The Criterion Collection • Page 46

Barnes & Noble restock your website so I can get Bound 4K challenge

 

When is the sale over? Having intrusive thoughts about using my credit card.

 

I think the 28th. Don’t quote me on that.

 

yeah that’s it

 

But Aaron, think of how sick that cinematography is gonna look

 

Yeah this is pretty much how he sounds when he talks to me about it

 

Aaron Mook
Eyes wide shut is his favorite movie of all time
He watches 5 movies a week
He refuses to watch Barry Lyndon

 

Paypal pay in 4 is a wonderful ally

 

"Refuse" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but yeah, basically

 

I would love to see what he would pick out for real

 

You wouldn't start with Godard. They have Wes Anderson's entire filmography.

 

Wes Anderson probably is the biggest gateway to the brand honestly

 

Here's my haul this month!

 

fuck yes

 

preorder and additional info here
CC40
The Criterion Closet 40

 

love that Repo Man made the cut

 

On one hand, that’s a fantastic introduction to the brand if you can afford it and never owned any of them before. On the other hand, I’m not sure who else this is for.

 

I mean you really have to be pretty new to collecting. I own half of those so I’m not going to be getting it. (I also like the individual discs tbh)

 

I’ve seen people suggest that schools and libraries could buy them since it could be used as an educational tool of sorts for film.

 

People could also sell the individual discs they already own in favor of saving some shelf space too to get some money back.

 

this would also probably be good for someone who's watched many of these digitally (i.e. Criterion Channel) or owned just a couple but wanted to own the equivalent of a Criterion "starter pack", although i think many would argue which films should and should go in that sort of collection.

i did the math and depending on whether you're using the MSRP or Criterion's sale price, the cost rounds out to about $15-$20 per disc (excluding the book). seeing as that standard Blu-Rays usually go for $30-$40 on their site, you'd essentially be getting a 50% discount on 40 films (so during the half-off sales, that'd be even more). but $640/$800 is still really steep, even for beginners.

it's a cool concept, but like everyone here said, it's probably for a really niche audience.

 

The lack of Kurosawa films in it is especially noticeable but perhaps it could be due to them potentially working on a separate Kurosawa set.

 

oh wait, this is actually 49 discs, not 40, so that's still about $13-16 per disc.

 

It’s actually more like 9-10. No one buys this stuff unless it’s 50% off