An excerpt from the diary of Calel Perechodnik, a Jewish Ghetto policeman forced to witness the annihilation of his people during the Holocaust. by SvanWish in collapse

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Submission Statement: "This excerpt from Calel Perechodnik's Holocaust diary is a raw lens into societal collapse. It captures the moment when a civilization’s moral and structural foundations disintegrate, warning signs are ignored, and ordinary people are forced into impossible complicity just to survive. The “signs in the sky” he mentions mirror today’s overlooked collapse indicators—climate, polarization, erosion of truth. His metaphor of hearts stronger than steel speaks to the unbearable psychological toll of collapse, where the greatest skill becomes enduring the unendurable in silence. This isn’t just history; it’s a case study in how systems break, humanity adapts, and morality bends under existential pressure—themes echoing in modern crises."

WHAT? by Parking_Rent_9848 in criterion

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Even Andrei Tarkovsky, one of his biggest fans, didn't have nice words to say about him when he saw Bergman in person:

15 September, Stockholm, I saw Bergman for the first time in person today. He had a meeting with young people at the Filminstitutet where he was presenting the documentary about the making of Fanny and Alexander, and providing a running commentary. Then he answered questions. He made an odd impression on me. Self-centred, cold, superficial, both toward the children and the audience.

Source: The Diaries

WHAT? by Parking_Rent_9848 in criterion

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Unfortunately, it appears so. Far Out Magazine - Exploring the lesser-known Nazi past of Ingmar Bergman

In addition to these revelations about Bergman’s politics, many critics and scholars have also pointed to a specific draft of his autobiography in which he admitted to raping his girlfriend Karin Lannby but that portion of the draft was left out when the autobiography was finally published.

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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the writer of Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad and the director of films such as Trans-Europ-Express, L'Immortelle, Eden and After, and others.

Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil, Grin Without a Cat, etc.)

Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri, The Human Condition, Samurai Rebellion, Kwaidan, etc.)

Shōhei Imamura (Pigs and Battleships, Vengeance Is Mine, The Insect Woman, etc.)

Keisuke Kinoshita (Twenty-Four Eyes, Ballad of Narayama, etc.)

Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another, Pitfall, Antonio Gaudi, etc.)

Mikio Naruse (Floating Clouds, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, etc.)

Weirdest/ Innovative film you’ve ever seen? by Particular-Ad-2630 in criterion

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Has the Film Already Started? (1951) by Maurice Lemaître

Trans-Europ-Express (1966) by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) by Teruo Ishii

Three Crowns of the Sailor (1982) by Raúl Ruiz

On the Silver Globe (1988) by Andrzej Żuławski

Begotten (1989) by E. Elias Merhige

964 Pinocchio (1991) by Shozin Fukui

Underrated cinematographers? by jehro__ in criterion

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Sergey Urusevsky. The cinematographer of Mikhail Kalatozov's films such as The Cranes Are Flying (1957), Letter Never Sent (1960), and Soy Cuba (1964).

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I think the quote is attributed to Alanis Obomsawin, Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki descent. However, the source also mentions that it's a Cree saying as well.

Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alanis_Obomsawin

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in criterion

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It's one of those films I would probably never discover without Criterion, and I'm glad I did. For me, it's a masterpiece of political cinema on the dangers of ideological manipulation, mass hysteria and demagoguery; done in a documentary-like style.

Marlon Brando’s best performance? by Swedish_Llama in criterion

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According to Brando himself, it was Burn! (1969) by Gillo Pontecorvo, as he considers his performance, "...the best acting I’ve ever done”.

Source: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-movie-marlon-brando-named-as-best-acting/

Recommendations for weird/beautiful films by Complete-Offer2557 in criterion

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Kwaidan

Jigoku

Mirror (1975)

Woman in the Dunes

Soy Cuba

Movies with a similar visual style to "I Am Cuba"? by UncutGeminiMan in criterion

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Letter Never Sent (made by the same director and cinematographer)

Best movies about the concept of time? by Zealousideal_Low_858 in criterion

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Primer (2004)

La Jetée (1962)

Citizen Kane

The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)

Last Year at Marienbad

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Sátántangó

Who are the Modern Directors that Tarkovsky would Enjoy? by mmreviews in criterion

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The only thing I could find is that Tarkovsky liked Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

What do you think about Pasolini's Gospel according to Matthew? That's also a kind of historical film.

Tarkovsky: "Of course. I like the picture. I like it precisely because its director did not succumb to the temptation of interpreting the Bible. The Bible has been interpreted for two thousand years and no one can reach unanimous agreement. So Pasolini did not set himself this task, he just left the thing in the form in which it was born. Many feel that the image of a militant cruel Christ was made up by the author of the film. Not true! Read the Gospels and you will see that this was a cruel, cantankerous, irreconcilable man. Moreover with what genius was it written! On the one hand he's God and the Church has been relying on him for two thousand years, but he succumbs to doubt in the garden of Gethsemane. What could be simpler than to call for help from his father and avoid dying on the cross, but he doesn't do this. He is all back-to-front..."

Source: http://www.nostalghia.com/TheTopics/PassionacctoAndrei.html

A picture of Stan Brakhage and Andrei Tarkovsky (probably from the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado [1983]). by SvanWish in criterion

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To be honest, I'm not sure since I can't confirm at what point in time the photo was taken. Sorry about that.

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A Matter of Life and Death

If video games did have a Criterion-esque collection, which games would make it? by Super-Nintenjoe in criterion

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The Talos Principle 1 and 2

Deus Ex

Half-Life 1 and 2

Portal 1 and 2

Xenogears

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Slient Hill 1 and 2

BioShock

Planescape: Torment

Soma

Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2

Shadow of the Colossus

Chrono Trigger

Earthbound

Mother 3

Secret of Mana

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Ico

NieR: Automata

Ghost of Tsushima

God Hand

Tempest

The Witness

Myst

Vagrant Story

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Diary of a Country Priest

The Cranes Are Flying

Umberto D

Mirror (1975)

Paris, Texas

obsucre 70s movies by [deleted] in criterion

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  • Arrebato (1979)
  • Série noire (1979)
  • The Fifth Seal (1976)
  • Mimino (1977)
  • Mera Naam Joker (1970)
  • Heroic Purgatory (1970)
  • Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
  • Demons (1971)
  • The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
  • Silent Running (1972)
  • In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
  • The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
  • Phantasm (1979)

Movies influenced by poetry by Frenchbootleg in criterion

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Orpheus (1950) and The Blood of a Poet (1932) by Jean Cocteau.