The Criterion Collection

ro1798

Excuse my ignorance but

What is the story with these dvd'd can anyone explain to me what is the difference between these and standard dvd's

thanks

herobear

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/


they're basically a dvd distributor who sells awesome dvds!
they sell alot of rare and hard to find titles(all hand-picked!)
and they do their best to offer the best picture and special features possible.
they're an an american company(hence most of their discs are r1) but you can find some on r0

criterion disks i own:
Rashomon(directed by Akira Kurosawa)
Chasing Amy(directed by Kevin Smith)

on order:
Slacker(directed by Richard Linklater)

solo1

Cool. I've got

Otto E Mezzo by Frederico Fellini. It has an introduction by Terry Gilliam, before the whole La Mancha thing.

Chasing Amy by Kevin Smith

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Terry Gilliam. Thanks to subtitles, I know now all the Hebrew drug slang I will ever need.

Brazil by Terry Gilliam

It's nice to see a company that actually understands what the hell a DVD is for. It's for piling on the features and commentaries and different language subtitles and docs and deleted scenes and outtakes and anything else they have lying around.

ObeyGiant

If anyone has a spare $5,000 sitting around and can't be bothered building up a decent DVD collection themselves, they could do a lot worse than buying all the criterion DVDs at once (as of christmas 2004).

nlgbbbblth

Criterion DVDs are outstanding
I own just three though

My Own Private Idaho
Short Cuts
Slacker

region 1 is so much better for DVDs - both price and selection wise