Last few DVDs you've added to your collection...

What's Up Tiger Lily?
Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams"
The Human Tornado (Dolemite II)
Monkees: Head

 

APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX

ANGEL Season 2



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Chuck Jones - A Life In Animation ($9.99)
Audioslave - Audioslave EP ($8.99)
Pearl Harbor/Armageddon (both for $19.99 deal)

I'm enjoying all of these immensely, even though I know Pearl Harbor and Armageddon are not exactly everyone else's cup of tea, and was very pleasantly surprised at the pricing on all of them. Sometimes it pays to wait awhile before purchasing.

 

RE: Ghost & Mr. Chicken

Even though I don't believe I've ever watched the whole movie, which I really should now that it's on DVD and I'm thinking about this, Ghost & Mr. Chicken has some fond memories for me personally as well.

While I can't really remember anything else about the movie, other than knowing Don Knotts was the star, I vividly remember seeing this on TV when I was very young and being quite spooked by the piano playing by itself. It was the first time that I can recall being scared by something on TV. I remember asking my dad about how the piano could play by itself and the subsequent discussion started my longtime fascination with special effects that continues to this day.

 

Just got Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Sleeping Beauty.

 

Paper Moon

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Tiger Lily? (FINALLY!)

Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park

I Love You To Death

 

Usually I rent, but I couldn't resist 'by Brakhage: an anthology'. I saw many of these films in college, and I like having the DVD's because the individual frames are separate little paintings, drawings, etchings. I plan to go back to this set hundreds of times. Nice plain spoken commentary by Brakhage about each film, too.

 

The Graduate
Bull Durham
Get Shorty
Below
Chicago

(playin catch-up in levi-land)

 

So, I'm not missing anything with the Hallmark DVD's?

 

How's Sleeping Beauty look?

 

I brought:

'Sleeping Beauty' (with BB comp CD)
CC 'Insomnia'
'On the Waterfront' SE
CC 'Traffic'
'All About Eve' SE
'Gentleman's Agreement' SE

 

Looks great to me. Seems to be a real nice restoration job.

 

The Day of the Jackel - 1973
Dr. Strangelove - Special Edition

 

The Simpsons-Complete Third Season
Family Guy-Volume Two-Third Season
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
Paper Moon
Joni Mitchell-Shadows And Light

 

60's Allstars Vol 1 - includes a lovely colour synch-up of Baby Let ME Take You Home by The Animals

Unplugged - The Corrs. What an incredible performance - their musicianship is superb - and it's magic when Caroline smiles.

 

Did we completely talk about the new Sleeping Beauty transfer yet? Any big problems to history again??

 

In recent days:

The Making of Dark Side of the Moon - It seems kinda funny watching these proper British gentlemen talking about this spacey epic album; really enjoyed this; is Steely Dan's Aja done as well? anyone? How about "Who's Next"?

Valley Girl - yeah, go ahead and laugh, but it's a lot of fun and a great 80's soundtrack and has some of the best supplementals I've seen this year

Day The Earth Stood Still - it takes its place in my film library along with my deluxe boxed laserdisc; it still rings true after all these years; it's good to be a Gort

The Thing (From Another World) - I still like the original best, but Carpenter's version IS truer to the book if only by virtue of time and special effects

Rocky and Bullwinkle Season 1 - learned a lot about politics when I was a kid by watching this

Koyaanisqatsi - (sp?) - some of the best visuals I've ever seen on film; Philip Glass soundtrack if you're into minimalism; inspired the time-lapse film project I'm working on now

Still looking for:

To Kill A Mockingbird - it's available now but doesn't have all the extras that were on the laserdisc version.....I'll wait


....and to whoever said there was a Superbit version of "Lawrence of Arabia"....THANKS!! I'm sitting in Borders right now typing this out and I'm heading back to the DVD area after I log off to pick up this title (again); talk about a movie that is still significant in today's world....watch the scene at the end of the movie with Anthony Quinn and Peter O'Toole as they try to get all these nomadic, warring factions to sit around a meeting table to iron out their differences and create some form of harmonious government....we never learn from history, do we? (oops, sorry....no thread crapping allowed....."Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto!")

Yours at 24 frames a second,

dave

 

Pink Floyd DSOTM - DVD
Chicken Run

 

Led Zeppelin DVD
Lawrence Of Arabia Superbit
Leon: The Professional Superbit

 

High School Reunion Collection (The Breakfast Club / Sixteen Candles / Weird Science)

 

Pink Floyd "DSOTM- Classic Albums documentary"
The Simpsons- "third season"
Monty Python- "The Meaning Of Life-Special Edition"
Jimi Hendrix- Jimi Plays Berkeley (comes out on Tuesday--the local Best Buy had it out now. Great remixed soundtrack--same grainy picture (and terrible edits--huge chunks of music deleted. Aparrently, EH did not have access to the negatives or scenes deleted from the early 70's version of the film and Eddie Kramer was forced to cut the music to match their print of the film. On the plus side the DVD contains Jimi's second set from Berkeley in audio form only)

 

LOTR - The Two Towers
Grateful Dawg - Garcia & Grisman