I'll have my first two Criterions Sept. 5. Brazil, and Seven Samurai.

Interested in:

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Time Bandits
- The Life of Brian
- For All Man Kind
- Traffic
- The Rock
- Armageddon
- Solyaris
- Ran
- Great Adaptations:
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Lord of the Flies
The Most Dangerous Game
- Spartacus
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Robocop
- Hard Boiled
- The Killer
- Silence of the Lambs
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Kako, a Talking Gorilla
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Question: Why does it take so much time for Criterion to re-release previously OOP CC sets?

About 85 titles.

Of the ones I don't own, they are divided pretty much evenly into titles I want, and titles I'll pass on unless they show up really really cheaply. (Fortunately, I was immunized at a very early age against the completist bug.)

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.ht...on&id=marty888

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Link in sig

In general, a Criterion title goes out of print when the owner of the rights does not renew their contract with Criterion - usually because they have plans to re-issue the titles themselves. Robocop, Silence of the Lambs, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Flesh For Frankenstein, etc.) are some examples.

In a few cases, they halted further production on a title while announcing a future upgraded release, such as Beauty and the Beast and M.

The titles that have gone are probably gone forever, as far as a Criterion edition is concerned.

purplechoe: Owned / Criterion Collection
113 listings, 140 titles

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.ht...&id=purplechoe

40 (with an interest in acquiring about 30 or so more at this time)

Battle of Algiers
Black Orpheus
Bob le Flambeur
Branded To Kill (Koroshi no rakuin)
Brazil
Chasing Amy
Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon)
Good Morning
Hard Boiled (Lashou shentan)
Harder They Come, The
Harikiri (Seppuka)
Hidden Fortress, The (Kakushi toride no san akunin)
In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa )
Insomnia
Kagemusha
Kaidan (Kwaidan)
La Strada
Lacombe, Lucien
Lord of the Flies
Onibaba
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pornographers, The
Rashomon
Red Beard (Akahige)
Robocop
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai II: Duel at Ichojoji Temple
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
Seventh Seal, The (Sjunde inseglet, Det)
Sisters
Sword of Doom
The Bad Sleep Well
Tokyo Drifter (Tôkyô nagaremono )
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu
Vanishing, The (Spoorloos)
Videodrome
Wages of Fear, The
Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)

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An even 50... linky.

Have no idea what they're worth, nor do I care since I won't be selling any of them.

None

too many

Somewhere over 100. I used to keep track religiously but now since I don't work as much I don't have extra income to spend so no point in keepin track. There's still a lot more I want to see though.

Just a few...
Chasing Amy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Life Aquatic
The Royal Tennenbaums

wait a sec - i recounted...

not enough

70 with plans to add:

Late Spring
Yi Yi
Six Moral Tales
The Bad Sleep Well
Kagemusha
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Walkabout
Ikiru
& the reissue of Seven Samurai shortly

Just three: Hamlet, Ran and Lord of the Flies.

Interested in a few others, mainly favorites like In the Mood for Love, the OOP The Harder They Come and the new Yi Yi release. Haven't bought too many, however, because most of the Criterions I've seen have scant replay value. (Example: I enjoyed Rashomon, but might only watch it every few years. Not enough to warrant dropping $20+ on it. Likewise for many other titles.)

Only a little more than half of them, 197 198. (forgot one I haven't cataloged yet)

I haven't been buying many lately.

74 if I counted right.

1. M
2. The Grand Illusion
3. The Life Aquatic
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Chasing Amy
6. Beastie Boys Video Anthology
7. The Vanishing
8. 8 1/2
9. Hoop Dreams
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
11. The Third Man
12. Notorius
13. Rushmore

Many , many more on wishslist, to many to list or realisticly hope to collect

About 84 which can found in the dvd collection link in my sig.

57, I believe, although more if you care to count titles in the Antoine Doniel, Bergman, and Cassavetes sets individually. I'm probably one of the few who doesn't own any Kurosawa (or Fellini or Renoir...)

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.ht...on&id=hotarubi

The Rohmer box set is on order, along with Jigoku and Sólo con tu Pareja. I've gotten pretty much all the currently available titles I want, except for the remaining Bergman discs that I'll eventually buy -- hoping for remastered Cries & Whispers and Autumn Sonata, but not holding my breath. I'd also have the Powell & Pressburger titles, but I'm pretty happy with the R2 box set that has almost all their films that Criterion's released. Do need to grab Peeping Tom and Hoffman sometime, though.

My numbers fluctuate. Right now, I've got 189 (titles are in the sig). This includes 11 Bergman, 9 Renoir, 8 Kurosawa, and 6 each Ozu & Truffaut.

I have another fifteen on my To Buy list in the coming months:

Yi Yi (Yang, Edward/2000)
A Canterbury Tale (Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger/1944)
Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales: Suzanne's Career, The Bakery Girl of Monceau, La Collectionneuse, My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, Love in the Afternoon (1963-1972)
Seduced and Abandoned (Germi, Pietro/1964)
Amarcord: 2-disc SE (Fellini, Federico/1974)
Brazil: 1-disc Edition (Gilliam, Terry/1985)
Seven Samurai: 3-disc SE (Kurosawa Akira/1954)
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, Victor/1973)
Playtime: 2-disc SE (Tati, Jacques/1967)
Sólo con tu pareja (Cuaron, Alfonso/1991)

Lucky 13 for me

1 - chasing amy

none

6

Chasing Amy
The Rock
Armageddon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Royal Tenenbaums
Traffic

I'd like to eventually get:
For All Mankind
Night and Fog
Seven Samurai (3-disc)