At one point, I was going to sort my collection chromatically. I thought it would look absolutely amazing, but felt I would have trouble finding anything (at least at first).

Well played.

Figured I'd throw my pictures up as well. I'll hide 'em in a spoiler, so as not to offend anyone.

I think Why So Blu knows some girls who just got wet.

I've only got eight Criterions. I put them together, alphabetically:

I know it's not supposed to be funny - but compared to Shagrath's collection - I couldn't help but chuckle - you've got a lot of catching up to do ...

We all have to start somewhere.

My first Criterion dvd was Robocop. I think my first laser-disc was probably Hardboiled or The Killer. So you can tell I've been around for quite some time.

I can't be wasting too much time and money on Criterions. There are lots of other classic films that I need to buy, like... Grudge Match and Hollow Man 2.

My Blu-ray collection is an eclectic mixture of high-brow classics and low-brow crap: Citizen Kane and House of the Dead, Apocalypse Now and The Scorpion King 3, The French Connection and Van Helsing.

Just like my bookshelf, where I've got Shakespeare and Hemingway sitting next to movie novelizations and Star Trek tie-ins.

I've got all three of those, but sadly not on Criterion.

ah a fellow Laserdisc patriot - that explains it. I'm Mr. Unorganized, there's no way to take a pic of all the Criterion DVD's, laserdiscs, blu's I own, cause there here, there, everywhere in my house.

what? no 'White Chicks' ? okay - I admit it, I own that on DVD.

I wouldn't share that with too many people .

I honestly really couldn't care less - if someone where to 'really' look at my entire video collection they'd commit me ...

Ha, I'm about to dump all of my CC laserdisc titles at Amoeba sometime soon.

I keep my CC BDs by the spine number. They're just too classy to sit with my regular BDs.

Regular BDs are by alphabet except by those of a favorite director. They've a seperate section. CC makes that hard for me at times. But I won't mix a favorite director film by CC with the regular BD director section.

I'm looking at a list of every title that's ever been released on Criterion, and I'm amazed at how many I own in other editions:

The Lady Vanishes
The Killer
Hard Boiled
RoboCop
Flesh for Frankenstein
Blood for Dracula
The 39 Steps
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Carnival of Souls

There are too many to list that I've seen but never owned. (Thank you AMC, TCM, and IFC.)

So many I'd love to own, and yet I'm too busy buying stuff like Black Dynamite and Destroy All Monsters. Can't deprive myself of my schlock.

I considered organizing some of my films by director, but something always fucks that up. I could put Halloween, Escape from New York, The Thing, and In the Mouth of Madness together, but what of Halloween II? Trying to organize Ridley Scott would be impossible: where do you put Prometheus in relation to Alien? I've got the Alien Anthology followed by the three Predator films, then the AVP 2-pack, then Prometheus. Seems as good a placement as any. And I can't very well put my Gladiator Steelbook in with my standard cases for Blade Runner and Robin Hood. And how can I put my Paul W. S. Anderson movies together? The Resident Evil movies need to go together, even the ones he didn't direct, and the Death Race stuff needs to go together, and AVP obviously needs to go with the Alien stuff, and Event Horizon has to sit there by itself because there's no other way, and oh my god I think my head just disappeared up my own ass.

My mind's gone in this direction! I've become more lax with organizing. Ultimately I realized it doesn't matter because I'm a loner; I have no one to exhibit my collection for. It doesn't matter what goes where as long as I know where to find it.

Some directors I keep together, partially. John Carpenter, for instance, I don't always have all his films together but I keep the "Apocalypse Trilogy" in the same area (The Thing, PoD, ITMOM). I keep They Live, The Fog and Halloween in this area too. The "dark films". Since my director subsections are chronological, sometimes I want to keep it "Dark Carpenter" and go from The Fog to The Thing without jutting Escape From New York in between.

I keep flip-flopping on my Cronenberg Criterions, though. Sometimes I put them on my Cronenberg shelf, sometimes I put them on my Criterion shelf.

Which version do you own? Last I checked aside from Criterion they're all cheapo public domain copies, and the colorized DVDs by Legend Films & Rifftrax.

Aside from CARNIVAL & perhaps the 2 Hitchcock films, I think most of the other films in your list have better transfers in their non-Criterion releases (certainly the more recent editions of Life of Brian & Robocop).

Here's the entire Criterion collection (sans laser discs), in one spot:

I don't own a single Cronenberg movie, which is ridiculous because I've loved every one I've seen, but I think I would still keep the Criterions by themselves. Not that Criterions are "too good" to be mixed in elsewhere, but seeing that row of C logos all in a line is so satisfying, and I only have eight of the things.

Yes, public domain cheapies. It's hit and miss with those Mill Creek box sets. Sometimes their prints look surprisingly terrific, and other times they look like someone projected the film on a bedsheet and took a Polaroid of it.

I've been told that the colorized Legend Films discs are actually quite good, since they restore the black and white prints before colorizing them and include both the black and white and color versions. I may upgrade in the future (to another DVD or a Blu-ray... I haven't even bothered looking into the film's Blu-ray availability), but I'm frankly not a big enough fan of Carnival of Souls for it to be high on my priory list.

Yeah, I got the newer Blu-rays of Brian and RoboCop. I got the Dragon Dynasty Blu-rays of The Killer and Hard Boiled, which I've heard some people complaining about but I haven't watched them yet so I can't comment on them. (I watched them years ago on rented DVDs.) Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein got pretty good non-Criterion DVDs, but I love those enough that I would upgrade to Blu-ray the moment they got a Region 1 release.

How I wish Carnival Of Souls would get a Bd upgrade from Criterion...but being a pd title, doesn't seem too likely.

Anyone have any opinions on Pierre Etaix?

The 39 Steps is PD and that didn't stop Criterion from releasing it on Blu so you never know.

I *GASP* have my movies organized alphabetically with *GASP* the Criterions mixed in with the rest. They're just movies.

The hell you say!!

Just don't mix the Blu-Rays with the dvd's or else you'll have a problem with some of the people here.

I welcome opinions on any of the following which I'm considering picking up tomorrow;

Phantom Carriage
Pierre Etiax
Ministry Of Fear

I'm thinking of getting Wild Strawberries along with two of those...or possibly Rififi, WS, and one of those.

See post #6890, I'm way ahead of you Spermallet.