Okay, What Video/DVD Do You Own That Nobody Else Does?

[Susang]

Myself, I am now the proud owner (thanks to Ebay) of The Bed-Sitting Room, directed by Richard Lester and starring Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Marty Feldman and Spike Milligan.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064074/

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Possibly 'Until the End of the World', or 'Bad Taste'

maybe '24 Hour Party People' or the original 'Bedazzled'.

Ooh. Or 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'.

[NashVegas]

3. 24 Hour Party People

I have it.

On TiVo if it counts.

[Susang]

8. But I own most of those

;-)

Though I'm not sure about The Satanic Rites of Dracula, as I have so many vampire movies, they all end up looking alike. I buy a lot of dvds from http://www.somethingweird.com , they have very odd movies that can be great fun to own.

Bedazzled is fantastic, isn't it?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. It's great. I love Peter Cook.

He's a personal hero.

[Susang]

25. I'm looking for another one of his films on any format

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer. I am desperate for a copy, but no one seems to have one. :-(

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. Can't help you there, I'm afraid.

[Susang]

31. Nobody seems to be able to

The movie was written by John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Peter Cook. I just want to see the damn thing, apparently its brilliant. Comparable to Bedazzled.

[Tempest]

37. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

I know no one else has this one.

[Tummler]

44. I do!

Haven't watched it yet though. I'm still working through the Herzog/Kinski box set.

[Tempest]

45. No fair

I shouldn't count if it's part of a box set. ;)

[Tummler]

50. Do you list your collection on DVD Profiler or DVD Aficionado?

Your DVD library sounds awesome.

(For the record, the Herzog/Kinski box set does NOT include Enigma of Kaspar Hauser ... I meant to say that I was working through the six Herzog/Kinski films before I grabbed Enigma off my shelf. Incidentally, it looks like the Enigma DVD is now out of print.)

[Westegg]

53. You're in for a treat. One of Herzog's best!! (n/t)

[mac56]

28. Do you remember "The Two Of Us"?

His US sitcom, from about 1992 or so? I thought that was quite funny.

Add on edit, I think I'm misremembering the date.

[BlueHandDuo]

83. The Andy Griffith Show...

...Collector's Edition, "The Best of Otis" on VHS.

Still shrink-wrapped.

:toast:

[NashVegas]

2. "Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring"

1970s TV-movie of the week with Sally Field as a hippie girl trying to re-integrate with her family. Not great, but very creative, and thoughtful, compared to what passes for network entertainment now. David Carradine as a "Gypsy Davey" figure.

[mac56]

6. I remember that one from when it was first on ABC!

I was in junior high and thought it was way cool.

[NashVegas]

11. I Was Just a Little Kid

when that was broadcast, but always remembered it. Saw it on Amazon for $6 and snatched it. What's most amazing in comparison between then and now was how much TV really tried to be creative in its story-telling technique.

[Soopercali]

13. Omigod! You have this?

And Linda Ronstadt sang the title song...

[NashVegas]

21. Yeah - And Look What I Found

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/maybe_ill_come_home_in_the_spring/dvd.php?select=4

It's a really cheap package. No extras, just the film.

[mitchum]

114. A great one! Several years ago I organised a film festival of...

movies from that period dealing with the drug/youth culture problem. I included that gem along with "The People Next Door" and, of course, "Go Ask Alice" Hysterical.

[Tempest]

4. Xui, Xui The Sent Down Girl

An import from China.


And I bet no one else has Anchoress.

[JohnKleeb]

5. umm lets see

Civil War Combat
WWII in Color
Escape from a living hell
Bloody Sunday
thats prolly all, its mostly my history channel documentaries, oh and Profiling the Criminal Mind.

[Tempest]

9. I've got Bloody Sunday

n/t

[JohnKleeb]

14. well nm

[Cheswick2.0]

7. Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby

I know no one else has that.

[Susang]

22. I wouldn't be so sure about that

I think he just might have a copy.
http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/

[Cheswick2.0]

67. This guys a hoot

But he doesn't post here does he? He probably should.

[eyesroll]

10. "Incubus"

It's a horror film starring William Shatner.
It's entirely in Esperanto.

[Tempest]

23. Got it, and I'm not proud of it.

It's hidden away where none of my friends will see it.

[eyesroll]

26. Wow! Did you get it for the star, the plot or the language?

I'm a (very poor, self-taught) Esperantist, and my husband got it for me when I was learning.

[Tempest]

30. Given to me as a joke gift

I'm a big Star Trek fan and a friend gave it to me as a joke.

He didn't tell me it was a joke at first.

I had to watch the movie and find out for myself.

[Jokerman]

12. Fear Of A Black Hat

Very funny send up of the Rap music industry.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106880/

Writer/director/star Rusty Cundieff now directs some segments of "The Chappell Show".

[Kellanved]

15. Staplerfahrer Klaus

Topkapi, One-Two-Three, ...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. Blood: The Last Vampire

[Chovexani]

132. If "nobody" excludes a zillion other anime fans

Maybe. ;)

It's sitting in my 5 disc-changer right now next to disc 7 of Rurouni Kenshin, a homebrew J-Rock sampler I burned myself, and disc 3 + 4 of Two Towers extended set.

Yeah, I'm a nerd. :P

[terrya]

18. I know I'm the only one who owns "Winter Kills" on video.

"Winter Kills" is a terrific movie based on a novel by Richard Condon, who also wrote "The Manchurian Candidate".

This is one very quirky movie...it's based on a fictionalized President of the United States (loosely based on JFK) and the aftermath of the President's assassination.

It stars Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins and John Huston (as the slain President's father)

[Tempest]

24. Got it.

I've got 99.9% of the political thrillers from the 1950s through the 1990s.

Including The Osterman Weekend.

[terrya]

29. Oh, I stand corrected.

My goodness...you have quite a collection. Would you happen to have "Suddenly" as well? Pretty decent thriller.

[Tempest]

36. Don't have Suddenly, but I've seen it

Too erotic for my tastes.

A newer one that's worth getting is The Tailor of Panama.

[terrya]

38. I've seen it at the video store.

I do like LeCarre. The book is very good.

Thanks for the recommendation.

[Tempest]

40. Geoffry Rush is excellent in it

And Jamie Lee Curtis does a great job as his wife.

It was strange seeing Pierce Bronson playing a bad guy spy though.

[Twillig]

125. Boorman films are always worth a look.

And "Tailor of Panama" has his commentary with it. He's the second best director commentator (first is John Frankenheimer. RIP). I had to buy Zardoz solely on that basis!

[Tyler Durden]

19. The Madwoman of Chaillot

Starring Kate Hepburn, Yul Brynner, Donald Pleasance, Richard Chamberlain, Danny Kaye and a ton of others.

I also have a bona fide LaserDisc of "Xanadu" but don't tell anyone. I was tripping when I bought it.

[EstimatedProphet]

20. OHHHHH!!!! I would love that on DVD

That's one of my favorite movies
Myself, I have some of the 50's drive-in favorites, like She-Devil from Mars and Rocketship X-M.

[Susang]

35. Unfortunately, it isn't on dvd

It seems to only be available on VHS right now. But I will take what I can get.

[SnohoDem]

32. "A Christmas Memory"

ABC Playhouse 1967 version w/ Geraldine Page. Narrated by Capote.

[mondo joe]

43. Ha! I have it on video!

I admit I'm shocked that anyone else has it.

[SnohoDem]

47. Me too! (Shocked that is)

My wife and I both remembered it from our childhoods, and I finally found her a copy by mailorder. Ordered it in time for Christmas, 2001. It arrived the following June. :-(

[mondo joe]

54. Mine is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy...

... given by a friend.

I hope yours is in better shape!

[redqueen]

33. The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock

that or Blue Planet

[Tummler]

63. Got it

There are lots of cheapo DVD releases of the early Hitchcock films.

If the "Blue Planet" you're referring to is the Attenborough documentary series about the ocean, I've got that too. I'm a David Attenborough completist. A U.K. box set containing "Life on Earth," "The Living Planet," and "The Private Life of Plants" is one of the "crown jewels" of my DVD collection.

[redqueen]

65. This Blue Planet was an IMAX film

Admittedly not as visually stimulating on the small screen, the images are still beautiful. It also delivers a wonderful message about the importance of educating ourselves about our environment.

And yeah the Hitchcock steals are irresistible!

[ret5hd]

34. Man of the Century

a b/w comedy about a newspaper man who was seemingly dropped from the 1920's into modern america. very funny.

[Susang]

39. Here's another one: Slapstick (of another kind) starring Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis does Kurt Vonnegut! How surreal can you get?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088134/

[mac56]

41. Also stars Marty Feldman and Madeline Kahn.

ewwww

[Parrcrow]

62. Fall of Eagles

a 13 part British mini-series from 1974. Traces the decline and fall of the Russian, German and Austrian monarchies from 1848 to the end of WWI.

oops I was supposed to reply to the OP

[Tummler]

42. The COLOR version of "The Man Who Wasn't There"

The film was shot in color to mollify the studio execs. I didn't know the Hong Kong DVD was the color version when I bought it, but I suppose it makes for an interesting conversation piece. (Actually, no it doesn't. Never mind.)

DVD Aficionado, the DVD listing site, allows users to see which other DVDaf users own a particular DVD. There are numerous DVDs in my collection (e.g., foreign DVDs) that I've had to enter into the DVDaf database myself 'cuz they're so rare, and I'm still the sole DVDaf user who lists some of those titles. So I suspect that I'm the only DUer to own some of those. Here's my humble collection:
http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?id=tummler (by category)
http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&sub=All&id=tummler (big-ass complete list)

[Tummler]

60. More examples ...

Le Samouraï (1967), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. There's a nice French DVD with English subtitles. It's never been issued on DVD in the U.S.

Sonatine (1993), the minimalist masterpiece from Takeshi Kitano (yes, the guy from "MXC" on SpikeTV).

"Edge of Darkness," the incredible 1985 British mini-series about the nuclear industry.

Threads, the 1984 British made-for-TV movie about the aftermath of a nuclear war. Gets my vote as the most disturbing movie ever made.

Dozens upon dozens of kung-fu films, e.g., the wuxia movies directed by Chor Yuen that were unknown in the West 'til their recent DVD release in Hong Kong.

[MercutioATC]

46. "Ichi the Killer" - unedited version

Possibly the most graphically violent film of all time. Definitely the most graphically violent I've seen.

[Tummler]

48. Got that one (the Dutch 2-disc uncut DVD version, that is)

That's a popular title among horror buffs.

[MercutioATC]

51. Damn! Didn't think I'd see another Ichi owner here...

Some of the blood was a little cartoonish for me, but I thought most of the violence was very well-done. What's the consensus (if you've heard anything resembling a consensus)?

[Tummler]

55. Well, it has a big following among a certain crowd

It's the kind of movie that primarily attracts fans of extreme horror, and they seem to love Ichi. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and I'm not even a Takashi Miike fanatic.

[MercutioATC]

57. I let a co-worker who loves horror borrow it. Her reaction?

"I felt kinda dirty afterwards. I had to take a shower."

Unless you're going for "scared", that's the perfect response to horror, I think.

[Tummler]

61. Yep

I saw Cannibal Holocaust for the first time last night, and that was my reaction.

[MercutioATC]

64. Oooh! Where is it available?

I had to get the uncut version of "Ichi" from E-Bay. Where should I go for "Cannibal Holocaust"?

[Tummler]

66. There's an all-region NTSC version from "EC Netherlands"

I got it off eBay for cheap, and it turned out to be a bootleg with reduced A/V quality. :(

If you want a legit copy of the same edition, check out http://www.xploitedcinema.com -- they stock that edition as well as the superior "Ultrabit" edition (PAL formatted) from the same publisher.

The NTSC edition is supposedly missing a few seconds of footage from the "Last Road to Hell" segment -- due to damage in the source print, not censorship. I didn't think the absence of the footage was a big problem.

[MercutioATC]

68. Thanks, I'll pick it up :)

[Tempest]

49. The Professional - uncut international version

A young Natalie Portman whacking some bad guys.

Didn't make it past the U.S. censors.

[Tummler]

52. That's another popular DVD

4065 (!) users at DVD Aficionado (including me) list that one in their collections, and that's just for the first Columbia/Tristar DVD release of the 133 minute international cut.

[Westegg]

56. "Cocksucker Blues" on video...

But I DID buy it on the street in Soho from a bootlegger, so no doubt SOMEONE else has it. What I can guarantee, however, is that it will never get a Criterion Collection DVD release---at least not until all the Stones and their lawyers are dead.

[Beer Snob-50]

79. didn't that get edited down to "gimme shelter"?

[Westegg]

87. Indeed not. "Gimme Shelter," which I have on DVD...

...is a beautiful "Criterion Collection" version of an official release, re-released theatrically a couple of years ago. It's the David and Albert Maysles documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1969 American tour, which culminated in the violent "free concert" the Stones put on at the Altamont Speedway in December 1969. "Cocksucker Blues," on the other hand, is the long-suppressed film that happened when the Stones hired the great American photographer Robert Frank to document their 1972 tour of America. Frank and his team captured the band at the height of their drugging, hotel-destructing, groupie-abusing days, and later, when the band (in particular Jagger) saw the results, they decided the film couldn't be released. And so it never has been. It's a spellbinding and ultimately depressing monument to excess and chaos. I wish I had better than a fifth-generation dupe of it, but, even with the shadows, the grain, the poor resolution, you can tell there's a riot goin' on.

[SiouxJ]

58. "Days of Heaven," a beautiful Terrence Malick masterpiece

story is eh, but I love watching it for the artistry.

[Tummler]

59. Got that one

Beautiful movie.

[mondo joe]

69. PARTING GLANCES, one of the best gay movies ever

And still the only AIDS related movie I've ever enjoyed.

[chaska]

70. Great Canadian film "Black Robe".

[Kelli372]

71. Head...starring The Monkees

[ikojo]

105. I own that one....it was one of the first DVDs I bought.

I also own Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will...are either of these owned by any DUers?

What about Nosferatu?

[Butterflies]

72. "Breezy" starring Kay Lenz (from 1971 or 1973)

she used to be married to David Cassidy.

[BigMcLargehuge]

73. Men Behind the Sun

[Tummler]

74. I was just thinking about that one a few minutes ago

I've never seen it, and I never want to. The animal violence in Cannibal Holocaust is bad enough; I draw the line at footage of a cat being eaten alive by rats. :puke:

[BigMcLargehuge]

76. the whole movie is rough

but illuminates a very shadowy and awful event in human history. I don't have a problem with the cat/rats scene. I think it's more important to remember the 25 million people killed as a result of Unit 731 and other Japanese bio warfare units than to worry about a cat and rats.

I know I'll take flack for it, but the film SHOULD be seen by everyone. It's more powerful, to me, than Shindler's List.

[ZenLefty]

75. Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai

I've also got Seven Samurai, but I'm pretty sure someone else out there has it.

Slapshot is a pretty rare find too. :D

[BigMcLargehuge]

77. there was a major rerelease of slapshot about a year ago

to coincide with the direct to DVD Slapshot 2.

I have Ghost Dog and Seven Samurai

[redqueen]

80. They made a Slapshot 2?

Pity. There's no way it could be as good as the first.

[BigMcLargehuge]

81. I never rented it

but it stars the brothers from the first film

[redqueen]

88. The Hansens?

Not sure if that's the name, but that's a plus at least.

[BigMcLargehuge]

89. yes

the Hanson Brothers

I can't imagine it being anywhere near as funny as the first one though.

[BigMcLargehuge]

91. I take it you listened to the commentary with the Hanson Brothers

on the Slapshot DVD? Man that was funny.

[redqueen]

94. No, I haven't!

I saw it a looooong time ago, before my acquisition of my DVD player. I'll have to rent the DVD and check it out... thanks!

[BigMcLargehuge]

97. my pleasure :)

[Tikki]

78. "Hollywood Vice Squad"....

a Penelope Spheeris directed movie...staring Carrie Fisher.

[BigMcLargehuge]

82. isn't that the unknown comic movie?

[Tikki]

93. "Night Patrol" is the....

...Unknown Comic...movie. I am not sure if Vice Squad was meant to be a comedy...but it sure is silly.

[BigMcLargehuge]

98. oh that's right... Night Patrol

I remember Hollywood Vice Squad too... It's all they used to play during the early days of The Movie Channel.

[Ivan Sputnik]

84. Tales of Tomorrow, Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, etc.

I bought these DVDs recently at a "dollar store." $1.00 each!

"Tales of Tomorrow" (1952) -- 3 half-hour episodes
"Sherlock Holmes" (1954) -- 3 half-hour episodes
"Adventures of Robin Hood" (1955) -- 3 half-hour episodes
"The 39 Steps" (1935) -- A Hitchcock classic, possibly out of copyright?
"Home Town Story" (1947) -- starring Marilyn Monroe in a supporting role

I haven't watched any of them yet, but can you go wrong for a dollar?

[greatauntoftriplets]

85. "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"

Funny 1960s movie about a group of Americans on a country-a-day European tour. Suzanne Pleshette and Ian McShane.

Donovan (remember him?) wrote the music and appears in the movie. He barely looks old enough to shave.

[Susang]

99. OMG, I used to love that movie!

And now I have the damn theme song running in my brain! Make it stop, make it stop! :o

[greatauntoftriplets]

103. Because my mother's parents emigrated from Luxembourg...

I always found the lunch stop scene in "Lucheonbourg" especially funny. Fortunately, I've never eaten in a restaurant there where I was damned to eat a hamburger (not that I don't like hamburgers), but when in Rome...

[flamingyouth]

86. Genuine Artifacts From the Texas Sixties Teen Sound

And I highly recommend it.

[barackmyworld]

90. a bevy of bad teen movies

Crossroads (the Britney Spears movie)
On the Line (the Nsync movie)
From Justin to Kelly (the American Idol movie)

hey, I'm a sucker for irony value.

[Speck Tater]

92. Robert Thurman's Lecture series on Tibetan Buddhism.

That's Uma's poppa.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

95. Are these on VHS or DVD?

I'd be interested in seeing those...

[Spirochete]

96. Even Dwarves Started Small

weirder than weird, with nothing but German midgets in it.

[Jack The Tab]

112. Do NOT watch that movie on any kind of mind altering substance..

I watched some of that movie with friends while on a certain substance and it sort of fried my head.

I just really remember a scene where they are chasing a car that's going around in a circle and someone is beating a monkey (??) and then there is this little fellow that just laughs and laughs...

needless to say we didn't watch the whole thing, what with the attention span this substance gives you

[ceile]

100. The Transporter n/t

[ikojo]

101. Limited edition (500 copies made?) of the Monkees

in concert in California. Unlike the DVD available on amazon.com this DVD includes EVERY song performed and is uncut.

I am sure I'm the only DUer who owns this DVD.

[Mr Bojangles]

102. I may win the topic...

When I was younger, I thought they were the coolest band ever, and so my mom found this VHS tape for me...I still don't know what rock she dug it out from under, but I watched it whenever I could.

As a matter of fact, I still have it, almost 15 years later xD

[pbg]

123. Have it!

My brother the music-obsessed bought it. Watched it. Took it out of the VCR and said "Take it. Please."

[Supply Side Jesus]

124. I remember seeing that when I was a kid!!

vague memories.....some kind of dungeon and monsters and a concert at the end.

[Mr Bojangles]

131. You can't forget

the talismen of power!

Peter: "Without them, we're just ordinary men"

Gene (in the really badly effect-layered voice): "Not quite ordinary".

Such gripping dialogue!

Then the fight with their robot counterparts followed immediately by a concert.

Oh man, I can't think about it without laughing. xD

[GalleryGod]

104. I, A WOMAN

1966 ground breaking classic.
The Great Essy Persson!:bounce:

[citoyen]

122. got it

[LanternWaste]

106. Maybe these three... (I was lucky on the CD list...)

Seasons 1 and 2 of "Once and Again"

All six movies of A&E's "Horatio Hornblower"

Cary Grant/Irenne Dunne in "The Awful Truth" (the world's best comedy and don't let anyone tell you differently...)

[Bryan]

126. Hey, I've got all of those!

Your taste is above reproach, your deep soulfulnees is obvious to all, and it's a safe bet that you smell nice and are kind to small animals.

[arwalden]

107. "The Lost Language Of Cranes", and "Beautiful Thing"

[Kat45]

108. Green Jello's "Cereal Killer" video

The band was forced to change its name to Green Jelly when the company that owns the Jello brand took exception to it. I believe Kellogg's also filed suit because of the band's use of some of their cereal characters (killing or being killed) in its 'Cereal Killer" video.

[stopbush]

109. Darby O'Gill & The Little People...and the "Carry On" Collection

[Deja Q]

110. Sapphire And Steel - The Complete Series

Awesome sci-fi series that "The X-Files" owes more than a nod to.

[Jack The Tab]

111. City Of God (Brazilian edition Ciudade de Deus)

awesome, simply awesome

[mitchum]

113. "Mandingo" The greatest bad taste movie ever made...

I'm still looking for "Pray For The Wildcats" TV movie product at its finest

[pagerbear]

115. Oklahomo!

You don't want to know.

[Susang]

116. Got another one: Phantom of the Paradise starring Paul Williams!

Genius!

[Zomby Woof]

117. Gigli

Hell, I don't even own it, it's so rare. :evilgrin:

[Susang]

118. The rare part is owning it

The DVD is pretty common....unopened, in stores! ;-)

[Zomby Woof]

119. I put glitter on it

BatBoy thought it was a pastry and ended up with heartburn. He was afflecked up!

[Susang]

120. I'm sure he J-Loved it!

He enjoys anything involving bodily fluids. :D

[Lisa]

121. I confess to owning "Knightriders" and "Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe"

(The latter features ... I won't say "stars" ... Jesse Ventura, prior to his gubernatorial days.)

[catzies]

127. The John Stockton Collection

All together now, everybody say, " :wtf: ?"

[hyphenate]

128. I've got quite a few I doubt if others have

Dreamscape, Sneakers, Brainstorm, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, Murder By Decree, Wild Things and Manhunter.

[ilovenicepeople]

129. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Toot Sweet,Toot Sweet:bounce:

[Bryan]

130. David Cronenberg's 'Fast Company'

In 1977, Cronenberg's sexualized horror-psychodramas were still an unknown quantity outside of Canada, and jobs in the tiny Canadian film industry-heavily dependent on a program of government-subsidized tax-shelter fundraising-were scarce.

So he took the only directing job he could find: an exploitation movie about drag racing.




The film is hilarious Mystery Science Theater 3000-level trash (I mean, it's even got John Saxon in it), and the cognitive dissonance caused by the project's mere existence is just gravy on the taters. Blue Underground* has just put out a great two-disc version of the film that contains Cronenberg's two earliest semi-pro films, Stereo and Crimes of the Future, both of which are incredibly slow, pretentious, and strange. Essential viewing.

*http://www.blue-underground.com/movie.php?movie_id=52