So, finally after discovering these films for the past couple years via Netflix, I've stopped procrastinating and decided to start my very own Criterion collection.
I wasn't sure which ones to start with. I thought that maybe I would just pick a director like Kurosawa or Fellini and just start getting all of their films. But I try to avoid watching the same director or genre in groups like that because I tend to get burned out on them and I probably wouldn't get as much out of them. My next thought was to just buy them by the spine number, starting with #1 (Grand Illusion) and so on. Or to try to collect a group of spines first (1-50 then 51-100) but that didn't seem like much fun.
One thing I was sure of was that I want to collect movies I haven't yet seen, at least at first. If I am spending my hard earned cash on this film, I should try to get the most out of it. Seeing a film for the first time seemed like the best way to do that.
Ultimately I made my selections based on a combination of good looking cover art and an intrigueing synopsis. And here's what I ended up with:
Army of Shadows and Withnail & I
I'll probably try to add a new title every week or so. I'm open to suggestions from anyone.