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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

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

This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Movies/dp/078933657X

TCM's monumental three-month-long festival, Women Make Film, celebrating female filmmakers with groundbreaking, 14-part documentary from Mark Cousins, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2020), and three dozen movies by women directors. Cousins' extensive documentary is a TCM premiere, as are 23 of the 36 films in this installment of the festival. By the time it is completed TCM will have paid tribute to 100 films and 100 filmmakers spanning six continents, 44 countries and 12 decades! // CITATION: TCM. "WOMEN MAKE FILM - TUESDAYS IN SEPTEMBER." Accessd September 13, 2020. http://www.tcm.com/

TCM PREMIERE DATES ††
01—08 SEP 01 2020 — Openings; Tone
09—15 SEP 08 2020 — Believability; Introducing Character; Meet Cute
16—22 SEP 15 2020 — Conversation; Framing; Tracking
23—29 SEP 22 2020 — Staging; Journey; Discovery
30—37 SEP 29 2020 — Adult/Child; Economy; Editing
38—44 OCT 06 2020 — POV; Close-Up; Dream
45—51 OCT 13 2020 — Bodies; Sex
52—58 OCT 20 2020 — Home; Religion; Work
59—65 OCT 27 2020 — Politics; Gear Change; Comedy
66—73 NOV 03 2020 — Melodrama; Sci Fi; Horror and Hell
74—80 NOV 10 2020 — Tension; Status; Leave Out
81—87 NOV 17 2020 — Reveal; Memory; Time
88—94 NOV 24 2020 — Life Inside; Meaning of Life; Love
95—101 DEC 01 2020 — Death; Endings; Song and Dance

† NOTE: This is first of two lists based on Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2019) by Mark Cousins. This list (with TCM premier dates) is narrower in scope and is a complete showcase of TCM's 2020 Women Make Film Film Festival through DEC 1, 2020. My second list (similar but broader), Women Make Film II, is a compendium of all the films by chapter that appear in Cousins' 14 hour documentary. It's ranked and notated to mirror the documentary's structure. https://trakt.tv/users/lezelmaz/lists/women-make-film-ii

†† NOTE: As I developed my broader Women Make Film II list, I noticed that while most films curated by TCM for their Women Make Film Film festival are culled from Cousins' documentary, several films (along with those female directors) did not originate from his doc, and are not included in that other Women Make Film II list.

To celebrate one hundred years of Chinese cinema, Hong Kong Film Awards released a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. Among the 103 films on the list, there are 11 films from China (pre-1949), 13 films from the mainland China (post-1949), 61 films from Hong Kong, 16 films from Taiwan (post-1949), 1 Hong Kong/mainland China co-production and 1 Taiwan/Hong Kong co-production.

In 2012, LoveHKFilm.com asked its readers to vote for the best Hong Kong films ever. 166 people participated - mostly normal fans, but also some film fest personnel and producers. This was LoveHKFilm.com's final poll, following three decade polls (2000s, 1990s, 1980s).

Source: http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2013/05/04/the-best-hong-kong-films-ever-postmortem-full-list-stats-apology/

This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria.

Source: https://ves.fas.harvard.edu/files/ves/files/fvs_suggested_viewing_2012.pdf

Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (2007) by Tom Vick is a book about the history of cinema in various regions throughout Asia. This is a list of films mentioned in the book.

Part One: The Old Guard
China: Tradition and Resistance (#1-76)
Japan: Cinema of Extremes (77-266)
India: All That and then Some (267-355)

Part Two: Postwar Booms
Hong Kong: The Fine Art of Popular Cinema (356-459)
Korea: Rising from the Ashes of History (460-573)

Part Three: Recent Arrivals
Iran: A Continuing Conversation (574-632)
Taiwan: The Little Island that Could (633-675)

Part Four: New Players
South and Southeast Asia: Coming Into Focus
Bangladesh (676 & 677), Bhutan (678 & 679), Cambodia (680-682), Indonesia (683-689), Malaysia and Singapore (690-704), Nepal (705 & 706), Pakistan (707), The Philippines (708-732), Sri Lanka (733-737), Thailand (738-766), Tibet (767-772), Vietnam (773-784)
Central Asia and the Middle East: Global Intersections
The Former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan, and Mongolia (785-800), The Middle East (801–832), Turkey (833-843)

Part Five: Where to Go from Here
(List of websites and books)

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Asian-Cinema-A-Field-Guide/dp/0061145858/

In chronological order
Source: http://lwlies.com/articles/100-great-movies-by-female-directors-part-1/

In a 2010 survey, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival asked 122 film professionals to vote for the 100 greatest Chinese-language films. Most of the voters were from Taiwan, but film professionals from Hong Kong and China and Chinese cinema experts from other countries participated as well. You can see the individual ballots on the Golden Horse website.

Source: http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/

From:
https://letterboxd.com/kalejo/list/nick-pinkertons-hong-kong-cinema-class/

Movies I need to see

Movies released during the 1980s to watch