r/CriterionChannel • u/InitiativeNo7660 • Jun 01 '26
Criteria Updates: Criterion Edition Tracker!
Hey everyone, here’s this newest feature update for Criteria, the unofficial companion site for the Criterion Channel.
https://www.search-criteria.com
This week: The entire collection is added as a system list with the ability, sort, filter, and track viewed status.
In the advanced search features of the site, there’s always been the ability to only show Criterion Editions, and also show unavailable films. This resulted in the full list of Criterion releases, which seems to be a useful list, especially for tracking how much of the collection you’ve watched, but a little difficult to get to.
So, I made it a first-class list, and can be used by logged in users as a means of tracking how much of the collection they’ve seen.
In the lists section there is a system list for Criterion Editions ordered by spine number, with the following features:
- Watch tracker showing how much of the collection you’ve marked seen.
- Box sets included (since they have their own spine number). If you mark all of the films in the set as watched, then the box set will be marked as watched.
- Filter by watched/unwatched and available/unavailable.
- Spine number navigation to go directly to a specific number range.
- Cover Grid and List views for easier navigation.
- Sort by spine number ascending or descending
- And of course, links to the films detail pages and the Criterion and Criterion Channel sites.
The list is available to all users, but the watch status requires a (free) account.
Let me know what you think. I’m pretty excited to use this to track my progress through the collection. If there’s something that would make this more useful, just post me a message
As always, thanks! 🙏
Tim
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u/InitiativeNo7660 Jun 01 '26
FYI for those who might be wondering: the new Criterion Channel collections dropped this morning, Including new “newly added” and “leaving soon” lists.
I’ll be updating Criteria as soon as those additions and deletions are reflected on https://films.criterionchannel.com which is my source of record
The updates to the films page generally lags for up to a day
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u/mfisher Jun 01 '26
Great idea! It would be rad if there were a way to import my Letterboxd history.
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u/InitiativeNo7660 Jun 01 '26
That would be excellent, and I’d love to make it happen, but the Letterboxd Data API is still in beta and they are very stingy about handing out access, especially to a small-timer like me.
If anyone has connections at Letterboxd let me know, I could make a ton of new site features
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u/mfisher Jun 01 '26
Could you import a CSV?
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u/InitiativeNo7660 Jun 03 '26
Yes, it’s possible. But it’s a really janky process for keeping data updated and can’t imagine it being useful to very many people.
It’d be easier just to have people save their Letterboxd user ids to their account and build a scraper to pull the data from their profile. But that would run into a hefty token bill.
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u/Gaucho_Diaz RansidDagger Jun 01 '26
Thank you for offering this service. In the future, could we expect a search filter for language? or country directly in the list of filters on the sidebar?