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Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72
So I was going through my dvd collection to watch some films I haven't seen recently and came across The Committments. I love this film, love the actors, the music, the story... that being said, even with all the cool features my dvd has, I think Criterion could do something really great with this (if they are able to, not sure they have rights).
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Well, they don't have the rights now, as far as I know, but it's a Fox title, so who knows if they could get them.
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On a separate note, I was searching ebay for Criterion LaserDiscs, I had no idea there were so many.
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Depending on how you want to count them, there are 300-400 distinct releases. It's difficult to calculate. There are some that didn't have spine numbers, and there are some spine numbers that weren't used (and the two groups don't "match up"). Some titles had separate CAV- and CLV-format releases, others just CLV (I don't believe that there were any that were CAV-only). Some had variant covers (
Taxi Driver, for example, was issued with two different covers in both the CAV and CLV editions). Some had variant packaging (
Close Encounters of the Third Kind CAV came in both triple-gatefold packaging and a box). There are some instances in which two different titles had the same spine number or the same catalog number.
Monterey Pop is the winner here: it shared spine #43 with
Shoot the Piano Player and shared catalog #CC1164L with
The Killing (spine #64). Some titles were re-issued in new editions (aside from the usual CAV/CLV duplication)
There was also a separate sequence with the name Criterion Television, that had five unnumbered releases, and another separate sequence called Rolling Thunder, in which they offered three titles "presented by" Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder company.
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May have to spend a little cash on ebay for some of those that aren't in dvd or blu-ray print. I found it interesting there was a Dr. No release, that was recalled for what seemed to be comments in the commentary that Broccoli didn't like. Just thought it was interesting.
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Actually, that was true of all three of the Bond films they released (the first three:
Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, and
Goldfinger) in their CAV editions. The CLV editions were issued later without the commentaries.
The rarest (and most expensive) release was #159:
The Prince of Tides. It had already started pressing when Barbra Streisand decided she didn't like some parts of the audio commentary that she'd done for it. Criterion had to stop pressing, record a new commentary with Streisand, re-author the disc, and make a new pressing. It was released two years later with a new commentary track, and a new spine number: #227. Though the original pressing was never officially released, some number of copies (believed to be less than 100) made their way into the collector's market. When copies came up for sale, they generally went for $350-450.
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