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So, you’ve probably heard the Criterion Collection is free on Hulu all President’s weekend. Lotta ones I need to see, including many Japanese classics.

Phil Freeman made this list of ones he’d seen last year, and I went through and made my own but it’s just been sitting in my drafts because I couldn’t think of an excuse to post it. Well here we are. And most of these movies have great soundtracks, right? It’s valid for a supposed music blog. Besides, how much can you learn about life through music alone? If you’re basing everything off lyrics you’re pretty much wasting your life, they’re usually just how one person felt for one day or words that sound good together. It’s almost as bad as children’s anime, face it.

Anyway, I was surprised at some of the movies in the Criterion Collection. Makes you wonder what the criterion for a Criterion is. They’re all good movies on some level, but there seem to be wildly different levels. I guess it’s a business decision in some cases. I gotta wrap up this paragraph in some satisfactory manner before I start researching this further. Done.

I would would watch any of these again except for Armageddon and Fat Girl, but I made myself pick ten favorites, bolded:

8 1/2
Armageddon
Being John Malkovich
Bottle Rocket
Branded To Kill
Brazil
Chasing Amy
Chungking Express
Crumb
Dead Ringers
Down By Law
Easy Rider
F for Fake
Fat Girl
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Godzilla
Hard Boiled
The Harder They Come
Harold and Maude
House
House of Games
Ikiru
In the Mood for Love
Jubilee
The Killer
The Last Emperor
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Man Bites Dog
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Mystery Train
Naked Lunch
Onibaba
The Pornographers
Ran
Rashomon
Robocop
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Seven Samurai
Sid & Nancy
The Silence of the Lambs
Slacker
Spartacus
This is Spinal Tap
Wings of Desire
Yojimbo

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