The Criterion Collection

[ponytail]

Originally Posted by SleazyForWeasley

I sat down Saturday to watch the extended cut of The Tree of Life for the first time, and it is absolutely breath-taking. I had forgotten that The Tree of Life is a Fox Searchlight film. Something that I imagine many of us are thinking about: The sheer number of films swept into the Disney ecosystem with their purchase of Fox that may never again see the light of day on physical media, or even streaming is kind of terrifying. That sounds hyperbolic, but I think about how if this release had not come out when it did, the chances of us ever seeing it might have been zero. Then I read an article about the execs at Disney being "audibly concerned" about the content in Jojo Rabbit. Will we ever see it, or will it be relegated to a vault next to Song of the South? Maybe this belongs in a Disney thread, IDK, but anyone else a little bit freaked out that we might be at the beginning of the end for film as art with Disney sweeping up everything in their path?

But at least the X-Men are part of the MCU now, amirite?

[repulsed]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

How many Criterion films per decade do you have in your collection? Mine goes like this:

1920's: 4
1930's: 9
1940's: 20
1950's: 42
1960's: 23
1970's: 11
1980's: 12
1990's: 12
2000's: 8
2010's: 4

I did this myself a little while back. Not sure where the stats are. Also, don't think I included box sets that time. Just the single releases (for some reason). Found the paper but I'm going to get a complete count and I'll post it later.

[belcherman]

These are are my totals. For comparison, I've included totals for all films in my collection in the 3rd column. Getting the totals was a little trickier than I thought using the blu-ray.com database (the only real record I have of my blu ray collection). In the database, box sets count as one release, but if they span decades (such as The Before Trilogy), then they counted toward each decade's totals.

So, while not scientifically accurate, it does show the trend. No surprises here. Films of the 40s through 70s are my sweet spot.

Decade Criterion All
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1920s: 2 9
1930s: 18 47
1940s: 29 138
1950s: 25 192
1960s: 21 159
1970s: 17 132
1980s: 13 82
1990s: 3 60
2000s: 2 28
2010s: 1 15

[ilenewoodsfan99]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

How many Criterion films per decade do you have in your collection?

On DVD:
1920s: 1
1930s: 6 (another 4 if you count the Eclipse movies, plus a 5th with Magnificent Obsession)
1940s: 13
1950s: 4
1960s: 6
2010s: 1

On Blu Ray:
1920s: 1
1930s: 1
1940s: 5
1950s: 2
1960s: 2
1990s: 1

Still really new to the Blu Ray game.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

how many criterion films per decade do you have in your collection?

1930: 4
1940: 6
1950: 24
1960: 35
1970: 18
1980: 19
1990: 14
2000: 7

[AaronJ]

Oh, wow. This "by decade" thing is going take me some time ...

[senseabove]

What are the decade stats for the Criterion Collection as a whole?

[brainofj72]

Counting by SKU, not titles, and putting box-sets under their earliest entry:

BD:

20s: 1
30s: 2
40s: 8 (Counting the Bergman box under this)
50s: 11
60s: 24
70s: 10
80s: 14
90s: 10
00s: 8
10s: 1

DVD:

20s: 1
30s: 7
40s: 8
50s: 9
60s: 14
70s: 2
80s: 7
90s: 3

Makes sense that the ‘60s have a considerable lead. The kind of arthouse fare Criterion specializes in peaked in that decade, IMO.

[CRASHLANDING]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

How many Criterion films per decade do you have in your collection?

1920's: 2
1930's: 21
1940's: 27
1950's: 47
1960's: 44
1970's: 29
1980's: 20
1990's: 12
2000's: 9
2010's: 6

Boxed sets are mostly broken out and counted separately, with a few exceptions like the Olympic box. Fun exercise!

[djzero]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

How many Criterion films per decade do you have in your collection?

BD
1920's: 10
1930's: 25
1940's: 46
1950's: 72
1960's: 119
1970's: 89
1980's: 76
1990's: 64
2000's: 40
2010's: 37

[Zygmunt22]

Has anyone heard rumors about blu ray upgrades of Fiend w/o a Face or the Monsters and Madmen set? Thank you.

[latehong]

Originally Posted by Zygmunt22

Has anyone heard rumors about blu ray upgrades of Fiend w/o a Face or the Monsters and Madmen set? Thank you.

Has ever Criterion upgraded their good old not-that-influential sci-fi/horror movies? Fiend without a Face, Monsters and Madmen series, Equinox... I'd love to see them on Blu-ray, but I won't hold my breath. (Jigoku maybe?)

[lim.davidd]

wow, i did not think of this by Decade, gotta check mine

[Sifox211]

I watched my copy of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams last night and was blown away by the picture quality! I recently upgraded to a 65" OLED and thought that this might be a good test for this disk. It passed with flying colours - I can't imagine a UHD of this could look any better.

The film itself is entrancing. The first two dreams are a pure delight of colour, composition and music/sound (the Fox wedding is particularly beguiling). I'll spoiler the rest...

[Show spoiler]Then it becomes progressively darker with each dream and what must be the director's main intent, that of a warning about the environment and the destruction we are inflicting on it, even with a nuclear disaster shown destroying Japan. How prescient is this film, made in 1990 and thus thirty years before (some of the) world woke up to our impending environmental catastrophes!

The final dream returns to the style of the first two, but still delivers the message, albeit it in a much gentler manner.

There is an amazing wealth of extras on this disk too - a commentary, 150 and 52 minute docs, some interviews, a trailer and a fat booklet. Criterion knocked this one out of the park!

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by senseabove

What are the decade stats for the Criterion Collection as a whole?

These are for blu-ray releases: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...stcount=190619

[Bolo Seagull]

Mine breaks down as follows. I've counted box sets as 1 entry, otherwise it would way higher by virtue of that 'Zatoichi' box set alone, but even without all those films, the 1960's come out on top.

1950's: 1 blu and 1 DVD
1960's: 4 blu and 2 DVD
1970's: 3 blu and 2 DVD
1980's: 2 blu and 1 DVD
1990's: 2 blu and 2 DVD
2000's: 1 blu and 1 DVD

[bsend]

Originally Posted by latehong

Has ever Criterion upgraded their good old not-that-influential sci-fi/horror movies? Fiend without a Face, Monsters and Madmen series, Equinox... I'd love to see them on Blu-ray, but I won't hold my breath. (Jigoku maybe?)

They haven't updated any of them. I have them all on DVD, but would always consider upgrading.

[kuzronk]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

How many Criterion films per decade do you have in your collection? Mine goes like this:

1930's: 1
1940's: 4
1950's:14
1960's:14
1970's: 6 + 8
1980's: 4
1990's: 8
2000's: 12
2010's: 3

Not counting Brakhage

[GeoffOliver]

Right now, it goes like this for me:
1930s: 4
1940s: 5
1950s: 3
1960s: 3

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

How many Criterion films per decade do you have in your collection?

1920's: 7
1930's: 16
1940's: 20
1950's: 41
1960's: 71
1970's: 51
1980's: 33
1990's: 17
2000's: 12
2010's: 4

Didn't count any Eclipse DVD sets I have. Surprisingly, it seems like I enjoy the 50s, 60s, and 70s the most. The Zatoichi and Bergman box sets probably pumped those numbers up, but even without them there are a healthy number of crime, noir, history, drama, horror, and sci-fi I like from the era.