DVD wish list
 

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.

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

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.

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.

Ditto, and while I'm on the subject... Dinosaurs Seasons 3 and 4

I just wish the Muppets were complete. :mad:

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

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.

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?

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.