DVD Gift Sets I Wish Existed
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Fri, 02/07/2003 - 02:34
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- Academy Awards Best Picture Winners That Are Virtually Unwatched Today Series, The - This 6-DVD set includes "Cimarron", "The Greatest Show On Earth", "Cavalcade", "Gigi", "All the King's Men", and "A Man for All Seasons"
- Damn, These Films Are Wide - This 6-DVD set includes all films with aspect ratios of 2.55:1 or greater. It includes "Ben-Hur" (1959), "Seven Year Itch", "How to Marry a Millionaire", "East of Eden, "Rebel Without a Cause", and "Mister Roberts"
- Decalogue, The - This set includes all parts of Kieslowski's "Decalogue"
- It's The Same Plot Volume 1: The Front Page - This 4-DVD set includes "The Front Page" (1931), "His Girl Friday", "The Front Page" (1974), and "Switching Channels"
- It's The Same Plot Volume 2: Heaven Can Wait - This 3-DVD set includes "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", "Heaven Can Wait" (1978), and "Down to Earth" (2001)
- It's The Same Plot Volume 3: A Star Is Born - This 3-DVD set includes "A Star Is Born" (1937), "A Star Is Born" (1954), and "A Star Is Born" (1976)
- It's The Same Plot Volume 4: Hamlet - This 83-DVD set includes... nah, I'm just kidding.
- Journey Into Film-Noir, A - This 5-DVD set includes "Sunset Boulevard", "The Maltese Falcon", "Out of the Past", "Double Indemnity", and "Notorious"
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Bergman, Ingmar - This 5-DVD set includes "The Seventh Seal", "Wild Strawberries", "Persona", "Fanny and Alexander", and "Smiles of a Summer Night"
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Bresson, Robert - This 4-DVD set includes "Pickpocket", "Au Hasard Balthazar", "A Man Escaped", and "Diary of a Country Priest"
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Bunuel, Luis - This 5-DVD set includes "The Exterminating Angel", "L'Age D'Or", "Viridiana", "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", and "Belle de Jour." One of the DVDs should include "Un Chien Andalou" as an extra feature.
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Fellini, Federico - This 6-DVD set includes "8 1/2", "La Strada", "Nights of Cabiria", "Juliet of the Spirits", "Amarcord", and "La Dolce Vita" (which they REALLY have to release on DVD!)
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Godard, Jean-Luc - This 5-DVD set includes "Breathless", "Contempt", "Pierrot La Fou", "My Life to Live", and "Alphavile"
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Lang, Fritz - This 3-DVD set includes "M", "Metropolis", and "Siegfried" (I just realized that for a foreign director, this guy directed surprisingly few foreign films)
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Mizoguchi, Kenji - This 3-DVD set includes "Ugetsu", "Sansho the Bailiff", and "Life of Oharu"
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Ozu, Yasujiro - This 4-DVD set includes "Tokyo Story", "Floating Weeds", "I Was Born But...", and "An Autumn Afternoon"
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Renoir, Jean - This 5-DVD set includes "Rules of the Game", "Grand Illusion", "The Human Beast", "Boudu Saved From Drowning", and "La Chienne"
- Luminaries of the Foreign Film: Tarkovsky, Andrei - This 4-DVD set includes "Stalker", "The Mirror", "Andrei Rublev", and "Solaris" (1972)
- Seasons of Seinfeld on DVD: They've been doing it with other popular shows. Now those great episodes of "Seinfeld" need to be released on DVD. Don't you think this is a great idea? There's big money in this. People want to relive their favorite "Seinfeld" episodes without waiting for them to come up in syndication.
- Silent Comedians Volume I: Chaplin - This 6-DVD set includes "The Gold Rush", "City Lights", "Modern Times", "The Circus", "The Kid", and a collection of shorts
- Silent Comedians Volume II: Keaton - This 8-DVD set includes "The General", "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", "The Navigator", "The Cameraman", "Our Hospitality", "Seven Chances", "College", and a collection of shorts
- Silent Comedians Volume III: Lloyd - This 6-DVD set includes "Safety Last", "The Kid Brother", "The Freshman", "Speedy", "Girl Shy", and a collection of shorts
- Silent Dramas: D.W. Griffith - This 3-DVD set included "Birth of a Nation", "Intolerance", and "Broken Blossoms"
- Silent Dramas: Other - Unsophisticatedly yet appropriately named, this 5-DVD set includes "Greed", "Sunrise", "The Battleship Potemkin", "The Man With the Movie Camera", and "Pandora's Box"
- Up Documentaries, The - This 6-DVD set includes "Seven Up", "Seven Plus Seven", "21 Up", "28 Up", "35 Up", and "42: Forty-Two Up"
Author Comments:
If I were in charge of which movies went into DVD gift sets, I'd have some better ideas. At least, better for me. I'd want to get some of those more obscure, harder-to-find movies on DVD and in gift packs, and that's really the point of this list, although some of these sets are just creative ideas I've come up with.
Note: I did not include Kurosawa in the LOTFF collection simply because he already has a pretty good DVD gift set, which I own. Carl Theodor Dreyer has two different sets.
Suggestions / changes are welcome.
Great list! Pretty funny Hamlet entry. I don't have time to look it up, but I'm pretty sure there's a big ol' Buster Keaton collection on Amazon somewhere.
I checked that out. It seemed pretty cool, but I can't afford it. I should add that all of my DVD gift sets would be fairly cheap, because they wouldn't spend hundreds of dollars to improve the picture quality by 3%, and they wouldn't put on superfluous features. Sure, sometimes the theatrical trailer or the five-minute interview with the director is interesting, but if it raises the price of the DVD by 10 bucks, I'll pass, thanks.