Criterion collectors
 

Post your collection here, the one that is your favorite, and the ones you are looking forward to!

I own the following:

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Hugely looking forward to PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

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Some Criterion topics already here, including one for top ten favourite Criterions:


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At the moment my Criterion Collection has the following in:


Three Colours Trilogy set(Blu-ray)
Frances Ha(Blu-ray)
Badlands(Blu-ray)
Rosemary's Baby(Blu-ray)
Repulsion(Blu-ray)
Shallow Grave(Blu-ray)
Harold and Maude(Blu-ray)
Rushmore(Blu-ray)
Blow Out(Blu-ray)
The Devil's Backbone(Blu-Ray)
The Battle of Algiers(Blu-ray)
Close Up(Blu-ray)
Repo Man(Blu-ray)
The Great Dictator(Blu-ray)
Monsieur Verdoux(Blu-ray)
Medium Cool(Blu-ray)
Traffic(Blu-ray)
Paths of Glory(Blu-ray)
Le Cercle Rouge(Blu-ray)
Days of Heaven(Blu-ray)
Black Narcissus(Blu-ray)
The Uninvited(Blu-ray)
Seconds(Blu-ray)
Tiny Furniture(Blu-ray)
Ministry of Fear(Blu-ray)
Au Revoir Les Enfants(Blu-ray)
Z(DVD)
Missing(DVD)
Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko Films(Wings, and The Ascent)(DVD)

^ All the above blu-rays and DVDs were bought in the Barnes & Noble 50% off sales, and on Amazon when they were under $20.


The rest are all DVD that I got before I started collecting blu-rays:

The Sword of Doom
Clean, Shaven
Au Hasard Balthazar
The Double Life of Veronique
Pandora's Box
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - Will be upgrading this to blu-ray when the next sales are up.
3 Women
Band of Outsiders
Sisters
The Lady Vanishes
The Vanishing
Insomnia
The Third Man
Diabolique
Eyes Without A Face - this is getting a blu-ray release here in Britain next month, so going to upgrade to blu-ray then.
Le Samourai
The Passion of Joan of Arc - I also have this on blu-ray when it was released in an amazing set here by Masters of Cinema(British version of Criterion Collection basically).
Shock Corridor
Tout Va Bien
Youth of the Beast
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Solaris
Dazed and Confused
Slacker
Short Cuts
Seven Samurai

Think that's all of them so far.

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I am a big Criterion hound. Here is my collection. Picking a favorite is hard. I really like the packaging they have been using lately for the Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs. With that in mind, I might say Persona is my favorite, beautiful packaging and artwork. I also love my Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara set, even though I've only seen one of the films in it.

I "used to" "Collect" Criterions, in as much as even if I didn't like the movie, I'd by the Criterion transfer for the Special Features... but I often found that even after watching the Special Features and reading the booklets, I still ended up having a distaste for the movie, if not, compounded even more so. So I stopped "Collecting" in that fashion. Now I "Collect" more in preference with my my tastes, and I've found that to be much more rewarding. I also "double-dip" my favorites with Region 2 Eureka: Masters of Cinema titles because they often have features Criterion doesn't and sometimes the booklets are such that they trump Criterion in some regards. (Again, nice to have both).

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I only have a few Criterion releases. Mostly due to the fact that they tend to be pricey.

Chasing Amy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Seven Samurai
several Kurosawa movies and two of his collections (WII era and Post War)

But I do have Hulu plus so I have access to a crap ton of Criterion movies for instant viewing.

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Have you ever seen this set, Gunslinger?

I have. Thought about buying it but I could not afford it. Figured I would just get Hulu Plus since they had most of Kurosawa's movies to view.

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I would love to own it. Too bad it's out of print now.

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That would be cool to own. But I have more then a few of his movies on DVD anyways.

I own that AK 100 Set. It's pretty interesting, the book inside is stunning, and I got it half-price when it was still in release.

BTW Gunslinger, you're probably better off with Hulu when it comes to AK 100. About the only thing these transfer's offer is booklet, (which frankly), if you really want to get to know Kurosawa films, Donald Richie and Stephen Price have better books on him. (I personally thought Kurosawa's Autobiography to be less than insightful. I think it was Price who stated it was more like another narrative). But also, the Eclipse Sets, and the legit Criterion DVD's/Blu-Rays have more special features, better booklets, and (in some cases), better transfers of said films. So don't worry about not getting it, by comparison the Hulu channel offers the same thing all things considered.

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To be honest I am not. I have already seen 27 of his movies. I have The Idiot on DVD, and the other two I need to see are The Quiet Duel and Dersu Uzala which are not on Hulu.

I think Kino holds the rights to Dersu Uzala at the moment and chances are they aren't going to let Criterion have rights to it. I haven't cared much for Kino though, the transfers are decent, but the special features tend to be bare-bones and the booklets are usually just "Kino Advertisements", (I will admit though, within the last few years they've gotten better with the Restored Metropolis and the Reboot of Keaton's The General). And last I recall, The Quiet Duel was last released by a small studio and I'm not sure what the story is on it's release since over at amazon you need to order it via third party shipping. More info: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...quiet_duel.htm

http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/the-idiot/
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/scandal/

I'm getting these soon since the Eclipse version was so bare bones, (not a big fan of eclipse I must say).

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I will get the other DVDs via Amazon eventually. Want to watch The Idiot first.

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I only own 4 because i am a slacker. Is barnes and noble having their sale in July again?

Do you happen to own Slacker? :D

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I dont Swan. Ill surely get a few in July. Theres some ive been meaning to look at.

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They better be having it. :D

Kill!
Yojimbo
By Brakhage: An Anthology (Vol. 1 & 2)
Dead Ringers
F for Fake
House
Innocence Unprotected
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
The New York Films of Chantal Akerman
The Phantom of Liberty
City Lights
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Gold Rush
The Great Dictator
Harold and Maude
Heaven Can Wait
The Lady Eve
The Life Aquatic
M. Hulot's Holiday
Modern Times
Mon Oncle
Playtime
Repo Man
The Royal Tenanbaums
Rushmore
Safety Last!
Sullivan's Travels
Unfaithfully Yours
Alphaville
Band of Outsiders
Breathless
Blast of Silence
Bob le Flambeur
A Colt is my Passport
Cruel Gun Story
The Harder the Come
High and Low
The Killing
Kiss Me Deadly
M
The Naked City
Night of the Hunter
Pickup on South Street
Rusty Knife
Le Samourai
Stray Dog
Take Aim at the Police Van
The Third Man
Bergman Island
A Brief History of Time
Crumb
For All Mankind
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait
Gimme Shelter
Grey Gardens
Hoop Dreams
Koko: A Talking Gorilla
A Married Couple
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Nanook of the North
Night and Fog
The Times of Harvey Milk
Warrendale
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her
8 1/2
The 400 Blows
L'Avventura
Badlands
Bicycle Thieves
Black Narcissus
Brazil
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Chungking Express
Close Up
Cries and Whispers
Crisis
Days of Heaven
Dazed and Confused
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Drunken Angel
L'Eclisse
Harakiri
The Hidden Fortress
Hiroshima mon Amour
I Vitellini
In the Mood for Love
In the Realm of the Senses
Ikiru
Ivan's Childhood
Jules and Jim
Kagemusha
Kes
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Lord of the Flies
Nights of Cabiria
La Notte
On the Waterfront
Paddle to the Sea
Le Plaisir
RAN
Rashomon
The Red Balloon
Red Desert
The Red Shoes
The River
Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata, Part II
Sawdust and Tinsel
Seconds
Senso
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Shock Corridor
The Shop on Main Street
Smiles of a Summer Night
La Strada
The Sweet Smell of Success
Taste of Cherry
Throne of Blood
Through a Glass Darkly
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu
Umberto D.
The Virgin Spring
Vivre sa Vie
White Mane
The White Sheik
Wings of Desire
Winter Light
A Woman is a Woman
Blow Out
Chronos
The Devil's Backbone
Diabolique
Eyes without a Face
Kwaidan
Onibaba
Repulsion
Sisters
The Wages of Fear
Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
The Tales of Hoffmann
Godzilla
Solaris
The Thief of Bagdad
Battle of the Algiers
Paths of Glory
The Thin Red Line
3:10 to Yuma
Red River
Stagecoach

For my Criterion/Eclipse Collections.