Nathan, I relplied.
Dead Snow
Safe Men
Exiled
The Signal
The Human Condition-Criterion Selection
Kwaidan
Dossier 51 – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176666/
Heart of a Dog – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096126/
The Forty First – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049783/
The Spider’s Strategem – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066413/
Head Against the Wall – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052328/
Killing Words – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339489/
Static – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090069/
Ghosts of the Civil Dead – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095217/
The Damned House of Hajn – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232475/
The Goat’s Horn – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068814/
The Letter That Was Never Sent – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053106/
Plus a bunch of new Blu-Ray disks.
’Marie-Antoinette
United 93
Elephant
The Manchurian Candidate (the good one)
Paths of Glory (in a pack)
Twelve Angry Men (in a pack)
A Bridge Too Far (never seen, in a pack)
Judgement at Nuremburg (never seen, in a pack)
All of this for under $30’
Wow. :O
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Stardust Memories
George Washington
Most recently:
Pandora’s Box (Pabst)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
Irreversible
My life to live
Lumumba
Black Orpheus
Audition
The conformist
Fear and loathing in las vegas
My first blu-rays!
Third Man
2001
Full Metal Jacket
On dvd:
Mad Monster Party
Did anyone pick up Malick’s Blu debut?
Last Tango in Paris
Trumbo – A really wonderful documentary on the blacklist era and Dalton Trumbo specifically. This is a must-see doc for anyone interested in the history of Hollywood.
The Killing – Kubrick film. Bought it used $7.
I picked up Malick’s The New World on bluray. I think the picture quality’s great, very natural & true to the movie. It’s a gorgeous movie & the bluray does it justice.
An Otto Preminger Trifecta:
Advise & Consent
Bunny Lake is Missing
Anatomy of a Murder
Un homme sans l’Occident (Raymond Depardon)
Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
Trys dienos (Šarūnas Bartas)
Koridorius (Šarūnas Bartas)
Empire II (Amos Poe)
It’s been a while
Criterion:
Blood for Dracula
Overlord
The Last Wave
Dead Ringers
Homicide
The 39 Steps
Thieves’ Highway
Tunes of Glory
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Other:
Shock Waves
Drag Me to Hell
3 Seconds Before Explosion
Entrails of a Virgin
Girl Boss Revenge
Black Tight Killers (finally!)
Grave of the fireflies
Fight for Your Life
Hell Ride
Cat in the Brain
The Nomi Song
The Shop Around The Corner
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Onibi: The Fire Within
The Devil’s Backbone
Shinsengumi
Gozu
Graveyard of Honor
Let the right one in
Blow up
Highlander
The Mission
The Tenant
Avant Garde – Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s
Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre: The Complete Collection
Drive-In Cult Classics 1,2, and 3
The Towering Inferno
Showgirls VIP edition
Crumb
Something Weird:
Drive-In Classics collection
Hitchhike to Hell/ Kidnapped Coed
The Dreamers
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Savvy
I don’t have any money, but I won a free copy of ‘Inside’ in a competition.
Baby Doll
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
The Last Picture Show
Dr. Strangelove
The first four were pretty cheap on Amazon, and the last two were $6 each.
Nathan, and those last two are pretty freaking amazing!
Savvy
La Cienega
Red Road
These were both over $20 each but they are so good that it was worth it.
I bought repulsion a few hours ago im excited for that. yesterday I bought y tu mama tambien and heathers for $5 each. quite the bargain.
some Amazon and Barnes & Noble orders are starting to arrive:
Bride of Frankenstein
The Lady from Shanghai
The Last Detail
Ran
still waiting for:
It Happened One Night
Le jour se leve
Two big shopping sprees recently. Picked up the following:
The Double Life of Veronique
The Sacrifice
The Devil, Probably
L’Argent
Dawn of the Dead (1978) blu-ray
The New World blu-ray
The Informer
How Green Was My Valley
The Horse Soldiers
My Darling Clementine
If….
The Man from London
Beau Travail
Sunset Blvd.
Charlie Chaplin Boxset (City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush (2 versions), The Circus, The Kid, Limelight, Monsieur Verdoux, The Great Dictator, A Woman of Paris, A King in New York)
The Damned (1969)
Bringing Up Baby
Them (1954)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and her Lover
The Passion of Anna
Shame
The Hour of the Wolf
The Serpent’s Egg
The Sand Pebbles
The Magnificent Seven
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Great Escape
Jackie Brown
Audition
The Parallax View
Reds
Heaven Can Wait
The Public Enemy
The Roaring Twenties
Angels With Dirty Faces
White Heat
Hud
Monsoon Wedding
No Country for Old Men blu-ray
Watchmen blu-ray
Night of the Living Dead (1968) blu-ray
My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Little Caesar
The Maltese Falcon
The Straight Story
Some Like It Hot
Fellini’s Satyricon
The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)
The Player
Citizen Kane
The Candidate
Pulp Fiction
Casualties of War
A Fistful of Dynamite
Judgment at Nuremberg
Exodus
Chungking Express
The Candidate
McCabe & Mrs Miller
They Were Expendable
Vanishing Point
Dirty Harry
Drag Me to Hell blu-ray
Knowing
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974
The Getaway (1972)
The Elephant Man
The 25th Hour
The Remains of the Day
The Red Shoes blu-ray
The Grifters
Corpse Bride
The Wolf Man
Will Penny
Blow-Up
Tron
The Limey
Pierrot le Fou
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Monsters versus Aliens
Holiday
Brazil
Waking Life
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Laura
Touch of Evil
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
The Return of the Jedi
Neil isn’t kidding when he says ‘big shopping sprees’….heck of a collection.
I got:
“A Bridge Too Far” (Blu-Ray)
“2001” (Blu-Ray)
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Diamond Edition)” (Blu-Ray)
I am waiting on:
“The Third Man” (Blu-Ray)
“Santa Sangre” (DVD 2-disc set.)
Claus, I was thinking of picking up A Bridge Too Far on blu-ray; what’s the quality like?
35 Shots of Rum
The Mabuse trilogy box set (MoC)
Rosemary’s Baby for $10
I hope to watch it tonight. Best horror movie of all time.
Neil,
“Bridge” looks faithful to my eye (58-inch screen used); it has a slight diffusion added to a lot of the scenes, which is typical of 70es productions when they wanted to indicate ‘earlier times.’ Color, texture, sharpness and black levels are good. Some process scenes have a bit of flicker in the stock, but nothing to worry about.
The sound is re-mastered into THX or Dolby Digital (take your pick) and runs cleanly in a predominantly L-C-R 3-channel mix with very little surround info (as would be expected.) Compared to dialogue, some of the action scenes get a bit louder than the inherent dynamics of the recordings warrant (I was running THX 5.1), probably just an attempt to make the track sound more ‘contemporary.’
One thing about the subtitles: if you just load the film and play it, you don’t get any subs in the Dutch and German segments, and if you do the normal thing and click the subtitle option to "English’ you now have subtitles throughout (as in: for the deaf.) The solution is to click through on your player’s remote to the last subtitle option which is also “English” (just before ‘off’) and you now will get subs only for the non-english segments. In other words, the film doesn’t have the Dutch/German subs ‘burned in’ by default.
There is a trailer, and that is it. No extras. Just a nice dual-layer MPEG-2 transfer of the film. Then again, I got it for $10 at CostCo, so I am not complaining. If you like big old-fashioned war films, this one is well worth having (the over-the-top casting in itself is amazing.)
Nathan M.
Oh, and since I’m on this thread. Recently I’ve added
Marie-Antoinette
United 93
Elephant
The Manchurian Candidate (the good one)
Paths of Glory (in a pack)
Twelve Angry Men (in a pack)
A Bridge Too Far (never seen, in a pack)
Judgement at Nuremburg (never seen, in a pack)
All of this for under $30