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Hi, I'm a graduate student at the University of London and I'm working on a research project on boutique DVD labels. As part of that research I'm doing a survey on buying habits of Criterion collectors. I just have two questions. If any and everyone could respond that would be an amazing help to my project. 

Question one: What are the last five Criterion discs (or boxsets) you have purchased?

Question two: How much prior knowledge had you for each title before you purchased it? Pick the answer which best fits. 

A. I was very familiar with the title. I had already seen it either in the cinema or through some home viewing platform (i.e. earlier DVD, VHS, TV). 

B. I had heard of the title, perhaps read about it, had been curious about it for some time, but had never seen it until purchasing the Criterion. 

C. I only discovered the title once Criterion released it. It was based on the fact that they released it that I became aware of and interested in the title. 

So for each title that you've listed could you put the corresponding letter from question 2 next to it. 

Example: 

Tokyo Story - A
Salo - B
Crumb - C 

I think it will be very interesting to see the extent to which Criterion is giving audiences their first contact with many important films. 

Thanks 

Repulsion - A
That Obscure Object of Desire - A
Cries and Whispers - A
White Dog - B
The Seventh Seal - A

I do a lot less blind buying these days.

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Vol. 2-C
Stagecoach-B
Walkabout (2d ed.)-A
Ride With the Devil-C
The Fugitive Kind-C

Make Way for Tomorrow - A
The Third Man - A
An Autumn Afternoon - A
Larisa Shepitko (Eclipse) - C
The Fire Within - C

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi - B
Nanook of the North - B
A Woman is a Woman - B
Two or Three Things I Know About Her - B
Heaven Can Wait - B

I tend to buy things i've read/heard a lot about but haven't seen before.

That Obscure Object of Desire- A
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- A
Le Corbeau- B
Coup de Torchon- C
Port of Shadows- B

M - A (used to be a B before Blu-Ray, though)
Stagecoach - B
The Human Condition - A
Z - A
Le Jour se Lève - B

(Last C : Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu)

Paris, Texas - A
Gimme Shelter - A
Last Days of Disco - B
The Fugitive Kind - B
Oshima's Outlaw Sixties - C

Vivre Sa Vie - A
Chungking Express - A
Wise Blood - A
Made in U.S.A. - A
Mon Oncle Antoine - B

Summer Hours - B
Bigger Than Life - B
Vivre Sa Vie - B
Days of Heaven - A
The Fugitive Kind - B

8 1/2 - A
Dillinger is Dead - A
Letters from Fontainlas - A
Days of Heaven - A
Chantal Akerman - B

Oshima's Outlaw Sixties - B
Simon of the Desert - C
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs - C
Pierrot le Fou - A
Grand Illusion - C

Battle of Algiers - A
Walkabout - B
Sanjuro/Yojimbo Set - A
Vivre Sa Vie - A
Hunger - A

Eisenstein: The Sound Years - A
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - B
La Haine - C
Kaurismaki's Proletarian Trilogy - C
The Lady Eve - B

1. Le Jour se Leve - A
2. Mayerling - C
3. Jeanne Dielman - A
4. Oshima's Outlaw Sixties - B
5. Walkabout - A

Diary of A Chambermaid -B
Bob le flambeur - B
The Milky Way - B
Billy Liar - C
Touchez pas au grisbi - C

Stagecoach [Blu] - B
Oshima's Outlaw Sixties - AB split
Bigger that Life [Blu] - B
Wages of Fear [Blu] - B
Jeanne Dielman - B

EDIT: Blu clarification for titles (if this is necessary?)

1. Days of Heaven - A
2. Mystery Train - B
3. The Fugitive Kind - B
4. Oshima's Outlaw Sixties - Two titles are A, three titles are B
5. Burden of Dreams - A

Bob le Flambeur - B
That Obscure Object of Desire - B
Billy Liar - C
Diary of a Chambermaid - B
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - B

They were going out-of-print and I did not already own them, I had to snap them up!

I'll be contrarian and do ten, since there is a better A to C spread that way! The order is most recent first in case you just want to take the top five for your survey!

The Wages of Fear (Blu-Ray upgrade. Thanks Awesome Welles!) - A
Bigger Than Life (Blu-Ray upgrade. Thanks Aweseome Welles!) - A
Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films By Pedro Costa - B
Silent Ozu - B
The Exterminating Angel - A
Under The Volcano - C
Mala Noche - C
Sawdust And Tinsel - A
The Golden Age of Television - C
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy - B

1. Mystery Train [Blu] - B
2. Heaven Can Wait - A
3. Stagecoach [Blu} - B
4. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two [Blu] - A
5. Walkabout [Blu] - A

"A" might not fit well for Brakhage.

By Brakhage I&II (Blu) - A,B,C (seen some, read about others, many completely new from set II)
Stagecoach (Blu) - A
M (Blu) - A
Walkabout (Blu) -B
Oshima Sixities - B & C (read about Violence at Noon, rest new to me)

Oshimas Outlaw Sixties - A/B (I had seen two from the set, the other three were known from essays etc)
Nikkatsu Noir - C
Dušan Makavejev Free Radical - B
Z - A
Sword of the Beast - C

Wings of Desire - A
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her - A
Made in USA - A
Human Condition - A
My Dinner with Andre - A

The Man Who Fell To Earth - B
Stagecoach - A
Quai Des Orfevres - C
Diary of a Country Priest - B
Le Corbeau - C