CC40 (Criterion Collection) (Blu ray Box Set) [USA]

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Release Date: November 19, 2024
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Directors: Edward Yang, John Frankenheimer, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Paul Schrader
Writers: Edward Yang, Billy Wilder, Budd Schulberg, Paul Schrader, Federico Fellini
Starring: Porter Hall, Miguel Sandoval, Pat West, Maggie Cheung, Robert Mitchum

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This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition. CC40’s eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series. Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.

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49-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES​

  • Digital restorations of all forty films
  • Hundreds of hours of supplemental features
  • Alternate soundtracks and dubbed tracks
  • Audio commentaries
  • Extensive documentaries and making-of programs
  • Interviews with casts and crews
  • Outtakes and deleted scenes
  • Trailers and TV spots
  • English subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Selection of Criterion Closet Picks videos
  • And more!
  • PLUS: Deluxe packaging with a lavishly illustrated 216-page book featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors
 
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Out of these 40 titles I want 1. I bought that 1 title a couple of years ago - My Own Private Idaho.
That's it.
Hearing bluray our good friend @Lenny Nero however...
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What did I do now? :spoil:
I just don't upgrade anything anymore unless I'm absolutely sure it's a better transfer in my understanding, because lately better started to mean darker, so you can't see crap, or better, so that the entire color scheme is changed, or better, because you can see more hairs on those two frames on a 100" screen, which I don't have.
Usually if it's a new film, there's no difference, if it's an older one, there are possibilities they messed it up somehow. Otherwise I'm gladly upgrading, and doing it bypassing all of the above, if it's a nice new packaging, a mediabook with cool new art, or a steelbook in a slip with a booklet, or if I don't have the movie at all, or only on DVD... so plenty to buy as it is, and more than I'll ever watch at least once anyway...:facepalm:
 
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Out of these 40 titles I want 1. I bought that 1 title a couple of years ago - My Own Private Idaho.
That's it.

What did I do now? :spoil:
I just don't upgrade anything anymore unless I'm absolutely sure it's a better transfer in my understanding, because lately better started to mean darker, so you can't see crap, or better, so that the entire color scheme is changed, or better, because you can see more hairs on those two frames on a 100" screen, which I don't have.
Usually if it's a new film, there's no difference, if it's an older one, there are possibilities they messed it up somehow. Otherwise I'm gladly upgrading, and doing it bypassing all of the above, if it's a nice new packaging, a mediabook with cool new art, or a steelbook in a slip with a booklet, or if I don't have the movie at all, or only on DVD... so plenty to buy as it is, and more than I'll ever watch at least once anyway...:facepalm:
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Me after reading that, who buys up nearly every 4k
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Think New Amsterdam GIF by NBC

Its Friday GIF by HBO Max
 
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