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Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

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Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

#41

Nice! Would be really nice to have links to director's picks. Eg I clicked on Che, saw that it was in Denis Villeneuve's list, and wanted to check out his other picks.

I would add: Indicate which ones are listed in the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die".

(Perhaps also the "AFI Top 100" list as well.)

Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

#42

If you don't know what the Criterion Closet is, it's a YouTube channel run by Criterion which is a movie publisher/ distributor (?). https://youtu.be/VsywXM8vMLs?is=YBuq2lZEilUb_B9x The channel has a mobile trailer full of their movies in DVD and blu ray. They are well respected in the industry and are able to get famous actors to come into the "closet" and pick out their favorite movies and comment on why they like…

They really tapped into clever marketing with that one. (Good for them.)

Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

#44
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I were the author I wouldn't bother implementing the option for that reason. I was curious whether it was due to a genuine accessibility reason, like using a device other than a mouse that makes it really hard to adjust.

Yeah I'm sure those 4 lines of code are a big ask.

Just to defend the OP, it's that extra UI (and small niggle of confusion) that are the bigger ask.

Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

#45

Nice! Would be really nice to have links to director's picks. Eg I clicked on Che, saw that it was in Denis Villeneuve's list, and wanted to check out his other picks.

I would add: Indicate which ones are listed in the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die". (Perhaps also the "AFI Top 100" list as well.)

If you're going to go into this direction, it seems like this would become sort of a "Letterboxd list visualizer" which honestly could be pretty cool.

Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

#46

IMO, the text is in the wrong direction. I thought it felt uncomfortable to read. On my real life bookshelf, it flows from top to bottom.

This is locale-dependent. English is top to bottom but German is bottom to top, for example. It looks bad when you have a mixed language shelf...

Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

#47

This is impressive! Perhaps this is because I’m from an English-speaking country, but I believe even in the real Criterion Closet, the spine title text orientation is top-to-bottom, rather than bottom-to-top.

Will change that now! Thanks for the feedback!

Are these tapes? 16mm film?

Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

#48
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'm sure those 4 lines of code are a big ask.

Just to defend the OP, it's that extra UI (and small niggle of confusion) that are the bigger ask.

  

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