I’ve fulfilled a dream to become a part of the Criterion family. Criterion has helped to preserve not only the films I grew up with but also the ones I’m now trying to keep up with. Picking ten is worse than trying to choose between my wives, my dog, and my kids.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice
1973
98 min
2
The Double Life of Véronique
Krzysztof Kieślowski
1991
98 min
3
Notorious
UnavailableAlfred Hitchcock
1946
103 min
4
Le samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
1967
105 min
5
The Lady Eve
UnavailablePreston Sturges
1941
97 min
6tie
The Fallen Idol
UnavailableCarol Reed
1948
96 min
6tie
The Third Man
UnavailableCarol Reed
1949
105 min
7tie
Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné
1945
190 min
7tie
Port of Shadows
UnavailableMarcel Carné
1938
93 min
8
Grand Illusion
UnavailableJean Renoir
1937
114 min
9
Scenes from a Marriage
Ingmar Bergman
1973
10tie
8½
Federico Fellini
1963
139 min
10tie
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
1973
123 min
10tie
La strada
Federico Fellini
1954
115 min
10tie
Nights of Cabiria
UnavailableFederico Fellini
1957
110 min