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7 unusual facts about the Criterion Collection


Grey Gardens

In 2006, Maysles made available previously unreleased footage for a special 2-disc edition for The Criterion Collection.

Mon oncle Antoine

On July 8, 2008, The Criterion Collection released a special 2-disc collector's edition of the film.

Still Walking

A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in February 2011.

The Criterion Collection

For example The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), M (1931), and the Children of Paradise (1945) discs contain film-cleaning and film-restoration demonstrations, comparing the restored and un-restored images.

Titles such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), RoboCop (1987), Hard Boiled (1992), The Killer (1989), and Ran (1985), became unavailable when their publishing licenses expired, or when Criterion published improved versions, such as Beauty and the Beast (1946), M (1931), Seven Samurai (1954), and The Wages of Fear (1954).

The Times of Harvey Milk

A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in March 2011.

Voices of Light

When the Criterion Collection released the film on DVD, they included as an audio option a specially edited performance - using the 1995 recording - of the oratorio as a soundtrack accompanying the film.


Sybille Schmitz

Both the documentary and the Fassbinder film are available on the Criterion DVD release of Veronika Voss.

Take Aim at the Police Van

This film was made available in North America when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu Noir films as part of the Criterion Collection, also including I Am Waiting, Rusty Knife, and A Colt Is My Passport.

Twenty-Four Eyes

The film has been released on DVD in the UK as part of the Masters of Cinema Collection from Eureka! video and in the US as part of the The Criterion Collection.


see also

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood

The film is featured in the Criterion Collection edition of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The Living Skeleton

Professor Ryan Dixon of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln referred to the Criterion Collection's eclipse set, calling the film "the most accomplished and sophisticated of the quartet in terms of its visual structure and narrative" and along with Genocide, "easily the most interesting entries".