The Criterion Collection

[MifuneFan]

Shell, would Kenji Misumi not fit the director's list? By my count, I believe 10 movies of his that he directed were released by Criterion, all from the Zatoichi, and Lone Wolf and Cub sets

https://www.blu-ray.com/Kenji-Misumi/253384/#Bluray

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by The Sovereign

Wow, I was going to ask you to do that as a joke. This is really cool!

The hardest part was normalizing the data. Criterion omits the country for some of its releases when viewed in list view which is a problem because the wiki list does not list country. For more than a few of them I had to lookup the country individually.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Shell, would Kenji Misumi not fit the director's list? By my count, I believe 10 movies of his that he directed were released by Criterion, all from the Zatoichi, and Lone Wolf and Cub sets

https://www.blu-ray.com/Kenji-Misumi/253384/#Bluray

The box has a spine (#679) but the films in the set do not. I treated it as 1 release. If I made them 25 items I'd have to the same for other box sets. If I went that far then I should probably list short films and feature films on disk as bonuses. I didn't want to go down that rabbit hole.

[willtopower]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

The 10 Year anniversary of Criterion on Blu-ray is coming up on 12/16/2018. Way back on 12/16/2008 Criterion released The Third Man, Bottle Rocket, Chungking Express and The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Note:I've attached a CSV of the complete listing of Criterion Blu-rays from 2008 to 2018.

Dude this is sick. I was thinking about asking you to share your data file

Love this stuff

[jw007]

ShellOilJunior: Thanks a ton for creating those charts and graphs. I could stare at these images for days, if not centuries. I wish the Criterion website had cool data like this on their site.

[theater dreamer]

Hmm.....

Ingmar Bergman
Akira Kurosawa
Wim Wenders
Satyajit Ray
Roberto Rossellini
Charlie Chaplin
Josef von Sternberg
Michelangelo Antonioni
Wes Anderson
Jacques Tati
John Cassavetes


"One of these things is not like the other..."

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

Hmm.....

Ingmar Bergman
Akira Kurosawa
Wim Wenders
Satyajit Ray
Roberto Rossellini
Charlie Chaplin
Josef von Sternberg
Michelangelo Antonioni
Wes Anderson
Jacques Tati
John Cassavetes


"One of these things is not like the other..."

Exactly! Who does Wim Wenders think he is?

[spanky87]

They’re gonna drag out the rest of the John Hughes releases, aren’t they? Seems like it’ll be one per year. Hopefully the release Sixteen Candles before Ferris Beuller.

[u2popmofo]

So happy to see Carnival of Souls to get a discount on Amazon today, I ordered that baby the second i saw the price tracker notice from the blu-ray.com app! Yay for technology!

[GeoffOliver]

Originally Posted by italy12

I bet you think you're pretty special, but nobody has heard of you either.

No need for the snark. I was just speaking for myself. Obviously I'm happy for the fans of these films... I even mentioned that I'm still more than satisfied with Criterion's output this year.

[mulscul]

Awful truth down to $18.96


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-A...lu-ray/130980/

[Stringer-Bell]

Originally Posted by mulscul

Awful truth down to $18.96


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-A...lu-ray/130980/

New to collecting Criterion, I only have one of their releases (400 Blows). I understand they will be having a sale come November, will I do better to wait or is this the price point that I will likely see for the Nov sale?

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by Stringer-Bell

New to collecting Criterion, I only have one of their releases (400 Blows). I understand they will be having a sale come November, will I do better to wait or is this the price point that I will likely see for the Nov sale?

Depends if you want any of the films that are currently on sale on Amazon? Check out the Amazon Criterion thread:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=15549122

If any of those titles jump out at you, then you will get them cheaper right now. Also, there's an October one-day flash sale at Criterion's site where you don't pay sales tax(in most states) and get free shipping at $50. Otherwise, you can wait till November for the B&N Criterion sale.

[StingingVelvet]

I got The Blob when the Amazon sale started. Just got Hopscotch too. Great time to get some titles I hesitated to pay full price for.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by ravenus

Ordered this off WowHD for 27$ (free shipping) because I am a sucker when it comes to double-dipping for my favorite films, even though for a long time I was torn between getting this and waiting for the possibility of a newer restoration (in any region) that would yield better results:

Watch the Vampyr blu-ray last night, and unsurprisingly the transfer seems to be sourced from not only an old restoration but a dated scan (As an example I was more pleased with the blu-ray of Island of Lost Souls even though the source material there was more problematic). What surprised me (unpleasantly) was the stepmotherly treatment afforded to the special English text version that Criterion had prepared during their DVD release with translated versions recreated in the original style of the large blocks of scrolling text one comes across in the film. That version, which has been my preferred way of watching the film (a way I find far less intrusive to the movie experience than trying to read subtitles placed over onscreen text), has been given a visibly inferior encode (11-15MBps) and for some reason a separate lossy Dolby track (why it could not have shared the same audio track as the main feature I can't understand, since the inserts were purely visual).

If you don't already have the film this is a great buy, but for someone that has the DVD, this upgrade doesn't feel as superior as it should have.

[Jr7936]

in my opinion I think the tree of life extended version is one of the best things I can think of that they have put out in a long while
I feel if they put this cut out first, it would have gotten a much better reception

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Depends if you want any of the films that are currently on sale on Amazon? Check out the Amazon Criterion thread:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=15549122

If any of those titles jump out at you, then you will get them cheaper right now. Also, there's an October one-day flash sale at Criterion's site where you don't pay sales tax(in most states) and get free shipping at $50. Otherwise, you can wait till November for the B&N Criterion sale.

They’re really cracking down on sales tax for internet sales lately. I wouldn’t be surprised if Criterion collects sales tax for all states that have a sales tax during the next sale. Anyway, I wouldn’t count on not getting charged sales tax.

[belcherman]

Speaking of the Amazon sale, any thoughts on Ride with the Devil? I’ve had it in my cart a few times, but I’ve never pulled the trigger on it.

[KJones77]

Originally Posted by belcherman

Speaking of the Amazon sale, any thoughts on Ride with the Devil? I’ve had it in my cart a few times, but I’ve never pulled the trigger on it.

Great battle scenes, unique/well developed perspective on the Civil War, and great character/actors, but the film gets side tracked with some forced romantic subplots along the way that take too much focus towards the end and drag the movie out a bit too long.

Good, not great, but would definitely recommend if you like Ang Lee, the Civil War, or character-driven war films. I would take The Ice Storm over it everyday of the week, though when it comes to Ang Lee Criterion releases.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by belcherman

They’re really cracking down on sales tax for internet sales lately. I wouldn’t be surprised if Criterion collects sales tax for all states that have a sales tax during the next sale. Anyway, I wouldn’t count on not getting charged sales tax.

I'm hoping they won't be enacted till after the midterm elections. I know in Maryland there's talk of extending the sales tax to smaller sites. So far, I've yet to be charged sales tax for Amazon Marketplace, Kino Lorber, and Deep Discount but IDK how much longer online retailers hold out after the ruling in South Dakota v Wayfair.