Are you a completist of any actor or director?
11-21-15, 10:39 PM
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11-22-15, 12:50 AM
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Probably Coen Brothers for me. I have seen every one of their movies except Blood Simple in the theater.
I have also seen everything that Tarantino has done and will probably continue that with Hateful Eight though it looks bad.
I have also seen everything that Tarantino has done and will probably continue that with Hateful Eight though it looks bad.
11-22-15, 02:37 AM
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11-22-15, 11:23 AM
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11-22-15, 12:34 PM
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11-22-15, 12:49 PM
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I think I've at least got all the Western output of the three Sergios: Leone, Solima, Corbucci. Of course I have Bruce Lee's films.
I have a good bulk of Kurosawa, Ford, Hitchcock, Ishiro Honda and John Wayne as an actor, but not everything.
11-22-15, 03:15 PM
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I can tell why I didn't hear of it. DVD. FUCK. I don't want more DVDs. The Post War still hasn't hit BD. I remember them saying something about their Eclipse series and DVD during that time when Post War Kurosawa came out. I still want them to put that shit out on BD though. I get their reasoning though.
11-22-15, 05:45 PM
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Eclipse is for the most bare bones unrestored stuff they have, last in line to get the BD treatment. But since it's Kurosawa, that should be extra incentive.
11-22-15, 07:58 PM
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Fuck me.
I can tell why I didn't hear of it. DVD. FUCK. I don't want more DVDs. The Post War still hasn't hit BD. I remember them saying something about their Eclipse series and DVD during that time when Post War Kurosawa came out. I still want them to put that shit out on BD though. I get their reasoning though.
I can tell why I didn't hear of it. DVD. FUCK. I don't want more DVDs. The Post War still hasn't hit BD. I remember them saying something about their Eclipse series and DVD during that time when Post War Kurosawa came out. I still want them to put that shit out on BD though. I get their reasoning though.
I've seen seven Kurosawa films so far this year, four of them on Criterion DVD and three of them on the old Home Vision VHS editions. Four of the seven were first-time viewings and one of those (THE BAD SLEEP WELL) was on VHS. I'm glad I saw THE BAD SLEEP WELL, but I didn't think it good enough to get an upgrade. I have upgraded some Kurosawas to Blu-ray (SEVEN SAMURAI, HIGH AND LOW), but only because they come with lots of great extras. Otherwise I don't care.
11-22-15, 08:09 PM
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11-22-15, 08:39 PM
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11-23-15, 03:29 PM
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Being Blu-ray-centric means never getting to see hundreds of great films. Your loss. I still have tons of Japanese films on VHS I haven't yet seen.
I've seen seven Kurosawa films so far this year, four of them on Criterion DVD and three of them on the old Home Vision VHS editions. Four of the seven were first-time viewings and one of those (THE BAD SLEEP WELL) was on VHS. I'm glad I saw THE BAD SLEEP WELL, but I didn't think it good enough to get an upgrade. I have upgraded some Kurosawas to Blu-ray (SEVEN SAMURAI, HIGH AND LOW), but only because they come with lots of great extras. Otherwise I don't care.
I've seen seven Kurosawa films so far this year, four of them on Criterion DVD and three of them on the old Home Vision VHS editions. Four of the seven were first-time viewings and one of those (THE BAD SLEEP WELL) was on VHS. I'm glad I saw THE BAD SLEEP WELL, but I didn't think it good enough to get an upgrade. I have upgraded some Kurosawas to Blu-ray (SEVEN SAMURAI, HIGH AND LOW), but only because they come with lots of great extras. Otherwise I don't care.
I still have Ran on DVD. Cuz I'm very iffy on that Studio Canal BD we got. Not sure why CC let that one slip. I hated buying that Cazale documentary cuz it was only on DVD. When things are released in the proper period when a format like BD is around... you'd expect them to be released in that format, if not both. I GET why CC does this w/ Eclilpse... I just don't like it. Especially considering how some, if not most, of them are very much deserving of being upgraded to it. Post War Kurosawa looked solid on DVD... but it'd be better if it hit BD.
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11-23-15, 04:10 PM
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I've seen every episode of Gilligan's Island like 5 times does that count? 
There are certainly actors or directors I like more than others but I tend to be drawn to the subject matter more than the person. There really isn't anyone that I'll have to see everything they are associated with.
There are certainly actors or directors I like more than others but I tend to be drawn to the subject matter more than the person. There really isn't anyone that I'll have to see everything they are associated with.
11-23-15, 04:20 PM
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I've seen every episode of Gilligan's Island like 5 times does that count?
There are certainly actors or directors I like more than others but I tend to be drawn to the subject matter more than the person. There really isn't anyone that I'll have to see everything they are associated with.
There are certainly actors or directors I like more than others but I tend to be drawn to the subject matter more than the person. There really isn't anyone that I'll have to see everything they are associated with.
To be honest, I rarely pay attention to who the director is on anything I watch or shop for. And with actors, if they're really good, you're not even supposed to 'see' them, right?
11-23-15, 08:22 PM
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I grew up in the auteurist era of film school education, so we classified films by their directors and went to see the newest Peckinpah, the newest Truffaut, the newest Altman, etc., and when we watched a Hitchcock, Ford or Hawks on TV, we checked it off on our lists of films by those directors.
11-24-15, 12:38 AM
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As for actors, the closest I am a completist for is John Wayne... except his really early westerns, although I do have The Big Trail. I have seen some of his war films, but I don't have any of them. War films general bore me to tears.
The only other person I am really a completist for is Ray Harryhausen. Got every film and every documentary... except Ray Harryhausen Special Effects Titan. If I could get a region free blu-ray player for under a $100, I'd buy the region B release.
The only other person I am really a completist for is Ray Harryhausen. Got every film and every documentary... except Ray Harryhausen Special Effects Titan. If I could get a region free blu-ray player for under a $100, I'd buy the region B release.
