Our Favorite Criterion Movies (feat. Joel haver)

[@Joel-Haver]

Such a great chat, Dan! Thanks for having me, I’ll gush about Criterion any day hahah!

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

Honestly this might have been my favorite talking video we did together. I love just a simple chat between dudes about movies they love! Gonna watch Love Streams this week probably and cry my eyes out haha.

[@nothingnobodynever]

When you get the chance, you should check out Criterion's recent restoration of The Irishman. In all seriousness though, I feel like the films of Pierre Étaix would be for you Joel if you haven't seen them yet.

[@LotzofClients]

Just wonderful to see 2 filmmakers talking with utmost passion about films they enjoy. Can't describe why I enjoyed this, but just did. Thanks for making this video.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

Yeah it was super fun to just hang out and talk movies :).

[@JoshuaSutlive]

Great video! One of my favorite things about Criterion is that each person's collection seems to say something about them. They also bring so much to the table with the art, supplements, and restorations that it really makes discovering new films even more fun and enriching. The fact that tons of people are blind buying these $40 Blu-rays and are getting introduced to hundreds of classic films, international cinema, and independent cinema is an incredible thing! A few of my favorites include Don't Look Now, Chimes at Midnight, Memories of Murder, Night of the Hunter, and the Cassavetes Boxed Set (A Woman Under the Influence probably being my favorite out of those).

[@rohanimations]

First Joel collab in a while that didn’t end in an execution

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

ahahaha.... we have more videos tho ;) more chances for that to happen.

[@rohanimations]

@@The5DollarFilmSchool 🤣

[@EppleJacks]

this is the collab we didn't know we needed.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

Literally no one was expecting this one haha.

[@flikkrstudios]

Awesome video! I need to start watching movies a bit faster / more often so I can keep up with the recommendations and the folk releases lol. Super cool to see Joel on the channel, can’t wait for the other Folk Hangout videos to come out!

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

Yeah this week will feature most of the collabs with Joel and probably when I get back from shooting sheepland ill upload the folk filmmaker hangouts :D

[@boogerjohnson4442]

This is funny I’ve been on the fence about getting a subscription to criterion channel all week and this conversation between you sold me. Thank you.

[@OpticLureProductions]

I picked up World of Wong Kar Wai not to long ago. Not a fan of everything hes done but Fallen Angels is the first movie that changed my idea of what films could do.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

Fallen Angels is FANTASTIC I didn't like it at first, but second time I watched it the movie really clicked for me!

[@yungcrunchtampa]

100% found a new channel to love, the way you discuss film is compelling as hell and I’m way into it

[@THEDONTTELLSHOW]

It kills me when he waves at the end of Love Streams.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

UGH :( I gotta see it soon... I just dont want to cry...

[@Black_Jesus3005]

By browsing around I found True Grit (1969) and it was a fantastic movie. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed it. Now I’m currently looking into more westerns. Never in a million years would I ever think to I would become a fan of this genre.

[@ABurst0fSunshine]

Was so so glad to see Joel's last film was Tampopo. Absolutely wonderful comedy that I'd recommend everyone see

[@rohanimations]

Bought my first Criterion recently (Close-Up) during the B&N sale. ❤️

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

A fantastic film! I love that one so much!

[@rohanimations]

@@The5DollarFilmSchool it’s so good! I didn’t connect to it emotionally as much as I did to Taste of Cherry but I was just incredibly blown away by how Close-Up was made.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

@@rohanimations The making of the movie is almost more interesting than the movie itself! I love the film, but the story of how its made is fantastic!

[@wrightexe1]

I’d love to converse like this with another film lover. This was super refreshing to watch.

[@8lec_R]

Lol. Your pfp is similar to one of my lecturers pfp. I thought for a second he was here 🤣

[@BUMP0H]

I can’t afford criterion stuff in Australia, but I know a few movies I own on BR are on there. Recently, Come And See broke into my top twenty, it’s weird to say, but it’s the most beautiful depiction of the tragedy of film imo. Full Metal Jacket and Jarhead might be classed as some of the greats, but something about seeing how trauma ages those youngest to the point where you can’t recognise them is just, amazing. I love cinema. It’s good.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

I love cinema as well! Its so good :).

[@marklotz7193]

Is it pretty common all the folk filmmakers have criterion collections too? Seems like you all know these unique movies.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

Yeah I think a lot of indie filmmakers like criterions right now :) super trendy because they are so cool.

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

What criterion collection films would you recommend??

[@agitatedzone]

Rosemary's Baby

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

@@agitatedzone gotta see that one!

[@colinschroyer4333]

Well just a few hours ago I finished “12 Angry Men” - my first and currently only Criterion film - so I think it’s safe for me to say that as a strong recommendation.

[@VijemaVati]

I would highly recommend: -Jigoku -The Naked Prey -Smithreens Based on the fact that they worked with so little, whether it be time, a budget, or a limited script, they each captured what they all desired to portray in best way they could, and they have a unique charm to them because of it.

[@Childrenworldproduction24]

Maybe you can watch the "Apu trilogy"(Pather Panchali,Aparajito and the world of apu) and "Charulatha/ the lonely wife" by Satyajit ray. Although I haven't watched these in the criterion, (I am not in America) but I know these films are in the criterion. Ray is a bengali filmmaker from India and I am certain that you haven't watched his films, so I thought that I can introduce his films to you.

[@HamishDownie]

"Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" gets replayed every Christmas in Japan. It's definitely an interesting film. It's very conversational, and has a lot of interesting ideas. I believe Madonna hired Ryuichi Sakamoto to play the director in her "Rain" music video thanks to that film (and Akira Kurosawa turning her down)

[@joeldik2]

Ah, more movies to add to the watchlist. Aka movies that Dan will force me to watch someday. Good delve into why someone should watch Criterions!

[@ZaidAftab]

I am putting all these films in my watchlist right away. Here's my recommendation: Criterion Films: -Chungking Express -Ikiru -Quadrophenia Non-Criterion Films: - Pyaasa (Free on YT) -Anbe Sivam (Free on YT) -Airport 2013 (Free on YT) -Choti si Baat (Free on YT)

[@a.KniteOwl]

I really love Jack & Jill. Adam Sandler's talent for coordinating so many A-Z list celebrities and just be able to hang loose together and let them break off any real pretense is such an amazing mgic trick. In here you have French comedian Gad Elmaleh in a scene with Al Pacino speaking gibberish to him and yet he doesn't call him out on it. It heightens the scene. John McEnroe discusses atheism with Nick Swardson as Jared Fogle looks on with 2 hookers at his side. Al Pacino takes the stage with Bruce Jenner as they perform King Lear before a fully live audience and answers his cellphone because he claims "he can smell horny from across an ocean". This film disregards so many things that cinema snobs try to pretend are scriptural commandments and I love that. My life was really changed with that movie. Another good one is The Trial by Orson Welles. Very life changing movie.

[@nolangreenwald3926]

how is joel haver collaborating with every other KZbinr wtf

[@The5DollarFilmSchool]

no one man should have all that power.....

[@PU7MZD]

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