The Criterion Collection

[jw007]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

[Show spoiler]

Good choice for you one Anderson.

Thanks! I initially had Royal Tenenbaums and that title too, but sometimes we have to make sacrifices!

[CRASHLANDING]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

If you had to pare your collection down to 20 titles, which 20 would you pick? Rule: you can only keep five box sets and none that contain more than five titles.

My first pass was around 25, which was better than I expected. But making those last few cuts was so painful. Glad this is only a virtual exercise!

Au hasard Balthasar
Days of Heaven
Dekalog
In the Mood for Love
It Happened One Night
La Dolce Vita
Macbeth
Modern Times
Passion of Joan of Arc
Persona
The Philadelphia Story
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rashomon
The Red Shoes
The Royal Tenenbaums
Three Colors Trilogy
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Y Tu Mama Tambien

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by The Grey Wolf

I know KL Studios doesn't have a deal with Warner.
Does Criterion have a deal with Warner?
And does Twilight Time have a deal with Warner?

Criterion and Shout! are the two who have deals with Warner

[Scottie]

The Cloud-Capped Star is the most logical guess, especially since Criterion has expressed their interest in releasing more Indian cinema.

[erlinmeyer]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Let the speculation begin.

Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) MGM, has plenty of star power and not available on Blu-ray.

[MifuneFan]

Reminds me of that Simpsons Valentine's day episode where everyone interprets the star differently.

[Al_The_Strange]

So, Simpsons Movie confirmed?

Day one for me.

[prkchopexpress]

lol at only having 20 criterions.

I could think of 20 criterion movies that were put out on dvd and I wish would come out on blu. I once bought 12 criterions during one barnes and noble sale. I could probably think of 20 that I wish I could buy right now, especially considering the slate they have of titles just from this year.

and that's just the stuff I know I want. that's not even the stuff I'm curious about or haven't discovered yet.

edit: I should have rephrased that first sentence. lol at if you have a large collections of criterions and wanted to give some away so that you could at you only had twenty. and not including box sets? that zatoichi boxset is probably the best release ever on home video. there is no boxset I've ever enjoyed more.

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by prkchopexpress

[Show spoiler]lol at only having 20 criterions.

I could think of 20 criterion movies that were put out on dvd and I wish would come out on blu. I once bought 12 criterions during one barnes and noble sale. I could probably think of 20 that I wish I could buy right now, especially considering the slate they have of titles just from this year.

and that's just the stuff I know I want. that's not even the stuff I'm curious about or haven't discovered yet.

[bonehica]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

If you had to pare your collection down to 20 titles, which 20 would you pick?

Rule: you can only keep five box sets and none that contain more than five titles.

No Bergman set, no Zatoichi, no World Cinema Project.

...all the rest have to be individual titles.

The first few weren't much of an issue, since they were entrenched in my all time top twenty. After that, however, we had some serious Sophie's Choice moments...

1) High and Low
2) Wages of Fear
3) Tokyo Story
4) Kiss Me Deadly
5) Stalker
6) The Naked Kiss
7) The Philadelphia Story
8) The Virgin Spring
9) Last Year at Marienbad
10) Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
11) Au Hasard Balthazar
12) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
13) Black Narcissus
14) Lady Snowblood
15) Weekend (1967)
16) Tokyo Drifter
17) Umberto D
18) 8 1/2
19) In the Mood for Love
20) City Lights

[zoodermin]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

If you had to pare your collection down to 20 titles, which 20 would you pick?

Rule: you can only keep five box sets and none that contain more than five titles.

No Bergman set, no Zatoichi, no World Cinema Project.

...all the rest have to be individual titles.

1. The Red Shoes
2. City Lights
3. Three Colors
4. The Before Trilogy
5. Seven Samurai
6. 12 Angry Men
7. The Night of the Hunter
8. In the Mood for Love
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Some Like It Hot
11. Fanny & Alexander
12. A Matter of Life and Death
13. Fantastic Mr. Fox
14. Tokyo Story
15. The Wages of Fear
16. Rashomon
17. On the Waterfront
18. Red River
19. The Silence of the Lambs
20. Modern Times

[taymo016]

I posted this in the Notorious thread also: For those of you that care about sales numbers, this is crazy. I can't say I've ever seen a Criterion release on the weekly top-sellers list but here it is: https://www.the-numbers.com/home-mar...art/2019/01/20

16th in sales for the week, nearly $328,000

[Bronson13]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

If you had to pare your collection down to 20 titles, which 20 would you pick?

Rule: you can only keep five box sets and none that contain more than five titles.

No Bergman set, no Zatoichi, no World Cinema Project.

...all the rest have to be individual titles.

1. Paths of Glory
2. Seven Samurai
3. City Lights
4. Barry Lyndon
5. The Before Trilogy
6. Rushmore
7. Scanners
8. The Killing
9. Inside Llewyn Davis
10. Boyhood
11. 12 Angry Men
12. Rosemary’s Baby
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Five Easy Pieces
15. Rashomon
16. A Hard Days Night
17. Bull Durham
18. The Royal Tenenbaums
19. Punch Drunk Love
20. Night of the Living Dead

Damn that was hard.

[Jar Jar Stinks]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

If you had to pare your collection down to 20 titles, which 20 would you pick?

Rule: you can only keep five box sets and none that contain more than five titles.

No Bergman set, no Zatoichi, no World Cinema Project.

...all the rest have to be individual titles.

I don't even have 20 titles. This is all I have:

1. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
2. Breathless (À bout de souffle) (1960)
3. Dressed to Kill (Second Printing) (1980)
4. Eraserhead (1977)
5. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
6. Godzilla (ゴジラ / Gojira) (1954)
7. M (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) (1931)
8. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
9. The 39 Steps (1935)
10. The Freshman (1925)
11. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
12. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
13. Things to Come (1936)

As for minimalism, I'm with you. I've been giving away stuff for the past two years. Before our last move, we had 3 bookcases plus another 10 boxes of books. Gave most of them to our library. Recently, my wife and I just emptied our closets and gave away half our clothes. Tackling all our various piles of paper is next.

Anyway, I totally get overwhelmed by stuff. I'm going to pare down my collection some more. I'd be happy with a nice small set of films I can appreciate and display. I started a thread about it here: The Merits of a Small Blu-ray Collection.

[ShellOilJunior]

I see what Ray did. No Flash sale so no purchase lists. He's filling the void.

[Gunsnroses092789]

Blow-Up
Breaking the Waves
City Lights
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Good Morning
The Innocents
Insomnia
In The Realm of the Senses
The Killing
Kiss Me Deadly
M
Mildred Pierce
Moonrise
My Man Godfrey
On The Waterfront
One-Eyed Jacks
Le Samourai
Le Silence de la Mer
The Silence of the Lambs
Trois Couleurs

[Jlouisbarrett]

Originally Posted by taymo016

I posted this in the Notorious thread also: For those of you that care about sales numbers, this is crazy. I can't say I've ever seen a Criterion release on the weekly top-sellers list but here it is: https://www.the-numbers.com/home-mar...art/2019/01/20

16th in sales for the week, nearly $328,000

Wow, that is actually crazy. 13,000 units! I would have expected to see films like Scream Factory’s The Thing, or even Criterion’s own The Breakfast Club or The Princess Bride releases show up in the top sellers list over something like Notorious. Very interesting.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

Wow, that is actually crazy. 13,000 units! I would have expected to see films like Scream Factory’s The Thing, or even Criterion’s own The Breakfast Club or The Princess Bride releases show up in the top sellers list over something like Notorious. Very interesting.

Hitchcock is usually going to be a good sell and not to mention the MGM Blu has been out of print for years.

[KJones77]

After its release yesterday, To Sleep with Anger is the Criterion Channel "Movie of the Week".

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by KJones77

After its release yesterday, To Sleep with Anger is the Criterion Channel "Movie of the Week".

This is shocking. I was never expecting movies to be added to the Criterion Channel day and date with its physical release. This is awesome news for subscribers if it's going to be a regular occurrence.