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chente 05-25-05 10:43 AM

George Orson Welles.

Amel 05-25-05 10:46 AM

I'm not a complete completist. I don't go so far as to get multiple copies of films from different regions.

As for the people I do get everything that's available they are:
Johnny Depp
Halle Berry
Thandie Newton
Zhang Ziyi
Marilyn Monroe
James Dean
Bruce Lee
and the only director, Kevin Smith

Kudama 05-25-05 10:52 AM

David Cronenberg
Guillermo del Torro
Hayao Miyazaki

sundog 05-25-05 10:59 AM


Originally Posted by wendersfan
Actors - I don't give a shit about actors

[Hitchcock]Actuurs are cattuull[/Hitchcock]

I don't have any complete DVD collections, though I did have all of Kubrick's available features on VHS, then I managed to see all those features in theaters, many multiple times. Aside from Barry Lyndon and a few others I don't feel the need to purchase any more of his DVDs.

Alex Cox — everything available, including the PAL DVD of Highway Patrolman. Still looking for a reasonably priced copy of Walker.

Tsai Ming Liang — everything available except The River (which I have seen).


Directors I'm working on seeing everything in their filmographies:

Luis Bunuel — about halfway there (keep kicking myself for missing about half of a Bunuel retrospective 3 years ago)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul — I plan to see every one of his features that makes it to Chicago, so far that includes Mysterious Object at Noon, Blissfully Yours, and Tropical Malady. (I do have Mysterious Object at Noon on DVD)

Takashi Miike — seeing all of his stuff is as close to a completely futile task there is.

Jim Jarmusch — missed a screening of Permanent Vacation, but that's it.

tommyp007 05-25-05 02:24 PM

Working on all Tom Cruise movies
Would love to have all by Spielberg and Hitchcock, but $$$ is getting tight.

PopcornTreeCt 05-25-05 02:27 PM

Akira Kurosawa is really the only director I must have every movie from. I do own every Paul Thomas Anderson film but that's like bragging about having every Fincher or Wes Anderson film. Umm, as for actors, well I do have a bunch of Cary Grant films but not every single one. Another director I love is Steven Soderberg and I have almost every movie of his pre-Ocean's 11. And one last thing, I'll probably end up buying every single David Gordon Green movie until he retires.

garolo 05-25-05 03:24 PM

Kurosawa
Tarentino :D
Miyazaki

das Monkey 05-25-05 03:41 PM

Directors are too easy if you only consider feature films. There must be 20 directors for which I own all their available work (Tarantino, Soderbergh, Kubrick, Shyamalan, Coen, Mann, Scorsese, Smith, Gilliam, the list goes on ...) I'm sure millions of people have everything Lucas has directed.

Actors, on the other hand ... oddly, I own almost everything with Tom Cruise, but not by design.

das

Mondo Kane 05-25-05 03:58 PM

Another Bruce Lee fan here.


Originally Posted by sundog
Takashi Miike — seeing all of his stuff is as close to a completely futile task there is.

Yeah It's gonna be impossible to see everything he's done, but I plan to get close.

Autumn 05-25-05 04:13 PM

Ian Hart
Robert Carlyle

dick_grayson 05-25-05 04:15 PM

Alfred Hitchcock
James Bond (not sure if that counts)
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Bunuel

Cygnet74 05-25-05 04:17 PM

there are several directors for which i am a completist.

Martin Scorsese - this includes the criterion LD Three By Scorsese (italianamerican, american boy, big shave), as well as the episode of Amazing Stories he did and the Michael Jackson video, "Bad".

also, i own everything available for...
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson - including the Bottle Rocket short
Michaelangelo Antonioni
Ingmar Bergman
John Carpenter - everything before In The Mouth of Madness
John Cassavettes - not as an actor
Joel & Ethan Coen - with the distinct exception of The Ladykillers, which i will not be adding
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Jean Luc Godard - everything up to Week-end
David Gordon Green
Christopher Guest
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Lukas Moodysson
Lynne Ramsey
Andrei Tarkovsky
Wong Kar-wai
Zhang Yimou

AeroStone 05-25-05 04:18 PM

Spielberg, Tarantino & Scorcese.

Kate Winslet
Jim Carrey
Tom Cruise

Cygnet74 05-25-05 04:24 PM


Originally Posted by AeroStone
Scorcese.

sure, you are... ;)

fryinpan1 05-25-05 04:51 PM

I am not really a total completist. I collect most Hitchcock, De Niro, Pacino, Bill Murray, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt movies. However, if I do not like one, I will not keep it in my collection.

devilshalo 05-25-05 05:09 PM

Not a true completist but a majority of Lau Kar Leung films.

tommyp007 05-25-05 05:11 PM


Originally Posted by dick_grayson
Alfred Hitchcock
James Bond (not sure if that counts)
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Bunuel


Yeah, I have all the Bond's, but wasn't sure either.

Mr. Cinema 05-25-05 07:35 PM

Steven Spielberg
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Edward Norton
Steve Buscemi
Philip Seymour Hoffman, baby!!!!!!

Jadow 05-25-05 08:08 PM

I have purchased just about every movie Peter Mayhew is in.

Rockmjd23 05-25-05 08:10 PM

Hmm...for directors: Albert Pyun, Uwe Boll....no not really
I have most of the available Argento, Fulci, Lenzi, and other Italian horror directors..Tarantino and Bruce Lee, though those are easy to collect.

bis22 05-25-05 08:12 PM

Directors:
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Fincher
Paul Verhoeven - although I've only got his stuff from Robocop onward
Wes Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (still working on that one slowly)
somewhat David Lynch
Darren Aronofsky
Richard Kelly :D

PopcornTreeCt 05-25-05 10:38 PM


Originally Posted by Cygnet74
Joel & Ethan Coen - with the distinct exception of The Ladykillers, which i will not be adding

I recently acquired The Ladykillers for the sole purpose of owning every Coen Brothers film. It wasn't a bad film per se, it was just a bad Coen Brothers film.

naitram 05-25-05 11:09 PM

Michael Bay

Rammsteinfan 05-25-05 11:27 PM

John Carpenter... I think i have like 21 DVD's of his now.

NatrlBornThrllr 05-26-05 12:40 AM

I currently own every feature available on R1 DVD for:

Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
The Coen Brothers
Sofia Coppola
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
Charlie Kaufman
Richard Kelly
Harmony Korine
Sam Mendes
Chris Nolan
Alexander Payne
Kevin Smith
Quentin Tarantino

I'm missing x-number of films for the following:

Ingmar Bergman - 8 (that MGM set would knock out 5 of them)
Larry Clark - 1 (Teenage Caveman)
David Gordon Green - 1 (Undertow)
Stanley Kubrick - 3
Richard Linklater - 4
Martin Scorsese - 4
Gus Van Sant - 2

I also intend to get everything from Lynch, Hitchcock, and Kurosawa.

-JP


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