Anyone own or check out any of these releases? I check the libraries for my city and my college for them and every now and then they'll have one. I like them a lot because they typically offer a movie I've never heard of or have been meaning to see and have an insert with an essay or something about the movie which is worth reading. A lot of the times they include bonus features on the disk, which I check out from time-to-time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection

http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/the+criterion+collection/
Seem to have seen 318/828 but am aware of vast majority I haven't
I have a handful of their dvds, they are great indeed, I'm kinda trying to get rid of dvds but they would go last.

They have also Eclipse releases that are of less known stuff
http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/criterions+eclipse+collection/

Seen just 9

I very highly recommend Voskhozhdeniye and Sedmikrásky!

and would recommend Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö, Varjoja paratiisissa and Ariel

Better start googling pronounciation then since they are really great pieces of cinema : p
I've got no idea either, except the last three

This post was edited by BebebBurns on Nov 14 2013 09:53am

I have a fairly healthy collection of Criterions. They're definitely worthy products, for the reasons you've stated, and then some.
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