What DVDs do you buy

[daves music tank]

Being a bit of a visual perion i love to collect DVDs of foreign films and music vids plus the occassioanl arty and avant-garde stuff. Pic above is a selection of what i buy. So what DVDs do you like getting?. Any you think i should investigate?.

[Slim Jim]

Just bought "12.08, East Of Bucharest" recently and it's piss funny in that deadpan Euro arthouse kinda way. One of a number of really good films coming out of Romania.
Bought a lot of the BFI issue Jean-Pierre Melville stuff. "Army In The Shadows" and "Le Cercle Rouge" are outstanding!
...and just to show I'm not some "Sight & Sound"-reading film snob:
"The Fortune Cookie" - Matthau and Lemmon on fine form.

[ginghamkitchen]

I've just purchased The Films Of Aki Kaurismaki Volume 2 - deadpan Finnish cinema with heart. Thoroughly recommended to those that don't know his work.

[daves music tank]

Yeah i saw one of his (kaurismaki) down at the Duke of Yorks ,Brighton's best art house cinema. Must investigate further. Thanks

[babycart]

I rent.
Some films I've really enjoyed recently are:

Seom (The Isle) - Gorgeous and horrific Korean love story.
Night of the Sunflowers - Great Spanish thriller.
Workingmans Death - Jaw dropping documentary.
Los Tarantos - Barcelona gypsies singing dancing and stabbing each other.
Blood Car - hilarious but heavy-handed satire.
Hour of the wolf - Michel Haneke's take on the apocalypse.
Crank - Jason Statham has to keep doing dangerous things or he will die.

I saw the film in Gingham Kitchen's avatar, as well. it's a bit of a euro-pudding, but Gary Oldman is class.

[JamesF]

Just bought "12.08, East Of Bucharest" recently and it's piss funny in that deadpan Euro arthouse kinda way. One of a number of really good films coming out of Romania.
Bought a lot of the BFI issue Jean-Pierre Melville stuff. "Army In The Shadows" and "Le Cercle Rouge" are outstanding!
...and just to show I'm not some "Sight & Sound"-reading film snob:
"The Fortune Cookie" - Matthau and Lemmon on fine form.

Le Cercle Rouge is really good. I think I have a bit of a man-crush on the youthful Alain Delon.

[ashra]

I don't buy many DVDs unless i'm sure i'm going to watch it a ton of times (most films i'm happy to just watch once) or if I know my friends are going to want to swap it around.

For criteria 2 I just bought King Of Kong the other week - documentary about the two world Donkey Kong champions which is almost like watching a pantomime

[Brother Logic]

For criteria 2 I just bought King Of Kong the other week - documentary about the two world Donkey Kong champions which is almost like watching a pantomime

I just made 84100 on Donkey Kong - this is a great movie if a little inaccurate.

[ginghamkitchen]

I saw the film in Gingham Kitchen's avatar, as well. it's a bit of a euro-pudding, but Gary Oldman is class.

The concept is a lot better than the execution but Oldman and Paddy Considine in a 'Deliverance' style thriller was a must see for me. 'The Backwoods' for those that may have missed it.

[daves music tank]

Actually i do rent first if poss anything before i purchase because i hate having to buy one and then only watch it once. What is the point of that

There are films worth watching over and over again and some that are only okay once over. "American Splendour" and "Crumb" are ones i just love to watch again and again. never get bored with them.Also Bunuel / Dali's "Un Chien Andalou" is another i love to watch repeatedly as it always throws new light on the film each time it gets played.

[sermad]

Yeah i saw one of his (kaurismaki) down at the Duke of Yorks ,Brighton's best art house cinema. Must investigate further. Thanks

I was introduced to the pleasures of john woo when I went to a double feature of 'the killer' and 'hard boiled' at the duke of yorks about 15 years ago.

Amazing!

[daves music tank]

I was introduced to the pleasures of john woo when I went to a double feature of 'the killer' and 'hard boiled' at the duke of yorks about 15 years ago.

Amazing!

Gosh, well mate , it is still here serving Brighton with some great films the big uns don't show and only a fifteen minute walk from me!!

[chimptown]

I just made 84100 on Donkey Kong - this is a great movie if a little inaccurate.

awesome film. how's it inaccurate ? - i took it as gospel - and break it to me gently as this film is in my all times

[Brother Logic]

awesome film. how's it inaccurate ? - i took it as gospel - and break it to me gently as this film is in my all times

Some of the implications are seemingly false:

http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/v...f7dc41291b5223

I think that Mitchell comes out of it has being worse than he is really. Mr. Awesome, however, chumpetized himself in the movie....

[pitch]

Sigur Ros's latest film..... haven't had a chance to view it yet but by all accounts it looks and sounds beautiful.

[ROCKPROF]

Bit of a sucker for the 70s tv stuff, theres plenty getting released,wanna check out Artmchair Thriller at some point.Amazed that BFI have discontinued (on dvd) those Nigel Kneale classics, 'year of the sex olympics' and 'stone tape', prices are getting stupid on amazon. Been watching some 70s Bunuel films of late (Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois),great surreal stuff.Also got a copy of 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' which is a collection of avant garde short films,some good stuff there.

[chimptown]

Some of the implications are seemingly false:

http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/v...f7dc41291b5223

I think that Mitchell comes out of it has being worse than he is really. Mr. Awesome, however, chumpetized himself in the movie....

interesting.... nice one for that

[alanmck]

They call me the motherflippin rhymenocerous
...
Now I'm passing over the mic to the hiphop-potamus

They call me the hiphop-potamus
My lyrics are bottomless...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk

[Lady J]

TV box sets get the nod from me: I'm Law & Order obsessed so I have all those, also two of the Criminal Intent (but I can't bear SVU). Like my Charley Says DVDs a lot. I enjoy watching Simon's collections of Curb, CSI and Futurama. Buying films on DVD has gone off a bit recently since joining Lovefilm, although I'm a sucker for a good boxset there as well, e.g. the Cassavetes one.

[chimptown]

some musicy films i liked

leningrad cowboys
a mighty wind
the harder they come
burn hollywood burn (for the dream team of chuck d, coolio, sly, whoppie and jackie chan)
dogs in space (michael hutchence in australian garage band)
still crazy (pathetic UK hawkwindish band reform)

[blue burt]

I'm mostly into the 50-70's stuff as well..film noir, drama, spy & road movies, 'revisionist' westerns etc...buying average of 2 films a month. My latest picks, you get the picture..

[IAN]

The last DVD I bought was The Bicyclettes De Belsize coupled with The London Nobody Knows, both reissued for the first time.

I caught the tail end of bicyclettes on channel 4 years ago while going through a huge 'swinging sixties' phase. It seemed really evocative to me then. Just watched it again and felt slightly queasy.

The London Nobody Knows is an interesting view though. A stroll through some of the forgotten backwaters of the city, accompanied by a very urbane James Mason. Shows a completely different view of London in '67 than you usually see.

[SARGE]

strutter series 1 & 2
paul kaye at his best i'd argue.

[peretti]

I've never bought a DVD.

[chimptown]

They call me the motherflippin rhymenocerous
...
Now I'm passing over the mic to the hiphop-potamus

They call me the hiphop-potamus
My lyrics are bottomless...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk

i watched this three times already

the motherlode right here people

[barky redwood]

I've never bought a DVD.

I don't have a DVD player.

[Filthy Rich]

"Seom (The Isle) - Gorgeous and horrific Korean love story"

Watched this quite recently, certainly gorgeous but I'm not sure that it was good. The nasty scenes felt as though they were tacked on to add some unnecessary controversy, I mean really, who .....




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..... tries to kill themself by pulling their guts out through their mouth with fish hooks?

"The London Nobody Knows is an interesting view though. A stroll through some of the forgotten backwaters of the city, accompanied by a very urbane James Mason. Shows a completely different view of London in '67 than you usually see."

I'm looking forward to seeing this (it's only just had a dvd release right?), I've see London (and Robinson in Space) and also Finisterre which is basically a pastiche of London so I need this to complete the set.

"Le Cercle Rouge is really good. I think I have a bit of a man-crush on the youthful Alain Delon"

If you haven't seen it it's well worth checking out Rififi; the really long silent heist scene in Le Cercle Rouge is an homage to the really long silent heist scene in Rififi I understand.

[eric-adams]

i buy comedy series mainly. its all i seem to watch.

[SARGE]

They call me the motherflippin rhymenocerous
...
Now I'm passing over the mic to the hiphop-potamus

They call me the hiphop-potamus
My lyrics are bottomless...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk

this is swell i loved this.

[alanmck]

i watched this three times already

the motherlode right here people

this is swell i loved this.

get the double dvd, kids. every episode has at least one perfectly executed pastiche. watch out for the petshop boys' tribute.