What's on ya DVD playa?*



* with thanks to Middle Class Rebel



See also: Essential Music DVDs

Bowie live in Tokyo 1978, wearing some serious baggy pants and a sailors cap, lovely.

Beatles Anthology
Just watched Fight Club this week.. 5 stars!

only just taken the plunge n joined the ol' dvd generation - have signed up with one of those free-month-trial-internet-hire thingys. v good in principle but they keep sending me my bottom choices for some reason

(in the post as i type: 'picadilly', 'gaslight' n 'boxcar bertha' - tis like the bleedin monkeys paw!)

Another new thread dies a hideous and horrible death...

Teletubbies, "again again".

again!

Dora, Dora, Dora the Explorer! (the really annoying pirate one) -- Foe

Barry Lyndon

brilliant isn't it? absolutely heartbreaking (especially the stuff with poor ol' brian)

any decent extras?

I'll have to revisit the main menu tonite. will let you know tomorrow. It's such a great film - i never tire of watching it

i know - me neither. love it all (esp. rev. runt n capt. quinn)

got a bit obsessed with it about a year or so ago after watching it for the first time and forced my copy upon anyone who came near me. last time i watched it though i did have to leave the room prior to The Brian Scene as couldn't sit through that again...

Damn you, Stephen, for the "playa" thing.

Why? It was out of reverence for the most successful thread ever on this board...

During the past week:

Martin Scorsese collection (Goodfellas, After Hours, etc.)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes/Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Cronenberg's Rabid, Stereo, Crimes of the Future

Dawn of the Dead ultimate edition

Hmm, are Fall fans all that pure, or just unwilling to admit, (or maybe so successful that they don't need it)?


My answer: Porn

Because it irritates the hell out of me in the original thread, too!!! :lol:

Oh, please. This is like answering the question with, "Comedy." or "Drama." You should list the titles of what you're watching.

The Eye - beautifully crafted, and very scary..

For those who've seen it.. the scene in the lift!! Jesus!!!

welll my playstation 2 serves as my dvd player as well, last one was the best of the muppets on dvd.

Lilya 4-ever. Has anybody else seen it?

Monday night watched the new Sonic Youth DVD. Tonight probably Sweeney and Sweeney 2. Although I seem to have a mounting collection of unwatched DVDs still in their cellophane packing, such as Once Upon a Time in America, Summer with Monika, My Neighbour Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Querelle .... will never watch them ...

what a great film this is

I got Mike leighs Naked on DVD last weekend (have it on video)
the extras were Mike Leigh talking for 15-20 mins about the film :angry:

oh, i dunno - wouldn't mind seeing that (m.e.s. doesn't get a mention then i take it?)

No way! :o This is the same Mike Leigh??!

oh no - tis just that david thewlis got into the (very) m.e.s.-like character of johnny by listening to a lot of fall n happy mondays beforehand tis all...

Mike Leigh, filmmaker from *Salford*:


Mike Leigh, Fall drummer:


Verdict: one and same! I really had no idea.

Naah, they just look alike and have the same name. Great comedy potential therein though.
Me: Simpsons season 4 & Curb Your Enthusiasm season 1

Mike Leigh's new film just won the top award at the Venice film festival.

It's about abortion. I imagine there are not many songs in it.

David Thewlis in Naked is superb - the only time I've heard a manc accent done properly on film. Shame about the Island of Dr Moreau - and Harry Potter ...

I notice that Curb season 2 is now available on CD Wow, but only in Region 1 format. Larry David is a genius. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

a wasted talent (so far) i reckon. only other good thing i've seen him in is the big lebowski but that was just a tiny part (hasn't he meant to have written a novel or something? and seeing as he's married to anna friel sure he's not feeling too hard done by)

oh n noticed he was in the (original) singing detective as well when i watched that dvd the other week - ahh, they don't make em like that any more...

Breeders
Valentino's Sexual Reality (3 I think)

aye. agree completely - curb yr enth funniest thing on the box at the mo by a MILE...

sounds "sensitive"...

I'm in the Blockbusters online DVD rental club and so far this month have watched the following :

Antwone Fisher - so so, directed by Denzil Washington, about a bad-tempered sailor who comes to term with child abuse and finds his original family (was adopted) - a bit gloopy...but a true story...which doesn't mean it isn't still gloopy..

Freddy vs Jason - good for a laugh, totally bonkers plot, but Freddy got most of the limelight. No-brainer

Dogville - my DVD of the Year, no querstion. If you ain't seen it yet, just grab it. Shame that Paul Bethany then ruined his art-house image by making fucking Wimbledon...

Cold Creek Manor - run of the mill "creepy" movie, pretty substandard, holds the attention span (just), but a pretty disappointing ending - worth it for Dennis Quaid alone, a criminally under-rated actor in my opinion

The Singing Detective (remake) - surprisingly very goo, although nowt will top the original BBC series. Downey makes a valiant stab at the Gambon character and does it excellently - just the right hint of insanity/paranoia when the disease is at its height. Worth a watch...

The Locals - a New Zealand creepy and actually rather good, if a little formulaic. Sort of a cross between Groudhog Day and Night of the Living Dead ! Again, worth a hire...

Michael Gambon was certainly very goo in the original :D

Got the Dogville dvd too, excellent indeed

Nah, it's like post-apocalypse battles between those who are sterile and those who aren't. With sex scenes

Talking of Gambon, I watched Peter Greenaways 'The cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover' again the other day. Truly fantastic.

Other recent views this week were 'Titus' and 'Zorba The Greek'.

I spent the last 3 months watching the entirety of Six Feet Under.

Had today off work and have watched -

My Sassy Girl
City of God
Grave of The Fireflies
Old Boy
4 episodes of Citizen Smith

A day well spent I reckon!

Great show. I haven't seen an episode in a year but I will be getting cable again (reluctantly) on Monday.

I don't care for much television, but with cable we'll at least get good reception, a couple of decent movie channels and some more decent programming than local network TV.

Didn't sign up for HBO, but may have to change that for Bill Maher's show and 6 Ft. Under (is the show still on?)