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Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?: The Criterion Collection
- wolverine876 3y agoSome of the most interesting parts are toward the end: Criterion made a conscious decision, Becker told me, to use the architecture of streaming technology differently from the way others have. Instead of an algorithm, viewers are guided to what they might want to watch through careful human curation ... ... Field told me a story about waiting tables at a Manhattan restaurant in 1984 and being “shoved” across the street to see a film festival at Lincoln Center; he saw films by Victor Nuñez, Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers and Wim Wenders, he said, “but that’s just because somebody pushed me across the street.” For Field, that’s what Criterion represents: not an “algorithm saying ‘this will turn you on,’” but the gift of being shoved toward great cinema.
- mitchbob 3y agoCuration is the future. Real people with knowledge and taste and love for their subject pointing you to the things that matter. Maybe it's time to bring back the original Yahoo!, a hand-curated guide to what's best on the internet. And to figure out how it could thrive without being enshittified.
- jonjacky 3y agoA start on something like this might already exist. Curlie [1] is a hand-built directory or table of contents to the web, something like the the old DMOZ Open Directory Project [2]. 1. https://curlie.org/ https://curlie.org/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
- mitchbob 3y agoCurlie looks great; thanks!
- js2 3y agoGift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/magazine/criterion-collection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU0.eCnA.tps7c47BCpEQ&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/magazine/criterion-collec...
- kranke155 3y agoI 100% agree that if I had a feature film, I’d be prouder of being on Criterion than winning an Oscar. Criterion has a much better selection!