Movies you would like to see brought out on DVD

[texas1928]

I would love to have High road to China on DVD.

I love the music and the airplanes. And Bess Armstrong was gorgeous in this movie.

[Jamastiene]

1. Goonies, got it now too, finally.

Unfortunately though, it's wide screen and my television isn't.

I finally got to see the deleted scenes from the Goonies. Finally, I saw the octopus scene. :D Even though it's widescreen, I'm still glad to have it. I love that movie more than any other movie, well, maybe it's a tie with Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. I'm such a sucker for reject kids and animal movies.

An answer to a question you didn't ask:
I can tell you one movie I wish they had NOT released on DVD, "Frogs." That was one cheesy, corny movie. Even $5 was too much to pay for that stinker. The frogs all chirped (or whatever the hell it is that they do) but never actually did anything and then the people died one by one. And the people died from stupidity, not anything the animals were really doing. What a sucky movie. They used the same footage and sound effects of the frogs over and over again hence the name of the movie. That movie sucked.

[texas1928]

2. The Goonies would be cool

Hell they brought out Dream a Little Dream on DVD.

[ForrestGump]

3. I love "High Road To China." A non-bootleg "The Gumball Rally" would be

maybe my pick right now. I just ordered Convoy, one that was long on my release-the-damned-thing-on-DVD list.

I have a few I want to get that are only available in fullscreen in the US (a few that leap to mind are Vacation, All Of Me,and The Karate Kid) and I won't get 'em until they put out a widescreen release. One of my favorite Elvis movies is in that category, too: Follow That Dream. What kinda idiot movie company doesn't release a widescreen version of its films in this day and age? You think they'd be happy to have the whole film seen.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. A widescreen version of Lost Highway

Though I think it might actually happen soon...finally.

[Tsiyu]

5. "Walk the Line"

I'm sure it will be out tomorrow

[regnaD kciN]

6. The Wrong Box

A classic British comedy from 1966, starring everyone from Michael Caine and Ralph Richardson to Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Peter Sellers. The concluding hearse race (yes, I did say "hearse race") is one of the greatest extended comedy sequences.

[lakemonster11]

7. Our Man in Havana.

I saw it last year in a local theater that plays a lot of old films, and it immediately became one of my favorite movies. Apparently it never even came out on VHS.

[Crazy Dave]

8. I'd like to have a collection of the old British "Hammer Films"

They had a long list of low budget, but very entertaining horror films in the 70's.

[Ohio Joe]

15. There are a number already available

Check them out at http://www.hammerfilms.com/merchandise/dvd_ref/us_dvd_releases.html

[ikojo]

9. Yentl....I don't know why this one is

not out yet.

[bikebloke]

10. African Queen

That's a film I figured would have been out already. I've never seen it to the end. As a kid, I always had to go to bed.

[mitchum]

11. Elvis Presley's only good movie, "Jailhouse Rock"

[DanCa]

31. King Creol and change of Habiit too.

[robbedvoter]

12. Like Water for Chocolate. Antonia's Line.

Original Producers (Rick Shawn). The Little Price with Gene Wilder as the Fox.

[peacefreak]

24. Like Water for Chocolate & Antonia's Line

are out. I have both. My wishes would be Shirley Valentine & Night of the Comet.

[CBHagman]

38. I've seen The Producers on DVD.

You mean the film with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, right? I've seen it in stores.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

13. "Dougal and the Blue Cat" as my video is pretty fucked

Also "Performance", Cronenberg's "M. Butterfly" and Branagh's "Hamlet" spring to mind. Plus Peter Jackson's "Meet the Feebles" needs a reissue (and while I'm on the subject, I'd love to see "Bad Taste" & "Braindead" get the proper DVD treatment).

I'd add "The Devils", but according to Mark Kermode, it's getting a proper release this year which will include the discovered footage (the "Rape of Christ" sequence, etc) as he's filmed an update to his "Hell on Earth" documentary for the DVD.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

41. and the original Star Wars trilogy, that I saw as a kid would be nice nt

[jakefrep]

14. "Grand Prix"

Groundbreaking movie by John Frankenheimer featuring a young James Garner.

[bertha katzenengel]

16. Shirley Valentine

A must see for everyone.

[Atmashine]

17. The Court Jester

I think it's already on DVD, but it's dang hard to find. Danny Kaye's my hero. And Basil Rathbone.

[KatyaR]

18. I'd like that one, too--actually, any Danny Kaye movies.

Has "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" ever been released on DVD?

I'd also like "Un Coeur en Hiver" and "Raise the Red Lantern." Both of them were released on VHS but have never been put out on DVD.

[lavenderdiva]

19. Enchanted April, 1992 version...

with Miranda Richardson and Josie Lawrence. Awesome movie. I understand its available on DVD in Europe but not in U.S. Go figure.

[kskiska]

20. Robert et Robert

Claude Lelouch's Robert Et Robert is a bittersweet love story which twists and turns its way toward an up-tempo finale. Robert Villiers (Jacques Villeret), a shy butterball who is studying to be a policeman, and Robert Goldman (Charles Denner), a wispy and nervous cab driver, meet a computer dating service run by a slick entrepreneur and his cynical wife (Jean-Claude Briarly and Nelia Bielski). Both men are dominated by their strong willed mothers and both are spectacularly lacking in social graces.

[brentspeak]

21. "Rolling Thunder", starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones

Mid 1970's film. HBO played it occasionally in the early 80's. About a Vietnam vet (Devane) who takes revenge on a bunch of slimeballs who killed his family and forced his hand into the sink's garbage disposal.

[sarge43]

22. My choices

Breaking the Sound Barrier, Hobson's Choice and Young Winston

[texanwitch]

23. I found a great place to buy old movies on DVD, cheap to.

Go to Alpha Video, all kinds of old stuff on DVD.

[robbedvoter]

25. Is it on line?

[texanwitch]

27. Yes just in type in Alpha Video , the website comes right up.

1-800-336-4627


You may find your hard to find movie here.

:hi:

[robbedvoter]

34. Oldies.com - great fun! Thanks for this!

[swag]

26. John Waters' "The Diane Linkletter Story"

I only saw it once, at the Biograph (probably doesn't exist any more) in Georgetown, DC. So great. Divine as Diane Linkletter, David Lochary as Art Linkletter, and Mary Vivian Pierce as Mrs. Linkletter. 10 great minutes of ranting and fretting.

Oh, also this Japanese film from the early 90s called The Crazy Family. Quite demented, even moreso than The Family Game or Happiness of the Katakuris, yet I cannot track that fucking thing down. Finally found a reference to it in a cinema journal a couple years ago. Why isn't it on DVD or even VHS? It was brilliant.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. The Crazy Family

I videotaped that one myself when it was shown on Bravo many years ago, back when Bravo was a pay channel for foreign films.

There are a lot of in-jokes about Japanese pop culture--the son, who wears a helmet to study, is supposed to be a follower of Aum Shinri Kyo, which everyone at the time thought was just another one of those bizarre but harmless cults that Japan seems to produce in abundance.

[swag]

45. Wow. What a good catch.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. A British TV series: Dalziel and Pascoe

It's not available on DVD, even in the U.K. It was shown on A&E till about five years ago, before they went all true crime all the time.

Terrific series about an ill-tempered, cleverly raunchy working class police detective and his university-educated partner. Not a comedy per se, but really well done and relieved by humor. Based on the books by Reginald Hill.

[Initech]

29. Robin Hood: Men In Tights

I've been waiting for that damn movie to come out forever! And you'd think that with Dave Chappelle's popularity, this thing would sell like hot cakes!

[tishaLA]

30. Today I was complaining that

Le Samourai isn't available on DVD. Well, it turns out that Criterion released it in October! It's almost a perfect film...so I think I gotta buy it.

Some day, I'll just sit around and watch Battle of Algiers and Le Samourai back to back and I'll just stay in Francophone mode for the rest of my life.

[DanCa]

32. Lords of Flatbush.

[Arkham House]

33. The Last Flight

Anyone familiar with this one? It's from 1931...very similar to Hemingway's *Sun Also Rises*, and the writer was part of that circle in Europe in the 20s...but it's actually *better* than the novel. I know, I know--that's impossible, because it was done by a Hollywood sell-out hack, whereas Hemingway was a "genius"...but it's nonetheless a fact. The attitudes and dialogue wouldn't be seen in American films for another 35-40 years...it's remarkably modern today. It was a flop at the time...I often wonder if the history of films would have been different had it been a success...

[tuvor]

35. Midsummer Night's Dream from 1935

The cinematography was absolutely gorgeous. Worth sitting through, even with Mickey Rooney as Puck.

[ET Awful]

36. Niagara, Niagara

One of my all time favorite indie films starring Henry Thomas (Elliot from E.T.) and Robin Tunney. I have it on VHS, but haven't watched it in ages simply becamse my VCR is in a box somewhere and hasn't been unpacked since I moved.

[CBHagman]

37. The last time I checked...

...the following were not available on DVD:

Between Two Worlds
Crossing Delancey
A Midwinter's Tale (also known as In the Bleak Midwinter)
Enchanted April (the 1992 version)

[jpgray]

39. Colossus: the Forbin Project

Just because the DVD release they have now is total full-screen shit.

[Bridget Burke]

40. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (again)

It was released on DVD but almost immediately went out of print. Amazon has links to sellers offering it; the prices begin at $78.00.

This was Almodovar's biggest hit. And it's a great comedy--not as controversial as some of his other films.

[Rob H.]

42. Theatrical release version of "Blade Runner"

There was already supposed to be a three-disc special edition with the original theatrical version, the director's cut, and an updated version, but the company that owned the distribution rights folded. From what I've read on the internets, legal wrangling over who now owns the rights is delaying it. :grr: (I don't really care about anything but the theatrical release, anyway.)

[realisticphish]

44. The Men in Company C

One of the best vietnam movies of all time, and very underrated