Buscemi's top 10 Criterion DVDs

We all can agree that the actor-director Steve Buscemi is a pretty cool guy, right? Hands. OK, most of us agree he's a cool guy.

Anyway, the director of "Interview," which opened this weekend in New York and Los Angeles, posted a list of his top 10 Criterion Collection titles on the label's web site:

• Billy Liar
• Brute Force
• The Honeymoon Killers
• Man Bites Dog
• My Own Private Idaho
• Salesman
• Short Cuts
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
• The Vanishing
• A Woman Under the Influence

Buscemi also tells Criterion why he picked these 10 DVDs. I haven't seen a couple of them, but I'm happy to see my favorite twisted Dutch films in there: "The Vanishing" (1988) and "Man Bites Dog." Here's Buscemi's take on that Dutch "Dog":

"I think I saw it at the Toronto Film Festival with Quentin Tarantino. It's a hilariously dark, fake documentary about a serial killer and his concerned friends and family. It's not for everybody, but it genuinely shocked me while I laughed my ass off."

And now a word from your host. I actually got to pick 54 of my favorite Criterion titles when I set up an Amazon store for the label's product a few weeks back. This is what they call advertorial: I'd like to sell a couple of these great titles, of course, but like in all decent DVD stores browsing is definitely encouraged. There are some A-list Criterion titles not represented, simply because I haven't seen them yet. Like the new "Seven Samurai." So here are my 54 favorite Criterion Collection DVDs.

Comments

[HM]

Interestingly, virtually all of your 54 favorite CCs are in my Netflix queue, or have been.

[Glenn A]

HM -- That's pretty weird in a cool way. I have some obscure stuff in there.

Save me the aisle seat.