The Criterion Collection

[PurpleJesus74]

Just got my first CC,Repo Man,awesome movie and great packaging ! Somebody gave the picture quality a 0.5 in the reviews,i just watched it,i'm thinking really ? I wish people just wouldnt leave reviews if they havent a clue what they're talking about.

[Abdrewes]

I sort my collection alphabetically. I keep my Criterion Collection separate.

[Jr7936]

That is one movie I can confidently say that I will watch at least once a year for the rest of my life!

for me the ones i watch over and over are
qatsi trilogy
carlos
thin red line
three colors
badlands (will be one)


would say pina but don't have the criterion version, but have seen it 3 times already

and on criterion dvd, the harder they come - jimmy cliff movie

[shortmartin]

Originally Posted by bentvalve

This has probably been asked 1000 times already but do most of you guys who keep your collections in alphabetical order sort your Criterion Blu-rays the same way or do you keep the Criterions together. I just checked and I think I have about 16 of them now so I am thinking about sorting them "Criterion: 12 Angry Men" then "Criterion: The 400 Blows" ....and so on.

sorting and categorizing are obsessions for me. I sort all of my DVDs and BDs together in a set of genres, and have Criterion mixed together with non-Criterion.

Anglo American drama & comedy
Asian drama & comedy
Asian epics, samurai, & period
French drama & comedy
Italian drama & comedy
Russian/Soviet drama & comedy
other European drama & comedy
labor drama
political & legal drama
epic (period/historical films about ancient times to the Renaissance)
period (about early modern times to 1914)
war
sci-fi
thrillers
adventures
criminals, gangsters, & cops
horror
western
spy, cold war, international, & political thrillers

Within each category, the movies are sorted chronologically. yeah, I'm obsessed with this system and love the topic of how to categorize movie collections.

Sometimes a film confounds this system - e.g., is Drive a thriller or a crime movie? - but I'm happy with how it looks and works.

[Abdrewes]

jr7936,
Even Naqoyqatsi?

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I sort my collection alphabetically. I keep my Criterion Collection separate.

Ditto. Plus I sort the foreign articles in, as well. I.E. Le Cercle Rouge would go under L.

[Bluprint]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Pretty rare and doubtful.

I don't think Criterion has a fantastic relationship with Warner Bros. The chances of Criterion releasing something from Warner Bros. that hasn't come out yet is rare, and releasing something already out is even more rare.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and responses.

[Blu-Velvet]

Originally Posted by bentvalve

This has probably been asked 1000 times already but do most of you guys who keep your collections in alphabetical order sort your Criterion Blu-rays the same way or do you keep the Criterions together. I just checked and I think I have about 16 of them now so I am thinking about sorting them "Criterion: 12 Angry Men" then "Criterion: The 400 Blows" ....and so on.

I don't keep Criterion titles separate, although it's been tempting at times. I keep everything alphabetical and have one set of shelves with movies from 1960 to the present, and another with movies before 1960, including a shelf of silent films only. I have separate shelves for animation, documentaries, and TV shows.

The problem comes with box sets, which I usually alphabetize by the director or star's last name they're collected under, but sometimes by the title of the main feature.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Ditto

Quit copying me lol

I could never find anything if I sorted by spine numer

[Jr7936]

Even Naqoyqatsi

yes have seen it twice so far, sometimes I will just put it on for the music and do other stuff :P

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Quit copying me lol

I could never find anything if I sorted by spine numer

I agree. I'd be so lost haha.

[Jett Rink]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Ditto. Plus I sort the foreign articles in, as well. I.E. Le Cercle Rouge would go under L.

I want! I see you have Salo, I really want to buy that movie but I think it would just sit on my shelf. I am torn.

[shortmartin]

Originally Posted by Jett Blu

I want! I see you have Salo, I really want to buy that movie but I think it would just sit on my shelf. I am torn.

Salo is definitely worth seeing. As a movie it is well made and does what it sets out to do, which is to make you not like it and believe that there is no hope. So there is also very low replay value, imo. Well, not exactly - I've seen it twice, the second time was simply because I was so turned off the first time around, I needed to see that I wasn't missing something. Nope, it's a movie without hope or any inkling of redemption, and it's also absolutely disgusting. To my eyes (and stomach) it is an entirely different league of gross and repulsive compared to, say, Empire of Passion or Antichrist. With that said, I like Pasolini a lot and you can't say that it's not well crafted. The ways he uses the camera and the mise en scene are well calculated in view of what he wants to accomplish with the film.

[shortmartin]

>> sorry, not Empire, I mean In the Realm of the Senses . . . I get them confused sometimes.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Jett Blu

I have also been struggling with this issue. I have tried alphabetical, alphabetical with the rest of my collection, and by spine number. I can't seem to pick one I like yet.

With the exception of titles on the AFI 100 (which go on that shelf) Criterion has its own section broken down by...

Watched/unwatched
Digipack/plastic
Language/region

[billzfan]

Originally Posted by Jett Blu

I want! I see you have Salo, I really want to buy that movie but I think it would just sit on my shelf. I am torn.

Salo is a horrible experience. I'm open minded and certainly not squeamish. But, if a filmmaker's best idea to show the horrid nature of living under a Facist rule is to force young teens to eat shit and get raped and tortured in a closed environment, he is officially creatively bankrupt.

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Jett Blu

I want! I see you have Salo, I really want to buy that movie but I think it would just sit on my shelf. I am torn.

Get it! You won't regret it, it's well worth seeing. Although I'm afraid you have a point because it's not something you will watch over and over again at all.

[Jett Rink]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

Get it! You won't regret it, it's well worth seeing. Although I'm afraid you have a point because it's not something you will watch over and over again at all.

I've seen it once, so I would buy it just to have. Still not 100% sure.

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by billzfan

Trying to decide on 2 titles from the following list for the sale:

Late Spring
If.....
Repo Man
Following
Being John Malkovich

Late Spring is great and well worth it.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Jett Blu

I want! I see you have Salo, I really want to buy that movie but I think it would just sit on my shelf. I am torn.

Do it. Peer pressure!