One Five

The obvious question is: Why are we doing this? And the only answer is that it just seems like the right thing to do.

Over the last ten years Criterion has gotten a little bigger and a lot better. We’ve only grown by about twenty people, but as a result we can do so much that we could never do before. Today we’re an all-digital shop, doing high-definition restoration in-house, and pairing the best group of producers, editors, and designers we’ve ever had with some of the top writers, scholars, and artists in the world. When I started we could never have produced a disc set as complicated as, say, The Battle of Algiers. Just compare the old Seven Samurai to the new one to see what I’m talking about. It’s not that I want to go back. But I do want to make sure that we don’t lose track of the fact that we’re a small company doing something we believe in, and that we’re lucky enough to have an audience of people who care. That’s who this blog is for.

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