Criterion Close-Up - Ep. 1 - An Introduction To The Criterion Collection 

Still hoping for episode 2 😔....

Dude where's the next episode? This was such a great start!

This man has some great content but he has been gone for 6 years, I still enjoyed this series

Please, continue the series if you are here! The first part was such a great beginning

We need more!!

making collection of cinema into different categories is again an art and skill, you have to watch entire world's cinema to be able to categorize them, even if you become catatonic.. but then here is where love for medium comes in because you don't mind but love it...

ENJOYED THIS TREMENDOUSLY . Didn't know Janus was before Criterion .They (Janus ) go back along way with many of us - who else tok the time and had resources to put all those movies on videotape in the 1980 's ! Your commentary made me want to cry when now in the era of Trump here is a beautiful account of a group of business people wholoved a thing as much i fnot more than money and helped an industry and helped sustain the look of great films while changing the industry because they cared enough about these "films" . I didn't know they spear headed all the changes you mention.I'm proud to own a few and that my piubic library has dozens if not hundreds of criterion releases in its collecion !

Just found this 9 years after you made it, wonderful video

When's the next episode(s)? This was great! I'd like to see more.

that intro!! this makes me appreciate and respect criterion even more! looking forward to the next episode :)

As you said, in a very short while of discovering Criterion I became a fan, exactly for the reasons you mentioned: quality work of people who actually love films and not bent on simply making money! The first time I saw the name Janus Films and Criterion, was with Kurosawa films and i am eternally grateful for bringing in clarity my favourite actor-director duo to life! Not having to suffer all the problems that indevitably come with old classics, I was delighted. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. A film lover.

you have to build your audience doesn't matter slow and steady, but your outlet should have that eternal stamp of always giving out something so worthwhile entertaining absorbing your audience never want to leave you.

This was very good, I'm excited for the next one!

excellent and informative!

Wow! This is fantastic, thanks for all the work you put in so that I could learn so much about the history of cinema and criterion.

Thank you for making this video. I appreciate and understand the criterion collection a bit better.

I’m a recent Criterion lover and I love their stuff because of the love and care they give to these films and introducing me to films I’ve never seen before like Godzilla, Rebecca and The Princess Bride.

Wish there was another episode, this was cool

Awesome! Looking forward to the next episode

CONTINUE. I love the Criterion Collection, they are the standard for any home video release.

Great video! I'm looking forward to seeing your collection and hearing more about your views on these films. Subscribed!

Very Cool as my Criterion Collection only grows...Thank God! I like also this new videos from fans. Very cool and brought more knowledge about the collection's history. Keep on coming with more episodes from Criterion Close Up!

I want more. can't wait to see the next episode!

Nicely done digest of Janus and Criterion! Great pics and inserts throughout as well.

Huge fan of Criterion and loved the video.

Superb piece of work. Looking forward to future episodes

This video was fantastic!! Disappointed there isn't an Episode 2, but I don't blame you, this was probably time comsuming

Well done! You really should continue this series if you find the time.

thank you for putting this together. as a fan of the collection's work, the history of criterion and janus films was very informative to me.

This was fantastic! I really hope you decide to do a new video very soon!

Wow, thank you for this. so informative!

PLEASE continue this series!

COME BACCKKKK

Yessssssssssssssssssssss. I own about 15 criterions now and plan on buying 15 more during the flash sale next week!

yes please do more of these kinda videos!!!

Yes, please do more!

Wonderful!

Thank god for Criterion

Thank you for posting this!

What a superb video! Thanks for making it. I have many of their DVD’s and Blu Rays but knew nothing of their history.

please do more! really enjoyed this video

One cool restoration effort by Criterion is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, where they used all available footage to make it as close to the original roadshow release as possible, such as including scenes never before seen and the police calls during the intermission.

Phenomenal writing and research done. You're a terrific orator and have scored a new, hard-earned subscriber.

This was awesome please continue this

Great job man, wish you would do another.

This was really interesting! Keep it up man!

next episode better be a banger dude

Great video

LOVE ARTHOUSE CINEMA.

Wonderful film about a truly wonderful company. Maintaining an art form to its highest standard for future generations of film lovers is a most noble mission statement.

Nice job!!! Keep it up!

Fantástico!

Keep this series up!

Yes we speak the Same language 45 & Growing Art is Beautiful.

Good detail. I’m surprised that the Mak and Lau film “Infernal Affairs” hasn’t been acquired. It would be a great addition to include the entire trilogy in blu-ray, region A.

Great video.

Thanks

I liked it better when the Contract and the old Studio System existed. The movie industry has only gone downhill since its' demise. Sometimes a Monopoly just works better.

Great video ;D Thanks :-)

sooo where is the next one? I NEED IT!!!

5:58 LaserDisc came out first, then the digital audio was folded back into LD and the rest is history

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Great video. When's the next episode? I would LOVE to see the WW2 era movie The Best Years Of Our Lives released on Criterion Blu-ray and 4K. Plus every Tarzan movie starting from Johnny Wiesmuller, Lex Barker, Gordon Scott, Denny Miller, Jock Mahoney, Mike Henry, Ron Ely, Miles O'Keeffe, Christopher Lambert, and Casper Van Dien on Blu-ray and 4K.

Damn Really a shame this didn't take off, it's rare to see Criterion being given this amount of good attention and care. :/

I have The Criterion Collection DVDs of The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night and The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

MORE!

So interesting, thanks! But could you tell me where you got all these informations? (I'm working on a huge paper about DVDs and Film heritage)

6:02 Laserdisc was produced several years before the Compact Disc, if I’m not mistaken.

Still waiting...I hope you continue

Wish you would make a episode 2

as a filmaker if one of my films could get a criterion releas i could die in piece

I looked in my dvd collection- I have Akira Kurosawa’s dreams .,

The films certainly play better on a DVD player.

The first Criterion DVD was THE GRAND ILLUSION; FYI.

I am still amazed that Criterion has never put out a film with Greta Garbo? Greta Garbo will be remembered probably longer than any Actor in the History of film.

Sorry to be a fuss pot but it was the discovery of a first-generation print, not a negative that allowed for the restoration of "The Passion of Joan of Arc." BTW I never knew that the Hollywood studio system manufactured 'pitchers.'

Criterion’s digital restoration of globally produced motion film is to be applauded. However, by only producing DVD and Blu-rays that can be played in the USA’s Region 1, North America sends a much less endearing message to cinephiles and film-makers the world over.

I have a rare end of evangelion dvd .. it has a bad letterbox format - it looks ok on a old tv - but then on a new tv things get cut off .. it need new distribution.

make more!

Is it time for the 2nd episode?

Where is the second episode?

Bro pls upload episode 2

WHY NO MORE EPISODES!?!?!

Still no sequel episode

Episode 2 WHEN

In the beginning when you say their name it sounds like your saying your name

Canadian pennies? Where ya from?

What if he died or something

Next episode..? :(

I love criterion. They're the only DVDs I buy. I own 45 of them and have another 58 of them on my wish list. However, the last couple releases seem to be politically motivated to pander to the whole woke and pc movement. They need to stick to getting the rights and restoration of real films by directors who contributed something worthy to cinema. And not just release sub par films because a minority or woman directed and starred in it.

when you do not give employment to genuine talent for that work but employ I don't know how, picked from which assembly line of so called either recommended or strings pulled work force those work pools ultimately tanks, creative thinking, and programming of all audio visual has certain skills without which, precisely that is going to happen like all bubbles created in for revenues happen, put together by idiots...neither with understanding of given positions or even have any love for the medium

They should release the original star wars trilogy

Reboot this series!

Most of the movies in the collection are old and not watchable, they are good movies cause the hivemind says they are good, it's a mind game...

Why isn’t it dedicated to us European film fans as well? This hurts. Very bad form on your part.