I’m going to use the heck out of this!
Just one suggestion: Could you add another sort order for the list view based on the number of “closet picks”? It would be cool to see which films are most popular among Criterion Closet guests.
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Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf
#12Missing quite a few compilations,
could you give an example you can't find? Thanks!
All of the films without spine numbers, see https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list
More specifically:
Eclipse Series films i.e. https://www.criterion.com/films/2959-a-colt-is-my-passport, https://www.criterion.com/films/27516-come-on-children, https://www.criterion.com/films/12521-sanshiro-sugata - these stand out the most since several actual Criterion Closet picks are from the Eclipse Series, and most (all?) of them lack spine numbers because their cases are slimline and lack spines altogether
Films in similar box sets like The Ranown Westerns that don't have standalone releases, i.e. https://www.criterion.com/films/32211-comanche-station
Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf
#13Nice to be reminded of the collection, and another way to present it.
I want to view the boxes, especially after filtering, grouped near eye level and seeing the faces not just the spines.
Nice to see VR (potential for XR), cool use!
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#14Awesome! I recently replaced Netflix for Criterion so this is quite welcome!
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
could you give an example you can't find? Thanks!
All of the films without spine numbers, see https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list More specifically: Eclipse Series films i.e. https://www.criterion.com/films/2959-a-colt-is-my-passport , https://www.criterion.com/films/27516-come-on-children , https://www.criterion.com/films/12521-sanshiro-sugata - these stand out the most since several actual Criterion Closet picks are from the Eclipse Series, and most (all?)…
I did find the over-sized Godzilla Showa Era box on the shelf.
Re: Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf
#16Are those movies public domain?
There are public domain movies in the collection, notably Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls.
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#17The link to Criterion streaming doesn't work for "Brazil" (#51) - it shows a list of movies that likely have the word in their synopsis such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman" but not the actual film (which famously doesn't reference the country at all)
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#18I’m going to use the heck out of this! Just one suggestion: Could you add another sort order for the list view based on the number of “closet picks”? It would be cool to see which films are most popular among Criterion Closet guests.
Thanks for the feedback, planning to add this in!
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#19This is great, but unusable for people like me that need to have the y axis inverted. It would be amazing if you could add that functionality.
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#20Are those movies public domain?
The Criterion Collection is a boutique film distributor. They are famous for their Criterion Closet videos on youtube. This project was to recreate the experience 'virtually'.
Its not even close to Boutique. Napolean Dynamite was rejected. That breaks the coccyx.