Rented/bought any great video/DVD lately?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Just finished watching the 1999 romantic drama ‘The End of the Affair’ with Julianne Moore and Ralph Fienes. Usually, this type of film is not my cup of tea but, having read glowing reviews (among which Janet Maislin’s in the New York Times), I decided to give it a shot.

WOW! Totally bowled over! What a great film this is! Superior performance by the main characters and even the secondary ones, superb directing (Jordan was nominated for an Academy Award), splendid photography, tight script, great transposition of Greene’s novel (no mean feat), there’s hardly a flaw to be found, except perhaps for the slightly forseeable ending. Cinematography at its finest.

Do I have to add that I strongly recommend it?

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I just bought the three-disc set of “Fantasia / Fanatsia 2000” which is probably the best $50.00 I’ll ever spend. All sorts of extras, cinemascoped versions of “Melody” and Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" and a whole third disc with background art, interviews, the works. It’ll probably take me the next year to go through the whole thing.

At LAST, Disney is doing DVDs right!

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All About Eve. But that is just a great movie, not a great DVD.

The Toy Story 3-disk set is fantabulous.

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Rented “Being John Malkovich” a couple of weeks ago. Really weird concept, but it was also really cool.

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Oh, Eutychus, it remains to be seen whether Disney is finally doing DVDs right. They got it right on three DVDs so far: Tarzan, Toy Story, Fantasia.

The Toy Story disks, of course, were done by Pixar. Fantasia may be an anomoly, I imagine that when a memeber of the board has such a high interest in a project as Roy Disney has in Fantasia that the disks are going to be given the royal treatment.

Tarzan is the gold standard for a plain-old Disney effort and they did well. The Dinosaur Collector’s Edition coming out next month will be our chance to see if Disney has figured out the medium yet. (At least they have stopped the 10 minutes of mandatory commercials.)

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To add to your list of Disney disks done right: if you’re going to include The Ultimate Toy Box, you might as well include the SE of A Bug’s Life.

While on the subject of Toy Story, have y’all found the easter egg on disk 3? It’s an, um, alternate ending to “Jessie’s Song”. hehehe

Most recently, I picked up the Fantasia set and the X-Files: Season Two set.

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Can’t go wrong with John Malkovich (at least rarely). The film was more than a bit weird, but I enjoyed it too; great cast.

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Any idea where i can find the 3 disc Toy Story? everybody around here has 2

                 Thanks
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When Chicken Run, X-men and Gladiator came out on the same day, I was a happy shopper. But the best recent purchase has to be The Seventh Seal Criterion Edition. Definitely the best file ever produced in Sweden in 1954

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Just bought and watched Contact yesterday. Absolutely awsome movie. I think that was my 4th time watching it, and it still grabs me.