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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,735 Views)
marlin lee
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Picked up Alex Haley's Queen today. Circuit City was supposed to have 2 copies in stock but noone could find them. Fortunately Wal-Mart had it where it was easy to spot.
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That Criterion Eclipse set of postwar Kurasawa films arrived today.
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The Batman
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Big haul to the Batcave this week:

EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA
TREASURES III: SOCIAL ISSUES IN AMERICAN FILM (1900- 1934)
RIFFI (Criterion #115 - for those that like to tout the numbering, I just like to watch the films)

Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman...then always be Batman!
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igsjr
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I've only had this happen one other time, and that's when the price of The Three Stooges Collection: 1934-1936 came down about fifty cents when I preordered it from Amazon. I also preordered The Rockford Files: Season Five from Amazon at 27.99...and ended paying 24.99 in the end.

Anyhoo, that arrived in today's mail...along with my third copy of Buster Keaton's The General (1927). Before you start wondering, I ordered this DVD along with a 2008 Silent Movie calendar that's being offered at www.mont-alto.com, because the proceeds will be donated to silent film preservation, a cause I can certainly get behind.

Finally, a miscellaneous set of Columbia comedy shorts (featuring Charley Chase, Vera Vague, Schilling & Lane, etc.) that I received from Balconeer-in-Good-Standing Rodney. I ate these up as a kid, and I'm glad to see they're still funny even though I'm much, much older.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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Haven't ordered it yet, but will get Hawaii 5-O season 3 next week. Fine police show set in a tropical paradise that dealt alternately with crime and espionage. Catchy theme music, too.

Also have to pick up the Honeymooners original 39 set, just because.

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Book 'em, Danno!
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I just looked outside and found a pair of packages lying on the porch that were prob'ly left there by the UPS person. In it are the Criterions that I purchased at Barnes & Noble's Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale (darn that Gravy for mentioning it...that...that...EXPERT!): The Wages of Fear, Rififi, Stray Dog, Army of Shadows, Band of Outsiders and Contempt.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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Arrived today from jolly ol' England -- The Innocents! I ordered it from there 'cause it's a widescreen anamorphic special edition loaded with extras, as opposed to the barebones pan&scan available in the U.S.

Also enclosed: the new single by the Stereophonics! Kelly Jones doing GIMME SHELTER! Woo-hoo!
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I saw Stereophonics once and they were pretty bad. Never been a fan of any band that feels that two kick drums are necessary, especially when they have the drummer's name on them (STUART CABLE in this case, I believe). I went for the opener, JJ72, who released two highly emotional albums (one is import only) and then dropped off the face of the earth.
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Mr. Cable was actually tossed from the band... They have a new drummer. They're my fave band in the whole, wide world.
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Yesterday, I received series one and two of May to December, a Britcom that we used to watch frequently on GPTV (Georgia Public Television) before its British comedy schedule became dominated by Are You Being Served? Both Region 2 discs were on sale at Amazon.co.uk.

I also received a sopy of Los Valientes Andan Solos, the Spanish translation of Lonely are the Brave (1962), the critically-acclaimed modern-day Western starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau. I've only seen this one once, and I've never been able to figure out why it doesn't get shown on TV more often. If anyone's interested (and has a region-free player) you can get a copy at www.xploitedcinema.com.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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marlin lee
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Picked up Ella Enchanted locally and finally received my order of Westward the Women.
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Truffaut's The 400 Blows (Criterion #5).

My Criterion Collection now looks like:

1 Grand Illusion
2 Seven Samurai (3-disc edition)
3 The Lady Vanishes
4 Amarcord
5 The 400 Blows
6 Beauty and the Beast
11 The Seventh Seal
19 Shock Corridor
30 M
35 Diabolique
36 The Wages of Fear
49 Nights of Cabiria
52-53 Yojimbo / Sanjuro
56 The 39 Steps
58 Peeping Tom
62 The Passion of Joan of Arc
63 Carnival of Souls
64 The Third Man
72 Le Million
77 “…and God created woman”
78 The Bank Dick
79 W.C. Fields: 6 Shorts
89 Sisters
91 The Blob
92 Fiend without a Face
93 Black Narcissus
96 Written on the Wind
98 L’Avventura
103 The Lady Eve
109 The Scarlet Empress
110 M. Hulot’s Holiday
112 Playtime
114 My Man Godfrey
115 Rififi
117 Diary of a Chambermaid
118 Sullivan’s Travels
135 Rebecca
137 Notorious
139 Wild Strawberries
140 8½
149 Juliet of the Spirits
157 The Royal Tenenbaums
158 The Importance of Being Earnest
160 A Nous la Liberte
161 Under the Roofs of Paris
168 Monterey Pop
170 Trouble in Paradise
173 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
176 The Killers
180-1 I Am Curious Yellow / Blue
190 Throne of Blood
193 Quai des Orfevres
196 Hiroshima Mon Amour
197 Night and Fog
201 Umberto D
214 The Devil and Daniel Webster
215 Knife in the Water
216 The Rules of the Game
224 Pickup on South Street
227 Le Corbeau
232 Floating Weeds
234 The Tin Drum
237 Smiles of a Summer Night
239 The Lower Depths
245 Port of Shadows
249 The Battle of Algiers
260 Eyes without a Face
266 King of Kings
271 Touchez pas au Grisbi
272 La Commare Secca
273 Thieves’ Highway
274 The River
281 Jules and Jim
286 Divorce Italian Style
288 F for Fake
289 Hoop Dreams
291 Heaven Can Wait
292 Unfaithfully Yours
294 The Browning Version
296 Le Notti Bianche
297 au hazard Balthazar
300 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
305 Boudu Saved from Drowning
308 Masculin Feminin
316 Ran
318 Forbidden Games
320 Young Mr. Lincoln
321 The Virgin Spring
323 The Children are Watching Us
324 La Bete Humaine
333 Fists in the Pocket
335 Elevator to the Gallows
338 Equinox
341 A Canterbury Tale
357 The Fallen Idol
358 Pandora’s Box
364-8 Monsters & Madmen Collection
The Haunted Strangler
Corridors of Blood
First Man into Space
The Atomic Submarine
374 Bicycle Thieves
375 Green for Danger
385 Army of Shadows
386 Sansho the Bailiff
396 Ace in the Hole
402 The Milky Way
404 Robinson Crusoe on Mars
405 The 3 Penny Opera
406 Days of Heaven
408 Breathless
413 Drunken Angel
414 Two-Lane Blacktop

Criterion Eclipse Series

1 Early Bergman
Torment
Crisis
Port of Call
Thirst
To Joy

2 Documentaries of Louis Malle
Vive le Tour
Humain, Trop Humain
Place de la Republique
Phantom India
Calcutta
God’s Country
…and the Pursuit of Happiness

3 Late Ozu
Early Spring
Tokyo Twilight
Equinox Flower
Late Autumn
The End of Summer

4 Raymond Bernard
Wooden Crosses
Les Misérables

5 First Films of Samuel Fuller
I Shot Jesse James
The Baron of Arizona
The Steel Helmet

6 Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy
Blood Wedding
Carmen
El Amor Brujo

7 Postwar Kurosawa
No Regrets for Our Youth
One Wonderful Sunday
Scandal
The Idiot
I Live in Fear

"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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Nice collection. Here is my Criterion collection:
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Wow, Stony! We have the same titles in our Criterion collections!
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