Movie Collection
The holiday break finally gave me some time to work on my cinephile movie collection. I started this project a year and a half ago, and I expect it to be completed by the end of next year. The original goal was to assemble the complete Criterion Collection (over 500 movies), but the scope eventually expanded to create a more comprehensive collection. Today, I intend to add the Eclipse Collection (74 DVDs), the Janus Films (24 additional DVDs), a couple hundred documentaries, and all movies directed by the following artists:
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Darren Aronofsky
- Ingmar Bergman
- Luc Besson
- Danny Boyle
- James Cameron
- Charlie Chaplin
- Joel Coen
- Francis Ford Copolla
- Sofia Copolla
- Federico Fellini
- David Fincher
- Terry Gilliam
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Werner Herzog
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Shohei Imamura
- Peter Jackson
- Jim Jarmusch
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Takeshi Kitano
- Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa
- Sergio Leone
- George Lucas
- David Lynch
- Fernando Meirelles
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Nanni Moretti
- Christopher Nolan
- Fançois Ozon
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Nick Park
- Martin Scorcese
- Ridley Scott
- Oliver Stone
- Quentin Tarentino
- François Truffaut
- Gus Van Sant
- Wim Wenders
The whole collection should be made of about 2,000 DVDs. Each DVD is ripped and stored on a RAID 5 disk array, then converted into MP4 format and added to my iTunes library on a Mac OS X server. Movies are then edited to include title, director, release year, cover art, category, and personal rating. As of today, over 650 movies have been processed. Still a long way to go, but the collection is starting to take shape. Cool stuff…