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Little_Wing

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10. My "essentials" collection

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 03:14 PM

Mar 2014

Foreign language:
Aimee & Jaguar
A Very Long Engagement
Children of Paradise
La Belle et La Bete (Beauty & the Beast... Cocteau, not Disney LOL)
The Red Violin
Wings of Desire

English language:
Before Sunset
The Birth of a Nation
Brokeback Mountain
Cast Away
Citizen Kane
Don't Look Now
Dracula (FF Coppola)
Dr. Strangelove
Fried Green Tomatoes
High Art
Koyaanisqatsi
The Last of the Mohicans
Mystery Men
The New World
The Player
Practical Magic
Zoolander

Plus (almost complete) Greta Garbo Collection:
Anna Christie
Anna Karenina
Camille
Grand Hotel
Mata Hari
Ninotchka
Queen Christina

Some essentials I still need:
Before Midnight
Diary of a Mad Housewife (tragically still not available on DVD and never on TV)
Heaven's Gate
Immortal Beloved
Oscar and Lucinda
Starman

While there are many others I would love to own (but honestly can't afford these days), thanks to cable TV and the great collection of my roommate (just about every great scifi movie ever), I catch many of them quite regularly.

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Titles from my personal DVD collection - some of the movies I loved so much I wanted to own them: [View all] scarletwoman Mar 2014 OP

Just a few. longship Mar 2014 #1

Wow! I actually have The Lathe of Heaven, too! scarletwoman Mar 2014 #2

Criterion. longship Mar 2014 #5

About once a year or so, I'll splurge on a Criterion Collection movie. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #7

My Criterions brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #8

IMHO, Godfrey belongs in every movie lover's library :) brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #12

"The Defenestration of Carlo" <== alternative title longship Mar 2014 #13

Way Too Many To List brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #3

Quite the collection! Let's see, we have Princess Bride and Big Lebowski in common. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #6

Forgot to add, "The Last Place on Earth" - 1985 BBC TV mini series, broadcast on PBS. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #4

I own Lebowski too ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2014 #9

The Big Lebowski seems to appeal to all tastes - your list is certainly VERY different from mine, scarletwoman Mar 2014 #14

The movies are own are generally "party films" ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2014 #21

Ah well. Since my youngest left the nest, I live alone. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #22

My "essentials" collection Little_Wing Mar 2014 #10

Oh wow - I forgot Coppola's "Dracula"! That's another one I have in my own collection. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #15

Gary Oldman is such a great Dracula Little_Wing Mar 2014 #17

Oh yes! He's an amazing actor no matter who he plays. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #19

Yes, Mohicans is violent and not very authentic in its native people's portrayal Little_Wing Mar 2014 #26

Oldman was a great villain in Leon: The Professional brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #23

Agreed, Giamatti is very good and so versatile Little_Wing Mar 2014 #25

At the risk of beating a dead horse... brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #27

Have missed it, but on my list of "should watch" films Little_Wing Mar 2014 #28

Four jumped off the page for me brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #11

It would be interesting to do a poll and find out how many people DON'T have Lebowski on their scarletwoman Mar 2014 #16

Liam & Jessica Lange had incendiary chemistry in Rob Roy roaw n/t Little_Wing Mar 2014 #18

OMG, yes! I cannot tell you how many times I fantasized about that scene at the Standing Stones... scarletwoman Mar 2014 #20

I think you may have misconstrued my feelings for Rob Roy brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #24

Oh, don't mind me. I just got carried away. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #30

One that I had to have was Bette Davis's Beyond the Forest, only it's not on DVD. valerief Mar 2014 #29

Action Movies jim601 Mar 2014 #31