Still Getting caught up

I'm finished ordering for the year so maybe I can get caught up on my blog postings now. My July DVD order was fairly targeted. It starts with filling in the works Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, and Chales Bronson. Richard Widmark especially had some excellent early noirs that many people may not know about. On a whim I also looked at Forest Whitaker and found seveal gems I missed before. I also revisited the films of Sophia Loren whose best films are for some reason seldom in in print. The largest piece of this order was best grossing films of 2006-2008. As anyone who has the patience to read my blog knows I don't want to compete with Blockbuster so I hang back on buying recent movies. I am sitting on pins and needles waiting for Lonely Are the Brave which I think is one of the great movies. It's been out of print for a long time and here it is in October and we still haven't recieved it and if you are a movie buff it's one you should really should see.


THE MOVIES

Night and the City Fans of film noir will love this gritty view of the underbelly of 1950's London with Richard Widmark playing an American hustler trying to make a score in wrestling. Also Staring Gene Tierney and Herbert Lom.
Kiss of Death The Noir classic where Richard Widmarks debuts as the giggling psychopathic killer who pushes grandma down the stairs with Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, and Karl Malden.
Don't Bother to Knock This oddity has Richard Widmark Marilyn Monroe, Ann Bancroft, and Elisha Cook It's Marilyn's first starring role and she dominates te screen.
Pickup on South Street a tough brutal well made film. A must see for Film Noir buffs. With Richard Widmark.
Madigan a tough realistic 60's view of police work with Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, James Whitmore and Harry Guardino.
River of No Return Otto Premminger directs Marilyn Monroe, Robert Michum, and Rory Calhoun.
Red Pony Robert Mitchum, Myrna Loy Based on the John Steinbeck story
Man with the Gun Solid western with Robert Mitchum as a post High Noon town tamer.
Thunder Road Robert Mitchum plays a moonshiner. Its how NASCAR began. (Just Kidding)
Home from the Hill Robert Mitchum, George Prepard, George Hamilton, and Eleanor Parker directed by Vincente Minelli in an under-rated family saga of east Texas.
Enemy Below Robert Mitcum is the Sea Captain and Kurt Jurens is the U-boat commander in the classic war story Star Trek stole for the episode Balance of Terror.
Lonely are the Brave. Kirk Douglas is an old fashioned cowboy caught up in the modern world while being chased by Walter Matthau Carrol O'Connor, George Kennedy and a host of charactor actors you've seen before. It should be one of the great classics and will be if I have my way.
You're in the Navy Now Gary Cooper in a wartime comedy with Jack Webb, Eddie Albert, Ed Begley, and an early appearence by Charles Bronson.
Valachi Papers Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. Biopic of one of the first Mafioso that talked.
Mechanic Charles Bronson is a hitman and Jan Michael Vincent is his apprentice.
Rage in Harlem Forest Whittaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, and Danny Glover in a story loosely based on the great hard boiled writer Chester Himes.
Smoke Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker in a slice of life from Brooklyn.
Bird Clint Eastwod directs Forest Whitaker as Charlie 'Bird' Parker.
Species Nataha Henstridge, Forest Whitker,Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina. Natasha Henstridge is a species from another planet.
Ghost Dog Way of the Samuai Forest Whitaker is a Philosophical hitman.
Rock, Rock, Rock! What MTV would have looked like in 1956.
King Solomon's Mines Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr
King of the Gypsies Modern Gypsies in New York with Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Shelly Winters, Susan Sarandon, Eric Roberts, Brooke Sheilds, and Annie Potts.
Pope of Greenwich Village Couple of small time hustlers take on the mob. Eric Roberts, Mickey Roarke, and Daryl Hannah.
Saramouche Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Jose Ferrer and Henry Wilcoxen swashbuckle their war around France.
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow One of the more famous Italian 'Pink Comedies' with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
Spider-Man 3 Third edition of the popular Spider Man series.
Transformers Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox help good autobots fight off bad autobots in a remake of an animated movie that was based on a toy line.
I am Legend This is the third remake of the short story I Am Legend by Richard Matheson the first being Last Man on Earth with Vicent price, then the Omega Man with Charlton Heston. This version stars Will Smith as the infamous Robert Neville.
Wild Hogs Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, John Travolta, and William H Macy take to the road on 'chopped hogs' but run a foul of real bikers.
Knocked Up Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl end up was an unexpected visitor avter a one night stand in this 2007 Rom-Com.
Juno Oscar winning story of a sixteen year old girl dealing with an unwanted pregnancy.
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard Bruce Willis and that Mac commercial guy in the 4th installment of the Die Hard Series.
Enchanted Amy Adams is enchanted and ends up in New York in this animated-live action-romCom-musical.
Night at the Museum A different type of special effects movie with Ben Stiller Dick van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, and Robin Williams.
Da Vinci Code Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou track down church secrets in this movie version of the best selling novel.
Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby Will Farrell goes NASCAR.
Click Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale in a surreal comedy with channel changers.
Mission Impossible Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Jean Reno in an action adventure based on the TV show.
Mission Impossible II Tom Cruise and Thandy Newton
Mission Impossible III Tom Cruise and Phillip Seymore Hoffman
Underworld Cult favorite of the war between Vampires and werewolves with kate Beckinsale.
Underworld: Evolution Part three of the Underworld series. (we own #2)
Too Bad She's Bad Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni this 1955 light comedy is the the first pairing of one of the great movie teams.
Death Wish Charles Bronson's vigilante version of Dirty Harry.
Hard Times Charles Bronson James Coburn New Orleans during the depression and bare knuckles back room fighting.
Winslow Boy David Mamet directs this Victorian remake of the 1948 British classic

NONFICTION

Learn Spanish Level 1
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Carousel the Musical with Shirley Jones and Joel MacRea.
Karajan Beethoven the Symphonies
Herbert Von Karajan Vivaldi: the Four Seasons
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Building the Great Pyramid
Modern Marvels: the Great Wall of China
Panama Canal
Ken Burns: America Collection-Brooklyn Bridge
Modern Marvels - Statue of Liberty