilder, United States, 1964)
• Ninja Hunt     (Tetsuya Yamauchi, Japan, 1964)
• You Can Succeed, Too     (Eizo Sugawa, Japan, 1964)
• A Fugitive from the Past     (Tomu Uchida, Japan, 1965)
• The Knack … and How to Get It     (Richard Lester, United Kingdom, 1965)
• The Betrayal     (Tokuzô Tanaka, Japan, 1966)
• Samurai Wolf     (Hideo Gosha, Japan, 1966)
• The Incident     (Larry Peerce, United States, 1967)
• Samurai Wolf II: Hellcut     (Hideo Gosha, Japan, 1967)
• The Movie Orgy     (Joe Dante, United States, 1968)
• Very Happy Alexander     (Yves Robert, France, 1968)
• Invasion     (Hugo Santiago, Argentina, 1969)
• Simon & Garfunkel: Songs of America     (Charles Grodin, United States, 1969)
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?     (Sydney Pollack, United States, 1969)
• Puzzle of a Downfall Child     (Jerry Schatzberg, United States, 1970)
• The Wild Child     (François Truffaut, France, 1970)
• The Devils     (Ken Russell, United Kingdom, 1971)
• Little Murders     (Alan Arkin, United States, 1971)
• Shura     (Toshio Matsumoto, Japan, 1971)
• Taking Off     (Miloš Forman, United States, 1971)
• The Mattei Affair     (Francesco Rosi, Italy, 1972)
• The Dupes     (Tewfik Saleh, Syria, 1973)
• Lenny     (Bob Fosse, United States, 1974)
• Orders     (Michel Brault, Canada, 1974)
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three     (Joseph Sargent, United States, 1974)
• Mondo Candido     (Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, Italy, 1975)
• Leadbelly     (Gordon Parks, United States, 1976)
• The Tenant     (Roman Polanski, France, 1976)
• Blue Collar     (Paul Schrader, United States, 1978)
• Straight Time     (Ulu Grosbard, United States, 1978)
• The Man Who Stole the Sun     (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Japan, 1979)
• Ticket of No Return     (Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany, 1979)
• Airplane!     (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, United States, 1980)
• Black Angel     (Roger Christian, United Kingdom, 1980)
• HealtH     (Robert Altman, United States, 1980)
• Streetwise     (Martin Bell, United States, 1984)
• Tampopo     (Jûzô Itami, Japan, 1985)
• Moonstruck     (Norman Jewison, United States, 1987)
• A Taxing Woman     (Jûzô Itami, Japan, 1987)
• The Story of Yanagawa’s Canals     (Isao Takahata, Japan, 1987)
• Big Time     (Chris Blum, United States, 1988)
• A Taxing Woman’s Return     (Jûzô Itami, Japan, 1988)
• Tucker: The Man and his Dream     (Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1988)
• Wuthering Heights     (Yoshishige Yoshida, Japan, 1988)
• The ‘Burbs     (Joe Dante, United States, 1989)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover     (Peter Greenaway, United Kingdom, 1990)
• To Sleep with Anger     (Charles Burnett, United States, 1990)
• Highway Patrolman     (Alex Cox, Mexico, 1991)
• Glengarry Glen Ross     (James Foley, United States, 1992)
• A Midnight Clear     (Keith Gordon, United States, 1992)
• Minbo: The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion     (Jûzô Itami, Japan, 1992)
• Matinee     (Joe Dante, United States, 1993)
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould     (François Girard, Canada, 1993)
• Frontline     (Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, and Rob Sitch, Australia, 1994-1997)
• A Pure Formality     (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy, 1994)
• [Safe]     (Todd Haynes, United States, 1995)
• Underground     (Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia, 1995)
• Our Friends in the North     (Simon Cellan Jones, Pedr James, and Stuart Urban, United Kingdom, 1996)
• Psycho     (Gus Van Sant, United States, 1998)
• American Movie     (Chris Smith, United States, 1999)
• The Limey     (Steven Soderbergh, United States, 1999)
• Phoenix Tapes     (Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, Germany, 1999)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch     (John Cameron Mitchell, United States, 2001)
• Bloody Sunday     (Paul Greengrass, Ireland, 2002)
• The Triplets of Belleville     (Sylvain Comet, Belgium/Canada/France/United Kingdom, 2003)
• Primer     (Shane Carruth, United States, 2004)
• Brick     (Rian Johnson, United States, 2005)
• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story     (Michael Winterbottom, United Kingdom, 2005)
• Children of Men     (Alfonso Cuarón, United States, 2006)
• In Bruges     (Martin McDonagh, United Kingdom, 2008)
• Neil Young Trunk Show     (Jonathan Demme, United States, 2009)
• Gnarr     (Gaukur Úlfarsson, Iceland, 2010)
• Berberian Sound Studio     (Peter Strickland, United Kingdom, 2012)
• Demon     (Marcin Wrona, Poland, 2015)
• The Forbidden Room     (Guy Maddin with Evan Johnson, Canada, 2015)
• Our Little Sister     (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2015)
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki     (Juho Kuosmanen, Finland, 2016)
• The Green Fog     (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, Canada/United States, 2017)
• Tigers Are Not Afraid     (Issa López, Mexico, 2017)
• Birds of Passage     (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, Colombia, 2018)
• Knife + Heart     (Yann Gonzalez, France, 2018)
• Shoplifters     (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2018)
• Bait     (Mark Jenkin, United Kingdom, 2019)
• Monos     (Alejandro Landes, Colombia, 2019)
• David Byrne’s American Utopia     (Spike Lee, United States, 2020)
• Maya and the Three     (Jorge R. Gutierrez, Mexico/United States, 2021)
• Aboard the Calypso – Sea and Cinema with Jacques Cousteau
  • The Silent World     (Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, France, 1956)
  • World Without Sun     (Jacques Cousteau, France, 1964)
  • Voyage to the Edge of the World     (Jacques Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, and Marshall Flaum, France, 1975)
• Arthur Lipsett: In Between Artist
• Thy Broad Domain: Essential Works of the NFB
  • Royal Journey     (David Barstow, Roger Blais, and Gudrun Parker, Canada, 1951)
  • Buster Keaton Rides Again     (John Spotton, Canada, 1965)
  • His Worship, Mr. Montreal     (Donald Brittain, Marrin Canell, and Robert Duncan, Canada, 1976)
  • Overtime     (Marrin Canell, Canada, 1984)
• It’s Tough Being a Man: The Complete Tora-San
• Shunji Iwai’s White Films
  • Love Letter (Shunji Iwai, 1995)
  • April Story (Shunji Iwai, 1998)
  • hana & alice (Shunji Iwai, 2004)
• Double Feature Fandom: 2 Grindhouse Fanedits by The Man Behind the Mask
  • JAWS: The Sharksploitation Edit     (Steven Spielberg/The Man Behind the Mask, United States/France, 1975/2009)
  • The War of the Stars: A New Hope Grindhoused     (George Lucas/The Man Behind the Mask, United States/France, 1977/2010)