DVDs I Own
Submitted by DaveMog on Fri, 03/30/2001 - 02:00
Tags:
- The Fisher King
- Dr. Strangelove
- American Beauty
- Being John Malkovich
- Fargo
- Raising Arizona
- Ben Hur
- North By Northwest
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Dralion (Cirque du Soleil)
- Manhattan
- Brazil
- There's Something About Mary (By contrast to "Top Secret" - see below - this movie has one of the funnier running commentaries I've heard on a DVD. It's no "This is Spinal Tap," but pretty good.)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Midnight Run
- Bowfinger
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- O Brother Where Art Thou
- You Can Count on Me
- The Godfather Trilogy DVD Collection
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- The World According to Garp
- Traffic
- Animal House
- Fight Club (interestingly, I did not initially really like this movie, but it has really grown on me, or else Jim just made me like it)
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Graduate
- Top Secret (This has, quite possibly, the worst director/writer's running commentary I have ever heard on a DVD. I guess it has somewhat to do with doing it so many years after the movie was made, but it is positively horrible)
- The Goodbye Girl
- Snatch
- A Christmas Story
- Witness
- The Royal Tennenbaums
- Bull Durham
- Moonstruck
- Miller's Crossing (FINALLY!!!)
- The Natural
- The Producers
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Homicide:Life on the Street: Complete Seasons 1&2
- The Out of Towners (the good version - in other words, the one with Jack Lemmon)
- Indiana Jones trilogy
- The Apartment
- Sideways
- Pleasantville
- Paths of Glory
- Garden State
- My Architect: An Son's Journey
- Road to Perdition
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Adaptation
- Swingers
Author Comments:
What a mixed bag - I mean, "There's Something About Mary" and "Ben Hur"...
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From Digitalbits.com:
"Also coming from the studio in 2003 are a trio of Coen Brothers DVDs with at least some special edition content - Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and Raising Arizona."
I'm pretty happy too.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I just saw "Barton Fink" tonight, and I absolutely loved it. I think I'll have to buy it on DVD - maybe if it has commentary from the Coens, it will shed some light on the interpretation of the movie, because I'm amazed yet baffled.
Hey cool, I didn't know I'd made any progress on the Fight Club front!
Sir Dave! Nice to see you back in town. So what are the new entries on this list? Christmas presents, I assume? Do you favor Snatch over Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels?
Indeed, I got all of those last 5 for Christmas. I seemed to have banked a lot of movies, as if I were some movie buff of something. It's funny - I have seen only TWO movies in the theater in the last 2 years, since becoming a grad student - they were "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." I liked both, but it reveals that I will need videos to catch myself up with the myriad of movies I miss in the theater. I never even saw "Attack of the Clones" in the theater, though I could have seen it in Italy. It was such a failure that it was gone from the theaters when I got back to the States.
As for your question, I liked both "Snatch" and "lock, Stock..." They're similar in a lot of ways. I think "Snatch" is a bit better, though, because Dennis Farina is in it, the villain is better, and it is simply funnier. I can quote it at length.
Ooooooh, Homicide! I know I'm turning green, and I think I can sense at least one other Listologist going all Kermitty too. :-)
You can sense me that far away? Impressive.
Sadly, I don't think I have bought a new DVD in over a year or so. I did get some nifty ones for my birthday earlier this year, but that's it. !I will be biting the bullet and buying my favorite film when it arrives in November...)
I'm thinking Homicide will be on my Christmas wish list. What a show...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Amateur?
:)
According to both Amazon and All Movie Guide, it hits 11/11 (I've a link on the front page here). Oh yes, I am excited.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
:-) I don't know how I missed that front page note of yours! Could have saved me a lot of time guessing and checking release dates...
(although not that much time: Bringing up Baby was my first guess, and I was also going to guess North by Northwest but I know that one's already out on DVD.)
I'm a bit scared though. After your question, I double-checked Amateur's DVD debut on Barnes and Noble, and they show it to be a yokelvision release! I REALLY hope that is a mistake.
I mean really, how large of an audience can this little film have, and how much of that select audience really wants this film in yokelvision? I'm guessing well under five (maybe even one) percent...
Here's hoping they boo-booed!
By the way, good other guesses!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Oh man, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! I just got Yokelvisioned last night. My video store, when it stocks widescreen, usually also has a few Yokelvision titles mixed in. Somebody wasn't very careful putting the boxes back in front of the DVDs, so imagine my unpleasant surprise at firing up the movie and seeing those dreaded words: "this movie has been formatted to fit your screen..."
Well, now that I've done a little research, I guess the good news is that the film was shot with a 1.66:1 screen ratio, a ratio which is not very different from the standard 1.33:1 screen ratio of pan and scan. My videotape (recorded from the IFC showing) is letterboxed, and the bars are barely there.
I'm still not happy about it, but I guess it is not as dire as I first thought.
Still, I am curious...Just how much of a demand was there for a pan and scan Amateur?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Any Yokelizing is too much. It's unacceptable unless the original aspect ratio was 1.33:1. No compromises! :-)
I think B&N *has* to have it wrong, though. I can't remember the last time a movie of any interest was released on DVD in Yokelvision exclusively. Everything seems to either be widescreen exclusively, or both formats are offered. But if B&N's *not* wrong, boy, what a bone-headed move, and one that would throw you onto the horns of a dilemma: do you buy the DVD to support Hartley's movies being released in any form, or boycott over the movie getting such shabby treatment?
Well, I hate to be a smartass... actually, I like to be a smartass... but even though the ratio of a TV screen is indeed 1.33:1, the old movies were actually shot in 1.37:1. Those movies are still reduced to 1.33:1 everywhere - VHS, DVD, even a legit classics channel like Turner Classic Movies. So unless you watch a revival in theaters, you're losing 3% of the image on all those old movies.
Not on my TV - I scraped away 3% of the plastic that encases the picture tube months ago.
That's impressive. It seems I've underestimated you.
Ah, yes. The Academy ratio versus the average television ratio.
I don't lose any sleep over it... :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I'm still pondering. My videotape copy is looking pretty grainy, and the VCR I taped on wasn't stereo, so I am leaning toward the purchase. Am I a fallen man?
I'm still hoping somebody saw the film and didn't notice the bars. I'm telling you, they are hardly there.
I hope so much, I'm hopeless.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Nah, not a fallen man. Even I'm not that zealous.
No sooner do I type this than it changes. I traded in a few older CDs last night in exchange for a used Mulholland Dr. DVD.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Cool! I hope you didn't have to part with anything too dear on the CD front. I'd be curious to hear if Mulholland Drive holds up for you on multiple viewings.
Nope. After hearing how wonderful the newer Dylan releases sound, I just sold a few older copies I had newer versions of. Goodbye old Freewheelin', Blonde, Blood, and Love & Theft; hello Mulholland Dr. and enough change to cover that black bean veggie burger I had for lunch on Wednesday...
I can already tell you that Mulholland held up for me. I watched it twice in the theaters and several times on the campus movie station here where it oddly played quite a number of times. I still love it.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Aargh, stupid MPAA. I really wanna see that.
BTW, not to sound like a pervert or anything, I heard a rumor that one of the actresses in "Mulholland Drive" requested that David Lynch censor one of her nude scenes in the movie, and he conceded. Is that true on your DVD?
I think such censorship is reprehensible. Then again, it may be just a rumor, because it doesn't sound like a very Lynchy thing to do.
Well, I haven't had the chance to watch any of my new DVD yet, but my understanding is that Lynch did indeed blur lower frontal areas of Laura Elena Harring (which, if I recall, could not have been on screen for more than a second or two and is in a dark, shadowy scene), stating that he never intended that her shots become Internet pin-up pictures.
I did see the DVD when it showed on that campus movie channel I mentioned earlier and didn't notice a thing different. I only read about the digital touch-up later. So, really, it cannot be too obvious unless, er, somebody is staring and perhaps pausing, I'm guessing.
The accounts I read seem to indicate the decision came straight from Lynch himself, but who knows?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs