The Criterion Collection • Page 14

Ah, okay that makes me feel better

 

Works for me now.

 

yup, up and running

 

there was a sale on the Before Trilogy?? ugggh, I've honestly never even seen it, but love Ethan Hawke and was sold on the Criterion collection of it after listening to him talk about it on a podcast, but as others have mentioned, as beautiful as these are they are not cheap haha.

 

think there's a solid argument it's the greatest trilogy of all time. certainly up there with the dollars trilogy and kieslowki’s 3 colours.

 

you're definitely not the first to mention that to me, which has only made me want to watch these even more haha. I did a quick search on the Criterion Channel app and it didn't look like they were on there. still looks like a rad service that i'll probably subscribe to

 

I think they will be, its supposed to be their whole catalogue so it think they'll all be rolled out eventually

 

Looks great so far, but I'm wondering when we'll see more from the other distributors who are licensing their films. They've got Kaili Blues up for now, which is a great start!

 

They have a lot of cool little special features and all but hopefully they’ll end up adding more base-level stuff that other sites have had for a while now that I’m kinda disappointed they don’t have from the start:

•A simple library of all the movies available at a given time that you can sort by name, genre, year, maybe director, etc. I figured everything would at least be in the “Newly Added” right now since...duh. But they didn’t do that.

•A way for users to like or dislike any given film, and whatever algorithm helps the system make recommendations to you based on that. For someone like myself who really wants to dig deeper into film but isn’t well-versed enough to know more obscure and/or foreign films by name only, it’s hard to get a sense of that. It would be perfect if they were able to make it as complex as something like Letterboxd, where directors and actors and everyone else have their own pages that show their filmographies.

•I keep clicking the home button in the top left corner expecting it to take me to what is actually the “Now Playing” page but is just the general home page that nobody needs to go to if they’re already subscribed! Dumb little graphic design complaint but cmon lol

•For each film box, they have the title underneath but also have the title right in the box itself. Redundancy!! *shakes fist*

•With their lists (like “Essential Art House” there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason as to what order the films are in. Not alphabetical and not by “impact” or fame or whatever.

The first two are really the only ones that I think would be essential for this but still. That being said, they way they’ve described it makes it seem like they want to filter things in and out faster than something like Netflix or Hulu (I didn’t have Filmstruck so idk how long they would have a given film up), so I’m not sure how much that would complicate those things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

have to say I’m really enjoying this so far and I’m sure there’s a lot more to come

 

Yeah, really enjoying it so far. Watched three shorts and a feature already yesterday. I really like the short+feature pairings they've put together.

 

Started getting some playback errors on my Roku today. I was in the final 2-3 minutes of Solaris and it kept booting me off, it was real annoying.

 

I’m SO ready for Klute to finally come out in July. Probably my personal number one hope for the collection is happening after so long and I’m stoked.

 

A whole bunch of new stuff got added today. Some highlights:

Joanna Hogg's filmography (Exhibition, Archipelago, Unrelated)
3 films by Kelly Reichardt (River of Grass, Meek's Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy)
Claudia Weill's Girlfriends
A couple films by Paolo and Vittorio Taviana
Albert Brooks' Mother

I also saw two films by Hong Sang-soo (Claire's Camera and On the Beach at Night Alone) but they've since disappeared.

 

really been loving everything about this. so glad it’s lived up to expectations

 

Ha, just came to post! Time to buy Klute and cry.

 

I wish I saw that 30 minutes ago. I just bought ‘A Touch of Zen’ on iTunes and I would have spent $5 extra to get bonus features.

 

If anyone wants, rec your top 3 criterion picks. I usually pick up a few this time of year when I’m off for summer.

 

I just picked up Blue Velvet and Funny Games during the flash sale. add Hausu and you can't go wrong

 

Thanks! Already have Hausu and just watched Blue Velvet on Prime last night.

 

3 Women

 

I've been binging on everything by Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy over the past couple of weeks. "One Sings, the Other Doesn't" (Varda) and "Donkey Skin" (Demy) have stuck out the most for me so far.

 

Is it cheating to say the America Lost and Found box set?