The Entire Criterion Collection Supercut

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Here it is, folks: every movie in the Criterion Collection, as of May 2023. For those not familiar, the Criterion Collection is a long-running curated series of DVDs and Blu-rays of, in their own words, "important classic and contemporary films from around the world," ranging from popular titles to foreign titles to Hollywood classics to small indies and cult films, each carefully restored and bundled in gorgeously designed packaging with oodles of extras and bonus material. Every month, four to six new titles are announced, and each is given its own unique spine number. As of May 2023, spine numbers have been assigned from 1 to 1,190, from Grand Illusion to Drylongso, and in this supercut I have brought together a small sample of every one of those 1,190 releases. (That whooshing sound you may have heard was me, exhaling when I was finally done.)
A few disclaimers:
* I have not included any of their pre-DVD Laserdisc titles, nor have I added anything from any of their other release lines, like Eclipse or Art House Essentials.
* In the case of box sets, I chose a clip from one movie in that set. Since in many cases, the films in the set have their own separate spine numbers, this occasionally meant double-dipping, although I was careful not to repeat any specific clips.
Enjoy, and if you're curious about Criterion's offerings, you can go find them at www.criterion.com/.
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"Palomita"
"Farsi" (w/ Cafe de Anatolia)
"Choose" (w/ Mz Sunday Luv & Christopher Schwartzwalder)
"Man O To (Be Svendsen Remix)"
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@matthewkurth2170 Жыл бұрын

The timing and rhythm of the montage is hypnotic. Well done!

@mortystraphouse5077 Ай бұрын

i wish it was slightly longer inbetween films but its nice

@PinchiExivion Ай бұрын

Killer editing, and an invaluable resource. Thank you for this! Watching the entire collection is the challenge of the century!

@daver.6399 6 ай бұрын

Amazing video. I searched for something like this and couldn't believe I found it. So professional and entrancing. Excellent work!

@Methuselah969V 10 ай бұрын

Very cool I like the music too

@angelo_af Жыл бұрын

This is freaking amazing. Absolutely goads me into wanting to watch ALL THE MOVIES.

@reckonedopinions Жыл бұрын

Thank you! My work here is done. *mildly sinister cackle*

@sniceverything4944 11 ай бұрын

That’s what I’m trying to do now! Currently on #94

@reckonedopinions 10 ай бұрын

Oooh, gonna call spoilers on that as a future video topic, but Singin' in the Rain is probably in the top spot. Probably. Unless it's Lost in Translation. Or The Piano. Or Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Or....

@Planet_films565 17 күн бұрын

This is so awesome

@hoc1992 10 ай бұрын

These films are in a class of their own. Awesome video and editing. La Haine and Roma I love. But ALL of these are just.. Art Masterpieces in their own right. Forever films. not movies, but films. Fascinating list

@jaysvids5320 11 ай бұрын

You have exceptional movie taste sir

@hollyshippy7417 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the time and effort you put into this stunning collection of Criterion film clips. We have many of these films in our collection, have several on pre-order ... and always look forward to new titles and the superb work the Criterion curators do remastering and preserving the worlds film culture. Hats off to your Criterion Collection Supercut.

@maxgc6413 11 ай бұрын

Theya are the gold standard of physcial media! We would not have commentaries, special features, correct aspect ratio and more without them! I remember getting my first batch mid 00's. It was the moment my cinema pallet became way more refined and to this day, they still release stellar quality blu's/and finally 4k's too. I pray for the Kurosawa set (rights are tricky though) And I'd love to see them put out older anime films, a pipe dream of mine.

@moodyfeverdream 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic work!! I immediately favorited to rewatch again and again ;) One day I'll get through hopefully half the catalog...

@quackslikeaduck 10 ай бұрын

Wooooo, so cool! Thanks for this! I have to give it another couple of viewings to see how many films I can name. Great idea and well executed. Must have taken quite a while to put this together!

@Jimmy-lv9mz 15 күн бұрын

Because I finished "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", at least the first 5 editions, I have seen probably 500-ish of these movies. But I woukd love to have a Criterion Collection of my own

@josefrancoanton 9 ай бұрын

Anybody that owns a record by Everything But the Girl is a good ole bloke in my book!

@epihead9196 11 ай бұрын

This is absolutely amazing, thank you! I'm only sad that as a Brit, I don't get the joy of the half price sale

@njt002 7 ай бұрын

The amount of time this must've taken simply blows my mind what KZfaqrs will do.

@peterstarts Ай бұрын

this takes Babylon montage to a whole new level!

@guitaraobscura8802 Жыл бұрын

love the clip used for fantastic planet

@reckonedopinions Жыл бұрын

I had a hard time choosing on that one. Utterly bonkers visually.

@NikFromm Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you finally got this huge project done! Here’s to the video hopefully doing well!🥂

@reckonedopinions Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm kind of amazed at how well it's doing.

@cabrams1303 Жыл бұрын

Well, this is spectacular. Amazing work!

@reckonedopinions Жыл бұрын

Thank ye! Mainly I'm glad to have my life back now that it's over.

@twiddleythumbs6064 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant.x

@melo-muse Жыл бұрын

This video is really slick and professional. I never thought much about the Criterion Collection, but you make it look so good! 🙂✨

@reckonedopinions Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate that! My stuff on here is all pretty much seat-of-the-pants winging it, but I'm pleased with how this turned out. (Also, Criterion is amazewaffles, and very much worth a look if you're at all a movie fan. Just...approach with caution. By which I mean, "Don't go tumbling down the slope of madness like I did, lest you shell out entire paycheck when there a sale, or pour weeks into your life editing a video about it.")

@GoGoGirl22100 11 ай бұрын

this is awesome thank you

@bc5327 10 ай бұрын

Hard to sit and watch but it’s really impressive

@vonpicz 11 ай бұрын

well. i've watched 14 out of .... 1190.

@vonpicz 11 ай бұрын

great video btw!!!!

@loricampbell9168 Жыл бұрын

I've watched it three full times so far! Having so much fun going through to identify every clip. :) Congratulations, my friend.

@reckonedopinions 11 ай бұрын

Thanks again! I don't think even I could identify every clip, and I made the flippin' thing, but if anyone could, it'd probably be you. :)

@Strongbad700 8 ай бұрын

0:18 • 1-100 2:11 • 100-200 4:05 • 200-300 5:59 • 300-400 8:00 • 400-500 9:57 • 500-600

@lamusicadealdo 6 күн бұрын

I was looking for the movie The Naked Pray ! with Cornel Wilde. but I did not see it. I wonder if I miss it or if it was not in this video.

@reckonedopinions 6 күн бұрын

Yep, it's in there, roughly at the 8:18 mark (a silhouette long shot rather than a character shot, which might be why it went unspotted).

@lamusicadealdo 6 күн бұрын

@@reckonedopinions You're right! I remember seeing this movie on tv long long time ago and I always remember the name.thank you.

@djcorvette8375 8 ай бұрын

Godfrey Reggio is the GOAT

@cattkingsgrave2247 Жыл бұрын

This is kind of a trip for someone who's never seen like 90% of these films. Some of the imagery was familiar, and I got which one they'd come from just through cultural inference, others, I recognized the performers, and a bit of the filmography, and then others were just slick imagery and great editing. You'll have to forgive me if I like and comment on this with a few different KZfaq accounts. I'm not afraid to fluff the numbers when it counts, after all.

@reckonedopinions Жыл бұрын

Omigod, sock puppet away! And thank you! Even after living intimately with the material for several weeks, I still can't catch it all as I'm watching, which is indeed why the elder gods created rewind and pause buttons.

@Shubdoblous 11 ай бұрын

What's your favorite Everything but the Girl album? I was shocked to see Amplified Heart vinyl. Great video.

@reckonedopinions 11 ай бұрын

Oh, definitely Amplified Heart. When I started buying vinyl it wasn't available in the format, so I googled at least once a month to see if it'd show up until it did.

@amysullivan8358 10 ай бұрын

Great montage and must have taken a ton of effort. Are the films presented in the same order that Criterion released them? At times it seemed that way but I wasn’t sure. How did you source the clips? Did you use movie trailers?

@reckonedopinions 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! They're presented in order of spine number, so yes, in order they were first added to the collection. Sourcing came down to the time-honored method of "whatever I can get my hands on," which became an annoying scavenger hunt in places. Trailers certainly got used, but not as often as you might think-the editing on some of those is so hyperactive that I often couldn't find even a two-second uninterrupted shot to pull.

@Pancrasio-it9qd 11 ай бұрын

😮

@acrossbarrier 9 ай бұрын

Is it possible to list all the movies?

@reckonedopinions 9 ай бұрын

The best place to look right now is the Criterion website. You can see the entire list at www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list?sort=spine_number .

@justanotherfakeid Жыл бұрын

13:12 - totally my fault.

@reckonedopinions Жыл бұрын

I've been there.

@Gan1medes Ай бұрын

I don't think I saw Berry Lyndon, It Couldn't Happen Here, etc.

@reckonedopinions Ай бұрын

Barry Lyndon's in there, spine number 897, around the 17:45 mark (it's a dark clip, so it's easier to miss). This Can't Happen Here, strangely, is one of a few Ingmar Bergman titles NOT available on Criterion.

@zetetick395 Ай бұрын

Too fast for me (I cannot absorb the image AND read the spine text - my eyeballs don't move fast enough left / right for it!) how about a double / treble legnth supercut?

@aarond9563 9 ай бұрын

i really don't mean this in a rude way... genuinely curious. Why have you done this and how long did it take?

@reckonedopinions 9 ай бұрын

Valid questions, absolutely, and thank you for taking the time to ask! (I've certainly asked myself the "why" part a lot, especially in the middle of editing when I'm considering taking up drinking instead.) This video took over a hundred hours of work between research and editing, which I foolishly tried to cram into a three-week window. Not my wisest set of decisions, and it led to some looong days, but once I'd started I was impatient to see the final result, so sleep could wait. The most basic reason why is because making videos like this is fun for me-some people knit, I do this, to similar effect. More specifically in this case, I have a bit of an obsession with Criterion, and it seemed like a good fit for the kind of stuff I've done in the past. I remember seeing a KZfaq clip about ten years ago with every Criterion title, but that was when the collection was half its current size, and the video kept its clips to a fraction of a second each and gave no title or spine number information, whipping through them so fast that they were basically unidentifiable. It was cool, but I was curious how it would look with more room to breathe and many more titles (answer: kind of exhausting). For all the effort it took I'm more than pleased with the result, and folks seem to be responding well, so it's all good.

@aarond9563 9 ай бұрын

@@reckonedopinions Well... glad you enjoyed it at least. I don't know if I could say the same afterwards 😅. Sorry, I have a few more technical questions if that's okay? How did you decide what 2 second clip to choose out of hours of film to choose from? P.S. - I really like the stylistic choice of putting the spine information to mimic the actual spine of a film, but it does make it a little hard to read when it's on the screen for such a short amount of time. Like I said, I appreciate the look but maybe a horizontal title could have made it easier to read in your periphery while you watch the scene.

@reckonedopinions 9 ай бұрын

No worries! Scene selection varied from title to title; I might have something in particular in mind if it's a movie I'm very familiar with, but most of the time I looked for something representative of the film and (hopefully) visually interesting. (That part got thrown out the window more often than I'd have liked, because a lot of these were a case of "take what you can get".) I hear you about the vertical titles. I actually had them printed horizontally when I started this project, but it ended up being more distracting than anything-having the text front and center would draw the eye away from the images half the time, and the titles would be going by too fast to read in their entirety anyway, so I settled for moving all that out of the way where you could look at it if you wanted and pause if you're dying to know what a particular shot is. I think the visual look of having the info imitating the spine layout, especially with that font, was what actually got me excited enough to finish the thing in the first place, so I don't regret the choice, but yeah, not the easiest to read.