Are you a "Completist"?

[Sgt Sunshine]

Are any of the members here "Completists"?

Whether that be a particular type, or genre of film, or particular director, actor/actress?

Would you seek out and purchase ANYTHING by your specific favourite, or would it be just the best/most popular......?

Would you try to obtain by any means an extremely obscure/deleted flim if it was possible....?

I'm a bit like that with vinyl, and can imagine it could cross over with DVD's.....

Cheers

Sgt S

[Torquemada]

Yes.



.and a minimalist too.

[Ray]

name='Sgt Sunshine']Are any of the members here "Completists"?

Whether that be a particular type, or genre of film, or particular director, actor/actress?

Would you seek out and purchase ANYTHING by your specific favourite, or would it be just the best/most popular......?

Would you try to obtain by any means an extremely obscure/deleted flim if it was possible....?

I'm a bit like that with vinyl, and can imagine it could cross over with DVD's.....

Cheers

Sgt S

Yes, without a doubt, when it comes to Stanwyck, absolutely anything.

There are some of her films that I will never watch again, (even I don't like everything she did) but I have to have them, just to make my collection complete. Some films I am quite content just to have on video, others I have two or three copies of one film on disc, usually if they have released a better version, or it is part of a boxed set. It still bugs me that I am missing just one film, her only silent, filmed in 1927, which has probably disintegrated by now.

[Torquemada]

I wouldn't say I go the whole hog, but I always held to the rule that anything with Newman is would be good and have never been disappointed. He was even good and certainly watchable in that all time stinker When Time Ran Out.

[didi-5]

Kind of. But I quite like to have something out there that I haven't collected yet, just to have something else to aim to collect in the future. But I go through phases anyway so might collect a particular director's work for a time, then a particular actor's, then a type of production (recently it was BBC2 Classic Serials), before I move on to something else!

[Freddy]

I'm not but if I was it would be



Michael Winner

David Lean

Anthony Quayle

John Mills

Oliver Reed

[Ray]

name='Torquemada']I wouldn't say I go the whole hog, but I always held to the rule that anything with Newman is would be good and have never been disappointed. He was even good and certainly watchable in that all time stinker When Time Ran Out.

I certainly agree with you about Newman, I even have the awful Silver Chalice, but I could not watch Buffallo Bill and the Indians again, not even for Paul!

[Fellwanderer]

Er - yes. I expect most can guess who

[hhhhancock]

I collect British World War II films made between 1939 and 1969, in those terms I could be considered a completist (still need about 20) but I realise I'm copping out by not collecting all films from 1969 on.

I've tried to be completist with other collections and usually given up mainly because of the cost involved. I had a large collection of Giles Annuals but found the early ones were just beyond my resources. Same with Gideon books.

The only collection I can say is complete would be the original Observer books, after about 5 years I now have 'em all.

[GoggleboxUK]

I definitely used to be but it's a habit I made a conscious effort to break.



I was a completist with far too many things: Vinyl, CDs, Movies by actor, director and writer, vintage toys and books. It was bordering on obsessive behaviour.



These days I just collect DVDs in general and when I come across a reasonably priced movie, series or boxset I haven't got I'll buy it.



DVD has brought about a simplicity for the completist collector as manufacturers have cottoned on that complete collections in one box are very popular, something that very rarely happened with video.

[Sgt Sunshine]

name='GoggleboxUK']I definitely used to be but it's a habit I made a conscious effort to break.



I was a completist with far too many things: Vinyl, CDs, Movies by actor, director and writer, vintage toys and books. It was bordering on obsessive behaviour.



These days I just collect DVDs in general and when I come across a reasonably priced movie, series or boxset I haven't got I'll buy it.



DVD has brought about a simplicity for the completist collector as manufacturers have cottoned on that complete collections in one box are very popular, something that very rarely happened with video.

I understand completely what you say there Gogglebox........I sometimes wonder if I was an "obsessive" not to long ago......

Like you I have had to break that habit, as otherwise you miss the chance of seeing more obscure little masterpieces (e.g "The Battle of Algiers").....

I still keep a lookout for my "favourites" (you know who they are)...but I no longer buy them at the expense of other "better" films......

My vinyl obsessions had to stop due to the cost.....I dread to think what I've spent over the years in that area....

Cheers & thanks for all your replies ...

Sgt S

[Bernardo]

I think that compulsion is part of the description of a 'collector'. I have some dreadful films only for completeness y'know.

[batman]

I like to have collections of the films that interest me by certain favourite actors .... I am not too bothered if I don't have all their films (except for Max) but I do like to have all the films or episodes of a series.

[pilgrimuk]

Yes, I confess, I too am a completist.



My ones include:



All the Universal Frankenstein, Mummy and Dracula (BUT could not bring myself to get the Abbott and Costello ones, I have convinced myself these were not horror genre-and please no one try and talk me round!).



Continue to add to my collection of 30's horror, and some are horrificly bad!



I try and collect films on the Arctic and Antarctic where I can!



Have most of the Hammer horrors, but I don't think I will get all of them, to me some are just too naff.



I am now collecting TV classic drama's. I've managed to get 1984 (Cushing), Quatermass and the Pit (Morrell), some of MR James Ghost stories (few to go...), BBC Dracula (Jordan), hopefully you get the picture.



Great idea for a post by the way!



atb,



John

[theuofc]

name='Ray']Yes, without a doubt, when it comes to Stanwyck, absolutely anything.......It still bugs me that I am missing just one film, her only silent, filmed in 1927, which has probably disintegrated by now.

Hi, Ray,



Just a thought: if you haven't yet, add your vote to the list of requests at TCM-US asking that BROADWAY NIGHTS be released on dvd. If they get enough interest, they will.



Good luck,



Barbara

[billy bentley]

Collecting vinyl taught me years ago that it's rare for anyone's output to be all good, unless they had a brief career. Im still interested in seeing or hearing stuff I haven't got by people I admire, but if it's no good I don't need to have it. I don't actually collect DVD's although I have quite a few. As for vinyl, I have to sneak into the home, or otherwise it's Mrs. B's famous line "Oh Great, just what we need, more records !'

[batman]

I said to TBW the other day "you have far too many toys" .... he replied "and you have far too many DVDs" .... case closed.

[Ray]

name='theuofc']Hi, Ray,



Just a thought: if you haven't yet, add your vote to the list of requests at TCM-US asking that BROADWAY NIGHTS be released on dvd. If they get enough interest, they will.



Good luck,



Barbara

Hi Barbara,



Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that there is a copy in existance, shame because it was also the debut of Sylvia Sidney and Ann Sothern.

Glad to say that she still has a big following, and new DVDs are being released regularly, including a new boxed set of her first TV series. I had hoped that there might be another boxed set to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death next week. But Remember the Night and There's Always Tomorrow have both been released and are on the way to me, so I really can't complain.

[Steve Crook]

name='Fellwanderer']Er - yes. I expect most can guess who

Me too, but for the works of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

There's very little that they did, singly or together, that I don't have in my collection where it's available.



Yes it's an obsession. But as obsessions go, it's fairly harmless - except to my pocket.

name='billy bentley']Collecting vinyl taught me years ago that it's rare for anyone's output to be all good, unless they had a brief career.

Try Powell & Pressburger

About 20 films in about 20 years, almost every one a world standard masterpiece that still pulls in the crowds 50 or 60 years later. Even the ones that weren't quite masterpieces are still very good films and would be considered great if they had been made by anyone else. But because P&P set the bar so high they don't quite manage to reach that standard in every single film they made together.



And while working singly their work is still fascinating. Powell had a career as a director from the early 1930s to 1972. That's definitely not a brief career. In all that time he only made one film which I think is really not very good - The Queen's Guards (1961)



Steve

[James Fox]

No. Because not everything an artist does appeals to me and I don't have the shelf space for things I'm not going to watch/read/listen to on a fairly regular basis.