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Always enjoy your eclectic lists! I have heard a lot about The Human Condition but have yet to see it! It's at the top of many cinephile lists of must see movies! I also enjoy your deadpan delivery when discussing your favourite topic, romantic films! 🤪

I like the way you circle around Losey as a man and his career, with being black-listed as a lead into this remarkable film. I love Losey's English input with writer Pinter,( The Servant, Accident, The Go Between), but he should not be tied to Pinter alone. This film script was offered to him by Delon, who was producing. Delon had already played with the idea of the double as Tom Ripley in Purple Noon. The way the film opens lays clear the undercurrents of terror and occupation. Delon is almost indifferent to the fate of the Jews he fleeces, buying their art works as they flee, at knock-down prices. Losey, who had directed Brecht plays, here uses the effect of alienation: we don't sympathise with the main character. Delon's performance is superb, and accumulates more animation and life as he goes on. The last 20 minutes are truly awful as Mr Klein gets sucked down the plug-hole of injustice into the horror of the camps. Losey here is galvanised by the subject matter: this is the only French film to show the occupation in France.

Great fun. Another excellent upload highlighting a rarely seen, hilarious gem 👍

Today I finally got to watch Phantom Of The Paradise for the first time. I loved it. I think it’ll be my favourite De Palma and above Rocky Horror for me. Fantastic joyous fun that whizzes along. 👍👍👍 I also watched Swing Girls and p*ssed myself laughing all the way through 😂

Ronan, I like lots of your choices. With the long history of Criterion and the number of films from which to choose, there are a lot of other films that might find a home in such a package. Here are titles of some interesting films, in good-looking Criterion releases on home video; if any titles are unfamiliar, it might be fun to try something new I(old)....Are there any dvd rental stores extant, in the world? BTW, I hope that your part of the world is calm, cool, and collected. Thanks again for your efforts. Age of Innocence (1993) Ali: Fear Easts the Soul (1974) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Blow Out (1981) Blow Up (1966) Brazil (1985) Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) Crumb (1994) Days of Heaven (1978) Five Easy Pieces (1970) Hard Day’s Night (1964) Harold and Maude (1971) Ikiru (1952) In a Lonely Place (1950) It Happened One Night (1934) Kid Brother (silent) (1927) Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Life is Sweet (1990) MacBeth (1971 Roman Polanski) Medium Cool (1969) My Winnipeg (2007) Naked City (1948) Playtime (1967) & My Uncle (1958) (from Complete Jacques Tati) Red Shoes (1948) Rififi (1955) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Showboat (1936) Speedy (silent) (Harold Lloyd 1928) Sullivan’s Travels (1941) Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971) Sundays and Cybele (1962) Third Man (1949) Time Bandits (1981) Tokyo Story (1953) Topsy Turvy (1999) Umberto D (1952) Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Videodrome (1983) Woman Under the Influence (1974) Y Tu Mama, Tambien (2001) They're all things that I have purchased over the years; there are a few that I own only as a dvd. One of these days.....

Hi Ronin-In my opinion Les Yeux sans Visage reflects post-war European concerns with the ethics of science and the consequences of unchecked ambition. The film can be seen as a metaphor for the horrors of World War II and the post-war existential crisis in Europe. The idea of reconstructing a face at any cost echoes the era’s fears about the dangers of scientific progress without moral consideration. The Face of Another, on the other hand, reflects post-war Japanese concerns about identity, alienation, and the effects of rapid modernization. Both are great in their own right. I have the Criterion DVD box set with Pitfall (Otoshiana), Woman in the Dunes (Sunna no onna), and The Face of Another (Tanin no kao).

That’s a much more interesting list of films, good enough for a CCnext40 set. It’ll be interesting to see who buys that original set as it seems a strange beast. Plenty of great movies no doubt but doesn’t seem to embrace the discovery aspect of the collection that is at its heart. Plenty for me to see and enjoy in here still 😀

A pretty good selection in my opinion! Even better you mentioned a number of films that I’d forgotten that I want/need to see including several that I didn’t know that I wanted/need to see! That’s always good! Except that I’ll have to import them. Oh well. The joys of World Cinema. I’ve seen a fair number of your choices, of course. It’ll be interesting to see how many others give us their versions, too. Vulgarian Troglodyte has said he will, and that’ll no doubt give me some more films to import! Will Elliot, our resident British Criterion Commenter join in as well? I hope so. I’m not sure how many of this box set Criterion will sell, but they’ll surely pick up sales from this discussion as it goes along.

The only one among these three films I've seen is 'Mikey and Nicky', which I caught on the American cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) just a few years ago. It's an estimable work, with both Falk and Cassavetes delivering fine performances, and with the theme of friendship torn by the contradictory motives of loyalty and betrayal effectively explored, but I don't regard it as a personal favorite. I prefer 'A New Leaf', May's first directorial effort, among this talented but relatively neglected filmmaker's body of work. I would say that 'Mikey and Nicky' is exemplary of the kind of gritty, realistic drama that flourished in the Seventies, in my estimation the single greatest decade in American cinema.

Fun idea for a video, and I think I'm going to make a response video. Great choices, I will have quite a few of those on my alternative set as well. I finally watched The Organizer few weeks ago, and I agree it's a great film and very underrated. I'm not that excited about this new Criterion CC40 box-set, I've seen all the films that they put on the box-set and I own a decent chunk of them. I like all the films that they put on the set, so there's that at least.

What a fabulous treasure chest! And a film history in its own right, thank you! Let me add some suggestions: Something from Sub-Saharan Africa perhaps? Souleymane Cissé, "Yeelen"? Youssef Chahine? What Israeli film would you pick? And from Switzerland "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" by Hans Trommer and Valérien Schmidely? One by Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta or Michel Soutter? "Les indiens sont encore loin" by Patricia Moraz? "Reisender Krieger" / "Traveling Warrior" by Christian Schocher? "Höhenfeuer" / "Alpine Fire" or "Grauzone" by Fredi M. Murer? "Farinet" by Max Haufler? Germany is missing? Portugal, Rumania, too? Spain? What about India? You got it with Ray´s "Devi"! And the wonderfully fresh and ever surprising Indie cinema from Thailand? Peter Weir? Vincent Ward? Do you know Arūnas Žebriūnas´ "Little Prince" adaptation of 1966? (It´s on UA-cam, by the way, ua-cam.com/video/6TNSt32XF38/v-deo.html ) Sarunas Bartas? "Few of Us" perhaps?

Yer man Alexander Mackendrick although birthed in the US of A was sent back to Glasgow for his own good while still a nipper. Shockingly, he was forced to attend Hillhead High School. Did he buy chips from the Mississippi Chick-inn? We may never know.

Good video idea. Similarly I have 31 of the 40 that will be in the Criterion set, so no way I’ll be buying that. Wouldn’t it be great if they (and maybe other labels) could let you select your own set. It’s interesting to think about then going for personal favorites or a selection of ones not seen or a combo. One you chose, Sweet Smell of Success, is going to be in the CC40 I think

Hi Ronin - I have 955 and 957 & 958 but not 956. I love Duvivier’s Panique and Leconte’s Monsieur Hire because both offer unique interpretations of Simenon’s story, showcasing the distinct cinematic styles and sensibilities of their directors. Duvivier presents a traditional, noir-infused adaptation that critiques societal flaws and highlights the destructive power of mob rule. In contrast, Leconte’s version is more modern and introspective, delving deeply into the protagonist’s psychology for a nuanced and empathetic portrayal.

Hi Ronin - this CC40 boxset doesn't improve much on the original releases, I will be giving it a miss since I have the majority of them already.

These videos are good for encouraging talk about less discussed Criterions. I really want to watch more Iranian films. I've only seen a handful. I have The White Balloon, which Kiarostami co-wrote. I completely understand if you've not bought #958 but its well worth watching once.

I just watched this film and instantly loved it. The fact that the seasons are changing through the day suggest that this is not some guy with a mental illness wandering through people’s gardens but is a metaphor for something deeper. I’m reminded of the writer James Dickey’s recurrent dream he called the Legend of the Happy Swimming Pool, where he dreams he’s invited to a garden party where everyone’s been waiting for him for years, like heaven. Whatever the Swimmer’s about I loved it.

The Face of Another sounds great, so I’d love a release of that to view. Thanks, SR!

Hi Ronin - I only have the lone wolf and cub boxset, the other two I do not have. Thanks for this series.

Nice list. of course you had to go twisted. Glad to see The Thing wasn't number one as a love story between man and his inherent doom.

I've heard of 'El verdugo' ('The Executioner'), but have not yet seen it. Today it is indeed one of the most praised Spanish films of its era, and another encouraging example of how art of real quality can still be fashioned under repressive circumstances. I saw 'Dreams' many moons ago on the big screen, at the time of its original Stateside theatrical release, and remember enjoying it, though it overall registered as a relatively minor work (I confess that Kurosawa has always remained a problematic filmmaker for me).

Odd that I'd never connected these films before, though upon confronting your episode the parallels are evident. Teshigahara's feature is less distinct in my memory, as I saw it several years ago via cable transmission (Turner Classic Movies [TCM]), while I saw 'Les Yeux sans visage' about a year ago, through a 35-millimeter print screened by my local film society. I appreciated both pictures, with "poetic" being quite an apt adjective to describe both, especially so for the Franju classic. Have you by chance seen Franju's 1949 documentary short 'Le Sang des bêtes' ('Blood of the Beasts')? The subject here is the slaughterhouses of Paris, with extremely graphic content, but framed through a self-consciously aesthetic perspective, replete with a serenely detached narration. The whole project is suffused with the same of kind of Surrealist sensibility evinced throughout the later, more famous feature 'Les Yeux sans visage'.

I haven't seen either of these, even though I've know about them for years. I think the whole concept is quite disturbing. I haven't seen Face/Off either 😀 "Only Nakadai's eyes and voice"!?! ....nothing to find disturbing there! 😮

Baby It's You is one of my favourite movies ever. Shame it's kind of lost.

As usual you "threw me a curve ball" and I knew you weren't talking about the 2023 movie The Beast and had to google it! 🤣

Ha! Brilliant 😂. I think you surprised everyone in your audience with that one. ...and maybe surprised yourself.... 🤔??? I definitely didn't think you could come up with 25 but (with all those Aki Kaurismäki films) you've surpassed yourself. You big softy, you. 😁 Thanks so much for the shout-out. Challenge accepted.... I'll try to think of my own 25 and compile a video! Maybe @nazarinprod and others will play along too. Spread the love!

Loved this one, possibly a bit more than Ilya Muromets, because of how beautifully colourful it was and again having some really great compositions, such as their arrival on the island with its lone tree. Lion armrests coming to life and singing squirrels also definitely made me laugh. Great fairytale

Heartwarming selections, as to be expected from you. If it had been a top 50 no doubt a few from Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Aniston would have made the list :) I actually picked up L’ Enfant just last week, I thought Jeremie Renier was amazing in both that and La Promesse. Love Gregory’s Girl, Mona Lisa and The Age of Innocence

Hi Ronin - A list I did not foresee making but here it is: 1. Harold and Maude (1971) 2. The Lobster (2015) 3. Her (2013) 4. Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 5. Secretary (2002) 6. Lars and the Real Girl (2007) 7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8. Before Sunrise (1995) 9. La La Land (2016) 10. Amélie (2001) 11. Call Me by Your Name (2017) 12. In the Mood for Love (2000) 13. The Fountain (2006) 14. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) 15. Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 16. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) 17. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 18. Buffalo '66 (1998) 19. Chungking Express (1994) 20. Mood Indigo (2013) 21. Un Homme et une Femme (1966) 22. Betty Blue (1986) 23. Sid & Nancy (1986) 24. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) 25. Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

Hi, Ronin, very welcome topic, as love is the most precious experience in life, hence is arguably the supreme subject in any narrative art form. Indeed, it's challenging to think of a narrative film where some form of love doesn't play a role. Of course, we're focusing here on romantic love, to which I'd extend a broader parameter encompassing carnal love as well, film being after all a supreme vehicle for concupiscent spectacle and reflection. Of your selections, I've seen 'Last Year at Marienbad', 'Mona Lisa', 'I Know Where I'm Going', 'Delicatessen', 'Peeping Tom', 'Gregory's Girl', 'The Shop Around the Corner', and the better part of 'The Age of Innocence'. Of these, I especially cherish 'The Shop Around the Corner', 'I Know Where I'm Going', 'Last Year at Marienbad', and 'Gregory's Girl', though I could not find room for the last two, alas, in my own response to this exercise. My own selections given below are cited as much as possible in chronological order: --'The River' (1928), directed by Frank Borzage [survives only in fragments, but still extraordinarily effective even in such truncated state] --'Jewel Robbery' (1932), directed by William Dieterle --'The Shop Around the Corner' (1940), directed by Ernst Lubitsch --'The Strawberry Blonde' (1941), directed by Raoul Walsh --'The Palm Beach Story' (1942), directed by Preston Sturges --'Casablanca' (1942), directed by Michael Curtiz --'On Approval' (1944), directed by Clive Brook --'I Know Where I'm Going' (1945), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger --'Pandora and the Flying Dutchman' (1950), directed by Albert Lewin --'What's Opera, Doc?' (1957), directed by Chuck Jones --'Man of the West' (1958), directed by Anthony Mann --'Lola' (1961), directed by Jacques Demy --'Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T.' (1967), directed by Dušan Makavejev --'Zabriskie Point' (1969), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni --'Deep End' (1970), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski --'Avanti!' (1972), directed by Billy Wilder --'Robin and Marian' (1976), directed by Richard Lester --'Annie Hall' (1977), directed by Woody Allen --'Cet obscur objet du désir' (1977), directed by Luis Buñuel --'The Scenic Route' (1978), directed by Mark Rappaport --'Conan the Barbarian' (1982), directed by John Milius --'Romancing the Stone' (1984), directed by Robert Zemeckis --'Passion in the Desert' (1997), directed by Lavinia Currier --'Yes' (2004), directed by Sally Potter --'Brokeback Mountain' (2005), directed by Ang Lee

I was able to watch this restored version last night on Kanopy. I’d seen Steve reference the film also when he did my movie challenge. As you say, definitely some great compositions and use of colour palette. Wonderfully spectacular fable even if I wasn’t always engrossed with some of the dialogue (but a rewatch might fix that as I didn’t know what to expect). I particularly liked the character (Nightingale the robber,was it?) who blew strong gusts of winds and the bending trees in the forest. A visual treat for sure. I will watch Sampo, will check if Kanopy has the others. Thanks for highlighting these movies

18:19 wait no same actually sometimes when i think of the movie I recall certain scenes being in color or while rewatching it i only remember it’s in black & white because of the next scene change like my mind doesn’t clock it as black and white for some scenes

My favorite Demy film of those I've seen is 'Lola', one of the early masterpieces of the French New Wave, and a picture that reveals the director's home town of Nantes to be as magical a place as the Paris being celebrated at the same time by the other young lions of the Nouvelle Vague. (I haven't seen 'La Baie des anges' or 'Peau d'âne', and I agree that 'Une Chambre en ville' is weaker than 'Les Parapluies de Cherbourg' and 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort'). I wonder if you are familiar with 'Model Shop', Demy's 1969 sequel to 'Lola', that picks up that character's continuing adventures in Los Angeles. It's a curious film, not wholly successful, but rather fascinating as a window onto a specific place at a specific time. I can remember seeing the trailer for Demy's 1972 feature 'The Pied Piper' in the theater when a small child, but have never seen the actual film itself.

I’ve been wanting to put in an order for this and a couple of others from Deaf Crocodile for a few weeks, but holding off due to expense. This has pushed me over my reservations and I’ll get it done now! I agree with your comments on blind buys and supporting the likes of DC. It’ll take a week or two to arrive, of course, but at least it’ll be on its way! Thanks for this review!

It sounds worth a watch, if you can find it. I’m not going to buy this set to watch Tilbury, but if I knew someone with it, I’d give it a go.

What the hell is this ?!? 😃 Sir, you've out-done yourself with this obscure and bizarre recommendation. I definitely hope to see this one. 👍

I think this was a very underrated movie. I really liked it a lot. I loved the father - son relationship depicted in the movie between the son, Will Halloway (Vidal Peterson), and his elderly fragile father, Charles Halloway (Jason Robards). I thought it was very poignant and heart-tugging - especially the scenes where Will & Jim are hiding in the gutter from Mr. Dark and Will reaches through the gutter screen to hold his father's comforting hand, plus in the Hall of Mirrors where Charles smashes through the mirror and reaches out to pull Will from the water - in the process atoning for his inability to pull a then four year old Will out of a dangerous current eight years prior at the Indigo River and instead having to watch someone else do it for him. Jonathan Pryce was also great as Mr. Dark, a truly evil mysterious man with magical powers - a probable acolyte of the devil- who together with others in his evil carnival feed on the lusts, desires, regrets, and greed of his victims. Granting them their wishes but with an evil twist and taking their souls to join his carnival in the process. I think the acting by the young child actors, Vidal Peterson and Shawn Carson was great and very believable. "Something Wicked this Way Comes" is a really good movie in my humble opinion with good acting and casting that is spot on. The theme, tone, and mood of the movie keeps in line with that of the book. In fact, I like the movie better than the book. I totally agree with the late movie critic Roger Ebert who gave it a high rating and said "this is a horror film with elegance". If you love Ray Bradbury's work you will love this movie. I make sure to watch the movie every October just before Halloween.

More evidence that you are dead inside and don’t like joy… 😂😂😂 Enjoyed the walk through two releases that couldn’t be more different in tone. 👍

Hi Ronin. I've added Donkey Skin to my "to see" list. It's another film I knew nothing about. I look forward to your Eureka series. It is probably my favourite film label, and I find their library much more diverse but less flashy than Criterion. Following your comments about Umbrellas of Cherbourg, I'm hoping you'll do one final 'genre' video, based on love/romance. 😁

Great review Ronin! Definitely interested in grabbing this one at some point as I keep hearing good things about it, and it sounds like some wacky fun. I'm curious to see the American actors in this as that seems like a real rarity, and having a actual ship as a space ship is the kind of madness that I'm all in for. It does seem like a strange choice for 'Masters of Cinema' as you say, instead of their Classics line though, but that's probably a topic worthy of a video itself!

You should watch Mr. Frost with Jeff Goldblum and The Forgotten One with Terry O'Quinn.

I’ve wanted to see Die Screaming Marianne as it’s one Susan George film I haven’t seen from her early 70s period, but it sounds pretty lousy and you echo comments I’ve heard about it before. I’ll come across it one day. Great artwork on the set

A really great list with lots of surprises and unusual choices. I've not seen half of these. Nice to see love for Silent Running. Timecrimes is great and deserves more attention. A great genre series. 👍

I regularly go to charity shops and pick up some DVDS and Blu-rays a lot of them (OOP) and picked up a blu ray copy of "House of Whipcord" on OEG Classic Movies label for next to nothing! Got to be honest I never heard of the label or the director, but look forward to watching it! I'll bet 95% of youtube creators have not even heard of these movies! Thankyou for your review of this boxset 👍!

I love this too! I really like that Kaurismäki is irreverant enough to make the story his own. I think it has a bit of a noir feeling to it. I also really like the musical performance of ”Rich little bitch”! Great review as always!!

This is one of my favourites in Kaurismäki’s oeuvre. Like you say, it plays with the concentions of the genre, but I really like how shyness and inability to communicate create the problems in the relationship. Excellent review!!

Lovely review! I think this may be my favourite of Kaurismäki’s films. The story is a kind of parallel to HC Andersen’s fairy tale ”The Little Match Stick Girl”. I also really love the scene when Iris before her spree visits the ”Queen of the Night”-flower that only blooms at night, once a year. A lovely metaphoric parallel to Iris’ vengence.

Great review! I think it is symbolically significant that M is pronounced dead so that the events of the film represents a new chance in life. Can’t wait to watch all your Kaurismäki reviews!!🥳

Great review. I've kept away from Gosha films because I know, if they're half as good as you say, it's going to be another Japanese rabbit hole to spend days/weeks/months exploring! 😅

The radiance trailer looks great. I hope to get Tchao Pantin and do a bit of a Claude Berri binge later this year. Good to know it gets the Ronin thumbs-up.