Children of Men DVD. I had no idea what it was at the time but I bought it for a dollar.
If I watch Tokyo Story than you need to re-watch Ugetsu :P but Tokyo Story will be my next purchase for sure. I have to say that Ugetsu hasn’t much to say but few can deny how beautiful it is. The idea that the two main actors were huge in Japan at the time and their performances came second to the storytelling and cinematography tells me how passionate Mizoguchi is about his style of filmmaking.
Godard’s ‘Breathless’ (Criterion)
but its the only dvd i have.
You’re referring to strictly movie purchases, right?
I would say the John Cassavetes box set. I had never seen any of his movies but knew that he was good enough for me to warrant a blind buy of the box set. I opened it up and the first movie I watched was “Faces” and wow…immediately, he shot to my top 5 directors of all time. Watching his box set also completely changes the way I approach my own films. It led to me buying “Cassavetes on Cassavetes” and I learned even more. It basically changed my outlook on film, life, and made me become a better observer of the world around me.
Im referring to any purchase that has to do with film/television
I still have yet to watch a film by Cassaventes :/
My DVD purchase was Chinatown
okay when i red the name of the topic ,i thought u r asking as in like car or any gadget or something but not. so ….in dvd’s hmm i have to think about that .
“If I watch Tokyo Story than you need to re-watch Ugetsu…”
That’s a deal.
Cassavetes is a monster, too. Amazing filmmaker.
Cassavetes Five Films :D
The Complete Cracker Collection, although its just a series, its phenomenal (e.g. with one serie by michael winterbottom)
The Twin Peaks Collection (just the Season One) by Lynch
The Heimat Collection (Homeland) by Reitz although difficult to get English subtitles
^ Ive never heard of any of those!
You’ve never heard of Twin Peaks?
actually no, i have only seen Mulholland Dr. and Eraserhead. Lynch is still an obscure director in my world.
the heimat collection is even in Germany mostly unknown but it tells a wonderful story mixing german history from before world war I until the eighties with the history of a family in a little village in germany. It has been sold to many countries and it seems somehow in Italy and other countries more popular than in Germany …however the chronicle won prices in Cannes and Vendig…
well….to lynch is not much to say….
Crackers has been shown on television like other series in the last years and I usually do not spend much time on series….but this one is just great…and each series is a film itself
from www.cracker.tv.co.uk:
Cracker, which was created by Jimmy McGovern, ran as a series from 1993-1995 (with a one-off special screened in 1996 and a further special now due in 2006) and starred Robbie Coltrane as Dr Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a troubled criminal psychologist brought into assist the Manchester Police Force profile and catch killers. It was a phenomenal success during it’s initial screening on British Television, winning numerous awards and gaining millions of viewers. It has since gone on to establish itself as one of the best and most influential television drama series of all time.
This is kind of hard to say how many purchases were the best I ever bought, but I’ll try and list just a few. The first one that comes immediately to mind is my Blade Runner box set. I bought it off of Deepdisount.com and I got it fairly cheap. I think fifty five dollars. I think I must have seen Blade Runner at least twenty to twenty five times, more or less. I like the fact that you can watch whatever version you feel like watching. The extra features are great too and I love how they go into great detail about how they made the film and it’s impact. I like the folder withe the art and the storyboards as well as the toy unicorn, the spinner car and the moving image of Deckard in a piece of glass. And that the outside is made like a Voight-Kampf briefcase. I even keep the plastic cover over it. Then, I would have to say my Stanley Kubrick box set which was a few years after his death. Kubrick is my favorite director and I have seen a lot of his films probably at least twenty times. I also have a copy of the Ultimate Toy Box which carries Toy Story, Toy Story Two and a third disc with special features. I believe they do not publish that version of Toy Story at the moment and I think it is a fairly rare box set. I think there were only a limited amount of Blade Runner box sets as well, though I could be wrong. I have a three disc edition of Oldboy and I believe they do not make that version as well at the moment. Then, I’ll list just a few more. Eraserhead, Raging Bull and Taxi Driver Special Editions, my David Fincher movies, my Pixar films, especially the Incredibles and probably Finding Nemo. I like watching the extra material on my Peter Jackson DVDs, but I don’t care for the actual Lord of the Rings films though they are somewhat entertaining. However, I enjoy my King Kong DVD. There are other ones I could mention but I would go on too long. A lot of them are directors that are my favorites. There are a few box sets that I haven’t taken a look at yet such as my Alien box set and my Matrix box set. Right now, I am in the process of watching my James Bond box sets and am enjoying them a great deal.
$5 box set from Wal-Mart of three Billy Wilder movies: “Sunset Blvd.,” “Sabrina” and “Stalag 17.”
Criterion thus far: Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales” for those who question about life, love, religion but done in such a fashionably cool way! I haven’t go to the Cassavetes box set though :)
Blu-rays thus far: Taking Criterion out of the picture, one of my favorite purchases so far is the “Casablanca” box set, “Band of Brothers” box set, “Blade Runner” set and an anime called “Freedom” set. James Bond 007 – Sean Connery films only. I enjoyed the release of the Star Trek: TOS set on Blu…but will enjoy it even more with ST:TNG goes on blu. Hmm….
DVD: Taking Criterion of the picture, that’s a hard one but if you were to give me the “if you were stuck on an island and had only a working tv and player what would you watch?” type of question, then I would want: The full set of “Seinfeld” – since it makes me laugh, never gets old for me and always want something happy. BBC’s complete series of “Fawlty Towers”, “Coupling” and “Red Dwarf”. As for films….there’s too many to list.
Kindy, I want that Seinfeld set. It looks so great!
I have yet to see The Six Moral Tales (but I’m very anxious to get to it) but I hope you enjoy the Cassavetes set his films are like no others.
Its about to be AK 100
Great thread. .. Instead of trying to pick a favorite film I’ll go for a doc about the movies. It’s called Cinema Europe – a fantastic 6 hour tour of Europe’s silent film industry. For anyone interested in exploring the beginnings of cinema it’s a teriffic primer.
Tough call. Let’s go with recent great deals. How about today’s haul from the flea market:
Our Man Flint
Gorky Park
A Bridge Too Far
Savages
Doubt
Audition
The Big Sleep
The Long Goodbye
Total Cost: $28
Last week at the flea market:
Ultimate Oliver Stone Collection – $3
Col. Dax
Ozu, for me. I’m completely biased, though. I’ve seen 20 (give or take a film or two) films from Ozu and only 7 from Mizoguchi.
Ugetsu is a film I was never all that impressed with. It never clicked with me the way Sansho the Bailiff, or The Loyal 47 Ronin have. Those two were immediate in grabbing me and said more to me, but I will allow the idea that I’ve never given Ugetsu the time and thought it deserves. I should re-watch it.
Early Spring is very good (as is the entire eclipse box set the film comes in), but a better place to start with Ozu is probably on Tokyo Story, or Late Spring if only to save a few dollars. He’s often accused of creating the same story over and over but that’s hogwash. He explores similar themes in every film but that in no way means he made the same film over and over. There are just as many differences in the late films of Ozu as there are in any great director’s work.