It seems as if every movie ever made is available on DVD, so the few exceptions are very notable. A few of the movies that I enjoyed greatly (and own on VHS) but aren’t available on DVD include:
Twenty Bucks, with Brendan Frasier, Steve Buscemi, Elizabeth Shue, and many others. It’s the story of a single $20 bill that passes between many peoples hands, and how it affects them and causes their lives to intertwine.
At Play in the Fields of the Lord, with John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah and Tom Berenger. A very intense film about a clash of cultures between missionaries, mercenairies, and Indians in the Amazon river basin.
Any other movies that you liked but inexplicably were never released on DVD?
I was going to complain that Ed Wood still wasn’t out on DVD, but I decided to make certain first. And what do I find? Gaa! It just came out last week. Why the hell was I not informed of this?!? Time to cancel the dinner plans…I’ve got a date with a cross-dresser…
Who’s Minding the Mint should be on DVD, or even VHS, but it isn’t. Not surprising, as it’s an obscure 60s comedy.
Bill Murray’s funniest movie ever, Quick Change, with Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards, Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, and Kurtwood Smith, apparently doesn’t have enough talent to warrant a DVD release.
Neither does Noises Off, with Carol Burnett, John Ritter, Christopher Reeve, Marilu Henner, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliot, Nicollette Sheridan, and Julie Haggarty.
Heh. I just saw a Noises Off… DVD in the “Two Movies for $20” pile at the local Borders. Still more than I’d care to pay for that movie, but it is available. Amazon has it in stock.
Since this is turning into an “Oh, wait! It just came out on DVD!” thread, let me try:
The Earthling - William Holden’s last movie, and one of the rare films where I can stand that little Ricky Schroder brat.
Hardware - Wonderful cult horror flick starring Dylan McDermott & Stacey Travis, with Lemmy as a cab driver cameo. Amazon says it came out last year, but I’ve yet to find anyone with a genuine Region 1 copy.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - 'nuff said.
Second Best - One of William Hurt’s best yet least known performances.
Giorgio Moroder’s version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. I know, I know, this isn’t really the film that Fritz Lang envisioned, but it’s still well worth watching for the superb combination of image and music. I understand the copyright situation with several of the songs on the soundtrack is what’s holding up a DVD edition.
Sunshine, an obscure, Canadian made-for-TV film from the '70s which is my absolute all-time favorite tearjerker. It’s about a young mother who’s discovered she’s dying of cancer and decides to record messages on cassettes for her young daughter (who’ll be too young to remember her). Damn, I’m almost in tears just remembering it. I think there’s a bootleg available somewhere, but the puzzling thing is that this one isn’t available on either DVD or VHS.
Going Crazy, a comedy with John Candy and several other Second City TV alumni. Doesn’t really hold together all that well, but it still has some very inspired comic sequences. Again, not available on either VHS or DVD. Fut the wuk?
There are lots of TV projects that fit into this category, but the biggest one I’ll mention (which never made it into VHS either) is The Awakening Land (imho, the single best historical miniseries or movie ever on television- brilliant acting, writing, dialect coaching and set design- today it would be seen as an Ashton & Demi vehicle.)
The movie had a wonderful ensemble cast starring Jim Hutton and featured one of the last appearances of Walter Brennen,Milton Berle(dressed as George Washington), Victor Buono, Joey Bishop, Jack Gifford, Joey Farr, Dorothy Provine(as the love interest) and also costarring Bob Denver and Jim Backus of Gilligan’s Island(filmed after the series ended). It ***is *** available in VHS.
I think I said this one in the last thread like this, but it always surprises and pisses me off that Raise the Red Lantern is not available on DVD, although some of the rest of the director’s work is.
Well this is strange. I was going to mention Superfuzz but it’s apparently a foreign flick. Whatever, I remember it being pretty damn funny, though I was about 8 when I first saw it.
One of my favorite movies is In the Bleak Midwinter, a movie directed by Kenneth Branaugh and starring a bunch of his regular performers. It’s about a group of amateur (and, need we say, eccentric) actors trying to stage an extremely low budget performance of Hamlet. Hysterical from start to finish. And not available in DVD nine years after its release! :mad:
