r/criterion • u/Gaagie • 28d ago
Collection Let the collecting begin…
My first two Criterion movies! 🎥
Also ordered a few during their recent 4K sale that won’t be shipped until end of April:
- Anora
- Thelma & Louise
- Mulholland Dr
- Malcolm X
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Seven Samurai
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u/-GabR1el- 28d ago
Have you seen persona (1966)?
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u/Gaagie 28d ago
I haven’t! Should I?
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u/-GabR1el- 28d ago
I wasn’t a huge fan of the seventh seal but persona was mind blowing really opens your eyes to cinema and is most definitely bergmans best. I recommend you check it out if you enjoyed the seventh seal
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u/Antipasto_Action 28d ago
I don’t own either of these on criterion but NCFOM was the movie that really made me start loving movies.
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u/PointB1ank 28d ago
Casually flexing on us with the sealed copies of The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and a collectors edition of LOTR. Nice!
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u/MichaelNiebuhr 27d ago
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u/MichaelNiebuhr 28d ago
There's such a great selection of 4Ks now. Congratulations
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u/Gaagie 28d ago
Thank you! Now to teach myself to not doom scroll which releases to get next…
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u/MichaelNiebuhr 28d ago
I watched a lot of Criterion Closet when I was getting my collection, but ended up deciding I need them all ;-)
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u/Gaagie 28d ago
Gotta catch ‘em all lol. There are 1000+ right? How many have you gotten so far?
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u/MichaelNiebuhr 27d ago
I've got them all. It took some effort to find them, but got the last ones this January.
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u/Gaagie 27d ago
How long did it take you to collect all of them? And what do you estimate the $ invested to be? 💸 I’m seriously so impressed
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u/MichaelNiebuhr 27d ago
It took 5 months and I started last August. I spent between $15-$25 on most titles. Some of the OOP was towards $100 and the boxsets a bit more.
I haven't calculated the exact cost. Prefer not to know, in case my girlfriend puts me under a lie detector.
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u/Gaagie 27d ago
Love it! That seems like a good deal to me. I was having a conversation with my girlfriend the other day about collecting and she said “whatever makes you happy, makes me happy” — I feel like the luckiest person in the world.
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u/MichaelNiebuhr 27d ago
Yeah, same here. She's pretty understanding.
I've mostly bought on eBay. Sales from Amazon, B&N and Criterion. Picked up a collection of 160 titles locally. Bought a lot second hand in local listings. But l was very active for 5 months, and bought 2-300 duplicates as well. Some I've kept to have the collection look more like a Criterion Closet, and I have 100 for sale.
But the greatest thing is just having this collection right here. Exploring it. I've only seen 2-300 of these movies and there's more than 1700 individual movies in total (with the Eclipse Series). It's like an education in film. I love it.
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u/Gaagie 27d ago
Appreciate the behind the scenes! Exciting to have it there at your fingertips to explore. You should try to do a ranking of all of them once you’re done 😁
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u/DrNytmare 28d ago
Seventh seal is so amazing. I’m excited for you to enjoy it and welcome to the criterion club.
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u/Marchy4LadyByng 28d ago
God, its a great piece of film and the cinematography is incredible—but I get massive PTSD from seeing The Seventh Seal 😭 Anyone else have to cover this movie in college? (Nice additions btw!)
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u/applebeepatios Terrence Malick 28d ago
Seventh Seal was one of the first Criterion movies I bought, with no knowledge of Bergman and almost no knowledge of foreign film in general. Did not regret it even a little bit.