Criterion Collection Top 40 Movies, Sorted Chronologically

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection… I would not have picked a lot of these, but to each his own:

Oh my god, I already blogged this back in August and forgot about it. You dat oldz, brah?

  1. His Girl Friday 1940

  2. Sullivan’s Travels 1941

  3. Bicycle Thieves 1948

  4. The Red Shoes 1948

  5. Ace in the Hole 1951

  6. Tokyo Story 1953

  7. On the Waterfront 1954

  8. The Night of the Hunter 1955

  9. Sweet Smell of Success 1957

  10. Pickpocket 1959

  11. Cléo from 5 to 7 1962

  12. Jules et Jim 1962

  13. 8½ 1963

  14. The Battle of Algiers 1966

  15. Persona 1966

  16. Seconds 1966

  17. Weekend 1967

  18. Night of the Living Dead 1968

  19. Wanda 1970

  20. Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971

  21. A Woman Under the Influence 1974

  22. Barry Lyndon 1975

  23. Mirror 1975

  24. House 1977

  25. 3 Women 1977

  26. All That Jazz 1979

  27. Being There 1979

  28. Repo Man 1984

  29. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

  30. Down by Law 1986

  31. Do the Right Thing 1989

  32. My Own Private Idaho 1991

  33. Naked 1993

  34. Safe 1995

  35. Ratcatcher 1999

  36. In the Mood for Love 2000

  37. Love & Basketball 2000

  38. Yi Yi 2000

  39. La Ciénaga 2001

  40. Y tu mamá también 2001