Recommended DVD's?
I've been looking to expand my rather paltry DVD collection for a little while now, but I really don't know where to begin. So, what DVDs would you recommend the most?
(If it matters, I'm into stuff like drama, foreign films, and artsy-films, and the like.)
On a related topic: does anyone know if (most of) the works of Kurosawa are available on DVD?
(If it matters, I'm into stuff like drama, foreign films, and artsy-films, and the like.)
On a related topic: does anyone know if (most of) the works of Kurosawa are available on DVD?
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Dats all folks.
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Get Taxi Driver. Great DVD. Long interviews with just about everyone in the movie.
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Get Taxi Driver. Great DVD. Long interviews with just about everyone in the movie.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hey it looks and works fine for me.
Run Lola Run is basically about a guy who has just lost 100,000 marks and he has just 20 minutes to recover it. His girlfriend runs out and tries to help him. It's very fast paced, and it also is non-linear in that it shows three different possible scenarios that either fail or are successful. And it's all in German, with English subtitles (but there's not much dialog, just a lot of thumping techno-like music).
the dvd of david lean's lawrence of arabia is quite posh.
a good hong kong film is john woo's bullet in the head.
i thought it would be very action oriented, but it's more of a character study with action bits.
i don't have the dvd but i saw run lola run in the theatre and it is brilliant.
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if you're looking for something a bit different, i'd recommend <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0247394"; target="_blank">"gumnaam"</a> (seen on the tv in "ghost world") a bollywood musical from the 60s, really funny, especially if you don't put on subtitles, and make up the dialogue yourself.
oh and can't forget documentaries-- <a href="http://www.livenudegirlsunite.com/"; target="_blank">"live nude girls unite!"</a> is a great one that i saw this past summer. its about the strippers working at the lusty lady in san francsico who unionized and started negotiating contracts and whatnot. really interesting, and very funny.
Oh yeh and I recently saw the anime Spirited Away which was pretty cool although I think you'd have to go to an anime store to purchase an imported copy.
P.S. I know next to nothing about anime so take that for what you will. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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i'm hungry now......
I don't know if I'd want to own it though.
I should add that I have both UNRATED versions on DVD
**** the MPAA
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I'd buy it.
1. Hero (directed by Zhang Yimou)will be out in feb.
2. The last emperor
3. Amadeus
4. Leon-the proffessional
<strong>GO ShawnPatrickJoyce for backing me up!
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3 (the best of them all!)
Apocalypse Now REDUX
Blade Runner
Citizen Kane
Das Boot
Fight Club
La Femme Nikita (the French film, not the american crap).
Leon - The Professional
Predator
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Seven
The Usual Suspects
The Wild Bunch
The Shawshank Redemption
Unforgiven
In anime:
Akira
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell
Princess Mononoke
Ninja Scroll
Metropolis
Docus:
When We Were Kings
Walking With Dinosaurs
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That's the first film that came to mind..I love it but a lot of friends think it's completely whacko.
How about all the Coen brothers films..'Hudsucker proxy' a paticular favourite if relentlessly frantic film, and 'o Brother' is such a feel good movie as well as being beautiful to watch.
'The Horseman on the roof', a french drama set during a cholera epedemic in the early 1800's was brilliant as well.
'Il Postino' already posted is a wonderful film about a guy who falls in love and is taken under the wing of an exiled poet.
Have to try some of the ones I haven't heard of before..so Thanks for starting the subject Rampancy