CC40 -- "monumental 40-film box set, coming in November" -- Criterion Collection

[bigshot]

They're blowing out blu-rays in bulk to clear the warehouse so they can go exclusively to streaming on the Criterion Channel.

[GenPion]

Another box-set idea:

A lavish collection containing upgrades of films in the Criterion Eclipse DVD line. If this ever materializes, that would be an instant-buy.

[GenPion]

Originally Posted by bigshot

They're blowing out blu-rays in bulk to clear the warehouse so they can go exclusively to streaming on the Criterion Channel.

Obviously not true (the disc art is different in the box-set to everything in the standalone editions).

[Danespina]

Even just from a booklet perspective, I'd rather have them all separated with their individual artworks, rather than everything grouped together in one oversized book. Movies like Repo Man went through a lot of effort to make each of its pages feel special.

[Poya]

Uh, hey. Criterion? Pals? You forgot one filmmaker.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Poya

Uh, hey. Criterion? Pals? You forgot one filmmaker.

[Show spoiler]

Akira Kurosawa looks different than I remembered.

[MifuneFan]

The set does omit some of Criterion's heaviest hitters over the years:

Kurosawa
Pasolini
Scorsese
Lynch
Abbas Kiarostami
Wes Anderson
Cronenberg
Fassbinder
Charlie Chaplin
Gilliam

Even with some of the major directors in the set, like Godard, and Tarkovsky, it wasn't their most popular choice chosen. I can't imagine more people chose Weekend over Breathless, or Mirror over Solaris for instance.

[Doomhunter]

Criterion has become obsessed with themselves, thinking that they and their name sells product. To me, the films are the product and many of these don’t interest me.

[bigshot]

It doesn't have Criterion number 1 nor 2... Citizen Kane and King Kong. It would be worth including those for the commentaries, which was the very first time a movie included a commentary track.

[bigshot]

Originally Posted by GenPion

Obviously not true (the disc art is different in the box-set to everything in the standalone editions).

Just paint the new label over the old one! Old wine in new bottles.

[GaragePoet]

Originally Posted by Driver78

This looks like it's geared more towards newcomers looking to dip their toes into the label and not longtime loyalists.

that's a hefty price tag for a newcomer, tho

as a longtime loyalist, it will still be cheaper to individually buy the 15 titles from this set which i don't already own

[mclellandj]

I'm not sure why you would do this but you could almost certainly sell your individual releases at $10 a pop on ebay to get this for free during the sale. I've never had trouble selling a Criterion blu-ray at $10

[Phillip c. Niethe]

I actually got excited for this until another member posted about the discs probably being in hard to remove slip sleeves and the fact that owning each in the original packaging would be better…then I felt silly, and have to agree as well as having some of the titles…but now reading these posts of several members having most or all of them already and me having almost mostly none of them…Ive purchased a total of 43 Criterions with a small list of more that I intend to pick up that I missed. But really on second thought, who does indeed want to skip out on the individual booklets and individually numbered and nicely made packaging? I still want the outer Box for some reason that I can’t explain.

[Phillip c. Niethe]

Originally Posted by Poya

Uh, hey. Criterion? Pals? You forgot one filmmaker.

Who is this?…Woody Allen…Mel Brooks…Leslie Neilson??

[Raphdude]

I would’ve preferred a Godzilla Heisei 4K box set, a Kurosawa 4K box set, or both.

[Brad1963]

OMG...everybody complains about everything on these forums.

[Egbert Souse]

Going out on a limb and predict they're doing a Kurosawa set soonish if they didn't include anything of his in this.

This is a strange set, but if they can sell out of that Janus box, there's probably enough people to get this expensive Christmas gift. I would have been happy with just a coffee table book that collected stuff like essays from long-OOP editions on laserdisc and DVD, interviews with their team, behind-the-scenes stuff, etc. Maybe even include a Blu-ray with odds and ends.

[GaragePoet]

Originally Posted by Axl Rose

It seems the discs have new/uniformed disc art. Plus better ways to get rid of overstock than a extremely niche $700 boxset

if they're producing new discs w/ new artwork, how are they getting rid of the old stock?

[Axl Rose]

Originally Posted by GaragePoet

if they're producing new discs w/ new artwork, how are they getting rid of the old stock?

That's my point.

[SpacemanDoug]

Originally Posted by Kyle15

I guess all the other boxes they've got planned are taking too long so someone was like "hey, I know! Eureka!"

Interesting 3 Women is included. Unless the license was set to perpetuity by Fox before Disney bought them out, I guess Disney is relenting on that one. 4k upgrade maybe?

I really wanna see what the Arrow master looks like in 4K, their BD looked wonderful and to me it's hilarious how Criterion fanboys kept defending the old master, saying it looked more like "Eastman prints" even though it's incredibly obvious it was heavily sharpened and the colors looked very faded