Personally I think Rain Man should have had a Criterion release. It's an MGM movie and MGM was always okay with licensing their films to Criterion. And it's a great movie so why not? Anyone else's opinions would be super interesting to hear.

Taken from my own collection since I'm lazy
Alien
Amadeus
Amelie
Battle Royale
Cinema Paradiso
Dark City
Disney/Pixar
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Gone with the Wind
Immortal Beloved
Labyrinth
Dark Crystal
Lost Boys
Maborosi
Paprika
Perfect Blue
Wonderful Days
Jurassic Park
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
To Live
Story of Qiu Ju, The (still need to watch this)
Vampire Hunter D

I have not looked through my tapes I'll look and add them another time. I always wondered why their criteria is for what makes a Criterion release.

Their releases usually comes from director/producers that fits the auteur theory, international award winners, artistic genre/era/style defining films, janus/voyager owned films. They also love samurai films. They considered armageddon, the rock etc as genre defining works in action/adventure. Robocop, the blade runner, 2001 as defining sci-fi.

ghostbusters II, it'd be nice to see it in the proper aspect ratio.

Would like to see now, or would like to have seen during their LD days?

Off the top of my head, I'd particularly love to have Criterion editions of:

12 Monkeys
Alien
A Clockwork Orange
Dark Star
Dune
Kill Bill (especially the Whole Bloody Affair cut)
Män som hatar kvinnor
The Red Violin
Southland Tales
Star Wars Trilogy (Pre-Special Edition)
THX 1138

And, of course, I'd love it if they managed to get back to the rights to the body of Godard's work (especially Une femme est une femme and Alphaville), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ran, Blade Runner, and Lawrence of Arabia.

I would agree with most everything here, a lot of stuff would have made for an amazing Criterion release.

Jurassic Park would probably be in my tops.

Johngrey

Agree about Southland Tales, awesome soundtrack

One of the most underrated and misunderstood films of the 2000s, I consider it to be every bit as good, if not better, than Donnie Darko.

~ John

Why do you think it's suitable for a Criterion release? I saw it on the International Women's Day last week (ironically, as the original title is Men Who Hate Women in Swedish) and didn't find any special element in it at all. Nothing original or new, the Swedish film industry is filled with bad thrillers and such stuff. But then that's my opinion so I'm just asking what you think.

How did I put this when it usually slips my mind in lists? I should have also said THX-1138 but somehow that was the one that slip my mind. I hate growing old.

I would have been a very happy man if they had not canceled all the Godzilla movies. I hate that there is no LD release of Gojira with english subs.

More Hong Kong movies. They released John Woo's The Killer and Hard Boiled and Jackie Chan's Supercop (Police Story 3).

Would have loved to see some of Lau Kar Leung's movies or some of the epics like Once Upon a Time in China, or maybe even some more John Woo titles like A Better Tomorrow.

Criterion during the laserdisc era I think focused on Bergman, Kurosawa, and Truffaut a little too much at the expense of some other great cinema. They only did two Tarkovsky films and hardly any Russian cinema at all. No Luchino Visconti films, only one Jean Jacques-Beineix, only one Nicholas Roeg film, etc.

And there were quite a few mediocrities they put out, if not absolute garbage. As far as Armageddon and The Rock, it really wasn't because they thought they were innovative milestones in action cinema, it's because one of Criterion's honchos is good friends with Michael Bay. Chasing Amy, The English Patient, Evita, Bodies Rest and Motion, and others were putrid films.

Rain Man
Lupin the 3rd: Castle of Cagliostro
Urusei Yatsura Movie 4: Lum The Forever
Urusei Yatsura Movie 1: Only You