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Posted by olievans 3 days ago

Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf(the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
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thedougd 1 day ago|
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.
brainwad 1 day ago|
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...
gosub100 1 day ago||
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.

throw2ih020 1 day ago||
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.
JKCalhoun 1 day ago||
They really tapped into clever marketing with that one. (Good for them.)
bashtoni 2 days ago||
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.
globular-toast 2 days ago|
Why do you need it?
nhinck2 2 days ago||
Decades of muscle memory is hard to overcome?
globular-toast 2 days ago||
If I were the author I wouldn't bother implementing the option for that reason. I was curious whether it was due to a genuine accessibility reason, like using a device other than a mouse that makes it really hard to adjust.
nhinck3 2 days ago||
Yeah I'm sure those 4 lines of code are a big ask.
JKCalhoun 1 day ago|||
Just to defend the OP, it's that extra UI (and small niggle of confusion) that are the bigger ask.
nhinck2 1 day ago||
<button class="closet-camera" id="closet-camera" type="button" aria-label="Invert camera">

  <svg class="cf-ic" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"><polygon points="21 4 3 4 10 12.4 10 19 14 21 14 12.4 21 4"/></svg>

  <span class="cf-tx">Invert camera</span>

  <kbd class="cf-key">I</kbd>
</button>
cadamsdotcom 2 days ago|||
They’re free as in puppies!
ofcrpls 1 day ago||
You haven't walked behind them picking up their poop have ?
DuncanCoffee 2 days ago||
Wow! Definitely not what I was expecting. If you turn around and look at the door there's a menu with some filters.
olievans 2 days ago|
Thanks!
LeonRubin 1 day ago||
Nice... love it, what a shame I couldn't use it more before
thombat 2 days ago||
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)
emmelaich 2 days ago|
Same for Mean Streets
apresmoi 3 days ago||
Really nice. You could use polycss.com and render the library and form all together!
a_c 1 day ago||
I thought I can flip open the book and read
sarmadc 3 days ago||
This is so cool!
olievans 2 days ago|
Thanks so much!
starkparker 3 days ago|
Missing quite a few compilations,
olievans 3 days ago|
could you give an example you can't find? Thanks!
starkparker 2 days ago||
All of the films without spine numbers, see https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list

More specifically:

Eclipse Series films i.e. https://www.criterion.com/films/2959-a-colt-is-my-passport, https://www.criterion.com/films/27516-come-on-children, https://www.criterion.com/films/12521-sanshiro-sugata - these stand out the most since several actual Criterion Closet picks are from the Eclipse Series, and most (all?) of them lack spine numbers because their cases are slimline and lack spines altogether

Films in similar box sets like The Ranown Westerns that don't have standalone releases, i.e. https://www.criterion.com/films/32211-comanche-station

Triphibian 2 days ago||
I did find the over-sized Godzilla Showa Era box on the shelf.
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