New DVD's for February
February's DVD order is a grab bag of odds and ends. The Lion share of the order is made up of recent bolckbusters (2000-2004) but there are also some other trends I'm finishing up. I have been going through the films of major actors & actresses so there are several movies from Tom Selleck, Walter Matthau, and Peter O'toole. I was reviewing the work of Gloria Graham and bought several Film Noir classics I'd missed. I also slipped in several romance classics for Valentines Day and I'm beginning to look at classic Television on DVD again. There should be something here for everybody so enjoy!
THE MOVIES
Anne of a Thousand Days/Mary Queen of the Scots: Two costume Dramas with steller performances by incredible actors.
Bleach Blanket Bingo/How to Stuff a Wild Bikini: Totally forgetable innocent 60's fun.
Big Heat: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. The film noir classic were bad guy Lee Marvin throws hot coffee in Gloria Grahame's face.
Bridget Jones Diary: A modern romantic classic.
Butterflies are Free: The 60's romantic classic (Okay it came out in 1972 but it was on Broadway first.)
Capote: the 2005 Academy Award winning performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Cheers: The Complete Second Season
Cinderella Man: Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger in a biopic of James Braddock's heavyweight championship fight. Do not miss this one. Hollywood can still make a good movie.
Closer: Mike Nichols directing Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, and Jude Law.
Coming Home: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern in the multiple Academy Award winning post Viet Nam Romantic Drama.
Contender: A modern political drama with Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Sam Eliot and William Petersen.
Erin Brockovich: Julia Robers is a lawyer that saves the world from everything.
Fear in the Night: Deforest Kelly in a nifty noir murder mystery.
Finding Neverland: Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet in a bio Pic of the Author of Peter Pan.
Flame Trees of Thika: BBC miniseries of a childhood in East Africa.
Gangs of New York: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Diaz Cameron directed by Martin Scorese.
Gosford Park: A Robert Altman Upstairs Downstairs murder mystery.
Guide for the Married Man: Walter Matthau and every great comic from the 60's.
Home Improvement: Seasons one and two.
Hotel Rwanda: Don Cheadle as a hotel manager in the nightmare that was Rwanda.
Hunchback of Notre Dame: Charles Laughton, Maureen Ohara, and Edmond O'Brien in the classic love story.
In a Lonely Place: Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in a gem of a noir murder mystery.
Lady from Shanghai: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloan in the strangest of all Noirs.
Laura: Otto Preminger dirests Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price in a four star murder mystery.
Love is a Many Splendored Thing: Jennifer Jones and William Holden in a multiple Oscar winning romance.
Man Who Never Was: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, and Stephen Boyd in a WWII spy thriller based on a true story.
Manhattan: One of Woody Allen's best with Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemmingway, and Meryl Streep.
Monster: Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci in an Academy Award Winning Biopic of a woman mass murder.
Murder She Wrote: seasons one and two.
Murphy Brown: The Complete First Season.
My Favorite Year: Peter O'toole in a fictionalized comedy of Errol Flynn on the Cid Ceasar show. Naked City: Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Duff in a trend setting crime drama. (Everyone's copied this one.)
Pieces of April: Katie Holmes in a Quirky New York Comedy.
Pollock: Ed Harris in a Biopic of Jackson Pollock.
Quigley Down Under: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman in a a solid Australian Western.
Ray: Jamie Foxx is Ray Charles and got an Oscar for it.
Scarface: Paul Muni, George Rafe Boris Karloff in what many consider to be the Greatest ganster movie ever made.
Sci-fi Classics 50 movie Pack. (I got it for the Incredible Shrinking Man.)
Sideways: Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church in a different take on Buddy Road pictures. Star is Born. The Judy Garland version.
Stunt Man: Peter O'toole and Barbara Hershey in a riviting four star thriller.
They Drive by Night: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, and Ann Sheridan Noir doesn't get much better than this.
Thirteen: Holly Hunter. LA through the Eyes of a teenage girl.
Three Men and a Baby: Leonard Nimoy directs Tom Selleck, Steve Gutenberg and Ted Dansan.
Two for the Road: Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney in a romantic classic.
Wild Geese. Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Stuart Granger are Mercenaries in Africa.
THE MOVIES
Anne of a Thousand Days/Mary Queen of the Scots: Two costume Dramas with steller performances by incredible actors.
Bleach Blanket Bingo/How to Stuff a Wild Bikini: Totally forgetable innocent 60's fun.
Big Heat: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. The film noir classic were bad guy Lee Marvin throws hot coffee in Gloria Grahame's face.
Bridget Jones Diary: A modern romantic classic.
Butterflies are Free: The 60's romantic classic (Okay it came out in 1972 but it was on Broadway first.)
Capote: the 2005 Academy Award winning performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Cheers: The Complete Second Season
Cinderella Man: Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger in a biopic of James Braddock's heavyweight championship fight. Do not miss this one. Hollywood can still make a good movie.
Closer: Mike Nichols directing Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, and Jude Law.
Coming Home: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern in the multiple Academy Award winning post Viet Nam Romantic Drama.
Contender: A modern political drama with Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Sam Eliot and William Petersen.
Erin Brockovich: Julia Robers is a lawyer that saves the world from everything.
Fear in the Night: Deforest Kelly in a nifty noir murder mystery.
Finding Neverland: Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet in a bio Pic of the Author of Peter Pan.
Flame Trees of Thika: BBC miniseries of a childhood in East Africa.
Gangs of New York: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Diaz Cameron directed by Martin Scorese.
Gosford Park: A Robert Altman Upstairs Downstairs murder mystery.
Guide for the Married Man: Walter Matthau and every great comic from the 60's.
Home Improvement: Seasons one and two.
Hotel Rwanda: Don Cheadle as a hotel manager in the nightmare that was Rwanda.
Hunchback of Notre Dame: Charles Laughton, Maureen Ohara, and Edmond O'Brien in the classic love story.
In a Lonely Place: Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in a gem of a noir murder mystery.
Lady from Shanghai: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloan in the strangest of all Noirs.
Laura: Otto Preminger dirests Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price in a four star murder mystery.
Love is a Many Splendored Thing: Jennifer Jones and William Holden in a multiple Oscar winning romance.
Man Who Never Was: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, and Stephen Boyd in a WWII spy thriller based on a true story.
Manhattan: One of Woody Allen's best with Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemmingway, and Meryl Streep.
Monster: Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci in an Academy Award Winning Biopic of a woman mass murder.
Murder She Wrote: seasons one and two.
Murphy Brown: The Complete First Season.
My Favorite Year: Peter O'toole in a fictionalized comedy of Errol Flynn on the Cid Ceasar show. Naked City: Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Duff in a trend setting crime drama. (Everyone's copied this one.)
Pieces of April: Katie Holmes in a Quirky New York Comedy.
Pollock: Ed Harris in a Biopic of Jackson Pollock.
Quigley Down Under: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman in a a solid Australian Western.
Ray: Jamie Foxx is Ray Charles and got an Oscar for it.
Scarface: Paul Muni, George Rafe Boris Karloff in what many consider to be the Greatest ganster movie ever made.
Sci-fi Classics 50 movie Pack. (I got it for the Incredible Shrinking Man.)
Sideways: Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church in a different take on Buddy Road pictures. Star is Born. The Judy Garland version.
Stunt Man: Peter O'toole and Barbara Hershey in a riviting four star thriller.
They Drive by Night: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, and Ann Sheridan Noir doesn't get much better than this.
Thirteen: Holly Hunter. LA through the Eyes of a teenage girl.
Three Men and a Baby: Leonard Nimoy directs Tom Selleck, Steve Gutenberg and Ted Dansan.
Two for the Road: Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney in a romantic classic.
Wild Geese. Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Stuart Granger are Mercenaries in Africa.
posted by Rob Finch at 8:28 AM
1 Comments:
I think you do a great job ordering these movies. I think that Copote, Gangs of New York, Hotel Rwanda, Thirteen, and Two for the Road(I love Audrey Hepburn and this was a great movie even though it was a bit long) were great choices and needed to be in your collection. I was surprised to see that you did not already have Ray, Monster, Finding Neverland, and Erin Brockovich. Just wondering about Crash. It won Best Picture two years ago at the Globes and Oscars.
One more thought. You haven't updated on the music in a while. Have you stopped ordering or is it just a hassel to get that info on this blog. I really enjoy listening to a lot of the stuff that you get. I would like to see a filling out of the Beatles collection. You have a lot of their later stuff (although your missing Let it Be) but their early stuff is missing. I would also like to see some of Lennon's solo stuff as well. Bob Dylon would be great and maybe some Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.
Keep up the good work.
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