The Criterion Collection

[gudemameshiba]

Originally Posted by koberulz

How good are they with things expiring? I don't understand why streaming services don't send you an alert when something on your list is expiring. Some do give an expiration date the entire time a thing is available, others you have to click on it every week or so to make sure it's not going to expire at the end of said week...so how easy is it to keep track of that? My watchlist is obviously massive....

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

The subreddit for the channel also have people that make a list of everything leaving every month

https://www.reddit.com/r/CriterionCh...nd_of_january/

It links to a letterbox, which you can sort into a list

https://letterboxd.com/drcarpenter/l...hannel/detail/

Unfortunately I don't have any advice for you on Zazie dans le métro, but as far as titles expiring: in addition to MifuneFan's guidance, films that Janus distributes in the United States more or less do not expire, whereas films from major studios that show up in the newly added newsletter will expire within a few months. Most other things that expire have terms divisible by three months. As an example, here's everything expiring at the end of this month, with apologies for any errors I may have made:

ADDED DECEMBER 1, 2021 (2 months) (12 titles)

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Family Plot
The French Connection
Frenzy
Marnie
Rear Window
Rope
Saboteur
Shadow of a Doubt
Topaz
Torn Curtain
The Trouble with Harry
Vertigo

ADDED NOVEMBER 1, 2021 (3 months) (58 titles)

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Ace in the Hole
Angel Face
Baby Doll
The Big Steal
Black Widow
Blessed Event
Boomerang!
Bright Star
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cape Fear
The Chalk Garden
Crossfire
The Enemy Below
A Face in the Crowd
5 Card Stud
Five Star Final
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Gentleman’s Agreement
Ghost World
The Grass Is Greener
Hangover Square
Home from the Hill
I Wake Up Screaming
The Last Tycoon
Laura
The Lusty Men
Man with the Gun
Margot at the Wedding
Meet John Doe
Mommie Dearest
Mustang
Niagara
Night and the City
Nightmare Alley
The Night of the Hunter
Not as a Stranger
On the Waterfront
Panic in the Streets
Pinky
Platinum Blonde
Rachel and the Stranger
The Red Pony
Ryan’s Daughter
Scandal Sheet
The Snake Pit
The Swimmer
This Property Is Condemned
The Three Faces of Eve
Thunder Road
Till the End of Time
Track of the Cat
The Virgin Suicides
Viva Zapata!
Where Danger Lives
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Wild River
Woman of the Year
The Year of Living Dangerously

ADDED OCTOBER 1, 2021 (4 months) (5 titles)

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Doctor X
Kagemusha
Park Row
The Visitors
The Way West

ADDED SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 (5 months) (1 title)

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The Sundowners

ADDED AUGUST 1, 2021 (6 months) (18 titles)

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Amores perros
Bestiaire
Boris Without Béatrice
Conceiving Ada
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Landscape Suicide
Louder Than Bombs
No Data Plan
Princesse Tam-Tam
La revue des revues
Siren of the Tropics
Strange Culture
Teknolust
Thelma
Top Spin
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love
Zou Zou

ADDED MAY 1, 2021 (9 months) (6 titles)

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The Cat o’ Nine Tails
The Official Story
A Pistol for Ringo
Property Is No Longer a Theft
The Return of Ringo
What Have You Done to Solange?

ADDED DECEMBER 1, 2020? (14 months) (1 title)

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The Family Album

ADDED FEBRUARY 1, 2020 (24 months) (30 titles)

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Daughters of the Dust
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Pioneers of African-American Cinema:

Birthright
The Blood of Jesus
Body and Soul
The Bronze Buckaroo
By Right of Birth
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
The Darktown Revue
Daughters of the Dust
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
Eleven P.M.
The Exile
The Flying Ace
The Girl from Chicago
Heaven-Bound Travelers
Hell-Bound Train
Hot Biskits
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled
A Reckless Rover
Regeneration
Rev. S. S. Jones Home Movies
The Scar of Shame
The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the Ku Klux Klan
Ten Minutes to Live
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Two Knights of Vaudeville
Veiled Aristocrats
Verdict: Not Guilty
Within Our Gates
Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage

[ravenus]

^During the sales from Criterion.com and B&N, Amazon also frequently price-matches around the same time, so you can decide where to buy.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

But man, I do miss those days a lot. It added a fun handmade touch to the whole Criterion experience.

There's not a waking moment where I don't "miss those days". Here's hoping Criterion lives on for another 50 years.

[DukeTogo84]

So Nicolas Cage revealed a new HD restoration was done for Bringing Out the Dead. I think it's safe to say a Blu-ray will be hitting at some point. The question is if it will be a Criterion or Paramount Presents line, and if it's Criterion will it be this year or somewhere in the next 5?

[yoloswegmaster420]

RIP to Peter Bogdanovich: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/pe...ad-1234689025/

[dkelly26666]

Originally Posted by sc1957

If you're willing to pay full price (near $40 for most films), Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the criterion.com website are always open.

If you want to wait for a 50% off sale (so the price is $20 for most films), criterion.com has sales twice a year and so does Barnes & Noble. I think the next criterion.com sale is in February. The last B&N sale was in November. (My dates may be wrong, but there's always a big fuss here and on other Criterion-related film sites when a sale is approaching.)

Amazon usually has them well under their list price. I don't even bother to wait for those sales much. I can get them on release date, tax included, from Amazon for around 30 bucks (I'm a Prime member). If I wait for the Barnes and Noble sale, I pay 20 for the movie, 5 or 6 for shipping, and sales tax, too. Comes out close to 30 anyway, and they take a good while to get it to me.

[regeyer]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

If I wait for the Barnes and Noble sale, I pay 20 for the movie, 5 or 6 for shipping, and sales tax, too. Comes out close to 30 anyway, and they take a good while to get it to me.

I don't know about B&N, but if you buy directly from Criterion on one of the 50% off sales, and spend at least $50, shipping is free. I'm assuming B&N is the same. Plus, if you buy directly through Criterion you get bonus points that can be used for a free title.

[jkoffman]

Originally Posted by regeyer

I don't know about B&N, but if you buy directly from Criterion on one of the 50% off sales, and spend at least $50, shipping is free. I'm assuming B&N is the same. Plus, if you buy directly through Criterion you get bonus points that can be used for a free title.

B&N right at the top of their homepage:
FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OF $35 OR MORE

[styrofoamboats]

Originally Posted by NeoNical

Youth of the Beast is NOT OOP for sure. Almost made me have a heart attack there. Hopefully, a Blu-ray is in the works although I can't recall a time when "Currently Unavailable" titles actually turns out to be a Blu-ray upgrade.

I believe that happened recently with Ratcatcher, the DVD version was unavailable for a short time and then the Blu-ray got announced.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by regeyer

I don't know about B&N, but if you buy directly from Criterion on one of the 50% off sales, and spend at least $50, shipping is free. I'm assuming B&N is the same. Plus, if you buy directly through Criterion you get bonus points that can be used for a free title.

The bonus points are pretty much the main reason I buy exclusively through the Criterion site.

I wait for sales, though. Figure out what I want months ahead of time, and walk into flash sale day with a game plan enough that I can order in the first five minutes without having to worry about stocking issues.

Then it's off to plan for the next flash sale.

[TheArgentinian]

RIP Peter Bogdanovich. I always loved his contributions for the special features of John Ford, Orson Welles and other old Hollywood films.

https://youtu.be/hFEynP2PBkQ

[DimitriL]

My big Criterion-related sadness with Bogdanovich was that he had made it clear that he wanted his director's cut of Texasville in the collection, and for whatever reason, it didn't happen. I understand that some feel even the director's cut is an inferior movie, but still, he had been pushing it back when not only he could've participated, but people like McMurtry and Cloris Leachman too. Maybe a sadly missed opportunity.

[regeyer]

Originally Posted by dvining

The bonus points are pretty much the main reason I buy exclusively through the Criterion site.

I wait for sales, though. Figure out what I want months ahead of time, and walk into flash sale day with a game plan enough that I can order in the first five minutes without having to worry about stocking issues.

Then it's off to plan for the next flash sale.

That's what I do. Yes, that limits my purchases to twice a year, but it also maximizes the savings and gives Criterion the biggest profit.

[mrjohnnyb]

This may be my favorite one of the Peter Bogdanovich interviews produced by Criterion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At9IuaKcO78

[Flex_MythoMass]

Is there a way to see which Criterion releases are in the standard cases and which aren’t? I’ve gotten really frustrated after All About Eve and Citizen Kane.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Flex_MythoMass

Is there a way to see which Criterion releases are in the standard cases and which aren’t? I’ve gotten really frustrated after All About Eve and Citizen Kane.

This website will have digipack listed next to their name. There are also a good number of product photos which shows you what they packaging is like. This thread is also good to ask.

[Flex_MythoMass]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

This website will have digipack listed next to their name. There are also a good number of product photos which shows you what they packaging is like. This thread is also good to ask.

Awesome. I mostly use the app so I never knew the site has it out by the name.

[ShellOilJunior]

I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Bogdanovich years ago at the Cleveland Public Library. He told stories about Old Hollywood and did impressions of John Ford, Cary Grant, Hitchock ("the elevator story"), and others. He presented clips from Notorious (The wine cellar scene) and The Last Picture Show and spoke about them. It was a lot of fun. He was very personable and approachable. I'm glad I got to meet him.

He signed my copy of This is Orson Welles:

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[dancerslegs]

Originally Posted by TheArgentinian

RIP Peter Bogdanovich. I always loved his contributions for the special features of John Ford, Orson Welles and other old Hollywood films.

https://youtu.be/hFEynP2PBkQ

RIP to Captain Ascot

[Vigojean]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Bogdanovich years ago at the Cleveland Public Library. He told stories about Old Hollywood and did impressions of John Ford, Cary Grant, Hitchock ("the elevator story"), and others. He presented clips from Notorious (The wine cellar scene) and The Last Picture Show and spoke about them. It was a lot of fun. He was very personable and approachable. I'm glad I got to meet him.

I honestly liked him better as a film historian than a filmmaker. It seemed like Welles hated his guts near the end of his life, given how he portrayed him in his last movie. But that might've been Welles being jealous of a young director getting to make movies, whereas he still had to beg for funding