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Armageddon 1998

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Since 1984, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. No matter the medium—from laserdisc to DVD and Blu-ray to streaming—Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations with special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.

Films listed in order of spine numbers. Releases with multiple films are listed as individual items where appropiate.

Last Update: Releases up to July 2024 (Spine #1228)

Source: https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list?sort=spine_number

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Source: IMDB
Filter: Votes >= 10000
Order: Votes Descending
Date: 2014-08-23

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Best movies to watch with immersion/ambient lighting systems.

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Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements for a wider and wider audience. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen. To date, more than 150 filmmakers have made it into the collection.

Source: https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Criterion&m=dvd&s=spine

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Excludes superhero/supervillain movies

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Concepts like the Blockbuster is introduced. 1980s is called 'one of the weaker decades in cinema'. The rise of independent films revive cinema again in the 1990s.
[This is a series of lists listing films deemed important based on their technical, artistic, historical or cultural significance. This shall also serve as a good resource for film studies however it is extensively based on my own personal preferences.
Resources:
[1]r/truefilm, IMDb, AFI's top 100, Sight & Sound Critic's Directors' Top 100, and various others.
[2] Looking at Movies: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Movies-Fifth-Richard-Barsam/dp/0393600653 and The Movie Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Movie-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained-ebook/dp/B017AR0MUS
[3] Download Links:Qxr, Sartre, Garshasp for more iconic ones. Yify and others for the rest. (Piracy Is Illegal ffs & I shall not be responsible)
Excerpt From https://www.imdb.com/user/ur73738276/watchlist?sort=release_date%2Casc&view=detail listing films from 1981's *Christiane F to 2000's Traffic
PS: Trakt has incorrect dates for a great many titles. so use IMDb or wikipedia! This list uses IMDb and 'Rank' is the correct order. ]
Films already watched have been exempted. Imported 274/276

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Best Movies of the Decade

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The best of doomsday & post apocalyptic movies & tv shows to get you through the Covid-19 lockdown.

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Standalone movies I want to watch...

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The Criterion Collection is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling "important classic and contemporary films" in "editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements."

This is a list of all films (main feature, extra featurette, making of, box-set meta entry, etc if it has a separate entry on trakt) released under Criterion Collection catalog, Essential Art House, Eclipse, Merchant Ivory collections etc. as DVD/BluRay. So far LaserDisc releases have not been included.

Notes to self:
Reviewed/cross-checked entries till Criterion Collection #200.
Last entry: Criterion Collection Spine #845 / Eclipse Series #44.

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Family movies and TV shows. Including Hidden Gems.

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"Song Title" Singer Movie
"Stuck in the Middle With You" Steeler's Wheel Reservoir Dogs
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" Simple Minds The Breakfast Club
"Be My Baby" The Ronettes Mean Streets
"Lust for Life" Iggy Pop Trainspotting
"All Star" Smash Mouth Shrek
"I'm Shipping Up To Boston" The Dropkick Murphies The Departed
"The Good, The bad and the Ugly" Ennio Morricone (also "The Ecstacy of Gold") Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
"Don't Stop Me Now" Queen Shaun of the Dead
"Everybody's Talkin'" Harry Nillson Midnight Cowboy
"Stayin' Alive" The Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever
"The End" The Doors (also "Flight of the Valkyries" Wagner) Apocalypse Now
"Born To Be Wild" Steppenwolf Easy Rider
"Oh Yeah" Yello (Also "Twist and Shout" The Beatles) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz
"Tiny Dancer" Elton John Almost Famous
"We'll Meet Again" Vera Lynn Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
"Pure Imaginmation" Gene Wilder Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" The First Edition The Big Lebowski
"Singin' In the Rain" Fred Astaire Singin' in the Rain
"Misirlou" Dick Dale & His Deltones Pulp Fiction
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" Harry Belafonte Beetle Juice
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" Strauss 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Mrs Robinson" Simon & Garfunkle (also "Sounds of Silence") The Graduate
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Burt Bacharach Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"Gimme Shelter" The Rolling Stones (also "My Way" Sid Vicious) GoodFellas
"The End of the World" Skeeter Davis Girl, Interrupted
"Louie Louie" The Kingsmen National Lampoon's Animal House
"The Times They Are A-Changin" Bob Dylan Watchmen
"People are Strange" Echo & the Bunnymen The Lost Boys
"Iko Iko" The Belle Stars Rain Man
"Lose Yourself" Eminem 8 Mile
"Fight the Power" Public Enemy Do the Right Thing
"Extreme Ways" Moby The Bourne Identity
"Old Time Rock and Roll" Bob Seger Risky Business
"American Woman" The Guess Who American Beauty
"Goodbye Horses" Q Lazzarus The Silence of the Lambs
"You Could Be Mine" Guns n' Roses Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"Show Me ythe Way to Go Home" Irving King Jaws
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen Wayne's World
"Danger Zone" Kenny Loggins Top Gun
"The Power of Love" Huey Lewis and the News Back to the Future
"Where Is My Mind?" The Pixies Fight Club
"Hot Stuff" Donna Summer The Martian
"Unchained Melody" The Everly Brothers Ghost
"Mad World" R.E.M Donnie Darko
"I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" Aerosmith Armageddon
"Tequila" The Champs Pee-wee's Big Adventure
"The Windmills of My Mind" Noel Harrison The Thomas Crown Affair
"Redbone" Donald Glover Get Out

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The finest disaster films ever.

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