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  • IMO, the text is in the wrong direction. I thought it felt uncomfortable to read. On my real life bookshelf, it flows from top to bottom.
    by thedougd
  • This is locale-dependent. English is top to bottom but German is bottom to top, for example. It looks bad when you have a mixed language shelf...
    by brainwad
  • This is great, but unusable for people like me that need to have the y axis inverted. It would be amazing if you could add that functionality.
    by bashtoni
  • Why do you need it?
    by globular-toast
  • This is impressive! Perhaps this is because I’m from an English-speaking country, but I believe even in the real Criterion Closet, the spine title text orientation is top-to-bottom, rather than bottom-to-top.
    by TimC123456
  • Will change that now! Thanks for the feedback!
    by olievans
  • you need to add a feature where You can put your self in there with a webcam and record a interview
    by aarmenante
  • really nice! Criterion should have this as a view on their website!
    by VarunMenon
  • Nice to be reminded of the collection, and another way to present it.

    I want to view the boxes, especially after filtering, grouped near eye level and seeing the faces not just the spines.

    Nice to see VR (potential for XR), cool use!

    by mcint
  • I’m going to use the heck out of this!

    Just one suggestion: Could you add another sort order for the list view based on the number of “closet picks”? It would be cool to see which films are most popular among Criterion Closet guests.

    by dnlzro
  • Thanks for the feedback, planning to add this in!
    by olievans
  • Awesome! I recently replaced Netflix for Criterion so this is quite welcome!
    by davidhariri
  • Thanks!
    by olievans
  • Just btw, the Amazon links are affiliate/tracking.
    by Cider9986
  • The text really needs some better rendering technique. It is very hard to read. Have you considered Slug https://github.com/EricLengyel/Slug ?
    by klaussilveira
  • Nice!

    Would be really nice to have links to director's picks. Eg I clicked on Che, saw that it was in Denis Villeneuve's list, and wanted to check out his other picks.

    by asymmetric
  • It's coming! Thanks for the suggestion!
    by olievans
  • I would add: Indicate which ones are listed in the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die".

    (Perhaps also the "AFI Top 100" list as well.)

    by JKCalhoun
  • If you don't know what the Criterion Closet is, it's a YouTube channel run by Criterion which is a movie publisher/ distributor (?).

    https://youtu.be/VsywXM8vMLs?is=YBuq2lZEilUb_B9x

    The channel has a mobile trailer full of their movies in DVD and blu ray. They are well respected in the industry and are able to get famous actors to come into the "closet" and pick out their favorite movies and comment on why they like them.

    by gosub100
  • They really tapped into clever marketing with that one. (Good for them.)
    by JKCalhoun
  • Distributor with a focus on restorations of important films (especially films important to the history of filmmaking). Kind of like GOG but for movies instead of games.
    by throw2ih020