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But yes, it's incredible to me in this day and age how some movies can still be so hard to get a hold of.
Heh, this is why I've been hitting the Grey Market this year. I just scored a cool, very late sixties mod French movie titled Erotissimo from ModCinema.com.
Also, you can find a lot of stuff on All Clues No Solutions and similar sites.
I'm boggled that Ace in the Hole and Golddiggers are hard to find. They seem to be on TV over here frequently.
Not here, or at least - not on non-subscription channels.
Edit: my problem is Region 2. I know there are ways round this, but I need DVDs I can show in class (using ancient DVD players) and possibly lend to students. Also poverty (can't really afford to spend $$$$s on one single DVD).
What three movies would you pick if you were guest programmer on Turner Classic Movies?
Lavender Hill Mob, George Cukor's A Double Life, and Faisons un rêve (because it's truly a crime that Sacha Guitry is not better known--his creativity and delivery was genius).
Le Voyage Dans La Lune, Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Alexander Nevsky.
Good programming!
megan, you saw that Eclipse (Criterion) put out a Sacha Guitry set, no?
megan, you saw that Eclipse (Criterion) put out a Sacha Guitry set, no?
Just now, when I looked to see what of his was out here. I may have to put that on my Christmas list. His stuff is so much fun.
OK, I just know that with a bit of Buffista input we can crack this:
After two viewings I've got: James Bond (not sure which one), ..., Up, The Godfather, The Usual Suspects, The Birds, The Big Lebowski, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Babe?, Delicatessen?, Airplane, One Million Years B.C., The Shawshank Redemption, ..., Dr. Strangelove..., Pan's Labyrinth, Singin' in the Rain?, Ben Hur, Silence of the Lambs, Borat, Groundhog Day .
Any advance?
Fiona, The Blair Witch Project is the only one I saw that you didn't, I think.
Going back for a second viewing.
ETA - also
The Matrix.
Hey Fiona!
TCM has actually run both Gold Diggers of 1933 and Ace In The Hole a number of times over the last year. I don't know how to do a Region 2 exchange, though!
I'm definitely surprised that Criterion hasn't hit the Apu Trilogy. There must be some sort of rights issue. The issue of rights would be the problem with Los Angeles Plays Itself, too (which is also why you can't find a DVD of it), but I figure that TCM must have some sort of magic attorney squad to clear its use of the movies it plays.
And I have to say that TCM should let us guest-program now.
Fiona, The Crosses could be Last Temptation of Christ or Passion of the Christ, the Pills were the Matrix, The sticks were Blair Witch Project