Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)

Are those movies public domain?

Missing quite a few compilations,

Really nice. You could use polycss.com and render the library and form all together!

really nice! Criterion should have this as a view on their website!

This is so cool!

Very, very nice!

you need to add a feature where You can put your self in there with a webcam and record a interview

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.

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!

Awesome! I recently replaced Netflix for Criterion so this is quite welcome!

The link to Criterion streaming doesn't work for "Brazil" (#51) - it shows a list of movies that likely have the word in their synopsis such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman" but not the actual film (which famously doesn't reference the country at all)

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.

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.

Just btw, the Amazon links are affiliate/tracking.

The text really needs some better rendering technique. It is very hard to read. Have you considered Slug https://github.com/EricLengyel/Slug ?

Today I learned that This Is Spin̈al Tap is on the Criterion Collection.

Wow! Definitely not what I was expecting. If you turn around and look at the door there's a menu with some filters.

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.

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.

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.

I thought I can flip open the book and read

I love this and wasted more time than I want to admit looking through the collection. This is a closet I hope to own some day.

Nice... love it, what a shame I couldn't use it more before

Wow! This is so cool.