Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?: The Criterion Collection
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Criterion has a much better selection!
Criterion made a conscious decision, Becker told me, to use the architecture of streaming technology differently from the way others have. Instead of an algorithm, viewers are guided to what they might want to watch through careful human curation ...
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Field told me a story about waiting tables at a Manhattan restaurant in 1984 and being “shoved” across the street to see a film festival at Lincoln Center; he saw films by Victor Nuñez, Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers and Wim Wenders, he said, “but that’s just because somebody pushed me across the street.” For Field, that’s what Criterion represents: not an “algorithm saying ‘this will turn you on,’” but the gift of being shoved toward great cinema.