DVD wish list

[Snowflake]

Starting off with one of my favorite films, I love this film (as I am sure many here do, too). So this is #1 on my wish list.

Criterion Collection is releasing Carol Reed's The Third Man.

According to Criterion, this 2 disc release should contain:
- All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
- Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by film scholar Dana Polan
- Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film
- Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
- "Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist
- Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
- The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
- Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer
- Actor Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version
- Archival footage of postwar Vienna
- A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr -- Also: a web-exclusive essay on Anton Karas by musician John Doe

AUDIO: Dolby Digital 1.0 signal on 5.1-channel sound systems / two-channel playback.

[Tref]

I think its time the great film, Local Hero, rec'd the Criterion treatment. Other then that, I am fine.

[mousepod]

I've got the first Criterion version of The Third Man and think it's great - but I'm going to hold off on the upgrade for a bit - too many other things to spend my money on.

Now, the Criterion 2-disc upgrade of M, on the other hand, is something that has been calling to me for some time.

[Ghoulish Delight]

We're not big DVD owners. We rarely watch stuff we own.

That said, I'm itching for Muppets season 2 to come out. And, God help me, I really want to own The Stoned Age on DVD, for purely personal nostalgic reasons (though it really is a far more entertaining movie than it has any right to be). All signs point to me getting that one as a birthday gift, though.

[Ponine]

That said, I'm itching for Muppets season 2 to come out.
Ditto, and while I'm on the subject... Dinosaurs Seasons 3 and 4

I just wish the Muppets were complete. :mad:

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I'm not a big DVD collector, but I'd like to at least have some of my favorites that I'm missing:

Pan's Labyrinth
Wings of Desire (have this on VHS...yeesh)
Twin Peaks season 2
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth series
Grease 2 (shut UP)
The Harold Lloyd Collection

[mousepod]

EH1812, you really need to get Wings of Desire. If you love the movie, there are 30+ minutes of deleted scenes with Wenders commentary on the DVD. So worth it.

As far as the second season of Twin Peaks, I'm holding out for the "Complete Mystery" box. And probably an import one, at that. As of last week, it looks like Paramount in Germany has the rights to FWWM, so the complete set can actually be "complete", including both the pilot (missing from the US first season box) and the movie.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

EH1812, you really need to get Wings of Desire. If you love the movie, there are 30+ minutes of deleted scenes with Wenders commentary on the DVD. So worth it.

As far as the second season of Twin Peaks, I'm holding out for the "Complete Mystery" box. And probably an import one, at that. As of last week, it looks like Paramount in Germany has the rights to FWWM, so the complete set can actually be "complete", including both the pilot (missing from the US first season box) and the movie.

I LOVE Wings of Desire. So I'll get it...as soon as I have some extra money. (Come to me tax return money! Come to me!)

As for Twin Peaks, I'd LOVE the pilot, but don't ever need to own the movie. Man, what a disappointment that was. Maybe I'll hold off and Netflix for now. I just REALLY want to watch Season 2 again.

[innerSpaceman]

Netflix has saved my life. I don't have any more room to store DVDs.

That said, even though I rarely if ever watch the ones I own, I feel compelled to purchase movies I absolutely loved.



The only thing on my wish-list, however, is the third season of Deadwood that comes out in June. I don't own any other television series (somehow it bugs to pay a fortune for shows that aired for free), but I make an exception for this exceptional show.



Oh, and whatever happened to the "Whole Bloody Affair" version of Kill Bill 1 and 2?? I was really looking forward to that. Anyone know if it got shelved or what?

[Alex]

Though I continue to buy them, I've stopped wishing for movies to come on DVD. Except for completely new movies I'd never seen before, in a quick review of the last two years of my movie watching log I have not watched a single movie from my existing collection.

That's many hundreds of DVDs with no real purpose.

[Ghoulish Delight]

As for Twin Peaks, I'd LOVE the pilot, but don't ever need to own the movie. Man, what a disappointment that was. Maybe I'll hold off and Netflix for now. I just REALLY want to watch Season 2 again.

I'm with you on that. It's hard for me to even watch first season anymore knowing where it all lead (namely nowhere).

[mousepod]

Hmmm... I personally love both Fire Walk With Me and the Windom Earle episodes of Twin Peaks.

I don't want to derail the thread with a debate, but I'd be delighted to talk about it on another thread.

Better still, how about a marathon Twin Peaks party at Casa de Mousepod South sometime later this year? We could do it in two weekends...

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I liked the second season episodes, but it ends so abruptly I just can't bring myself to invest the time to watch it again knowing it's going nowhere.

FWWM I honestly don't remember very well other than being underwhelmed.

[Snowflake]

Hmmm... I personally love both Fire Walk With Me and the Windom Earle episodes of Twin Peaks.

I don't want to derail the thread with a debate, but I'd be delighted to talk about it on another thread.

Better still, how about a marathon Twin Peaks party at Casa de Mousepod South sometime later this year? We could do it in two weekends...

Derail away and I'd love that!

[Gemini Cricket]

Elizabeth R - Glenda Jackson version
As Time Goes By - Box Set

[€uroMeinke]

Better still, how about a marathon Twin Peaks party at Casa de Mousepod South sometime later this year? We could do it in two weekends...

I'm in - we'll have coffee and Cherry Pie to be sure.

[Alex]

I didn't like Twin Peaks when it was TV, but I was young. Maybe I'll add it to the end of my TV queue on Netflix.

[€uroMeinke]

I didn't like Twin Peaks when it was TV, but I was young. Maybe I'll add it to the end of my TV queue on Netflix.

While it's been ages since I saw the original - I think it would be enhanced in a social setting.

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, but the movie sucked plain and simple.

I've been on-and-off curious as to whether the series has stood the test of time. It ended up just pissing me off as it went on.

[mousepod]

As long as we're making blanket opinion statements without having to back them up, Fire Walk With Me is a great movie. In fact, in my DVD player, it has a helluva lot more replay value than Eraserhead, Dune, or The Elephant Man.

But I also love On The Air.

[Sub la Goon]

Since I have given my life over to Netflix, I find I don't need to keep every movie I have ever liked.

But I still buy Disney DVD's (for the kids!) and the occasional limited or oddball item I see with cool packaging. Like Repo Man in a license plate shape tin.

And I just have to chime in that Wings of Desire is one of the best movies ever.

[Tref]

I always swore that I would never be the type to collect DVDs but then I find there are some movies that I can (and want) to watch mindlessly over and over and over again.

Namely, Mystery Science Theater 3K. I gots 'em all.

And God forbid a friend asks to watch a Chaplin movie and I did not have one available (of course, no friend of mine would actually ask such a question but I must be prepared!)

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

As long as we're making blanket opinion statements without having to back them up, Fire Walk With Me is a great movie. In fact, in my DVD player, it has a helluva lot more replay value than Eraserhead, Dune, or The Elephant Man.

But I also love On The Air.

Man, The Elephant Man is probably my all time favorite film. To each his and her own.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Hmmm... I personally love both Fire Walk With Me and the Windom Earle episodes of Twin Peaks.

I don't want to derail the thread with a debate, but I'd be delighted to talk about it on another thread.

Better still, how about a marathon Twin Peaks party at Casa de Mousepod South sometime later this year? We could do it in two weekends...

I'd be all over that!

And, I liked the Windom Earle episodes, too. Actually, aside from X-Files, the only Duchovny acting I can stomach was his stint on Twin Peaks during that time.

[Not Afraid]

I haven't seen Twin Peaks since I was on Television. It was a weekly event on our house and we taped every episode. However, I never watched the taped again and recently threw them all away.

I think that was also one of the last regular shows we watched on TV.

[Snowflake]

I'm in - we'll have coffee and Cherry Pie to be sure.

Make that damn fine coffee and let's not forget a complete array of donuts.

[Snowflake]

Might I add the Disney Treasures DVDs that I am presently missing?

[mousepod]

Man, The Elephant Man is probably my all time favorite film. To each his and her own.

Didn't mean to trash The Elephant Man - it's a fine movie. I just not-so-randomly picked the first three Lynch films to compare to Twin Peaks. Eraserhead, while his breakthrough debut, looks like a film that was made in bits and pieces (which it was), and then his next two films, The Elephant Man and Dune, were basically movies for hire. I think that the next period of his work - Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart - are transcendent, specifically because he was able to find a balance between box office aspirations and "Lynchian" filmmaking. While I enjoy Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, I do so as a Lynch fan, who understands the vocabulary of his work. I think that Twin Peaks and On The Air are closer in style and objective to Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart, though crafted for broadcast TV rather than the big screen. And that's why they get the most repeat viewing in my DVD player. While I will always defend FWWM, I do so in the context of it being a big-screen Twin Peaks movie. I'm not sure that it would stand on its own as a work of art - too much of the symbolism depends on one's familiarity with Twin Peaks.