When I first posted in this thread, almost two years ago, I had 10, but now, after thinning out my collection several times, I only have one: The Royal Tenenbaums.

Rob

I only have a few

Wrong Man and Notorious Women: Hitchcock Collection
-Rebecca
-Notorious
-Spellbound
-The 39 Steps
-The Lady Vanishes

-The Royal Tenenbaums

And I just ordered "The Third Man" and "The Battle of Algiers," so they should get here in the next few weeks.

There are a lot more I would like to have, but I'm going to wait until after Christmas to start buying them. I'm not going to try to get every single film in the collection (they're far too pricey for that, in my opinion,) but there are a lot of films that they've released that I really enjoy and will get at some point.

Chasing Amy
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Videodrome

I posted in this thread a couple of years ago, and have added a modest amount to my collection. Criterions are a neat subset to collecting DVDs in general, for several reasons:
1. Spine Numbers (yeah, collecting something *JUST* for that reason is kind of cheesy.)
2. Other collectors to whom I can talk about the discs.
3. Exposure to a wide range of films that I probably wouldn't have seen otherwise.
4. Resale value of most titles is the same as I paid for them.
5. Resale value of OOP titles can bring some big bucks (or I can hang on to them, and relish the satisfaction of paying ~$30 for something worth ~$100 or more.)

That being said, here are my titles and prices I paid:
003 - The Lady Vanishes - incl. in box set
013 - Silence of the Lambs (OOP) - $22.98 - Wherehouse Entertainment (Used)
014 - Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto - $10 - Pawn shop
020 - Sid and Nancy (OOP) - $30 - Used record shop
021 - Dead Ringers (OOP) - $25 - Used record shop
023 - Robocop (OOP) - $39.95 on E-Bay
055 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - $17.96 - Deep Discount DVD
056 - The 39 Steps - incl. in box set
057 - Charade (old version) - $28.49 - Best Buy
075 - Chasing Amy - $10.79 - Best Buy
078 - The Bank Dick (OOP) - $14.95 - Wherehouse Entertainment
079 - W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films - $14.95 - Wherehouse Entertainment
098 - L'Avventura - $19.99 - Hastings Entertainment
100 - Beastie Boys Video Anthology - $14.99 - Wherehouse Entertainment
120 - How to Get Ahead in Advertising (OOP) - $25 - Used record shop
135 - Rebecca (OOP) - $73.10 - Deep Discount DVD (box set)
136 - Spellbound (OOP) - incl. in box set
137 - Notorious (OOP) - incl. in box set
157 - The Royal Tenenbaums - $9.99 - EB Games
184 - By Brakhage: An Anthology - $14.97 - Wherehouse Entertainment
196 - Hiroshima Mon Amour - $21 - Wherehouse Entertainment

Of the other OOPs, I definitely want to find the 1st version of The Seven Samurai, and I would like to get The Killer, Hard Boiled, This is Spinal Tap, Playtime (might they re-release this??) and probably Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. Salo probably isn't my cup of tea, although I would like to see it once, and if I found a legit copy at a pawn shop or something, I would get it in a heartbeat. I don't know much about Straw Dogs, but I would probably get it if I found it cheap enough.

After picking up the directors/actors that I wanted, all of the Japanese films, and random discs, I would probably have at least half of the collection, if not more. Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Lawrence Olivier, Terry Gilliam, Jacques Tati, David Lean, to name a few, would start things off, along with various titles I am interested in, and then I might move on to sample Bergman, Buñuel, Cocteau, Fellini, Fuller, Goddard, Melville, Neame, Renoir, and Truffaut, and single titles that I might like.

I have a chance to buy ~100 of the first 150 or so discs (no more OOPs) from the same record store I bought many of the above titles. I probably would end up paying ~$1500 or so, depending on how many titles he has left when I can afford them, and what kind of deal we work out.

And yes I do own other Classic, Foreign, and Independent films that other studios put out.

Well here's my list. I think there's about 103 according to DVDAficionado

002 Seven Samurai
003 The Lady Vanishes
004 Amarcord
005 The 400 Blows (Box Set)
010 Walkabout
011 The Seventh Seal
013 The Silence of the Lambs
014 Samurai
015 Samurai II
016 Samurai III
020 Sid & Nancy
021 Dead Ringers
023 RoboCop
024 High & Low
025 Alphaville
026 The Long Good Friday
027 Flesh for Fankenstein
028 Blood for Dracula
029 Picnic at Hanging Rock
034 Andrei Rublev
040 Armageddon
043 Lord of the Flies
045 Taste of Cherry
046 The Most Dangerous Game
049 Nights of Cabiria
050 And the Ship Sails On
051 Brazil
052 Yojimbo
053 Sanjuro
055 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
056 The 39 Steps
057 Charade
061 Monty Python's Life of Brian
062 The Passion of Joan of Arc
063 Carnival of Souls
064 The Third Man
065 Rushmore
075 Chasing Amy
077 And God Created Woman
078 The Bank Dick
081 Variety Lights
097 Do the Right Thing
100 Beastie Boys Anthology
105 Spartacus
108 The Rock
110 M. Hulot's Holiday
111 Mon Oncle
113 Big Deal on Madonna Street
116 The Hidden Fortress
117 Diary of a Chambermaid
130 The Shop on Main Street
133 The Vanishing
135 Rebecca
136 Spellbound
137 Notorious
138 Rashomon
140 8 1/2
142 The Last Wave
147 In the Mood for Love
148 Ballad of a Soldier
149 Juliet of the Spirits
151 Traffic
152 George Washington
157 The Royal Tenenbaums
159 Red Beard
162 Ratcatcher
164 Solaris
165 Man Bites Dog
166 Down By Law
171 Contempt
174 Band of Outsiders
175 Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
176 The Killers/The Killers
177 Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
178 My Life as a Dog
179 I Am Curious...
180 I Am Curious-Yellow
181 I Am Curious-Blue
182 Straw Dogs
186 Stolen Kisses
187 Bed and Board
188 Love on the Run
189 The White Sheik
190 Throne of Blood
197 Night and Fog
199 Schizopolis
201 Umberto D.
215 Knife in the Water
216 The Rules of the Game
217 Tokyo Story
219 La Strada
220 Naked Lunch
221 Ikiru
226 Onibaba
227 Le Corbeau
232 The Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds
233 Stray Dog
239 The Lower Depths
247 Slacker
248 Videodrome

On Pre-order:
The Battle of Algiers
Short Cuts

Chasing Amy
The Silence of the Lambs
Traffic
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Royal Tenenbaums
Videodrome

Brazil
For All Mankind
Hidden Fortress
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Passion of Joan of Arc
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Solaris
Chasing Amy
Hamlet
Silence of the Lambs
Beastie Boys: DVD Anthology

Chasing Amy
Robocop
The Silence of the Lambs
Do The Right Thing
Naked Lunch
The Rock
Rushmore
Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)
Great Expectations
8 1/2
Armageddon
Brazil
The Lady Eve
Sullivan's Travels
The Last Temptation of Christ
Seven Samurai
Man Bites Dog
Down By Law
Knife in the Water
Charade
Sisters
The Harder They Come
Traffic
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Royal Tenenbaums
Videodrome
Slacker

On Order: Short Cuts


Just don't ask how many I've watched....

And I often wonder why people who don't like foreign and classic films will quit bitching about people who love what criterion does and are willing to give their releases a shot solely on their very well-deserved reputation. I also find it amusing that it never fails that a person expressing such distaste for Criterion loyalists invariably list these same flicks as the only ones they own, and are proud of it.


Mine:
Grand Illusion
3 Women
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ballad of a Soldier
Cranes are Flying
Blood For Dracula
Bob le Flambeur
Le Cercle Rouge
Wages of Fear
Diabolique
Le Corbeau
Coup de Torchon
That Obscure Object of Desire
Do the Right Thing
General Idi Amin Dada
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Life and Times of Colonel Blimp
Rushmore
Royal Tanenbaums
Silence of the Lambs
Lady Vanishes
Spellbound
Notorious
The Leopard
Tin Drum
The Long Good Friday
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Rififi
The Shop on Main Street
Straw Dogs
The Third Man
Walkabout

With Tanner '88 and The Cassavetes Box Set on the way

Only a few here....

Chasing Amy
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rock
Armageddon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Beastie Boys Anthology
Robocop

I have the following 12.

Good Morning
Hidden Fortress
High & Low
Kwaidan
Lower Depths
Rashomon
Red Beard
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Spartacus
Throne of Blood
Yojimbo

15:
The 39 Steps
Chasing Amy
The Hidden Fortress
The Lady Vanishes
Notorious
Rebecca
Red Beard
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rules of the Game
Rushmore
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Spellbound
The Third Man
Yojimbo

None

Just a few here too:

The Silence Of The Lambs
RoboCop
Hard Boiled
Armageddon
The Rock
Life Of Brian
Time Bandits
Chasing Amy
Traffic
The Royal Tenenbaums
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and
Brazil

here's my little list.

armaggedon, brazil, chasing amy, fear and loathing in las vegas, the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, and silence of the lambs.
they're all movies that i love (well armaggedon isn't holding up that title much anymore) and just wanted the best representation of the movie.
p.s. i know that the silence of the lambs se probably has better picture quality and sound but i really like the commentary with the fbi guy. and i'm a sicko who likes to read what the serial killers have to say, so i stuck with the criterion.

Still have them all.

Just a few:

The Rock
The Royal Tenenbaums
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


I work at a video store, and tried to order 400 Blows Criterion but apparently it's OOP. DVDAF doesn't have it listed as such though. So I was disappointed with that. Still new to the "serious" collecting of DVDs.

All but Salo.

And, yeah, I would prolly pay ebay pricing for a guaranteed authentic disc.

Only a few. And mostly "big" movies:

Armageddon
The Rock
Robocop
The Silence Of The Lambs
Brazil
Charade
Spartacus
The Seventh Seal
Straw Dogs
Rebecca

Very interesting thread. This certainly reveals the diversity of tastes for Criterion discs (minus the ones who try to collect them all).

Here's my list:

Brazil 3-Disc Set
Dead Ringers
Do the Right Thing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
In the Mood for Love
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
The Seventh Seal
Spartacus
Straw Dogs
Wild Strawberries
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman:
- Through a Glass Darkly ( Såsom i en spegel ) (1961)
- Winter Light ( Nattvardsgästerna ) (1963)
- Silence, The ( Tystnaden ) (1963)
- Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie (1962)
Videodrome

Wishlisting/Ordering:
8 1/2
Short Cuts
Solaris

39 Steps
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel set
Armageddon
The Bank Dick
Beastie Boys Video Anthology
Brazil
Carnival of Souls
Charade
Chasing Amy
Down by Law
The Element of Crime
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hard Boiled
The Hidden Fortress
The Lady Vanishes
The Last Temptation of Christ
Life of Brian
M
Night and Fog
A Night to Remember
Notorious
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Rebecca
Robocop
The Royal Tennenbaums
Rushmore
Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai II - Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Samurai III - Duel at Ganryu Island
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Sid & Nancy
Silence of the Lambs
Solaris
Spellbound
Straw Dogs
The Third Man
This is Spinal Tap
Throne of Blood
Yojimbo

Armageddon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Rock
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Seven Samurai
Spartacus

I didn't have time to count. All I can say is that the pile of CCs is now above my waist and I have about 7 more coming.
Austin

Seven Samurai
Kwaidan
Chasing Amy
The Leopard
Rebecca
Armageddon
The Rock
Spellbound
Wages Of Fear
Diabolique
In The Mood For Love
The Royal Tennenbaums
THrone Of Blood
Ikiru
Stray Dog
Notorious
Do The Right Thing
"M"
Beauty and The Beast
The Devil And Daniel Webster

Here are mine. I only buy Criterions if I want the title, not just because they are Criterions.

My List:

40 Armageddon
57 Charade
91 The Blob
108 The Rock
114 My Man Godfrey
136 Spellbound
137 Notorious
151 Traffic
163 Hopscotch