Criterion to celebrate its 1000th release with an 8-disc set of Godzilla movies

One thousand is a big number and Godzilla is a big monster, so it only makes sense that Criterion would celebrate its 1000th release with a huge tribute to everybody’s favorite guy in a rubber suit and his kaiju buddies. As announced today in a press release, Criterion is putting together an eight-disc Blu-ray set that covers “all the Godzilla films from Japan’s Shōwa era” (which was 1926-1989). That means an earth-shaking 15 monster movies, all “presented in high-definition digital transfers” with a whole bunch of “supplemental material” like a “giant” book with notes on every film, new and old interviews with cast and crew members, audio commentaries, various dub tracks, features about the special effects (as well as unused effects sequences), an “illustrated audio essay” about the “real-life tragedy that inspired Godzilla,” new English translations for the subtitles, and classic trailers.