THE ENTIRE COMPLETE CRITERION COLLECTION Spine Nos. 1 to 928, PART ONE (1-256) 

Hello and thank you so much for your kind words!

Dear Brett, thank you very much for your comment! Cheers from Tokyo and I hope you are well.

I know, glad I'm not the only one

Pure ASMR

Such wholesome pride

Dear Roman, thank you so much for your really kind and generous words. This means a lot. I hope you are well and cheers to you, from Tokyo.

Hey wait, you're the "kid" who has parental limitations on watching Rated R films. You shouldn't be watching this.

birddogfreemann yah ur right😂

Hello, and wow, you are very very kind! Thank you and warmest regards and I hope you are well.

Dear Michelle Kisner, thank you very much for your kind comment! Yes! This is the precise reason why I wear these glasses in this video! My eyes are not so good and so I wear glasses anyway, and I have a number of pairs. However, this oversized pair is my favorite, precisely because they remind me of the kinds that the late and great Mr. George Romero often was seen wearing late in his career. So, as a kind of tribute to him, I wear these. Mine are not the exact kind of frames that he wore, but they are similar in style and look I think. And I had to have special lenses put in because the frames are too big for ordinary lens stores here in Tokyo to handle! I affectionately call these my "George Romeros" in honor of the filmmaker who gave me so many memories as a kid growing up with film. Cheers from Tokyo.

Make me think of those big glasses Robert De Niro wears in that famous scene in Casino with Pesci , when DeNiro thinks he might get whacked and is arguing with Pesci in the desert

Thank you very muuch!

Dear RazorwireReviews, this is quite an honor, because I am a fan of your channel and have been for some time. Thank you very much for taking the time to leave a comment! This is really a nice surprise! Thank you. Yes, I had planned to make this one long video, but unfortunately my editing app on my iPhone did not allow me to upload a video that was more than 2 hours, and so I had to divide up my Criterion Collection video into 4 parts. I am sorry for the inconvenience. Parts 2 and 3 and 4 are also on my channel. Also, if you are into the Criterion Laserdiscs, I have a separate video about that as well. I was very fortunate enough to become CC LD complete a few months ago (after the efforts and assistance from many people in the Laserdisc community). So if you are into LDs, please have a look! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sa56MObP0pY.html Again, I am a great fan of yours and so it is a thrill to get a comment like this! You have such a nice demeanor and a welcoming style to your videos that make them really great, and you are so clear with your comments and so on point. I am now rewatching your Asian cinema reviews regarding films like RAN, and your other reviews in that series are really great. Please keep up the excellent work, and best regards from Tokyo.

Thank you so much my dear friend. Your passion and enthusiasm and kindness are wonderful.

I really appreciate this comment. Thank you so much for this. Cheers.

Dear Diego, thank you very much. I hope you are happy and well in Colombia. You are very kind to watch this video! I am so sorry it is so long because I know you must be busy, so thank you very much for taking the time to do so. I really appreciate it. For your information, this is in 4 parts total, and Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 will be uploaded in the coming days. Part 2: Spines 251 to 500; Part 3: Spines 501 to 750; Part 4 Spines 751 to 928. PART 2 will be uploaded around the same time tomorrow! PART 3... the day after tomorrow... and PART 4 the day after the day after tomorrow! Are you into the Criterion Collection? If so, please let me know what movies you like! I would really love to know. Best regards, from Tokyo. --Daisuke

Don't be sorry, actually im super grateful with you to take the time to make such a detail presentation of the different editions of every spine numbers. Once again thanks so so much for sharing. Cheers!

You are very kind. Thank you very much! Best regards and I look forward to talking to you again soon!

My dear friend, thank you very much!

My dear dear friend. You are so kind to visit these earlier videos of mine! Thank you so much!!

Of course. You’re videos are quite informative and are always an interest of mine to watch. You have so many great videos that I can’t help but look back and see your older videos just as much as your newer videos. Keep up the great work!

Thank you very much, and I apologize for the lateness of my reply.

Same thing with Spartacus imo

@Jack021 The best part of the audio commentary for the Criterion Chasing Amy disc is that Kevin Smith opens with "I jus' want to say FUCK DVD". He was a bigger laser-disc guy at the time. :)

Big Lenny.

@Jack the Giant Slayer Yeah I agree. "Clerks" would've been a far better choice, gotta be a rights issue. I guess someone at Janus just wanted a Kevin Smith movie & "Chasing Amy" was all they could acquire? Idk.

Thank you so much for your kind words, Aaron D. I hope you are well and safe during these times. And best regards.

Thank you so much, Matt. It means a lot that the comment is coming from you, my friend.

Yes, I agree... everyone should seen this film. I completely agree with you. And yes I lament the fact that I showed it like I did, as a kind of product or disc that is part of a collection, because it is really more significant and important than that. Thank you for your comment, because I really wanted to make the point clear in the video.

robthebobs, this is such a nice comment. Thank you so much! And not at all, my collection is not so vast and I wish I had collections that were like some others that I have seen by other RU-vidrs here. However, thank you for letting me share what I have with you! If you are a Criterion Collection fan, please let me know! Best regards.

Daisuke Beppu I certainly am I Criterion fan. However I am severely lacking in my collection! Criterions have only been available relatively recently in the UK, I'm currently on 9 titles. Although a few are box sets, so it's 16 films haha. The Lone Wolf and Cub set and 12 Angry Men are some of my favourites which I own. I'm hoping for The Apu Trilogy and Night and Fog UK release. I've only gone region free recently and importing is expensive! I can't complain as in the UK we are privileged with the amount of distributors, Arrow, Eureka, Artificial Eye, Second Sight and BFI for example. I am really looking forward to the upcoming huge Bergman set, that looks really special.

Hello my friend and wow, thank you so much. Yes, this was done a while back. Cheers and I hope your year is off to a fine start.

Thank you very much!

Hello, and thank you so much for your wonderful comment. And, oh yes, if you do decide to make videos about cinema, please let me know! I would love to check those videos out! You can always leave links to your videos in the comments section here and elsewhere on my channel anytime. Cheers and I hope you are well.

@@DaisukeBeppu Thanks so much Daisuke! That's very nice of you, I will for sure let you know when I finally end up creating some videos, till then take care and have a great day =)

Hello Nick and you are very very kind. Cheers and warmest regards. I hope you are well.

Dear Gabriel Molina, wow, thank you very much. You are very kind. I hope you are well and cheers.

Oh hello. And thank you very much for your comment. You are very kind.

Hello and thank you so much for your very kind words!! I am very moved.

Hello and you are very very kind. Cheers and warmest regards.

Dear F Britannia, thank you so much for your comment! If you have a moment, I would love to hear about some of your favorite films! If you have any recommendations for me I would love to hear about them! They can be new films or classic films. In any case, thank you so much again, and I hope you are well. Cheers to you, from Tokyo. --Daisuke.

@@DaisukeBeppu oh geez! that's a really hard question, well Barry Lyndon, Modern Times and Cinema Paradiso are definitely up there. I also love Perfect Blue, Blade Runner, Scott Pilgrim, Jacob's Ladder, Suspiria, Macario, Santa Sangre, Belladonna of Sadness. I also love some documentaries like Monterey Pop, 20 ft from stardom or searching for Sugar man.

Thank you so much for your kind words, David Johnson. It means a lot. If you too are a Criterion Collection fan, and if you don't mind, I would love to hear your recommendations and favorites from the collection! Best regards.

Thank you very much for your very kind words. Cheers.

Hello and thank you so much for your comment. Cheers and I hope you are having a nice weekend.

Thank you very much for your kind comment. You are very kind. And yes! These glasses... I don't wear these all the time, but I wear these when I am at home and when I do videos for the most part. They remind me of the pairs that George Romero wore in many interviews later in his career. So, I wear these in honor of him, who directed many films that I enjoyed growing up as a kid. So I affectionately refer to these as my "George Romeros".

@@DaisukeBeppu that's really awesome! thank you so much for making your videos, have a great day!

Movie Chatter wow! I am so flattered! I have been a great fan of your channel for a while now. I really love how clear and concise you are and yet still obviously have such a great love of all kinds of cinema. Also am I remembering correctly that in the background of your videos you sometimes have a HALLOWEEN set? If so, then you and I may have a lot in common in terms of the films we like. Thank you so much! I too have subscribed to your channel (I thought I had already done so a while back but it appears that I hadn’t... so I have subscribed again just in case). Keep up your excellent and fantastic work. Also keep up with your Criterion videos!!!!! I love those 😃❤️. Best regards.

Daisuke Beppu yes! I do have a Halloween box set in my background. Seems like we have a lot in common. I'm so happy I found your channel.

Wow thank you! That is such a nice comment. WOW. Truly, thank you very much!!! Yes I really enjoy what Criterion has had to offer over these years. Anyway thank you again and I hope this message finds you well!

Hello Kodama and thank you for watching this one. I made this a few years back but it was a good opportunity to talk about the Criterion Collection. I hope you are well and cheers.

Hello and thank you so much. It has been some time since I did these videos but if I remember correctly, I went up to Part 4 I think... covering up to 928. Maybe one day I can continue up to the current spine numbers if possible. Let me think about it. Thank you again and cheers.

Hello and thank you very much for your very kind words. Are you a Criterion Collection fan as well? Best regards and I hope you are well.

Hello and thank you so much for your comment! You are very very kind.

@@DaisukeBeppu Thanks for responding! You're the man :)

Hello and thank you very much for your very kind words! Cheers and I hope you are well.

Thank you! You as well 😊

Thank you and yes I am very very fortunate in that respect.

Thank you Sam! I hope you are well.

Thank you so much for the comment. Yes that is a great design. Agreed.

Hello, iselect 101! Thank you so much for your kind comment! Best regards.

Dear Lit Crit, wow, what a kind comment you are! And I know about the ASMR genre, and I like it. So for you to say that is really flattering! Thank you. I think that I tend to speak with much stuttering and "um"s and "aah"s and "you know"s too much, and so I tried to focus on slowing down my speaking and being as clear as possible. So perhaps the effect was to have a ASMR type voice?! Haha. Thank you so much! By the way, my editing software is nothing special, because I do not have a computer at home to edit. All my editing is done on the pre-installed software on my iPhone 7 Plus. So that means the editing itself is done in iMovie on my iPhone. I used some title software apps that were free as well, such as LEGEND, which I highly recommend because it is free and very easy to use.

Thank you very much, CinnamonRollBowl! That is very kind of you to say.

Haha! Thank you so much for your very enthusiastic and kind comment! May I assume that you are also a fan of the Criterion Collection? Cheers from Tokyo.

@@DaisukeBeppu I actually just started today! I've been wanting to get started for awhile, so finally the sale happened, and now I've begun! I went overboard and bought 12 of them lol, theres still a bunch of titles I want though! Cheers from Kentucky! Have fun collecting!

Cool! What did you get?

@@DaisukeBeppu Election Scanners Rosemary's Baby The Blob Rushmore The Royal Tenenbaums Pan's Labyrinth It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World The Graduate Fantastic Mr. Fox The Darjeeling Limited Bottle Rocket All Blu-Ray

agdude6 very nice!! I hope you enjoy those great titles my friend!

Thank you so much Lawdog Critic! You are very kind! Are you also a Criterion fan? Or do you have any film recommendations? If so, let me know anytime! I would love to hear about them. Cheers.

My dear dear friend, cheers!

Thank you very much for your kind comment!

Dear Sarah & Ben, oh gosh! Thank you so much for your kind comment! I feel bad that the video is so long, but that you watched it, even just a little portion, is really wonderful and I am so touched. Thank you! If you are into Criterion, and if you have any recommendations for good films to watch, I would love to hear about it! Cheers, and best regards from Tokyo. --Daisuke.

Hello Filmeye Jenkins, and thank you so much! As for noir in the Criterion Collection, there are so many to choose from I think, but what comes to mind immediately I suppose are films like PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, KISS ME DEADLY, A COLT IS MY PASSPORT, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT.... Since you ask the question, I have to assume that you are film noir fan! If so, do you have any film noir favorites? Both in and outside of the Criterion Collection is OK! Best regards.

Lupita thank you so much for your kind comment. It is really so kind of you to say. I made a video about my “Top 10 Favorites” which is here if you want to take a look: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u97hqniEJ3E.html But I may make more videos about my other favorites so please stay tuned! Also, are you into the Criterion Collection, Lupita? If so, I’d love to hear about your recommendations and favorites! Best regards.

Thank you so much for your comment. For me in Japan, there are usually online stores (Amazon US, etc.) that offer so-so shipping costs for me, and so I usually try to find the best deals regarding shipping. It depends on where you are in the world and how shipping can add up. Hopefully there will be a good option like that where you are in the world. Cheers and thank you so much and be well my friend.

Hello and thank you so much. You are very kind. I hope you are well and cheers.

Thank you so much for your really kind words. I am very honored. Cheers and I hope you are well.

Dear yommish, thank you so much for this comment! Very much appreciated. And thank you so much for your very kind words. Best regards.

Hello and thank you for the question. "Dual format" refers to releases where both blu ray and DVD are included. Lately however, the dual format releases are mostly (but not all, at least as of now) replaced by blu ray-only releases.

@@DaisukeBeppu thank you very much! I would also like to apologize for my foolish mistake in writing “duel” instead of “dual”. I’ll just blame it on writing this comment late at night.

Yes, I agree on Haxan. I am not sure what the chances are for it to be upgraded to blu, but it is no harm to hope for that outcome. Thank you. Yes, thank you for your comments too about Night and Fog.

Hello Deep Blue and thank you so much for your kind words. I have been very fortunate and lucky in many ways, and so thank you for allowing me to share what it is that I have. As for your own collection, that is absolutely wonderful. I think that one's collection is so important, and so whether it is 1 or 10 or 100, a collection is really wonderful it is made up of films that you love! Well done my friend. As for your recommendations, oh gosh, thank you so much! You know, in particular, I also echo your love for the film A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE. This is such a fascinating and narrative-complex film. I really love it.

m0vie collector hello! Thank you for your kind comment. I had always been into the CC ever since they first started releasing DVDs. But I only seriously thought about collecting all of them starting about 5 years ago or so. That was the same time that I had decided to embark on the Laserdiscs journey as well I think.

Thank you!

Hello and thank you for your kind words. And thank you for visiting this channel. I hope this message finds you well and warmest regards

Hello and I wish it were back in the Criterion Collection as well.

Haha! Thank you so much for the lovely comment. I hope you are well and cheers.

Johnny Troyano wow, thank you so much for the nice words! I really appreciate it and likewise, my best regards to you. Cheers.

Thank you for your comment, SJSFilms! How are you? I hope you are doing well, my friend. So, I too hope that one day a blu of NIGHTS OF CABIRIA will happen, but I don't know if it is realistic to expect... Still, I hope! By the way, are you a Fellini fan as well?

can you play region locked titles in a region free blu ray player?

Yes. It is possible to do so with a region free blu ray player.

I'm good buddy, hope you are too! I'm a Fellini fan, although I've only seen 3 of his films: Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita. So I'm definitely not an expert regarding his filmography, but I obviously want to watch more of his films such as Amarcord and I Vitelloni. 8 1/2 is my favorite of his so far, what a brilliant film, I've only seen it once though.

My friend SJSFilms, thank you. I am doing well, though it is very hot here in Tokyo (it is mid July 2018 now). You mentioned 8 1/2, which is one of my favorite films ever. I hated it the first time I saw it, but now I think I cannot live without it.

You are very very kind my friend. Thank you and I hope you are well. Have a nice rest of your day.

Thank you for your comment. I hope you are well and cheers.

Hello and wow. Thank you! As for your question no unfortunately I don’t have any podcast at the moment. Maybe one day I could do one.

Oh man... what a great question... I admit to not being a Fellini expert at all, but I do like his films very much. If you have seen those films you mentioned, then I must then recommend LA STRADA to you. And also AMARCORD.

thank you for the recommendations, some film-makers you are drawn to more quickly than others then you watch their films and you wonder how you lived without them for so long. Take care

Thank you so much for your comment. Much appreciated and cheers.

Hello! Thank you so much! I love the LDF group, and so please send everyone there my regards. As for your question, I managed to make a video where I show all of the Criterion Collection LDs that I had. It's several months old now though. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sa56MObP0pY.html And you sound like you have such a great CC LD collection right now yourself. Brilliant, my friend!

Thank you so much for your comment! So, I don't buy the "rare" stuff anymore and so I am not sure about the recent state of the marketplace. However, sometimes it was a mix of online purchases and finding items in used stores (even here in Tokyo). But one has to be very careful with online purchases, including getting as much info from the seller as possible prior to any purchase.

Hello and thank you very much for your comment. Yes, I have spoken here and there on this channel about some titles in the Criterion Collection, if you are interested. Thank you again and I hope this comment finds you well.

Haha! I have said it before and I will say it again: I love the way you write. You are so great.

Hello and thank you very much again. For me personally, I have nothing against the use of sleeves per se, but I tend to gravitate towards the use of plastic cases that have a mechanism for holding the disc in a way that creates a separation between the surface of the plastic and the underside of the disc. I have been told that blu ray in particular is more resilient than, say, other disc formats. However, for me I have always been used to the hard plastic case point and so that is what I continue to rely upon.

Sorry @@DaisukeBeppu , I should have been more specific with my question. I guess they would be called “DVD/Blu-ray resealable outer sleeves”. So its a thin layer of clear plastic that holds the plastic DVD/Blu-ray case. I recently purchased some of these sleeves and have been experimenting with them a bit. Thanks Daisucke

Hello, and WOW... I am very honored by your very kind words. Truly I am. Thank you for that, and I hope you are well and please have a nice rest of your week.

Hello RD VV and thank you so much for your comment and for your question. So, I have known about Criterion since the first DVD days and before... and so when the first DVDs were being released, I purchased a few. But at that time I was not collecting them.

One of my earliest videos on this channel was one where I talk about films I wish were in the Criterion Collection. I think for the most part that video is still accurate as far as my own feelings go.

Hello and wow thank you for your very kind comment. So to answer your question, while I have some titles from other labels I do not collect other labels as much. But I do buy them when I can and when my wallet allows me.

Thank you very much for your kind comment! So, I have been into the Criterion Collection ever since the days of the first DVDs. While I did not seek to collect all of them at the time, I did buy a few that later fell OOP (like the Killer or Hard Boiled, Grand Illusion, etc.). I managed to get most of the OOPs when they were still in production, but some I had to get after the fact (like Mafioso or The Two of Us, etc.). And of course one must pay a little more money as that is the nature of the OOP market online. I think that the harder to acquire titles were definitely among the Criterion Laserdiscs, and some of those titles tended to be very difficult to track down and sometimes very expensive. But that was not all the time, and very often the Laserdiscs for the most part could be found for reasonable prices if one looked hard enough online.

Daisuke Beppu Thank you very much for the reply!

paul casino you are quite welcome. Thank you for the great comment and question to begin with! And if you don’t mind, and if you are a CC collector yourself, I’d love to hear your recommendations or favorites of you have any! Best regards.

Daisuke Beppu I am a criterion collection collector, but I my personal collection pales in comparison to yours. However, I do have a few favorites. I am a big Richard Linklater fan, so the films of his that I own are some of my favorites. Of those my favorite is The Before Trilogy, which is a box set I recently bought, and I am very glad I did. Also, as a fan of Stanley Kubrick, I am very happy that I own Barry Lyndon and The Killing. I am looking forward to buying his film Paths of Glory, one of my favorite films of all time, during the 50% off Criterion sale at Barns and Noble. Another film that I planning to buy during the sale is Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, the film that has affected me the most emotionally. Once I own that film I will call it my favorite criterion Blu Ray. I would love to own more Akira Kurosawa films, as he is a true master of cinema. But a few more films that I love which I own are: Fantastic Mr. Fox, The 39 Steps, The Thin Red Line, Sullivan’s Travels, and Tootsie. So those are some of my favorite Criterion films that own and wish to own and that you already own. I would turn the question over to you and ask you to name some of your favorites, but since you have released a video covering that topic, I would like to ask you a harder question to answer: What are some of your LEAST favorite Criterion Collection releases?

What a great comment! I love your mentioning of those Kubrick films! It is wonderful. Also I am happy to hear about the BEFORE trilogy! I also love the other films you mention like FANTASTIC MR FOX and IKIRU and SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, and others! All wonderful! As for my least favorites, yes, I have them. I don't know if you are on LETTERBOXD, but I am, under the name "dbeppu", and I have a list up there that sets forth The films that I try to like but don't. And on that list, I have titles like the Pierre Etaix films. Alas I suppose I am unable to get into his brand of humor, although I can really respect the films and I will try to like them more as time passes. But I will try to like those films and I think it is more about my own inabilities as a film watcher.

WOW!!!

Hello and thank you. So, to answer your question, yes, I have a number of titles that are repeated. Not many and not on purpose or intentional (except, for example, I remember that I had the Carlos Saura Eclipse set, which is OOP now, and then I was able to find it in Japan, used and at a very cheap price, and so I purchased that... also something similar happened with a Criterion blu ray of The Man Who Fell to Earth, where I have it, but then I came across another copy of it in a used store in Japan at a very cheap price).

You are very very kind! Happy new year and warmest regards.

Hello and thank you very much for your comment, and for sharing with me your perspective and expertise on the Criterion Collection!! Those are very interesting points indeed. Much appreciated.

Thank you very much!

Hello and thank you very much. ありがとうございます！

Thank you very much for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it. And may I ask: are you a fan of the Criterion Collection?

@@DaisukeBeppu Yeah i love movies, thank you for making this video never thought i would see anyone actually collecting all of them haven't bought a movie from Criterion myself but planning to do so, i really wish you the best and keep up the good work!

@@Player6576_ thank you so much for replying!!! Very kind of you. Cheers and have a great rest of your day and week my friend.

You are very kind. Thank you so much my friend.

Hello and thank you. Honestly I never sat down and did a specific accounting of the situation. As for the total time, I think it was many years, as I had been a fan of Criterion before I decided to try to be spine number complete.

Hello and, to answer your question, yes.

Wow speedy reply! Thanks for answering. That's crazy. I hope one day I will start a collection too. :)

Shawbrother Chan, hello! Thank you for your comment! I am very happy to answer your question if you want to connect with me! Are you on Facebook? If so, feel free to send a message to me 😃👍. If not, is there a way to send a message to me directly via RU-vid? Best regards. By the way, are you a Criterion fan?

Daisuke Beppu I am a criterion fan, your collection is mind blowing. I only have about a hundred though.

Shawbrother Chan I am happy that you are a fellow Criterion collector! What titles are your favorites if I may ask?

Daisuke Beppu my favorites are The Wages of Fear, Diabolique, Le Corbeau, Bob le Flambeur, Le Cercle Rouge, Children of Paradise, Umberto D., Rashomon, The Men Who Tread on the Tigers Tail, M, Tokyo Drifter, Nights of Cabiria, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Jour de Fete, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Sword of Doom, Unfaithfully Yours, HaraKiri, The Game, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, Rosemary's Baby, Knife in the Water, Purple Noon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Eraserhead, The Rules of the Game, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday and probably more but yeah.

Daisuke Beppu which are your favorites?

Thank you very much!

Enzophanis1892, thank you so much! Best regards from Tokyo.

Thank you very much for your kind comment, Mandibil! I really appreciate it! I am sorry that this is PART ONE of a four part thing. I tried to put it all into one video but my software couldn't handle one long single video.

Hello and I am sorry to hear that. Of course, there are many ways to enjoy cinema, outside of the Criterion Collection. I hope you continue to enjoy your cinema journey. cheers.

@@DaisukeBeppu you know criterion is not that important to learn from cinema. But they are cool still. To me Films are to learn, and not that much about collecting. But i might try to find way to buy criterion collection Films.

Greetings from Tokyo and thank you so much. So, regarding the OOP titles, I think that generally speaking, the best way is to go to trustworthy sellers. And of course, it is always ideal to be able to examine the item beforehand, say in a second-hand store directly, but if online is your only option, then of course I think it is always a good idea to ask for pictures of the disc or the item itself where reasonably necessary.

@@DaisukeBeppu Thank you, besides eBay do you have any websites that you suggest?

Hello and thank you. You are very very kind. Yes, I was very lucky to have been able to find these glasses. Cheers and I hope you are well.

No, not all Criterion titles are on blu ray, but many of them are. If you want more information on this, I suggest checking out the Criterion website. Also, you can look at the wikipedia page on the Criterion releases. This is usually kept up to date about what titles have been released on blu ray and what have not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Criterion_Collection_releases

Daisuke Beppu so if I wanted to get a good criterion collection then I will have to get al formats since some titles have only DVD. That’s fine. More expense but they are worth it. I’m a starting collector. So I’m at the beginning of it all. It will be hard to get the first one. They are pricey but will have to save up for it.

@RonaldFabricante If you live in the US, find a Barnes and Noble store. They do a fifty-percent off sale every July and December, in which case you'll be able to get many Criterion blu-rays for twenty dollars, and DVD releases for fifteen.

Wow, what a very kind thing to say! Thank you!!

Thank you for your comment. Yes, Criterion does release a number of titles in Region B but at the moment not all of the collection.