Douglas Sirk boxset

[CaptainWaggett]

Moviemail have a boxset of 7 Douglas Sirk frilms for £17.99 - a bargainacious £2.57 per film

[Dr Amicus]

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13.98 from Amazon.



I got it for 8.98 a couple of weeks ago!

[cornershop15]

Fantastic news. Many thanks, Captain, for bringing this boxset to my attention. Particularly looking forward to Written On The Wind, which I still haven't seen. A real bargain at £13.98 (Amazon's price). Maybe The Ingmar Collection will be available at a reasonable price one day (less than £100)?

[batman]

name='cornershop15']Maybe The Ingmar Collection will be available at a reasonable price one day (less than £100)?

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[cornershop15]

I meant the 30 DISC collection, which was selling for £200 (now unavailable).



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[CaptainWaggett]

name='Dr Amicus']Amazon.co.uk: douglas sirk collection - DVD & Blu-ray: DVD



13.98 from Amazon.



I got it for 8.98 a couple of weeks ago!

A good reminder to always triple-triple check however bargaintastic an offer seems!

[cornershop15]

Yes, having read the Customer Reviews, it's disappointing to discover there are cropped versions of a few of the films. You get what you pay for I guess. That's why the Joseph Losey boxset is more than twice as much (£35.98). At least Amazon's reviewers alerted us to this inferior collection before we 'forked out'.

[cornershop15]

I was just browsing the list of threads Captain Waggett started and was was reminded of this one. There've been no updated reviews or repackaged versions of this much-criticised set and so it looks like those "cropped" prints are all that's available. A real shame as I enjoy Melodramas, a genre I'm not sure exists in these days of excessive realism.



Did you still save your money with this collection, Captain?

[evaeva]

Several years ago our International Film Festival included a collection of Sirk movies, I tried to go to as many as possible - to see them at the cinema! Written On The Wind was crazy-fantastic and luscious.

[John Hodson]

name='cornershop15']I was just browsing the list of threads Captain Waggett started and was was reminded of this one. There've been no updated reviews or repackaged versions of this much-criticised set and so it looks like those "cropped" prints are all that's available. A real shame as I enjoy Melodramas, a genre I'm not sure exists in these days of excessive realism.



Did you still save your money with this collection, Captain?

The only question mark re aspect ratios in this set hangs over Magnificent Obsession; there is no definitive proof as to which ratio Sirk framed his film, but there is evidence as to the ratio for theatrical projection and that was, in the main, 2.00:1. This was shot at a time of great transition so it's likely that it was also screened in 1.37:1, but it's not in any way 'wrong', this is how it was originally screened; take a look at these screencaps - here - and while there may be a case for both ARs, there seems an awful lot of headroom in the 1.37:1 version.



Shane is an example of a film framed for Academy and screened during it's run at 1.66:1; trust me, that looks God awful wide...



For the money, this is a decent set.

[cornershop15]

Your information is a little over my head, John (a lot actually!), but I am more than willing to take your word for it. You're obviously very knowledgeable about the subject of aspect ratios, but those beautiful screencaps at DVD Beaver, a site I know well, are enough to convince me - it's a must-buy collection!



Many thanks.

[Rick C]

I'm a Douglas Sirk fanatic too. "Written on the Wind" is my favourite also. Am doing a feature for my work colleagues on "Imitation of Life" if anyone has any really obscure intellegentsia items they can post up

[cornershop15]

name='Rick C']I'm a Douglas Sirk fanatic too. "Written on the Wind" is my favourite also. Am doing a feature for my work colleagues on "Imitation of Life" if anyone has any really obscure intellegentsia items they can post up

Hello again Rick.



Some rare memorabilia items at the ever-colourful Movie Goods website:

Imitation of Life



As it's your favourite:

Written on the Wind

[Rick C]

Thanking you!

[cornershop15]

Yet again I've found an old thread that contains missing posts. I don't understand why some of the above are there and others not. By clicking the Reply or Multiquote buttons, it is possible to read these 'blank' messages and so I'm reproducing messages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 for you. As intended:

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name='CaptainWaggett' timestamp='1237555169' post='256414']

Moviemail have a boxset of 7 Douglas Sirk frilms for £17.99 - a bargainacious £2.57 per film

#3

name='cornershop15' timestamp='1237570225' post='256500']

Fantastic news. Many thanks, Captain, for bringing this boxset to my attention. Particularly looking forward to Written On The Wind, which I still haven't seen. A real bargain at £13.98 (Amazon's price). Maybe The Ingmar Collection will be available at a reasonable price one day (less than £100)?

#4

name='batman' timestamp='1237570832' post='256502']

LINK: Play.com (UK) : Essential Bergman Collection Box Set (4 Discs) : DVD - Free Delivery



LINK: Play.com (UK) : The Ingmar Bergman Collection (Fox) (4 Discs) : DVD - Free Delivery

#5

name='cornershop15' timestamp='1237571852' post='256519']

I meant the 30 DISC collection, which was selling for £200 (now unavailable).



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#7

name='cornershop15' timestamp='1237576284' post='256564']

Yes, having read the Customer Reviews, it's disappointing to discover there are cropped versions of a few of the films. You get what you pay for I guess. That's why the Joseph Losey boxset is more than twice as much (£35.98). At least Amazon's reviewers alerted us to this inferior collection before we 'forked out'.

Following John Hodson's recommendation, I bought the Douglas Sirk boxset (currently £15.93) and especially enjoyed seeing this one again:



Images from 'All That Heaven Allows'



I revisted this thread because my Photobucket album for American Films includes this unused capture. I probably intended to post it here and forgot:

Jane Wyman and Virginia Grey

Obviously an ATW from my screencapping session for 'Books in Films', where I first posted this image of Jane reading Henry David Thoreau's Walden:



This was first seen at the beginning of the year at the 'Uncredited actors' thread and shows a young David Janssen with 'girlfriend' Gloria Talbott:

Gloria says: "No, not romantic nonsense. I mean basic love. The desire to be liked."



Reminds me of Katharine Hepburn's line in The Philadelphia Story/Grace Kelly's in High Society: "I don't want to be worshipped. I want to be loved"

[didi-5]

It's a really nice set, isn't it? Good for a wallow when you're in the mood for soapy stuff like Magnificent Obsession and Written on the Wind. You can never go wrong with Lauren Bacall or Jane Wyman in my opinion.