Post by london777 on Jun 26, 2017 0:48:16 GMT
These are my favorite 60 DVDs out of the 800-odd in my collection. I started buying DVDs seven years ago after ditching my small VHS collection when I emigrated. There were several in that collection I cannot now afford to replace with DVDs including lots of Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovski and Kurosawa, otherwise you would be seeing their names more often on this list. I also had a lot of Russian movies not even available on DVD in the USA. I have had a burst of DVD acquisition for the past three years but now I am flat broke and can only add the odd one or two from time to time. Spiderwort will be pleased to know that Splendor in the Grass (1961) Elia Kazan is top of my shopping list. My main regret is that I have bought so much rubbish on the strength of reviews, recommendations, and the names of directors whose other work I have liked. At least half my DVDs I have no desire to watch a second time (or third time). I could have invested those funds more wisely. The local charity shop has benefited but even they tell me "No-one is buying DVDs anymore." Even in this backward island people are downloading their films (legally and illegally).
**** I have sorted them using "the" and "a" to infuriate Bat Outtaheck
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A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
A Serious Man 2009 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Adaptation 2002 Charlie Kaufman screenplay
After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese
All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker
Anglo Saxon Attitudes 1992 3-part TV series
Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda
Barton Fink 1991 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton
Blade Runner - The Final Cut 1982 Ridley Scott
Caché (Hidden) 2005 Michael Haneke
Cambridge Spies 2003 TV series
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
Central Station 1998 Walter Salles
Children of Heaven 1997 Majid Majidi
Clockwise 1986 Michael Frayn screenplay
Das Boot (TV series version) 1981 Wolfgang Petersen
Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut
Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer
Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
El Secreto de Sus Ojos 2009 Juan José Campanella
Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks
Hable con Ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison
Jean De Florette 1986 Claude Berri
Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich
Leviathan 2014 Andrey Zvyagintsev
Macbeth 1971 Roman Polanski
Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri
Margaret (Extended Cut) 2011 Kenneth Lonergan
Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman
Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Our Friends in the North 1996 9-part TV series
Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
Pride and Prejudice 1995 6-part TV series
Safe Conduct 2002 Bertrand Tavernier
Sunset Boulevard 1950 Billy Wilder
Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
The Big Lebowski 1998 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov
The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
The Mayor of Casterbridge 2003 TV movie
The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
The Ninth Gate 1999 Roman Polanski
The Player 1992 Robert Altman
The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Road Home 1999 Yimou Zhang
The Treasure of The Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 Tomas Alfredson
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman
I would not expect non-Brits to have seen the TV series listed. But they were all available cheaply in the USA otherwise I could not have added them. They all work as "films".
**** I have sorted them using "the" and "a" to infuriate Bat Outtaheck
****A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
A Serious Man 2009 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Adaptation 2002 Charlie Kaufman screenplay
After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese
All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker
Anglo Saxon Attitudes 1992 3-part TV series
Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda
Barton Fink 1991 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton
Blade Runner - The Final Cut 1982 Ridley Scott
Caché (Hidden) 2005 Michael Haneke
Cambridge Spies 2003 TV series
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
Central Station 1998 Walter Salles
Children of Heaven 1997 Majid Majidi
Clockwise 1986 Michael Frayn screenplay
Das Boot (TV series version) 1981 Wolfgang Petersen
Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut
Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer
Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
El Secreto de Sus Ojos 2009 Juan José Campanella
Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks
Hable con Ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison
Jean De Florette 1986 Claude Berri
Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich
Leviathan 2014 Andrey Zvyagintsev
Macbeth 1971 Roman Polanski
Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri
Margaret (Extended Cut) 2011 Kenneth Lonergan
Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman
Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Our Friends in the North 1996 9-part TV series
Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
Pride and Prejudice 1995 6-part TV series
Safe Conduct 2002 Bertrand Tavernier
Sunset Boulevard 1950 Billy Wilder
Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
The Big Lebowski 1998 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov
The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
The Mayor of Casterbridge 2003 TV movie
The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
The Ninth Gate 1999 Roman Polanski
The Player 1992 Robert Altman
The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Road Home 1999 Yimou Zhang
The Treasure of The Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 Tomas Alfredson
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman
I would not expect non-Brits to have seen the TV series listed. But they were all available cheaply in the USA otherwise I could not have added them. They all work as "films".
