What the Criterion Collection's releases have offered me (like "The Rules of the Game," "The Double Life of Veronique," "Sansho The Bailiff," "The Battle of Algiers," "Seven Samurai," "Pandora's Box," "White Dog") is an aesthetic, sonorous, enriching and appealing way of looking more closely, more carefully and with greater involvement, into aspects of personal and public life, and the people in our lives who help shape them directly and indirectly.