Matt Singer: If you could write a Criterion-style booklet essay to be included in the home video release of any film, what movie would you pick?

If you could write a Criterion-style booklet essay to be included in the home video release of any film, what movie would you pick?

gymkata

Not sure why it’s not everyone’s answer here tbh

Well played.

Ah…One of the classics…

O Brother, Where Art Thou

The best Coen Bros

"Oh, George, not the livestock."

Beat me to it.

Even if I can’t write the essay, I NEED a Criterion edition of this film, complete with essays, making-of documentary, commentary track with Verhoeven, the WORKS.

YES PLEASE. And if it prompts them to bring their edition of ROBOCOP back into print alongside it, all the better.

The Man Who Stole the Sun. Or Story of Ricky.

I would do it for perennial Criterion candidate Frank Miller's THE SPIRIT, of course.

That Thing You Do! (which should include the director's cut as a separate feature but my essay will explain why it's the lesser version)

The Black Cat (1934)

UHF (1989) The entire essay would be about the glories of Twin Lakes Cinema in Wichita Kansas, and how an entire side of Theater 2 was floor to ceiling windows that looked out on the lake, and how exciting it was when those shades would close and you'd know the movie was starting. Ah, memories

Without a shadow of a doubt. Bud Spencer and that kid from Close Encounters in this almost entirely forgotten Italian/ American flick

This is why I love Bluesky. Finding weird flicks like this. Bonus. It’s on YT. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zApu...

Bud Spencer - The Sheriff And The Satellite Kid 1979 Met ondertiteling.m.youtube.com I have all the movie songs in mij playlist great music! Mijn andere Bud Spencers films worden helaas geblokkeerd heeft iemand nog ideeën? Zo dat ik ze wel op...

Delightful is not a word I use very often but it kind of is. Oh... and it has a sequel.

I love cinematic nonsense. Thanks!

LADY TERMINATOR. Zero sarcasm.

Either MASTER & COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD or THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (Kind of amazed neither of these has a Criterion edition yet, honestly)

The incredible mob-funded weirdness that is Sonny Boy (1989)

I was unaware of this and the first thing that came up when I searched for it was a picture of David Carradine in drag so now of course I have to seek it out it in all it's undoubtedly problematic glory.

TBH the Carradine performance is quite a lovely portrayal of a trans woman, that character is the only genuinely humane person in the movie! It is an extremely odd film I have watched way too many times over the past few decades.

Well that's an unexpectedly pleasant surprise.

Carradine also wrote and performs the theme tune, and it's really quite good.

Seconded! It's great stuff.

Hudson Hawk

Fuck YEAH

Georges Franju’s NUITS ROUGES

The original Flowbee infomercial

Freddy Got Fingered

Adaptation.

BOARDINGHOUSE has already gotten three disc releases from three different companies, so I know it'll never ever happen... but yeah, BOARDINGHOUSE.

Field of Dreams (1989) Big Night (1996)

"There are few films that capture the way greed transforms a person as well as Brian Trenchard-Smith's LEPRECHAUN 3. From the gambling floor of a third rate casino to the bowels of a pawn shop..."

Escape from New York

actually, wait, no: Shadow in the Cloud, and that's my final answer

Tombs of the Blind Dead

Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Love it, and have sooo many questions.

“Beneath the Planet of the Apes.”

ALGORITHM, in the distant hope that someday Criterion will distribute my movie(s).

Spider-Man 2 or Interstellar

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