1. The Seventh Seal and Last Year In Marienbad are receiving glowing reviews for their exceptional quality. No idea what you are talking about.
3. Will probably waste it on another 20 years of buying lottery tickets.
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1. If you mean spine numbers, then it appears the answer is no.
2. That is somewhat personal preference, but I know the Cassavetes Box Set has a lot of fans (me included), and Seven Samurai is often considered the best for one movie.
3. I wouldn’t buy the whole collection due to things like Armageddon, but I would buy a lot of it. Also depending on how much the lottery was for I would buy the rights to a film in order to help Criterion release it. How much do rights cost?
wow – just shows you how out of touch I am with regards to blu-ray. They’re already doing blu-ray! Sorry – my mistake.
This has nothing to do with any of whats been said in this thread, but I have a question about the Criterion site. How often do they put up artists “Top 10” lists on the site?
1) Already answered—but for efforts of not starting out on the left foot…
2) It used to be Salo, which was ironic because from what I heard it was a terrible transfer, and quite a lot of the “Criterion” Saloes running around the market used were actually bootlegs. When I looked into it once, that DVD got up to $600 used in price—I don’t know how typical that was, but there ya go. From my personal experience, the Seven Samurai rerelease by Criterion gets the most buyers at my work, ever, so that looks like the answer to “sought after”. Valuable is a little harder to place—because people value things differently, and DVDs aren’t exactly collectors items in the sense that people will spend fortunes on limited edition prints that they never open and hang in glass boxes on walls, to mention the extreme.
3) Nah, I’d try to use the money to make a movie that would get me IN the collection.
—PolarisDiB
1. I had been thinking the same considering the jump from VHS and Laserdisc to DVD releases. But I think blu-ray is similar enough that the two formats can coexist peacefully.
2. I can usually find them everywhere through my library, but I’ve been having trouble tracking down Symbiopsychotaxiplssm.
3. Not all, no, But probably a solid 50%.
3) Nah, I’d try to use the money to make a movie that would get me IN the collection.
1. Why did Ran go OOP so fast?
2. Will they Rerelease OOP movies like Sid & Nancy and How to Get Ahead in Advertising though they’ve been upgraded by their respected distributor?
3. Is it a sin not to be interested in Bergman?
McBean
1. Are Criterion going to start all over again now with Blu-Ray? Really they should as their motto has always been to present the best possible quality that’s available to the viewer.
2. What’s the most sought after or expensive Criterion disc right now?
3. If you won the lottery or by some other means came into a great deal of money would you just go straight out and purchase the whole collection?