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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: yesno on August 25, 2010, 07:07:56 AM
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This thread indicates some good movies that you can get made on demand from the Warner archives (http://www.warnerarchive.com):
http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7240.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7240.0.html)
Mr. Cavorting with Nudists recommended Verboten! , The Man I Love, Untamed Youth and Dogville Shorts, Auntie Christina Freebie & the Bean, and CaptKarl Brewster McCloud.
There are actually plenty of good movies never released on DVD, and not available on demand or any other way, really. For example, Rad, the classic BMX love story. (Sign the petition! (http://www.PetitionOnline.com/RAD/petition.html)).
List others. Thank you.
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I haven't seen it myself, but there's a decent HDTV > DVD bootleg floating around called Rad.1986.NTSC.HDTV.DVDR-CMG
Here are some others I'd like to see on DVD
Once (1971) - mysterious and elusive experimental film with great soundtrack
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7736/001nsx.jpg)(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/646/002tg.jpg)
Sea of Joy (1971) - Australian surfing doc
(http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/3463/seaofjoy.jpg)
Last Summer (1969) and many other Frank Perry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675068/) films
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6743/lastsummer.jpg)
LAST SUMMER is one of the most highly requested titles in our vast library, and we planned to make it available last year when we launched the Warner Archive Collection. When we were unable to secure a good quality master which retained the film's original theatrical aspect ratio, the release was postponed. Fortunately, the issue is resolved and we look forward to announcing its DVD premiere later this year.
American Dreamer (1971) - perhaps Hopper's best work
American Dreamer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkMHb0mAUAY#)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) - it's better than a lot of Vadim movies already on DVD, written by Gene Roddenberry
(http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/6674/prettymaidsallinarow.jpg)
Phantom Tollbooth (1970) - kiddie classic
(http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/4599/thephantomtollboothpost.jpg)
World's Greatest Sinner (1962) - greatest independent movie ever
(TCM sourced DVD-R is on thepiratebay)
(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5213/wgsc.jpg)
Michael Mann's The Keep often gets mentioned in these types of threads, but the movie isn't very good ;)
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Is A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971) available on DVD or any on-demand service?
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I don't think so, it's #53 on this list
http://www.tcm.com/top/notondvd/ (http://www.tcm.com/top/notondvd/)
Strange that Sleuth has had 2 DVD releases (I think) but it's still included
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Is A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971) available on DVD or any on-demand service?
I saw that at a drive-in with my parents when it first came out.
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I don't think Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray) has ever been released on DVD.
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I don't think Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray) has ever been released on DVD.
Neither has Ray's THE LUSTY MEN, which I talked about on here somewhere before.
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A Thousand Clowns (1965) I don't why it hasn't yet been released on DVD. The movie was nominated for several Oscars.
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They're going to show Stunt Man on TCM this weekend, its not available on DVD.
Not sure if they've ever been released on DVD but here are some that are currently unavailable on Netflix.
The Grey Fox
The Reflecting Skin
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Deadhead Miles
Zero
The Blank Generation
Safe
The Northerners
The Rain People
Poto and Cabengo
Un homme qui dort (A Man Asleep)
Série noire
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I don't think Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray) has ever been released on DVD.
Neither has Ray's THE LUSTY MEN, which I talked about on here somewhere before.
I thought Johnny Guitar was on Criterion.
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This thread indicates some good movies that you can get made on demand from the Warner archives (http://www.warnerarchive.com):
http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7240.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7240.0.html)
Mr. Cavorting with Nudists recommended Verboten! , The Man I Love, Untamed Youth and Dogville Shorts, Auntie Christina Freebie & the Bean, and CaptKarl Brewster McCloud.
There are actually plenty of good movies never released on DVD, and not available on demand or any other way, really. For example, Rad, the classic BMX love story. (Sign the petition! (http://www.PetitionOnline.com/RAD/petition.html)).
List others. Thank you.
Brewster McClound just recently got released on DVD.
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I've been waiting for Hickey & Boggs to show up somewhere -- it's an early '70s I Spy Cosby/Culp reunion, but they play a couple hard-boiled detectives and the film's supposedly kind of gritty and bleak. I read someone compare Cosby's performance in this to Lee Marvin, so now I need to see this to find out if that actually makes any sense.
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Brewster McClound just recently got released on DVD.
As a Warner Archive disc, which are overpriced DVD-Rs.
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Safe
I'm not sure if this is officially OOP, but there's been some talk of an eventual Criterion pick-up. A friend of mine recently visited the Criterion offices and told them to release it. They seemed agreeable to his demands. The existing DVD does have a great commentary track with Haynes, Julianne Moore, and producer Christine Vachon.
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I think Danger Diabolik is no longer available, or it might have just come back in print. One of the two. There was a bunch of stuff snipped out of the MST3K finale and it's been a long time since I saw the real thing. I do love that finale though ... I about passed out when I found out that was the final movie they were going to do.
In addition to Golan Globus, another favorite name to see in the opening credits that assures you're about to see something ridiculous ... Dino De Laurentiis!
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According to the AV Club's write-up about Preston Sturges today, neither The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend nor The French, They Are a Funny Race have been released on DVD.
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I have never been able to find a legitimate DVD copy of Dudes, the Jon Cryer/Flea Punk-Western that Penelope Spheeris directed.
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Safe is my favorite Todd Haynes movie. The DVDs are on eBay for about $30. I love to see a Criterion re-release though.
Of course Superstar never had a DVD release and the "banned" VHS is very hard to find.
Last night I remembered Crispin Glover's strange contribution to this topic, as he's personally showing his films around the country instead of releasing on DVD.
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Johnny Guitar is available on R2 DVD. Pretty decent but barebones release.
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I really, really need to get a region free DVD player. A Foreign Affair isn't released here but it is on DVD in Europe. This one I remember as being pretty crazy, filmed in post war Berlin, sorta like Third Man where there's just tons of rubble all over the place. I like the early Billy Wilder stuff. After about 1950 or so, he got very silly. I think it was the change in writing partners.
Edit: Oh, and Johnny Guitar? ME LIKE. Johnny Guitar/The Killing era Sterling Hayden is my imaginary boyfriend.
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I really, really need to get a region free DVD player. A Foreign Affair isn't released here but it is on DVD in Europe. This one I remember as being pretty crazy, filmed in post war Berlin, sorta like Third Man where there's just tons of rubble all over the place. I like the early Billy Wilder stuff. After about 1950 or so, he got very silly. I think it was the change in writing partners.
You are correct about A Foreign Affair. It's an America-will-lead-the-way-in-Europe booster pic that's incredibly cynical, and Marlene Dietrich is nothing short of amazing as an amoral former professional mistress to Nazis who is disturbingly sympathetic. Coulda used a more charismatic male lead, but nearly a masterpiece.
For post-1950 Wilder, ya gotta give it up for Ace in the Hole, Some Like It Hot, One, Two, Three, and Kiss Me, Stupid. And The Apartment and Witness for the Prosecution aren't too shabby either.
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Ace in the Hole is the only one of those I like.
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There are a ton of Wonderful World of Disney specials that I would love to see on DVD just to be able to watch again. Tiger Town and Mr. Boogedy are two that stick out. No idea if they are good or not but I have memories of both.
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This year's Best Show premium.
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The Green Slime.
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Captain EO
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Brewster McClound just recently got released on DVD.
As a Warner Archive disc, which are overpriced DVD-Rs.
Out of the Blue is only released on one of those cheap DVD R's too.
Landscape Suicides
Bronco Bullfrog
Le Dernier Combat
The Foreigner
Jonah, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Kings Of The Road
Black Moon
My Great Escape
Alex In Wonderland
The Cool World
Looking For Mr. Goodbar
Arizona Dream
I know a lot of Jean Cocteau's and Hal Hartley's films haven't been released on DVD either, and hope somebody releases that Fassbinder film World On A Wire that had some showings over the summer.
There's a film that had seems like if i can remember right some people from Saturday Night Live in it like Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd from the early 80's and the spliced old footage together or something, i cant remember the name of it. Does anybody know the one im talking about?
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I haven't seen it myself, but there's a decent HDTV > DVD bootleg floating around called Rad.1986.NTSC.HDTV.DVDR-CMG
Here are some others I'd like to see on DVD
Once (1971) - mysterious and elusive experimental film with great soundtrack
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7736/001nsx.jpg)(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/646/002tg.jpg)
Sea of Joy (1971) - Australian surfing doc
(http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/3463/seaofjoy.jpg)
Last Summer (1969) and many other Frank Perry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675068/) films
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6743/lastsummer.jpg)
LAST SUMMER is one of the most highly requested titles in our vast library, and we planned to make it available last year when we launched the Warner Archive Collection. When we were unable to secure a good quality master which retained the film's original theatrical aspect ratio, the release was postponed. Fortunately, the issue is resolved and we look forward to announcing its DVD premiere later this year.
American Dreamer (1971) - perhaps Hopper's best work
American Dreamer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkMHb0mAUAY#)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) - it's better than a lot of Vadim movies already on DVD, written by Gene Roddenberry
(http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/6674/prettymaidsallinarow.jpg)
Phantom Tollbooth (1970) - kiddie classic
(http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/4599/thephantomtollboothpost.jpg)
World's Greatest Sinner (1962) - greatest independent movie ever
(TCM sourced DVD-R is on thepiratebay)
(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5213/wgsc.jpg)
Michael Mann's The Keep often gets mentioned in these types of threads, but the movie isn't very good ;)
Anybody know where to find that Last Summer soundtrack its got to be out there somewhere right?
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WHAAAAAAAAAT?
(I like all of those movies except Kiss Me Stupid (which I've never seen) but I would also add The Fortune Cookie to the list just for Walter Matthau's amazing performance)
Ace in the Hole is the only one of those I like.
I really, really need to get a region free DVD player. A Foreign Affair isn't released here but it is on DVD in Europe. This one I remember as being pretty crazy, filmed in post war Berlin, sorta like Third Man where there's just tons of rubble all over the place. I like the early Billy Wilder stuff. After about 1950 or so, he got very silly. I think it was the change in writing partners.
For post-1950 Wilder, ya gotta give it up for Ace in the Hole, Some Like It Hot, One, Two, Three, and Kiss Me, Stupid. And The Apartment and Witness for the Prosecution aren't too shabby either.
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WHAAAAAAAAAT?
(I like all of those movies except Kiss Me Stupid (which I've never seen) but I would also add The Fortune Cookie to the list just for Walter Matthau's amazing performance)
Ace in the Hole is the only one of those I like.
That was my reaction. The Apartment is perfect.
Johnny Guitar has been mentioned several times already and it is my #1. I'd also like to see The Magnificent Ambersons. Of course being able to download them is nice, but the quality is often mediocre.
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There's a film that had seems like if i can remember right some people from Saturday Night Live in it like Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd from the early 80's and the spliced old footage together or something, i cant remember the name of it. Does anybody know the one im talking about?
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Mike%27s_Mondo_Video)?
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Bah. The movies Billy Wilder wrote with Charles Brackett were better. Billy Wilder never really favored subtlety, but he got worse after he stoppped working with Charles Brackett. His I.A.L Diamond collaborations (everything after Sunset I think) have all the freshness of a fart in a closed up car. Corny jokes, flat characters, stupid plot set ups.
The Apartment plays to me like a bunch of vaudeville guys decided to put on a wacky play but someone switched their script with one from a Bergman film.
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Bah. The movies Billy Wilder wrote with Charles Brackett were better. Billy Wilder never really favored subtlety, but he got worse after he stoppped working with Charles Brackett. His I.A.L Diamond collaborations (everything after Sunset I think) have all the freshness of a fart in a closed up car. Corny jokes, flat characters, stupid plot set ups.
The Apartment plays to me like a bunch of vaudeville guys decided to put on a wacky play but someone switched their script with one from a Bergman film.
I see what you're saying, but the sort of "oversized" nature of the acting and the writing and some of the plots isn't something I mind (I don't mind it when the Coens do it, either). Obviously taste is subjective and everything, but I've never laughed harder at a movie than at my first viewing of Some Like It Hot.
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Sorry to keep going off-topic, but Kiss Me, Stupid is a crass, sweaty, leering farrago of taste so bad it isn't even bad taste, it's like some sort of black hole sucking in all of taste. It is, of course, completely awesome. It was only the second movie (after Elia Kazan's Baby Doll, eight years earlier I think) to be given a "Condemned" rating by the Catholic Legion of Decency. And it is available on DVD, so you unChristinas know what to do.
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I see what you're saying, but the sort of "oversized" nature of the acting and the writing and some of the plots isn't something I mind (I don't mind it when the Coens do it, either). Obviously taste is subjective and everything, but I've never laughed harder at a movie than at my first viewing of Some Like It Hot.
I don't mind oversized stuff either generally. When was the first time you saw SLIH, like how old were you & what was the context?
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I see what you're saying, but the sort of "oversized" nature of the acting and the writing and some of the plots isn't something I mind (I don't mind it when the Coens do it, either). Obviously taste is subjective and everything, but I've never laughed harder at a movie than at my first viewing of Some Like It Hot.
I don't mind oversized stuff either generally. When was the first time you saw SLIH, like how old were you & what was the context?
I don't remember exactly when, but I think I was around 25. I was already a Wilder fan (I'd seen and loved Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd. One-Two-Three, The Fortune Cookie, and most of all The Apartment) and, having avoided SLIH up to that point for some unknown reason, I watched it with my then-girlfriend/now-wife. I literally laughed myself breathless - I remember my favorite parts being Jack Lemmon's pronunciation of the word "knockwurst" and the scene where he tells Tony Curtis that he's engaged to Joe E. Brown's character. I've never laughed that hard when I've watched it since then, though I still love it. I guess maybe the humor just really lined up with the place I was in when I watched it. Even my wife, who normally hates stuff like SLIH, really loved it.
Oh, and just to complete the Billy Wilder hijack of this thread, I'll also mention Stalag 17, which nobody has mentioned to this point. It's not his best, and it pales in comparison to something like The Great Escape, but I did enjoy it.
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There's a film that had seems like if i can remember right some people from Saturday Night Live in it like Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd from the early 80's and the spliced old footage together or something, i cant remember the name of it. Does anybody know the one im talking about?
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Mike%27s_Mondo_Video)?
No its not that one i think that ones on DVD. This one was around 81-83 and im thinking it had Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd in it and it might have had some apocalyptic theme.
I think the film I was thinking of was Nothing Lasts Forever.
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1941?
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I thought of some more Housekeeping, Fat City, Pixote, Stone, All This and World War II, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(i dont think its on Criterion anymore). I know a lot of Aki Kaurismäki's films aren't available, i would really like to check out I Hired A Contract Killer.
I wish Louie Ck's first film Tomorrow Night would get released the trailer looks crazy and it had first time screen appearances by Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, and JB Smoove.
Trailer: Tomorrow Night (1998) - a film by Louis C.K. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k_Dq-NoVbI#)
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There's a film that had seems like if i can remember right some people from Saturday Night Live in it like Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd from the early 80's and the spliced old footage together or something, i cant remember the name of it. Does anybody know the one im talking about?
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Mike%27s_Mondo_Video)?
No its not that one i think that ones on DVD. This one was around 81-83 and im thinking it had Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd in it and it might have had some apocalyptic theme.
Ah. Ghostbusters.
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I keep tryin' to get Aussie friends to being back a DVD of Dogs in Space, but apparently, from reading reviews, even the DVD print is a really bad worse-than-vhs pan-and-scan print. SO WHY BOTHER.
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Oh, the mention of Housekeeping reminds me of all the Bill Forsyth movies I really enjoyed in the theater and wouldn't mind seeing again. Local Hero was such a crowd-pleaser I'm surprised there hasn't been more interest in releasing Gregory's Girl, Comfort and Joy, That Sinking Feeling...
From roughly the same era there was a German comedy (yeah, an oxymoron I know) called Men... directed by Dorris Dorrie that I thought was pretty much a howl and wouldn't mind revisiting. It seems to have been released only as a German disc.
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Oh, the mention of Housekeeping reminds me of all the Bill Forsyth movies I really enjoyed in the theater and wouldn't mind seeing again. Local Hero was such a crowd-pleaser I'm surprised there hasn't been more interest in releasing Gregory's Girl, Comfort and Joy, That Sinking Feeling...
From roughly the same era there was a German comedy (yeah, an oxymoron I know) called Men... directed by Dorris Dorrie that I thought was pretty much a howl and wouldn't mind revisiting. It seems to have been released only as a German disc.
Ive only seen Gregorys Girl on tv, i still need to check out Local Hero.
What about Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Mother and the Whore. Spirits of the Dead (Toby Dammit), Highball
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Brewster McClound just recently got released on DVD.
As a Warner Archive disc, which are overpriced DVD-Rs.
I just saw a thing on TCM where Bill Hader is going to be the guest programmer in September and it looks like one of his films is Brewster McCloud.
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I have Celine and Julie on DVD from BFI
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews25/celine_and_julie_go_boating.htm (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews25/celine_and_julie_go_boating.htm)
I've never gone from being so bored to so engaged with a movie
Spirits of the Dead is also on DVD, but apparently this new Arrow release has the best version of Toby Dammit
http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=286729&sid=20015be7e84aae4eff33f7bc30a90602#p286729 (http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=286729&sid=20015be7e84aae4eff33f7bc30a90602#p286729)
http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/film/51685/Spirits-of-the-Dead/ (http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/film/51685/Spirits-of-the-Dead/)
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I don't think that Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers is available...
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ghUTwAlhA-U/Sf5hw7KyLfI/AAAAAAAAAbM/3GqO7HDMDE8/s1600/drowning-by-numbers.jpg)
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I have Celine and Julie on DVD from BFI
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews25/celine_and_julie_go_boating.htm (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews25/celine_and_julie_go_boating.htm)
I've never gone from being so bored to so engaged with a movie
Spirits of the Dead is also on DVD, but apparently this new Arrow release has the best version of Toby Dammit
http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=286729&sid=20015be7e84aae4eff33f7bc30a90602#p286729 (http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=286729&sid=20015be7e84aae4eff33f7bc30a90602#p286729)
http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/film/51685/Spirits-of-the-Dead/ (http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/film/51685/Spirits-of-the-Dead/)
I guess i was just going by not available through Netflix on DVD.
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Is A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971) available on DVD or any on-demand service?
Just watched this for the first time. It's sick how much I love Matthau.
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The Last Movie
subUrbia
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I've been waiting for Hickey & Boggs to show up somewhere -- it's an early '70s I Spy Cosby/Culp reunion, but they play a couple hard-boiled detectives and the film's supposedly kind of gritty and bleak. I read someone compare Cosby's performance in this to Lee Marvin, so now I need to see this to find out if that actually makes any sense.
It's going to be available on Netflix streaming starting 9/1.
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Weekend
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Weekend's been out on a BFI R2 for a couple of years.
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Almost Transparent Blue
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I can't give a full list here, but Netflix Instant just added a ton of movies this week, lots of old out of print weirdness as well. "Rich Kids" with Trini Alvarado and John Lithgow, Richard Lester's "The Bed-Sitting Room", a Pepsi-sponsored beach party movie called "For Those who think young" starring both Bob Denver and Tina Louise, some trashy direct-to-video horror called "Spellcaster" where Adam Ant is an evil magician, etc. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it.
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There are a number of new additions that have Best Show reference points:
Clifford
Thing With Two Heads
Cannonball Run II
Extreme Adventures of Super Dave
Over the Top
Gator
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I can't give a full list here, but Netflix Instant just added a ton of movies this week, lots of old out of print weirdness as well. "Rich Kids" with Trini Alvarado and John Lithgow, Richard Lester's "The Bed-Sitting Room", a Pepsi-sponsored beach party movie called "For Those who think young" starring both Bob Denver and Tina Louise, some trashy direct-to-video horror called "Spellcaster" where Adam Ant is an evil magician, etc. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it.
Thanks for the heads up i had forgotten about Rich Kids.
One Trick Pony
Welcome To LA
I seem to remember some seventies movie with Harvey Keitel as a music producer but i couldn't find it anywhere. Maybe it wasn't Harvey Keitel.
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(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8mc7k27XZ1qzomx8o1_250.png)
Simon 1980
(http://i35.tinypic.com/2mwdlvo.jpg)
Death Watch 1980
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The Secret Cinema
Bless Their Little Hearts
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No Holds Barred starring Hulk Hogan still hasn't been released on DVD.
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One thing is for sure: there aren't enough versions of "Blade Runner" available... Jesus...