Toronto Life’s top ten Criterion films

August 9, 2016 | Wendy B. | Comments (0)

Have you seen the latest issue of Toronto Life? Critic John Semley listed his top ten picks from Toronto Public library's new Criterion Collection movie database. It's a great list, and now I'm excited about Criterion movies all over again. Here are Semley's picks (make sure you click through to the article for his descriptions):

Seven Samurai

1954

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

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The Exterminating Angel

1962

Directed by Luis Buñuel

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Cléo from 5 to 7

1962

Directed by Agnès Varda

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My Night at Maud's

1969

Directed by Eric Rohmer

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Scanners

1981

Directed by David Cronenberg

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Close-Up

1990 

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

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The War Room

1993

Directed by Chris Hegedus

and D. A. Pennebaker

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La Haine

1995

Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

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