GDT Favorites
These are a few favorites of mine, I publish this -very incomplete- list to fulfill a
few questions about favorite DVD’s music, etc.
Music
Vivaldi, Haydn, Bach, Handel, Arvo Part, Peter Gabriel, Rufus Wainewright, Aimee Mann, AC DC, Nirvana, Wilco, Green day, Dimmu Borgir, Al Green, Judas Priest, Dido, Sex Pistols, Janis, Eurythmics, Queen, Alanis, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Garbage, Sarah McLachlan, The Beatles -all of them- Iz, Sabina,Al Green, Kate Bush, Keren Ann, The Monkees, Beach Boys, Marlango, Shakira (first two albums) Randy Newman, Soundtracks mainly: Goldsmith, Badalamenti, Beltrami, Travis, The Smiths, Kylar, Rota, Donnagio, George Fenton, Hisahashi, Silvestri, Alberto Iglesias, Antonio Pinto, Herrmann, Coulais, Carter Burwell, Ry Cooder, Craig Armstrong, Danny Elfman, Morricone, Howard Shore, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Zbigniew Preisner, Randy Newman, Ryiuichi Sakamoto etc
Movies
All of Hitchcock, Almodovar, David Lean, Scorsese, Kurosawa, Coppola, Fellini, Romero, Argento, Ophuls, Lynch, Cocteau, Walter Murch, Michael Mann, Tarantino (some of them) Cronenberg, Cameron, Patrice Leconte, Julio medem, Kossovitz, Polanski, Kieslowsky, Tarkovsky, Zulawsky, The Quay Brothers, Dreyer, Murnau, Chaplin, Keaton, James Whale, Ophuls, Terence Fisher, Mario Bava, Preston Sturges, Billy Wilder, Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii, Kitano, Miike, etc.
Some of my favorite DVD EDITIONS (not necessarily all my favorite movies- mainly goo editions with good extras commentary tracks or boxed sets, etc) follow-
Note: this list is almost a decade old and thus cannot include BLURAYS and newer editions issued after 2006
CASANOVA (Fellini’s) R2
MEXICAN PERIOD BUNUEL DVD’s (QUE VIVA MEXICO R-4)
GODFATHER TRILOGY
SPACED Collection (UK R2)
THE BUSTER KEATON COLLECTION
THE SIMPSONS COLLECTION
THE LON CHANEY COLLECTION (R1)
THE GHIBLI COLLECTION (Japanese Box)
THE KUBRICK COLLECTION
BACK TO THE FUTURE COLLECTION
UNIVERSAL MONSTER COLLECTION
THE ALFRED HITCHCOK SIGNATURE COLLECTION (R-1)
THE OLIVERS STONE COLLECTION (R-1)
THE MARIO BAVA COLLECTION (R-1)
THE HARRYHAUSEN COLLECTION (R-1)
WALT DISNEY TREASURES COLLECTION
RAIDERS OF TH ELOST ARK BOXED SET
LORD OF THE RINGS (EXTENDED EDITION) TRILOGY
FUTURAMA, 1,2,3,4
SCORSESE COLLECTION VOL I (R-1)
TAXI DRIVER 2-disc edition
THE LAUREL & HARDY 21 DVD BOXED SET (R-2, UK)
THE CHAPLIN COLLECTION
Rear Window (Collector�s Edition)
Vertigo (Collector�s Edition)
The Birds (Collector�s Edition)
Frenzy (Collector�s Edition)
Psycho (Collector�s Edition)
LADY VANISHES Criterion Edition
39 STEPS Criterion Edition
REBECCA Criterion Edition
FANNY & ALEXANDER 5 (R1) DISC set Criterion Edition
HARD BOILED (R1) Criterion Edition
THE KILLER (R1) Criterion Edition
OLIVER TWIST (D. LEAN) Criterion Edition
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (D. LEAN) Criterion Edition
M Criterion Edition
The Third Man Criterion Edition
Beauty and the beast Criterion Collection (R-1)
THE RULES OF THE GAME Criterion Edition
12 MONKEYS
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Spanish edition R2)
CITIZEN KANE 2-disc special
MOULIN ROUGE 2 disc edition
THE COMMITMENTS Collector’s edition (R1)
ANGEL HEART special edition
ERASERHEAD BOXED EDITION (Only sale at davidlynch.com)
LAST LAUGH (Murnau, KINO R1)
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Ultimate edition, Milestone edition (R1)
INTOLERANCE
L’AGE D’OR Criterion Edition
AKIRA KUROSAWA 4 Samurai Classics BOX Criterion Edition
THE 400 blows Criterion Edition
BRAZIL – Criterion Edition
NOTORIUS Criterion Edition
8 1/2 Criterion Edition
SEVENTH SEAL Criterion Edition
WALKABOUT- Criterion Edition
GRAND ILLUSION Criterion Edition
THE BROTHERS QUAY I and II Criterion Edition
LIFE OF BRIAN Criterion Edition
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID Criterion Edition
AMARCORD Criterion Edition
LADY EVE Criterion Edition
LAST WAVE Criterion Edition
HAXAN Criterion Edition
VIDEODROME Criterion Edition
NAKED LUNCH Criterion Edition
THE ROCK Criterion Edition
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS Criterion Edition
KARAKTER
MEMORIES OF MURDER
SUSPIRIA 3-disc limited edition
INFERNO
PROFONDO ROSSO
VAMPYR Image edition
THE NAME OF THE ROSE (R-2)
SPARTACUS
UN CHIEN ANDALOU
THE SEARCHERS
BLUE VELVET
MONSTERS INC
TOY STORY TOY BOX SET (R-1)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Platinum edition
LITTLE MERMAID Limited edition
MULAN Limited edition
SLEEPING BEAUTY Special edition
FANTASIA (60th anniversary edition) (R-1)
THE ALIEN QUADRILOGY SET
Saving Private Ryan DTS
T2 2-disc EXTREME EDITION
THE ABYSS Special edition
Tomorrow Never Dies (steel edition)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
MASTER AND COMMANDER 3-disc set
RESERVOIR DOGS Special edition
PULP FICTION Special edition
THELMA AND LOUISE
NOSFERATU Kino Video
FIGHT CLUB 2-disc edition
SE7EN (2-disc edition)
SPEED 2 disc edition
THE WILD BUNCH
THE DIRTY DOZEN
THE BIG RED ONE
BARTON FINK
FARGO
MAN WHO WASN’T THERE
THE GREAT LEBOWSKY
DON’T LOOK NOW
ELEPHANT MAN (DAVID LYNCH) UK edition.
FIFTH ELEMENT 2 disc edition
LE ROI ET LE OISEAU
THE GOOD BAD AND THE UGLY EXTENDED VERSION 2 disc edition.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (2 disc set)
CHUNCHO/KEOMA Coffret 2 dvd
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
SUNSET BOULEVARD
SOME LIKE IT HOT
WOMEN IN LOVE
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA
THE EXORCIST
FRENCH CONNECTION
CHINATOWN
TESS
FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS
REPULSION
DIE HARD 2-disc edition
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Lubitsch)
THE APARTMENT
L’INTEGRAL JEUNET ET CARO
ASSASSIN (S) M. Kassovitz
HERO ULTIMATE EDITION
BETTER TOMORROW 3 DISC HK CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION
AKIRA 2 DVD METAL CASE EDITION
GHOST IN THE SHELL
KUROSAWA’s RAN MASTERWORKS EDITION
SPIRITED AWAY SPECIAL EDITION w/rice ball (JAPAN)
SHAOLIN SOCCER (HK EDITION)
THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT Image edition (R1)
KUNG FU HUSTLE SPECIAL EDITION (R3)
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MISTERY (Platinum edition)
BLADE (Platinum edition)
And THOUSANDS more�
TV
THE SOPRANOS, THE WIRE, GAME OF THRONES, SHERLOCK, DR WHO, THE AMERICANS, BREAKING BAD, BBC’s BLEAK HOUSE, LITTLE DORRIT, SIMPSONS, FUTURAMA, first 4 seasons of FAMILY GUY, OVER THE GARDEN WALL, ADVENTURE TIME, BILL MAHER, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, DISCOVERY, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, A&E, BIOGRAPHY, ALI G and little else.
Books
Victor Hugo
Dumas
Marcel Schwob
Lovecraft
Machen
Blackwood
Dunsany
MR James
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
Robert W Chambers
Hope Hodgson
Stephen King
Lieber
Charles Beaumont
Colin Wilson
Ray Russell
Dennis Wheatley
Ray Bradbury
Ramsey Campbell
Matheson
Ellison
Sturgeon
H.G. Wells
De Maupassant
MG Lewis
Dickens
Jane austen
Conan Doyle
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Victoriana
Ripperology
The Bronte sisters
Mary W Shelley
Roald Dahl
Juan Rulfo
Borges
JJ Arreola
Lorca
Agustin Ya
Horacio Quiroga
Witold Gombrowickz
Sallinger
Truman Capote
Carson Mc Cullers
Isaak Dinensen
Willa Cather
Joseph Conrad
Hawthorne
Henry James
Mark Twain
Jonathan Swift
Dostoyevsky
Charles Fort
Crowley
Cayce
Ian McEwan
Flaubert
Kafka
Rudyard Kipling
HH Munro �Saki�
Lafcadio Hearn
Lewis Carroll
Calvino
Raymond Chandler
James M Cain
Donald Westlake
Cornell Woolrich
and too many others to mention�
Comic books
Jack Kirby
Ben Katchor
Paul Chadwick
Little Lulu
Dan Clowes
Thomas Ott
Dave McKean
Mignola
Moore
Gaiman
Crumb
EC
Woodring
Corben
Carlos Gimenez
Miguelanxo prado
Gahan Wilson
Charles Burns
From Hell
McKeever
Tezuka
Otomo
Eisner
Moebius
Caza
Liberatore
Hermann
Wrightson
Chester Brown
Seth
And, again, too many to mention
PAINTERS AND ILLUSTRATORS (non-comic book related)
Carlos Schwabe, George Tooker, Edmund DuLac, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Julio Ruelas, Siqueiros, Dali, Magritte, Roy Lichtenstein, Warhol, The Duginas, Walter Murch, Thomas Cole, Caspar David Friedrich, Hopper, The Wyeths, George Bellows, Redon, Goya, Bosch, Bocklin, Beksinski, Lucien Freud, Bacon, Ivan Albright, Munch, Egon Schiele, Fernand Khnopff, John Henry Fuseli, Mucha, William Blake, George Frederic Watts, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Felicien Rops, Piranesi, John William Waterhouse, John Everett Millais, JW Turner, Albrecht Durer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Vermeer, Velasquez, Michael Wolgemut, Winslow Homer, Lynd Ward, Antonio Lopez, Joe Coleman, Robert Williams, Utamaro, Edward Gorey, Utamaro, etc
SCULPTORS
Rodin, Umberto Boccioni, George Segal, Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, Hans Bellmer,
Nirazawa, Ron Mueck. etc