DVD Purchases Today
 

Today's purchases:

1. "The Innocents" (Jack Clayton)
2. "Secrets & Lies" (Mike Leigh)


Next purchases via Amazon:

1. "The Nun's Story" (Fred Zinnemann)
2. "I Love Lucy" (Season Six)
3. "Leave It to Beaver" (Seasons One & Two)
4. "The Children Are Watching Us" (Vittoria De Sica)
5. "Fists in the Pocket" (Marco Bellocchio)


What have you just bought & what are you going to buy shortly?

recently bought Mommie Dearest. wanted collector's edition, but they were sold out.

on my list to buy: A Star Is Born, For Pete's Sake, Will & Grace series, Sex & the City series, Outrageous Fortune and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

today my package from amazon came with my 12 deadly cyns dvd! :] :] :]

Only one we purchased...
 

this week was "Underworld Evolution" (Special Edition Widescreen).

Last week we bought "Team America:World Police", which is one frikking funny movie.

I've been busy hunting down cd's moreso than DVD's as of late.

that's out already?

ok, that'll be mine tomorrow.

It came out...
 

this past Tuesday on 6-6-6.

Very good movie that stays inline with the story from the first "Underworld" movie.

knots landing season I
that 70's show season IV
foxes
bewitched seasons II & III
rosemary's baby~

I just recently ordered:

Bette Davis Collection Volume 2
Strait-Jacket
Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition
Dead Ringer

"Golden Girls" Seasons 1, 2 & 3 for my Mom (she has the rest.)
At the moment, I have no dvd on my wishlist.
Scratch that! I want "The Libertine" with Johhny Depp. JD makes for excellent dreams. :nod:
Has it been released? I haven't had the time to keep up on new releases and I am too sleepy to check now! :cool:

i want the gg dvd's soooo bad! i'm jealous!!

I purchased a previous season for her as she "wanted sooo bad!" She hasn't found the time to watch that season and yet she wanted more! What momma wants, momma gets! ;) They pack a lot of episodes on those dvds. :nod: I am always amazed when someone has seen every single one of them!

oh honey. i have literally seen each episode at LEAST 8 times!!

Holy Cow! :D Do you have a favorite?

yeah, i pretty much just watched GG between 8th and 12th grade ... lol.

hmm.... i like the one where they go on the game show. and the one where they enter the songwriting contest ... "miami, miami ... you've got style!"

love love love that show!

Is that Foxes with Jodie Foster directed by Adrian Lyne, or Foxes with Angelina Barflie that is a horrible slaughter of the very good book by Joyce Carol Oates?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

You are definitely my gay boyfriend for this evening.
Hey, what's in the Bette Davis collection volume 2? I guess I could look it up, but I thought I'd make conversation...:)

David - I always thought it was Vittorio De Sica. Not that that is especially important.

David, you might want to wait a few weeks. Deepdiscountdvd.com usually has a 20 percent of sale in mid to late June with free shipping. I saved a bunch of money last year. I don't know for sure that they'll do it again this year, I'll let you know if they do.

My next dvd purchases will be "Arrested Development Season 3" and "The League of Gentlemen Season 3". I think there are a few more that I want but I can't think of them right now.

[QUOTE=amber]:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

You are definitely my gay boyfriend for this evening.
Hey, what's in the Bette Davis collection volume 2? I guess I could look it up, but I thought I'd make conversation...:)[QUOTE]

Baby Jane Special Edition
Jezebel
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Marked Woman
Old Acquaintance
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Ive only seen Baby Jane and some of Jezebel. I've been trying to catch up on my Bette & Joan movies so I couldnt resist this boxset!

...Oh, and your gay boyfriend? I'd have to be gay first! But looking at my dvd choices I can totally see where you got that impression :laugh:

:lol: :lol: Amber, what were you thinking?!

I'm so sorry, I thought I heard around here that you were gay. Hey, I guess you can be my regular boyfriend! Even better! :woohoo:

You know, I've never seen Marked Woman? Isn't that weird? Old Acquaintance and the Man Who Came to Dinner are a bit dull, if my memory serves me...No, wait, Old Acquaintance is with Miriam Hopkins? If so, that one is good!
What's in the Baby Jane special edition?
Jezebel....well, do I really have to say anything about that one? Perfect, wonderful, Bette at her best. It sucks that was made the same year as GWTW, otherwise she would've got the Oscar for sure.

:blob1: It's cool

Copied from Amazon:

Commentary by author and film historian Charles Busch and film historian John Epperson (a/k/a "Lypsinka")
New documentary "Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition"
1994 documentary "All About Bette" hosted by Jodie Foster
"A Film Profile: Joan Crawford" featurette
"The Andy Williams Show" excerpt featuring Bette Davis
Vintage featurette: "Behind the Scenes with Baby Jane"

The Andy Williams clip is of Bette singing a rock song called "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" That's worth the price of the boxset right there I think!

I'm eager to watch this properly. The last time I saw it I think was about 10 years ago, and I didn't even make it through the whole thing. :shocked:

I'm more of a Joan person anyway. I can't wait till she gets a volume 2 collection.

:eek: I haven't seen any of that stuff! I totally want that now! Jodie Foster is ideal to host that.



Oh, it's incredible. Heeey, maybe it will switch you to a Bette Person! :laugh:
I've never liked Joan. And then, when Bette and Joan, the book, came out - well, obviously I had to choose sides! :laugh: Have you read that book?

I love Joan too much to switch sides. :laugh: I've got that book. I found it fascinating. I only ever got into Joan because of Bette. So I'll be forever grateful to Bette for that. The problem I find is that even in Joan's stinkers theyre still enjoyable, but when Bette makes a crap movie, it's unwatchable! (Not that I'm in any way suggesting Jezebel falls into that category!)

Really???? I feel the opposite. I think Bette is always interesting to watch, crap movie or not. In fact, sometimes she's waaay better if the movie is crap. :lol: I dig the way she chews the scenery.
Admittedly, I've always thought Joan is very ugly, so that doesn't help. But, I also think she's not as good an actress ("She couldn't act her way out of a paper bag!").:laugh:
So, this is interesting - what exactly are the qualities you like about Joan? Since I don't like her much, it would be great to see the good someone else sees in her.
I admire the longevity of both actresses. They just wanted to work, and they did.
For you Aries out there, those are two of the best! :p

I think Joan is one of the most beautiful actresses from the golden age of Hollywood. Especially from about '40-'45. I find her to be very commanding, like when she's onscreen you can't look at anything else. Her voice, her mannerisms I just love. Watching Baby Jane I agreed with the consensus that Bette was an actress and Joan was a star, but given the right role she could knock your socks off.

There's a hint of menace in Joan that I find intriguing too. In films like Queen Bee, and parts of Mildred Pierce I can see it. It's like she's someone you don't want to turn your back too. I love that hint of danger in her.

There's a pretty cool Joan video collage on youtube.com

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5goOPgau7Vs

Her delivery of some of the lines in that is just great. (EG: "I thought you were aware by this time that I'm not someone to be sent for like a kitchen maid" and "and you, you...slut!" Yowsa!)

Not that Bette didnt have any of those qualities. I just found Joan to be more refined:shrug:

Wow, those are all the same things I would say about Bette. Except the beauty part. But I wouldn't say that about Joan, either.
Interesting.
I agree with the hint of menace, definitely. Though I wouldn't call it a "hint" so much as "obvious". :laugh:
I'll go look at youtube.

I think they were both beauties, albeit unconventional. How could anyone not be mesmerised by those Bette Davis Eyes (hehe). What I do like about Bette is that she was never afraid to ugly herself up for a part. With Joan she's always glamourous looking. The only movie I can think of where she doesnt look glam is Strange Cargo

the movie w/ josie foster & cherie currie of the "runaways", i love the **** out of that movie along w/ "the little girl who lives down the lane", i was telling the hubby i never really thought of myself as a huge jodie foster fan, but i must be deep down, i have tons of her movies & love them, especially her real early 1's~

oh oh oh - can I come over?

I love Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and All About Eve!!!

ACK!! LOVE the GG - I remember many a Saturday night in my youth watching that show -and then in recent years on Lifetime -now I'm a GG DVD whore.

But I have to say my favorite episode HAS to be the murder mystery weekend one..love it :nod:

Ok and my DVD list:

Golden Girls - Seasons 3 and 4 (is 5 out yet?)
Wings - Seasons 1 and 2
Giant
Life as a House
Flight of the Navigator :lol:

Erm..I think those are my next immediate DVD purchases...though I'm not sure when I'll actually get around to buying them - right now I'm trying to finance a cross-country move. blah.

I KNOW! I saw it on cable once & loved it! So cheesy, so good. I have it on VHS. :laugh:


"Miami is nice, so I'll say it thrice, Miami is nice, Miami is nice....Miami is nice...." LOL!

I love that episode too. I also like the "Miami is nice, so I'll say it thrice" episode. my favorite, though, is probably when Dorothy and Blanche get into a fight b/c Dorothy starts working at the museum and Blanche thinks she's getting all the attention.

I am SO Blanche.

is Designing Women out on DVD? Also been looking for The Legend of Lizzie Borden with Elizabeth Montgomery on DVD.

omg! that's the one i usually say is my favorite, but i think i've seen it too many times now.

Sure! :D I bought Hush Hush not long ago...Agnes Moorehead is a hoot in it!

cool. I'll need directions. :cool:
HHSC is one of my favorites. I think I like All About Eve most. Agnes Moorehead rocks my world. I love that little coochie popper.

Yes indeed. I just heard on my movie forum about that, too. I got great stuff last year during Deep Discount's sale. I'll try it again this year! I still need the Marx Bros. Paramount set.

Well there is that hazard with the GG :p

I think the "Miami is nice...I'll say it thrice" is ok - I prefer, however, Sophia's "thanks for the Medicare...for bluecross and blueshield, for the hip that finally healed.." :lol:

Ok - LEAST favorite episode? I hate that episode that I think was an attempt at pilot or test for another show - the one with Mr. Fixit and the doctor and wife...HATE that episode.

How odd is it that we still know all these songs. I sang right along with your post. :laugh:

ho yeah, that ep sucks. that was actually the original pilot for empty nest! i miss that show. i'm glad they changed the concept, because that pilot ep sucked.

You know, I always wondered if that was the original concept for Empty Nest - I mean the house is the same, Charlie the wacky neighbor..the man being a doctor. I am also glad they changed the concept because - yeah - that ep sucked big old cow balls.

Oh how I loved Empty Nest though :laugh: I had a crush on Barbara :p

Ok - another GG song moment that I love...Dorothy and Sophia as Sonny and Cher - you can't beat it.

Oh - and actually I have changed my favorite episode - I think it's actually the one with Blanche's husband, Sonny Bono and Lyell Wagoner!