Needs Help: Creator.The Criterion Collection

Does it seem necessary to reformat this page to match such articles as Creator.Magnetic Video and Creator.Warner Home Video, by rearranging the movies by their spine numbers, and adding the dates on which Criterion released each one on a new format?

edited 2nd May '16 7:39:40 AM by dsneybuf

I'm not sure about that, but some sort of folder scheme needs to be done to it because holy crap that's a lot of scrolling.

Criterion's website lists 826 as the highest of the spine numbers, which makes me think we can fit 50-100 in each folder.

Titles included in box sets don't seem to have numbers, though, so those would probably have to go in a separate folder.

While starting to add the spine numbers, I hit a snag:

When I opened Criterion's official list of movies, I noticed it skips some numbers. At first, I thought the skipped titles included the laserdiscs that Criterion has yet to upgrade to DVD or Blu-Ray. However, when I visited Wikipedia's list of Criterion laserdiscs, I realized that some titles have the same spine number (eg, Citizen Kane has #1 on its laserdisc, and Grand Illusion has #1 on its DVD), and there also exist some titles that changed their number for other formats (Grand Illusion originally had #25 on its laserdisc). So, now I wonder if it seems easier just to folderize this page by letters.

Alphabetical order, please. Folders are probably appropriate.

Might want to consider deleting the director list.

edited 7th May '16 10:43:31 AM by gallium

Okay, I added the letter-based folders. I also wouldn't mind the removal of the directors list, but would like to see if someone else would.

I think if we link directors it should be next to their films.

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Sounds like a good idea. Still has the relevant info, makes the page shorter.

I would propose a minimum of 2 or 3 films for a Director to be regularly featured in the collection, I think that would remove a good number of the people on the list.

I also agree about putting director names next to films.

edited 23rd May '16 10:42:10 PM by JulianLapostat

So, should we add specific spine numbers, studio, and other specific info on each entry in the Collection. Does one think we need a separate page for the two sub brands Eclipse and Essential Arthouse Collection?

Would alphabetizing the director's list do any help?

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant putting the list of directors into folders and listing the folders alphabetically.

Separate the movies between the ones released only on Laserdisc and the the ones released on DVD / Blu-Ray?

Still the best 71

If you read my earlier posts, you'd already know that I abandoned that idea, after learning that Criterion changed all of their spine numbers for DVD.

edited 28th Jul '16 10:22:15 AM by dsneybuf

I still think we should axe the director's list.

I don't think it's fair to axe the director's list because the main list is too big and broad and confusing for people to get a handle.

Having a director's list allows them to navigate it better.

I say having a minimum number (3 or more films) is useful. That would remove a number of directors on this list. We should also remove LD only directors and focus solely on DVD/BR, i.e. films in active circulation.

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