Paul Schrader’s Top10
It's pretty hard to go wrong selecting ten “best” or ten “favorites” from the Criterion Collection, although it might be interesting to select the ten worst Criterion releases (something that, in deference to my friends at Criterion, I will not do). As a longtime cinephille I'm familiar with most of the Criterion catalogue. Rather than select ten favorites I'll choose ten films that I was able to see because of Criterion, films I previously did not know about or were not available.
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1
Víctor Erice
The Spirit of the Beehive
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2
Larisa Shepitko
Wings
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3
Juan Antonio Bardem
Death of a Cyclist
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4
Hiroshi Teshigahara
The Face of Another
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5
Anthony Mann
The Furies
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6
Mikio Naruse
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
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7
Gus Van Sant
Mala Noche
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8
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Berlin Alexanderplatz
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9
Francesco Rosi
Hands over the City
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10
Kenji Mizoguchi
Street of Shame
