July DVD's

I just submitted my July DVD order and half the order is Non-fiction. In most ways the Non-Fiction DVD collection is harder to build than Fiction. Some subjects do not translate well onto film and the selection tools are much better for Movies and Television than for non fiction. There are tons of books, magazines, and websites devoted to reviewing movies and television but almost nothing for non-fiction. Amazon is helpful but I don't really know whether to trust their reviews, although generally I assume that something must really be a dog if all it gets are negative reviews on Amazon. Most of this month's Non-Fiction are what I call 'Gap Orders" I'm trying to fill gaps in the DVD collection. There's travel, Science, history, and the Arts. The Arts are always conducive to DVD.

I had much more fun was working on the Fiction collection. Now I'm going through and trying make sure I have the major works of Film Icons. I was amazed that I didn't have very many of Errol Flynn's movies so I sort of went nuts. I think I got every movie where Errol Flynn played a pirate and each movie where they made him do Hollywood's version of India. I'm also curious to see the Sun Also Rises. Errol Flynn's last three movies were supposed to be his best as an actor but I also want to see Gentleman Jim, which was Flynn's personal Favorite. I also made a big buy of Bette Davis movies. She was never my favorite actress but she is a Hollywood Icon and many of her movies, like Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and the Petrified Forest are required viewing for serious film buffs.

Don't miss Gunga Din it's the best of Hollywood's infatuation with the British Raj or Beckett an award winning play that featured Peter O'toole Richard Burton at their very best.

Non-Fiction DVD's

La Boheme - The Royal Opera
La Traviatia
Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold
Don Giovanni
Travel with Kids: Hawaii the Islands of Oahu
Travel with kids Caribbean
Rick Steves 1000-2007 Italy's countryside
Great Railroad Adventures: Swiss Rail Journeys Vol. 1
Great Railroad Adventures: SwisslRail Journeys Vol. 2
Secret Yellowstone
Secret Yosemite
Blackbeard: Terror at Sea
Great Masters of the Italian Renaissance
Rembrandt Collection
Art of the Pas De Deux
Art of the Pas De Deux Vol.2
Ants - Little Creatures Who Rule the World
Bees - Tales from the Hive
Addams Family - Volume 1 (Season 1)


Fiction DVD's
Apocalypto Mel Gibson's non PC tale of pre Columbian Maya
Addams Family Values Gleefully ghoulish humor delivered with just the right touch.
Becket Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton do a superb job in this film adaptation of an award winning play.
Charge of the Light Brigade: An Errol Flynn swashbuckler from the Golden Age of Hollywood, but I still can't figure out how India got into it. Oh well that's Hollywood.
Captain Blood: This is THE Errol Flynn Pirate movie.
Sea Hawk: Okay this is the other Errol Flynn pirate movie. Both are superb.
Prince and the Pauper: Another Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Alan Hale movie, but Hey they were really good at it.
Dawn Patrol: Another great war movie. I've been trying to get this one for a while.
Sun Also Rises: Hemingway wrote it, Flynn, Ava Gardner, Tyrone Powers, and Mel Ferrer all acted in it. Flynn proved he could act.
Kim: Errol Flynn in India again.
Gentleman Jim. Based on the life of boxer Gentleman Jim Corbett.
Gunga Din: This time it's Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in India
Operation Petticoat: Blake Edwards directs Cary Grant and Tony Curtis so get ready to laugh out loud.
Of Human Bondage: This one Made Bette Davis a star.
Petrified Forest: I got this one for Bette Davis but watch it for Humphrey Bogart. It made him a star.
Jezebel: Bette Davis got an Oscar for this one, and William Wyler directs with Henry Fonda co-staring.
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex: Bette Davis as Elizabeth I and Errol Flynn as the Privateer Essex (another Errol Flynn Pirate move!)
Man Who Came to Dinner: Bette Davis doing Comedy! I've got to see this one.
Mr. Skeffington: Masterful Bette Davis Melodrama.