I was also puzzled by this release, but came to the conclusion that it probably makes a lot of sense for libraries and schools. For consumers? Not so much. On top of the reasons mentioned in the article, I like individual releases. I feel like the custom cover art and essay booklets is a lot of what you’re purchasing when you drop money on a Criterion. And they fit nicely on my shelves.

Hoping to grab Stagecoach, The Rules of the Game, and Wall-E. There’s a good chance I’ll also pick up a Hitchcock or Kurosawa film and a documentary as well, pending what my local B&N has in stock.

I watched four films this week, all of which I’d seen before (so clearly I quite like them all):

• It Happened One Night (1934)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• 21 Jump Street (2012)

Really tough to choose one, but would probably have to give the nod to Mr Smith. Jimmy Stewart is just too good.

as long as the community is created on a larger instance it should show up when users sort by all within that instance

This is an issue for communities that are on smaller instances, and with the current algorithm it’s like a brick wall trying to break through to feeds of users on the big instances. For example, the most active college football community is [email protected] but the abandoned community on lemmy.world keeps gaining subscribers (even with no content).

As a whole, niche-driven instances (e.g. sport, film, literature, aviation) and geography-focused instances (e.g. midwest, dmv) just aren’t gaining much traction.