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asymmetric 10 hours ago [-]
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.
JKCalhoun 6 hours ago [-]
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.)
alper 6 hours ago [-]
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.
olievans 10 hours ago [-]
It's coming! Thanks for the suggestion!
Cider9986 9 hours ago [-]
Just btw, the Amazon links are affiliate/tracking.
klaussilveira 9 hours ago [-]
The text really needs some better rendering technique. It is very hard to read. Have you considered Slug https://github.com/EricLengyel/Slug ?
davidhariri 17 hours ago [-]
Awesome! I recently replaced Netflix for Criterion so this is quite welcome!
olievans 12 hours ago [-]
Thanks!
TimC123456 7 hours ago [-]
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.
olievans 7 hours ago [-]
Will change that now! Thanks for the feedback!
actionfromafar 6 hours ago [-]
Are these tapes? 16mm film?
throw2ih020 4 hours ago [-]
The real Criterion Closet is full of Criterion's catalog of Blu Rays and DVDs.
thedougd 6 hours ago [-]
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.
brainwad 6 hours ago [-]
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...
mcint 17 hours ago [-]
Nice 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!
dnlzro 18 hours ago [-]
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.
olievans 12 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback, planning to add this in!
topherjaynes 7 hours ago [-]
Also, which haven't been picked, I would be curious to see those.
gosub100 7 hours ago [-]
If you don't know what the Criterion Closet is, it's a YouTube channel run by Criterion which is a movie publisher/ distributor (?).
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 them.
throw2ih020 4 hours ago [-]
Distributor with a focus on restorations of important films (especially films important to the history of filmmaking). Kind of like GOG but for movies instead of games.
JKCalhoun 6 hours ago [-]
They really tapped into clever marketing with that one. (Good for them.)
DuncanCoffee 8 hours ago [-]
Wow! Definitely not what I was expecting. If you turn around and look at the door there's a menu with some filters.
olievans 8 hours ago [-]
Thanks!
aarmenante 18 hours ago [-]
you need to add a feature where You can put your self in there with a webcam and record a interview
bashtoni 12 hours ago [-]
This 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.
globular-toast 11 hours ago [-]
Why do you need it?
nhinck2 11 hours ago [-]
Decades of muscle memory is hard to overcome?
globular-toast 9 hours ago [-]
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.
nhinck3 9 hours ago [-]
Yeah I'm sure those 4 lines of code are a big ask.
JKCalhoun 6 hours ago [-]
Just to defend the OP, it's that extra UI (and small niggle of confusion) that are the bigger ask.
You haven't walked behind them picking up their poop have ?
a_c 6 hours ago [-]
I thought I can flip open the book and read
VarunMenon 2 days ago [-]
really nice! Criterion should have this as a view on their website!
thombat 12 hours ago [-]
The 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)
emmelaich 11 hours ago [-]
Same for Mean Streets
apresmoi 2 days ago [-]
Really nice. You could use polycss.com and render the library and form all together!
sarmadc 2 days ago [-]
This is so cool!
olievans 12 hours ago [-]
Thanks so much!
lou1306 9 hours ago [-]
Today I learned that This Is Spin̈al Tap is on the Criterion Collection.
I did find the over-sized Godzilla Showa Era box on the shelf.
julia-kafarska 2 days ago [-]
Are those movies public domain?
olievans 2 days ago [-]
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'.
j5dgx76 12 hours ago [-]
Its not even close to Boutique. Napolean Dynamite was rejected. That breaks the coccyx.
Triphibian 16 hours ago [-]
There are public domain movies in the collection, notably Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls.
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.
(Perhaps also the "AFI Top 100" list as well.)
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!
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.
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 them.
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