Movies that have not been released on DVD

[Stupornaut]

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?

[Christina]

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.

[masterofsparks]

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.

[cavorting with nudists]

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.

[Christina]

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?

[masterofsparks]

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.

[Joe Rogaine]

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?

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.

[fonpr]

1941?

[Joe Rogaine]

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.

[Chris L]

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?

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.

[Senator Gothman (D-OR)]

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. 

[cavorting with nudists]

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.

[Joe Rogaine]

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

[Joe Rogaine]

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.

[roubaix]

I have Celine and Julie on DVD from BFI
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.moviemail-online.co.uk/film/51685/Spirits-of-the-Dead/