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A few cuts through the catalog, chosen rather than computed. Each one opens in search with its filters already set — change them from there.

• Japanese comediesTwo facets that sound like they shouldn't meet. Criterion's Japanese shelf reads as Ozu and Kurosawa until you ask it this.
• Over three hoursFilms that ask for an evening rather than a sitting. Runtime is a filter most catalogs bury; here it is a way to plan a night.
• Films with a commentary trackEvery title on the Channel carrying a commentary. The supplement is often the reason to watch the film a second time.
• The Collection, by spine numberThe physical Collection in its own order, which is neither chronological nor alphabetical — it is the order Criterion published in, and it reads as a history of the label.
• No longer streamingEverything the catalog still knows about that you can no longer watch. The gaps are the point: this is what the archive lost.
• Before soundEverything made before 1930. A period the Channel carries more of than its front page ever suggests.