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The Sunday Read: ‘Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?’

The Sunday Read: ‘Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?’

The Daily vor 2 Jahren

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In October 2022, amid a flurry of media appearances promoting
their film “Tàr,” the director Todd Field and the star Cate
Blanchett made time to visit a cramped closet in Manhattan. This
closet, which has become a sacred space for movie buffs, was once
a disused bathroom at the headquarters of the Criterion
Collection, a 40-year-old company dedicated to “gathering the
greatest films from around the world” and making high-quality
editions available to the public on DVD and Blu-ray and, more
recently, through its streaming service, the Criterion Channel.
Today Criterion uses the closet as its stockroom, housing films
by some 600 directors from more than 50 countries — a catalog so
synonymous with cinematic achievement that it has come to
function as a kind of film Hall of Fame. Through a combination of
luck, obsession and good taste, this 55-person company has become
the arbiter of what makes a great movie, more so than any
Hollywood studio or awards ceremony.

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