My newest Blu-ray additions

splashthecash

I don't have a lot of Blu-Ray discs..could count my entire BR library on one hand but saw a deal in HMV that seemed pretty good...any 3 (from a decent selection) for €25 or aby 5 for €35.

I got Taxi Driver, Drive and Jurassic Park and have to say, am looking forward to watching all of them in HD goodness..

Is this a good deal? I was going to get There Will Be Blood but decided on a good old fashioned adventure instead with JP. Back to the Future 1 is there to pick too but you can get the entire trilogy for €15 (as is the Bourne trilogy)

bobbytables

Picked up Source Code, 28 Weeks Later & the original Matrix on BluRay yesterday.

Well happy. BluRays look fantastic.

Tipsy McSwagger

Have around 90 blu ray films and 12 boxsets including Alien, Star Wars, The Bourne Trilogy, Back to the Future, Rome etc. Blu Rays that should be in every collection are Wall-e, Blade Runner, Avatar, Band of Brothers and Inception. They look and sound amazing on BR. My recent additions were Jurrasic Park Trilogy and The Incredibles.

Sad Professor

My latest Blu-rays are Love Exposure, Himizu, Cold Fish and Confessions. Amazing films. And can be got for a really good price direct from their distributor Third Window:

http://shop.thirdwindowfilms.com/

johnny_ultimate

Speaking of Third Window, I'll be putting down a pre-order for their Tetsuo 1+2 boxset and Kotoko Blu-Rays coming out in October. Tetsuo isn't the best looking film of all time by any stretch, but a lot of care seems to have gone into the transfer and package. I've heard really good things about Kotoko too.

The only Blu-Rays I've picked up recently is the superb Sansho Dayu / Gion Bayashi double set and In the Realm of the Senses. The former is just wonderful, and they've done a beyond excellent job restoring what were clearly quite damaged prints. I wasn't initially convinced older films were what Blu-Ray was made for, but the years have happily proven that to be completely untrue In the Realm... well, it's not necessarily the kind of film where more detail is always a good thing :P But it's an excellent transfer that really brings out the bold, clever colour design. Plus, y'know, all that weird sex stuff.

rednik

Jaws blu ray is released next Friday and has been well received already in the States, a must buy for me.

Sad Professor

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Speaking of Third Window, I'll be putting down a pre-order for their Tetsuo 1+2 boxset and Kotoko Blu-Rays coming out in October. Tetsuo isn't the best looking film of all time by any stretch, but a lot of care seems to have gone into the transfer and package. I've heard really good things about Kotoko too.

I'm looking forward to Kotoko as well. I haven't seen Tetsuo - is worth buying sight unseen?

e_e

Over the last few months I got Yi Yi, Crumb, Secret Sunshine, Vivre Sa Vie, Blow Out, Videodrome and the Stan Brakhage Anthology on the Criterion label. I only got around to Crumb, Videodrome and some of the Brakhage box set before my region A player packed up (worst piece of equipment I've ever shelled out 100+ euro for), woulda ordered 5 more of 'em but I need a replacement player now.

johnny_ultimate

Sad Professor wrote:

I'm looking forward to Kotoko as well. I haven't seen Tetsuo - is worth buying sight unseen?

Hard to say. I've only seen bits and pieces of it myself (have a friend who was obsessed with it). Always meant to watch the full thing. It is niche, uber low budget Japanese cyberpunk so it ain't for everyone. It is almost Eraserhead like in it's nightmarish visuals and sound design though. Not a blanket recommendation then, but at the very least a curio.

Sad Professor

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Hard to say. I've only seen bits and pieces of it myself (have a friend who was obsessed with it). Always meant to watch the full thing. It is niche, uber low budget Japanese cyberpunk so it ain't for everyone. It is almost Eraserhead like in it's nightmarish visuals and sound design though. Not a blanket recommendation then, but at the very least a curio.

I'll check out the DVD first so, cheers.

e_e wrote: »

Over the last few months I got Yi Yi, Crumb, Secret Sunshine, Vivre Sa Vie, Blow Out, Videodrome and the Stan Brakhage Anthology on the Criterion label. I only got around to Crumb, Videodrome and some of the Brakhage box set before my region A player packed up (worst piece of equipment I've ever shelled out 100+ euro for), woulda ordered 5 more of 'em but I need a replacement player now.

What are you considering as a replacement? I need a multi-region Blu-ray player badly. It seems the Toshiba bdx3200 can be be made multi-region easily enough, so I was leaning toward that.

e_e

That's exactly the one I was thinking.

This one is best avoided. Honestly I'm scared to put another disc in it because of the loud grinding sound it makes!