Lost in the Movies: #WatchlistScreenCaps: Criterion Collection

Criterion Collection

The following is a collection of screen-caps from every single Criterion Collection DVD I watched between February 12, 2013 and February 12, 2014 (I did not include Criterion titles streamed on Hulu or Netflix). Links lead to previous pieces on a given film. Most titles are organized by spine number; Eclipse and Essential Art House titles appear after all the Criterions. For a complete lineup of everything I watched digitally during this time, visit my complete #WatchlistScreenCaps chronology.

Bring two cups of coffee for the detective of emotions and the computer of neuroses

#25 • Alphaville (1965), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

19-year-old makes her debut at court
#62 • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

The oddness of the everyday, the everydayness of the odd
#68 • Orpheus (1950), dir. Jean Cocteau

Birds of prey perched across the frozen river

#87 • Alexander Nevsky (1938), dir. Sergei Eisenstein

Pick your poison

#88 • Ivan The Terrible, Part I (1944), dir. Sergei Eisenstein

Sometimes a coronation is an execution

#88 • Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946), dir. Sergei Eisenstein

"Nice to have a chick occasionally" (especially when she steals the show)
#99 • Gimme Shelter (1970), dir. Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin

Wandering the Garden after the Fall
#125 • Day of Wrath (1943), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

The daughter of Joan of Arc
#128 • Carl Th. Dreyer - My Metier (1995), dir. Torben Skjodt Jensen

Not an asshole, just a sonofabitch

#157 • The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), dir. Wes Anderson

The lamps are going out all over this little island - who shall see them lit again?

#209 • Through a Glass Darkly (1961), dir. Ingmar Bergman

Bergman can't help smiling as table turns & filmmaker presses critic on his own process
#212 • Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie (1963), dir. Vilgot Sjoman

A touch of surrealism to depict the DTs

#218 • Le Cercle Rouge (1970), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville

A fable set in the modern world - just barely
#219 • La Strada (1954), dir. Federico Fellini

Lemons, booze, soap, and blood in sunny LA
#265 • Short Cuts (1993), dir. Robert Altman

Even his reflection can't tell him who he is anymore

#267 • Kagemusha (1980), dir. Akira Kurosawa

He has always depended on the kindness of strangers

#277 • My Own Private Idaho (1991), dir. Gus Van Sant

Living and dreaming that total film
#308 • Masculin Feminin (1966), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Mizoguchi's favored urine bottle (he didn't want to miss a moment on set)
#309 • Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), dir. Kaneto Shindo

Life is most delicate in its happiest moments

#359 • The Double Life of Veronique (1991), dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski

A momentary fissure amidst the frozen grandeur
#387 • La Jetee (1963), dir. Chris Marker

Reborn on a beach in the south of France, making up stories about the moon

#421 • Pierrot le fou (1965), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

The awful, beautiful purity of bloodshed

#433 • Patriotism (1966), dir. Yukio Mishima

Crystallization as hallucination

#468 • Liquid Crystals (1978), dir. Jean Painleve

Recalling the times good and bad as his life draws to a close
#477 • Bergman Island (2004), dir. Marie Nyrerod

Hesitating along the path into the past

#478 • Last Year at Marienbad (1961), dir. Alain Resnais

Playfulness with emotional distance and a heavy heart

#481 • Made in USA (1966), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Pushing himself over the edge
#481 • On the Cusp (2009), prod. Issa Clubb

The pushers score in a Rolls and then roll out scored by "The Pusher"

#545 • Easy Rider (1969), dir. Dennis Hopper

Sometimes the moment of truth is also a moment of denial

#546 • Five Easy Pieces (1970), dir. Bob Rafelson

"The real story is...we were just one bunch of lucky motherfuckers."

#546 • BBStory (2009), dir. Greg Carson

Playing ball on the wall

#547 • Drive, He Said (1970), dir. Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson recollects Keith Richards' child disrupting the Cannes screening
#547 • A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom (2009), prod. Criterion Collection