h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No, it's not a personality test, not intentionally anyway - these are the letters currently unrepresented in my nascent alphabetized DVD collection. I've thought of a few choice plugs for the gaps, but welcome any worthwhile alternatives anyone's got. Yes, sooner or later I will pick up a book of some sort.

Enter The Dragon
Good, The Bad & The Ugly, The
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Q The Winged Serpent? Quiller Memorandum, The? Quatermass Xperiment, The?
United 93? Up Pompeii?
Yentl? Y Tu Mama Tambien?
Zulu? Zulu Dawn?

'Q the Winged Serpent' is good! Or at least Michael Moriarty's ham-flavored performance is.

'Oh Brother...' Definitely

Same for 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' (Waaaaaay better than Yentl! But then - what isn't?)

The Zulus...there must be something better. Ooh! 'Z' by Costa-Gavras. http://imdb.com/title/tt0065234/

G: 'Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai' is a delght. http://imdb.com/title/tt0165798/

U: has to be the Kitchen Sink classic, 'Up The Junction' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062426/

I guess I'll let you have 'Enter The Dragon' I'd have said 'Eraserhead' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/

I forgot Eraserhead. And I want the song at my funeral!

However...I am vehemently opposed to alphebetisation.

or even alphAbetisation

Dammit! How dare you start such a topic while I am at the office and away from my lovely database!

Don't waste your time (or money) on "O, Brother". It's total crap. But I really enjoyed "Q".

Let's see. These may not come to mind in order, though...

"Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain"
"Yojimbo"
"Un Chien Andalou" (one of my personal all-time favorites!)
"Eqinox"
"Even Dwarfs Started Small"

I'm sure I can suggest a few more later, when I'm not being interrupted with work and annoyed by coworkers making disgusting noises.

"EqUinox", even.

Which reminds me of another, "Equus".

Oh Brother is Legendary! I love that movie. Fantastic music too.

I did Equus for A Level English Lit. Turned my stomach!

Knew I could count on you though

Oh, I'll come up with more suggestions.

The "Z" movie Edward mentioned was quite good, too, I can vouch for that one.

I'll have to figure out some way to export my loverly database to Excel and onto my removable drive so I can contribute to threads like this from the office.

There was an Irish priest interviewed on the radio a few months back about his talent for picking winning horses.

INTERVIEWER: "So, you like the horses do you?"
PRIEST: "Well, let me tell you...you know that fellow in the film Equus?"
INTERVIEWER: "errr...yyyeeesss..."
PRIEST: "Well - I wouldn't put my interest in horses on quite that level."



I liked 'Oh Brother...' too. Especially the shot in the flood when the cow and dog floated by.

Anyone else seen 'Control'?

Looking forward to doing so.

Database? Pscha! What's wrong with an unreliable memory? If god meant us to remember everything, he wouldn't have invented suppression.

As I've said to PC already...the cinematography is stunning. The Tony Wilson impersonation is good...but I forgot to mention there's a great John Cooper Clarke cameo (as himself - reading my favourite poem, the uncensored version)

Aha! Here's the official site:
http://momentum.control.substance001.com/Main.html

The trailer's worth a look. The rest of the site's too fancy-schmancy to navigate...but if you slide your mouse along the Unknown Pleasure-eque soundwaves until the pink bit says 'soundtrack', then click on the pink bit (it will make sense when you do it)....you can get the JCC pome for yourself.

*shrug*

I found it ("O Brother") absolutely, mind-numbingly unwatchable.

"Control" is in the queue. No news as of yet as to whether or when we'll have a theatrical release in Chicago. It probably won't kill me to wait, though it sounds interesting.

The reason for a database is simple: I am tired of winding up with duplicates. We've over 1800 titles in the movie collection, and twice as many in the music. Unlike you, I don't especially enjoy the serendipitous sort of movie-viewing experience. It drives me nuts when I rent something only to find that I've already got it.

Cheers for the link Ed You'll be wanting a pair of these -

http://www.hypebeast.com/2007/04/new-balance-joy-division Life imitates Half Man Half Biscuit.

The film does look great but what a dreadful website.

That JCC poem is a classic. I never tire of telling people this - the last band I was in (Anglo-Portuguese alt-folk-indie) did a few gigs one summer, mostly at people's private parties but once at a pub having a latin evening (the Steamboat, PC - where we had those sandwiches). It was a lovely warm night, there was a good crowd and we were dreadful. I snapped a string. But it was the first and only public concert I've ever done, and John Cooper Clarke was there - He got out of his seat and tapped a winklepicker along with my "extraordinary rendition" of Red Right Hand.

Ah, yes, the Steamboat! I remember that- it was when I learned that UKnians mean something else by "egg salad" than we USAnians do. And, incidentally, I like egg sandwiches that way now.

I think it's fun, at public performances, to see the musicians make little boo boos like breaking strings and all. I can always tell when K's missed a cymbal; he fliches and giggles.

Will have to listen to the JCC poem at home. The website wasn't that bad for me to navigate, at least, but what an atrocious shade of pink!

Ah yes, I've seen (and sneered at) them already. I'll stick to my oven gloves, thanks.

In truth - I've never been a major fan of Joy Division - certainly not in a greatcoat-wearing, shoegazing way. And certainly not of New Order.

I can almost top that JCC story, if vicariously. The pal of the pal I went to see him with a couple of years ago said that he once met him outside a club in Glasgow. He said 'You look a bit like John Cooper Clarke" - and then JCC threw up on him.

We must be twins separated at birth, btw. 'Red Right Hand' is my fantasy karaoke number. Unfortunately, I've yet to find it on a pub karaoke machine. I have to content myself with 'White Rabbit'.

I reckon Control will need either a theatre or HD-DVD. As I said, the cinematography is stunning - but you'll need the HD for the silver nitrate quality monochrome.