"Crapterion" Collection

[rsbush]

What's awesome is that audio visual libraries will just buy Criterion movies no matter what. So as a college kid I had access to all these great movies not knowing a damn thing about em' when I grabbed it from the librarian.

Yeah, my little public library branch has one of the best DVD collections I've seen.

 

[deedive]

I think there was a time when that wasn't the case

I havent seen a bad transfer yet. I exclude the movies where it is hard to get a film print intact at all. But they do a pretty good job at restoring hard to find/ half destroyed films. Every film that i have seen both non-criterion and criterion version; the criterion was better or equal. Alot of the time it seem like a studio will let criterion do and movie so they dont have to do the transfer. So when they take the rights back they have a good tranfer also.

Are u talking about back in the lazerdisc times?
(the criterion version of AKIRA is Great!)

Now fox lorber is another story...