Inspired by this, I decided to go through the Criterion Collection's online DVD catalog and come up with my own top ten. I got carried away and came up with a top thirty, arranged into three tiers. Maybe I'll add a little commentary at some point, but for now, here's the list:
(Notes: The format is title/Criterion catalog #/director. Within each tier, titles are arranged by catalog number, in true geek fashion.)
group one - 1-7
grand illusion (#1) - renoir
beauty and the beast (#6) - cocteau
this is spinal tap (#12) - reiner
the passion of joan of arc (#62) - dreyer
rushmore (#65) - w. anderson
burden of dreams (#287) - blank
kind hearts and coronets (#325) - hamer
group two - 8-20
the third man (#64) - carol reed
the orphic triology (#66) - cocteau
gimme shelter (#99) - maysles
the lady eve (#103) - sturges
contempt (#171) - godard
the rules of the game (#216) - renoir
le cercle rouge (#218) - melville
night and the city (#274) - dassin
f for fake (#288) - welles
au hasard balthazar (#297) - besson
mr arkadin (#322) - welles
days of heaven (#409) - sayles
pierrot le fou (#421) - godard
group three - 21-30
fishing with john (#42) - lurie
rififi (#115) - dassin
withnail and i (#119) - bruce robinson
in the mood for love (#147) - wong kar-wai
down by law (#166) - jarmusch
the flowers of saint francis (#293) - rossellini
naked city (#380) - dassin
house of games (#399) - mamet
cleo from 5 to 7 (part of #418) - varda
bottle rocket (#450) - w. anderson
Update: Since making this list, I've seen The Man Who Fell to Earth (#304), which probably fits somewhere into Group Three. Not sure what to bump to make room for it, though.
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