Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD
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Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD

Building an Essential Movie Collection-With Information on the Best DVD Extras, Supplements and Special Features-and the Best DVDs for Kids

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD

Building an Essential Movie Collection-With Information on the Best DVD Extras, Supplements and Special Features-and the Best DVDs for Kids

About this book

Citizen Kane • Boogie Nights • Sunset Boulevard • My Fair Lady • Almost Famous • Jaws • A Hard Day's Night • Lord of the Rings • Monsoon Wedding • Apocalypse Now Redux • Moulin Rouge • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • A Beautiful Mind • Shakespeare in Love
THEY'RE NOT JUST MOVIES ANYMORE.
THEY'RE DVDs.
Supplements...special collector's edition...extras... Words that set the heart pounding of every DVD lover. But how do you decide which DVDs to buy? Where do you begin collecting? Which special features are really special? What commentaries are informative or entertaining? Which disks are worth your time and money? Here at last is the portable, one-of-a-kind DVD buyer's guide -- from veteran film and television critics Steven H. Scheuer and Alida Brill-Scheuer.
Director/star/crew audio commentaries • Outtakes • Filmographies and biographies • Alternate takes, music, and endings • Celebrity interviews • Deleted scenes • Trailers • Lost footage • Hidden features and Easter eggs • Animated menus • Production notes • Storyboards • Promotional art • DVD-rom extras • Behind-the-scenes footage • Screenplays • Souvenir booklets • and a special afterword on the best DVDs for kids

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Information

Publisher
Pocket Books
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780743475716
eBook ISBN
9781416585534
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. An Introduction to the Pleasures of Creating a Personal DVD Library
  8. Adam's Rib
  9. Affair of Love, An
  10. Affair to Remember, An
  11. Age of Innocence, The
  12. Aimee and Jaguar
  13. All About Eve
  14. Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut
  15. Amelie
  16. American Beauty
  17. American Graffiti
  18. American in Paris, An
  19. Annie Hall
  20. The Apartment,
  21. Apocalypse Now Redux
  22. Apollo 13
  23. Apostle, The
  24. As Good As It Gets
  25. Babette's Feast
  26. Beautiful Mind, A
  27. Being There
  28. Best in Show
  29. Big Deal on Madonna Street,
  30. Big Sleep, The
  31. Billy Elliot
  32. Boogie Nights
  33. Born on the Fourth of July
  34. Bread and Tulips
  35. Bridge on the River Kwai, The
  36. Bridges of Madison County, The
  37. Brief Encounter
  38. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  39. Cabaret
  40. Casablanca
  41. Charade
  42. Chinatown
  43. Chocolat
  44. Citizen Kane
  45. City Lights
  46. Clockwork Orange, A
  47. Cries and Whispers
  48. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  49. Dead Man Walking
  50. Do the Right Thing
  51. Doctor Zhivago
  52. Dr. No
  53. Driving Miss Daisy
  54. Easy Rider
  55. 81/2
  56. Erin Brockovich
  57. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
  58. French Connection, The
  59. Funny Face
  60. Funny Girl
  61. Gentleman's Agreement
  62. Gigi
  63. Gladiator
  64. Glengarry Glen Ross
  65. Godfather, The
  66. Gone with the Wind
  67. Good Will Hunting
  68. GoodFellas
  69. Gosford Park
  70. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  71. Hard Day's Night, A
  72. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
  73. Il Postino
  74. In the Bedroom
  75. In the Heat of the Night
  76. In the Mood for Love
  77. Innocence
  78. Iris
  79. Jaws
  80. Jerry Maguire
  81. Key Largo
  82. King and I, The (see The Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection)
  83. Kissing Jessica Stein
  84. K-Pax
  85. Lawrence of Arabia
  86. Legally Blonde
  87. Life Is Beautiful
  88. Limelight
  89. Lion in Winter, The
  90. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  91. Manhattan
  92. Matrix, The
  93. Monsoon Wedding
  94. Monster's Ball
  95. Mostly Martha
  96. Moulin Rouge
  97. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  98. My Fair Lady
  99. Network
  100. North by Northwest
  101. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  102. Pearl Harbor: The Director's Cut
  103. Pretty Woman
  104. Producers, The
  105. Pulp Fiction
  106. Raging Bull
  107. Rambling Rose
  108. Rear Window
  109. Road to Perdition
  110. Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection, The
  111. Roman Holiday
  112. Royal Tenenbaums, The
  113. Secret of Roan Inish, The
  114. Shadowlands
  115. Shakespeare in Love
  116. Shrek
  117. Singin' in the Rain
  118. Sleepless in Seattle
  119. Some Like It Hot
  120. Sound of Music, The (see The Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection)
  121. South Pacific see The Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection)
  122. Star Is Born, A
  123. Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace
  124. Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones
  125. Sting, The
  126. Sunset Boulevard
  127. Taxi Driver
  128. Terminator
  129. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  130. Terms of Endearment
  131. Thelma and Louise
  132. Unforgiven
  133. Victor/Victoria
  134. Waiting for Guffman
  135. Way We Were, The
  136. West Side Story
  137. When Harry Met Sally
  138. X-Men
  139. Y Tu Mama Tambien
  140. You've Got Mail
  141. Zelig
  142. Hot Dogs and Ice Cream Cones: The Best DVDs for Kids
  143. Babe
  144. Fly Away Home
  145. Kolya
  146. Lady and the Tramp
  147. Lion King, The Monsters, Inc.
  148. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  149. Stuart Little
  150. Toy Story
  151. Wizard of Oz, The
  152. Toy Story
  153. The Wizard of Oz
  154. WHY DVD?

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