In honor of his participation in our release of Louis Malle’s jazzy noir classic Elevator to the Gallows, we invited music critic Gary Giddins to contribute a list of his ten favorite Criterion films. Giddins: "Just ten? Obviously impossible, but I've narrowed the field somewhat by focusing on crime films. Even so, choosing randomly, I've only scratched the surface (no Hitchcock, Melville, Clouzot, Suzuki, Imamura, Godard, Becker, or Malle, for starters)." In no particular order:
Photo by Herman Leonard
Biography via Criterion.
