The Criterion Collection

[Martin_31]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Attn: Kurosawa fans:

"The American Cinematheque is thrilled to present a retrospective of master Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, featuring L.A. premieres of new 2K and 4K restorations courtesy of Janus Films of his most acclaimed works. From contemporary masterpieces such as STRAY DOG, RED BEARD, HIGH AND LOW and IKIRU to period pieces reimagining genre like RASHOMON, SEVEN SAMURAI, YOJIMBO, SANJURO, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS and THRONE OF BLOOD, Kurosawa’s art is as timely as ever. Please join us in watching these newly restored films."

https://www.americancinematheque.com...cid=8f0769cd94

Going to have to make a trip for the double feature ones.

[longshot7]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Attn: Kurosawa fans:

"The American Cinematheque is thrilled to present a retrospective of master Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, featuring L.A. premieres of new 2K and 4K restorations courtesy of Janus Films of his most acclaimed works. From contemporary masterpieces such as STRAY DOG, RED BEARD, HIGH AND LOW and IKIRU to period pieces reimagining genre like RASHOMON, SEVEN SAMURAI, YOJIMBO, SANJURO, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS and THRONE OF BLOOD, Kurosawa’s art is as timely as ever. Please join us in watching these newly restored films."

https://www.americancinematheque.com...cid=8f0769cd94

I'll be going to a bunch of those as well. Hoping we get an update of the Kurosawa 100 set I splurged for earlier in the year. Disappointing so many remain in SD but this is a good big step.

[BluCollector13]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Attn: Kurosawa fans:

"The American Cinematheque is thrilled to present a retrospective of master Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, featuring L.A. premieres of new 2K and 4K restorations courtesy of Janus Films of his most acclaimed works. From contemporary masterpieces such as STRAY DOG, RED BEARD, HIGH AND LOW and IKIRU to period pieces reimagining genre like RASHOMON, SEVEN SAMURAI, YOJIMBO, SANJURO, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS and THRONE OF BLOOD, Kurosawa’s art is as timely as ever. Please join us in watching these newly restored films."

https://www.americancinematheque.com...cid=8f0769cd94

At last, I can finally check "Yojimbo", "Sanjuro", "The Hidden Fortress" and "Stray Dog" out.

[MifuneFan]

The Film Forum in NYC are also having a Kurosawa retrospective with the 4K restorations, which I'm hoping to see a few of. Hopefully they also show up in other theaters around the country too.

https://filmforum.org/series/kurosawa-in-4k

A nine-film festival featuring some of the most influential titles by the legendary director, spanning genres from samurai epic to gritty Noir. All 4K restorations were undertaken by Toho Co., Ltd. in Japan, with many being shown in the U.S. for the first time, including THRONE OF BLOOD, STRAY DOG, HIGH AND LOW, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, IKIRU, YOJIMBO, and SANJURO and RASHOMON*.

*RASHOMON restored in 2K by the Academy Film Archive, the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.

Presented with support from The Reginald S. Reinhardt, Ling-Makekau Fund for Asia-Pacific Films

ALL FILMS RELEASED BY JANUS FILMS

[DisneyDreamer2023]

Do you guys and gals keep your Criterion 4K’s alongside your Blu-rays or keep them seperate by format?

Currently I have my 4K’s in one unit and my Blu-rays in a seperate unit. DVD’s live in my cupboard.

Lately I have been considering maybe just combining all my Blu-rays and 4K’s together.

[borntorun_intheusa]

Originally Posted by DisneyDreamer2023

Do you guys and gals keep your Criterion 4K’s alongside your Blu-rays or keep them seperate by format?

Currently I have my 4K’s in one unit and my Blu-rays in a seperate unit. DVD’s live in my cupboard.

Lately I have been considering maybe just combining all my Blu-rays and 4K’s together.

I keep them all together while the DVDs are on a separate shelf. The Blus and 4Ks look more organized together, albeit with the occasion DVD-sized mediabook.

[DukeTogo84]

Hopefully this means that Stray Dog will get a new release from Criterion soon. Interesting that Red Beard only got a 2K remaster, so not sure if this will get a release from Criterion soon.

[Ender14]

Originally Posted by DisneyDreamer2023

Do you guys and gals keep your Criterion 4K’s alongside your Blu-rays or keep them seperate by format?

Currently I have my 4K’s in one unit and my Blu-rays in a seperate unit. DVD’s live in my cupboard.

Lately I have been considering maybe just combining all my Blu-rays and 4K’s together.

I have mine separated out but they share two racks, so I have my Criterion 4K's all together with the 4K's first then the Blu-ray's. But have been considering combining them all as well.

[Olmo]

Watched Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources over the last couple of nights, first time for me.

Wonderful, especially Jean..which I think is perfect, Manon a little melodramatic but inevitably so I suppose.

Had one or two playback issues, firstly my player SONY UHD KD-55AG8 wouldn't recognise the Jean.. disc. Only after two or three ejections and reinserts did it play, both films froze toward the end.

*Also, can anyone explain why the French is used without English translation for the first film but not the sequel?*

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by borntorun_intheusa

I keep them all together while the DVDs are on a separate shelf. The Blus and 4Ks look more organized together, albeit with the occasion DVD-sized mediabook.

Same. Though my oversized titles are displayed on the top of my dedicated-Criterion bookshelf.

[ophone]

I don't separate the Criterion movies from the others in my collection.
I've got other categories, mostly by main language of films.

[DimitriL]

Eh, I don’t think it’s tiring. Libraries don’t go alphabetically by default. They came to the conclusion that different categories belong together. A numbered collection belongs together. (And I have no problem hunting through my titles - that encourages discovery and impromptu viewing.) That’s my feeling, anyway. YMMV, as always.

[DrasticHandprint]

I would get too frustrated doing anything other than alphabetical. I can’t do genres because I can’t span genres by having a movie in two spots at once. I can’t do label, because then I can’t group different versions of films together without being inconsisten. It’s actually one thing I didn’t really like about rental stores either, like, Hereditary is a film I don’t particularly like, but I mean it’s a drama and horror. So theoretically it can belong in either, so if I put it in horror, but I am in the mood for a drama it’s going to be out of sight out of mind if I just focus on my drama section of the shelf, and vice versa. It’s why I just can’t organize my records by genre either even though technically that makes sense, and that way I have bands together too if they span different genres and styles and maintaining a consistent order.

Tl,dr my mind doesn’t work that way. I like everything neatly in order by alphabet so I can quickly find it on the shelf if I think of the title, and not try to remember what genre or subgenre it’s filed under, and browsing through everything at once can solidify my choice, especially if I’m torn between a couple of moods.

[Alvarius]

Decade > label > alphabetical. Keeps similar-looking spines together and also makes a history of film. Right now I don’t have enough movies to really make it work, but I like the idea.

[koberulz]

Taking the hassle out of debates like this is one of my favourite things about having all my films on a media server. I can sort alphabetically, or by release date, or completely at random, with a click of a button. Pretty easy to pick a genre and get a list of films for that genre, too.

[eightslicesofpie]

My whole hangup with the alphabetical thing is like....if I get a new "A" title, now what? I'm shifting 1400 movies over by 1 so that I can slot it into the first, top shelf?

[FindOneInEveryCar]

Originally Posted by BorisKarloffice

Still too much.

I want ZERO politics in my ART. Politics are for SAVAGES.

That's why I only watch GODZILLA MOVIES because they are about a BIG LIZARD and are NEVER about political subject matter like the testing of atomic weapons in Japanese waters or the poor handling of the Fukushima disaster.

[TheZeppo]

Originally Posted by eightslicesofpie

My whole hangup with the alphabetical thing is like....if I get a new "A" title, now what? I'm shifting 1400 movies over by 1 so that I can slot it into the first, top shelf?

Leave "jiggle room" in between every five discs or so. I have a collection of around 5000 discs and sort my blus separate from my 4ks alphabetically. By leaving a little wiggle/jiggle room as mentioned, it's easy to squeeze in another 20-30 discs onto my existing shelves before having to build more shelves every six months or so.

[regeyer]

Originally Posted by DisneyDreamer2023

Do you guys and gals keep your Criterion 4K’s alongside your Blu-rays or keep them seperate by format?

Currently I have my 4K’s in one unit and my Blu-rays in a seperate unit. DVD’s live in my cupboard.

Lately I have been considering maybe just combining all my Blu-rays and 4K’s together.

I keep everything together (DVD, HD DVD, Blu-Ray, and UHD) in alphabetical order.

[poisonmail]

Originally Posted by eightslicesofpie

My whole hangup with the alphabetical thing is like....if I get a new "A" title, now what? I'm shifting 1400 movies over by 1 so that I can slot it into the first, top shelf?

I personally like this procedure because it reacquaints me with what I have, same with my records (especially 45s which are hard to "see" the way I store them). That said, I leave a little extra space so I don't have to do this every time I add a single new disc to the collection.