Desert Island DVD's

Cookie

I heard a DJ on radio 2 today talking about Desert Island DVD's rather than Music. I loved the idea as it is a nice twist on the original format.
So here is mine for starters:

Cookie

Bugger The computer played up when I tried to type in, so this is disjointed. Still here goes:
Belleville Rendevous (a brilliant French animated film)
The Singing Ringing Tree ( a 60's b/w tv programme, does anyone remember this?)
Robinson Crusoe, the 60's series that is on 1 cd.
The Pianist
Citizen Kane
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
To kill a mockingbird
The Rutles
Blazing Saddles
And now, any credibility that I may have had,I suspect has gone down the pan because as my last choice, I choose anything by Sean The Sheep. Nothing makes me laugh so much as Sean and the Flock, especially the episode when the sheep go to buy Pizza's

graeme

Nice,

Ascent of Man (Hornsey Library), Jacob Bronowski
Civilisation (Hornsey Library), Kenneth Clark
Adam Curtis Boxset (torrents)
Airplane!
Spaced Collectors Edition Series 1 & 2
Ingmar Bergman Collection (Japanese Boxset)
uh, Family Guy

miss annie

How many are we allowed? I've gone for a Top Ten in no particular order. I mainly like 'Boxing Day' type films. Wizard of Oz - collectors edition with extras and interviews Edward Scissorhands Some Like It Hot Plunkett & Macleane Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) and/or Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves The Princess Bride Jaws The Breakfast Club Cinema Paradiso

dorothy

Assuming there's a big screen on the island these are mine. They aren't my top 10, but ones for being on the island with. Nearly put in The Wizard of Oz, The Red Shoes, Umbrellas of Cherbourg for colour, but thought I might tire of them. I used to love the Singing Ringing Tree, but when I saw it again recently, it was a bit tacky.

Battlestar Galactica (2004-09 including 4 hour miniseries)
The Ipcress File
Nights of Cabiria or maybe another Fellini, (would have the boxset if allowed).
Blade Runner
Columbo boxset
Ryan’s Daughter
Fanny and Alexander (500 minute version)
Singin’ in the Rain
Once Upon a Time in the West
Debbie Does Dallas (or maybe something with nuns)

andy

Plunkett and Maclane!!!!!! Seriously.

Arkady

Despite my massive pretensions elsewhere, my film tastes tend to be at the low-culture end of the market, with maybe a few from left-field: Y Tu Mama Tambien (all time favourite) Labyrinth Pan’s Labyrinth Robin Hood Prince of Thieves Gladiator Shawshank Redemption The Lord of the Rings trilogy On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Lazenby was greatly underrated) I’ll allow myself one Disney film, either The Lion King or Robin Hood As for series: West Wing Six Feet Under I’m starting to think that Game of Thrones may come to qualify, but one season is not enough to judge. I really wanted Lost to qualify too – and am one of the few people who liked the ending – but it doesn’t quite hold together, sadly.

miss annie

@ andy Plunkett & Macleane is all time classic! Love the soundtrack, set design and the outstandingly over the top performances from all involved. It's like a really top notch panto. And it has the delightful Jonny Lee Miller in it. Almost went for Labyrinth instead but I thought that might crop up in other lists. I didn't choose a TV series so either Six Feet Under or Moonlighting.

Arkady

Miss Annie knows all about my penchant for Bowie prancing around in a fright-wig and obscene leather trousers. Incidentally: I want some leather trousers. I reckon pull them off, so to speak.

miss annie

Indeed I do. I saw a review of Labyrinth recently - it was entitled 'Beyond the Bulge and other reasons to watch Labyrinth'. Hallowe'en outfit this year?

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sincers

I saw Labyrinth at the Queen of Hoxton rooftop cinema a few weeks ago. Honestly - what a load of bollocks. I felt like throwing myself off the roof. The audience kept laughing when there was a scene with Bowie's codpiece. I couldn't wait for it to end. And now to show myself up with my top ten: Star Wars Bladerunner Groundhog Day After Hours Alien Trilogy Dumb and Dumber at least one zombie film - probably Shaun of the Dead Jaws Die Hard Pulp Fiction TV: Partridge Family Guy Friends (sorry)

Arkady

Dumb & Dumber? I'm outclassed.

sincers

Radio?....who needs a radio? Ready Harry? classic.

Cookie

@ dorothy, haven,t seen the Singing Ringing Tree since I was a kid, but I absolutely adored it then. Been thinking of buying the Tales from Europe DVD. Do you think that it will shatter my childhood memories?

dorothy

I saw it when I was very young in black and white and it seemed very eerie and magical. I don't think there was an awful lot on telly then. It's actually made in lurid colour or maybe the colour was put on later, which kind of ruined it for me. There's a scene where the princess is trying to swim away from a big plastic dragon thing in a swimming pool which doesn't work at all. It has no pace either. I thought that bear was just a bit pervy as well. It might be ok for you. The extras were interesting, interviews with the actors etc.

I used to like Heidi too, but will probably just leave that as a memory.

Cookie

@dorothy.Many thanks for telling me.I shall stick with my childhood memories.From what you say, It is a bit like discovering that Father Christmas does not exist.Now I need to decide what else to take to my Island.So I take:
The Day the Earth stood Still, the original version with Michael Rennie.
Black and white it may be, but it works!

wisteria53

a list limited by the fact that I only see about 1 film per year even when on the telly: The Man Who Planted Trees (Frédéric Back) Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli) The Lord of the Rings trilogy Shooting the Past (Stephen Poliakoff) Casablanca (1942) Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)

Hannadala

oh, go on then.

Lost boys

Heathers

The entire studio ghibli collection (am I allowed that!?)

The graduate

Chopper (pure entertainment)

Interview with the vampire (pure lust)

The latest Harry Potter film (because I cried with joy!)

Dellicatesion

Night watch

High society

T.v
Firefly (oh yes!)
twin peaks

Detritus

Ohh good question, The Big Lebowski. Kind hearts and Coronets. Withnail & I. Dogma. Ghandi. Das Boot. The Life of Brian. Lord of the flies (the English film NOT the American one) Watership Down. Bad Taste. T.V Yes Minister. Father Ted. David Attenborough - Life on Earth.

ADGS

Seconding Misscara, my first choice would be A Matter of Life and Death (unless I'm allowed my 9-disc Powell & Pressburger box set, in which case that, clearly).
Similarly, My Neighbour Totoro is a definite unless the above-mentioned complete Ghibli exists/is allowed.
And I think a Complete Dr Who would be a dream box set too far, so probably the first Matt Smith season.
Then:
Lord of the Rings (extended editions)
Withnail & I
Zoolander
The Wire
Casablanca
X-Men 2
Velvet Goldmine

ADGS

Arkady, re: A Game of Thrones, are you reading the books? I'm wary of the TV series not so much because it couldn't compare (though that would be a tall order) as because I'm not sure I can keep two ongoing versions of the same story straight at once (see also: The Walking Dead).

Cookie

@ Hannadala I absolutely loved the novel 'Interview with a Vampire'. I was inspired to read it after hearing the song by Sting 'Moon over Bourbon Street.However the film did nothing for me. Sometimes I think that it is better to leave things to the imagination, rather than the Big Screen. Have you read any of the Anne Rice Vampire books?
If you haven't, they are Brilliant!!

Hannadala

@ Cookie I have read them all, they are a huge guilty pleasure as is the film!
To be honest I chose that film more because it reminds me of being 14 and endlessly watching it with my best friend, I'm well aware it's not that well done! It also wins points for being the only film I can bear to watch tom cruise in.

Cookie

@ hannadala, so nice to hear from someone who also loved the books.
What I really loved about the book 'Interview with a vampire', was the way that Anne Rice looked at both sides of what has always been a one sided story, despite the fact that Vampire tales are fiction. Very clever and extremely imaginative Author. If you have not heard 'Moon over Bourbon Street' by Sting, have a listen. Try the net. 'Sting' really encapsulates the essence of the book in this song which he recorded in the 80's. Would love to know what you think.

Arkady

@ADGS - no I have not read the books, though I hear good things about them. I had a realisation recently that I was missing out on numerous films and series due to a rarely-fulfilled intentioon to 'read the books first'. @The Anne Rice fans: have any of you read her adaptation of Sleeping Beauty? Graphic and hardcore sex on every page. Literally every page.

miss annie

Queen of the Damned goes a similar way.

ADGS

The vampire books and others under her own name are not shy of sex, but yeah, the initially-pseudonymous porn (including the Beauty trilogy) is in a whole other league. Of course, all that was before she re-found Jebus - I've only read one of her books since her conversion and dear heavens it was tiresome.

sgc

Is it bad that the only Anne Rice I've ever read is the first Beauty book? (Actually, only about halfway through it, keep getting distracted, then end up putting it down for months.)

Cookie

Haven't read any of the 'Beauty' Books. By the sound of them, I am not missing much. Think that I will stick with the Vampire novels and proceed no more. Shame, but I do not want my illusions of what I consider to be a brilliant writer, shattered.
I am also a huge fan of Terry Pratchett ( I adore the Witches) and Robert Rankin, ( chewing the fat with the barman) Whilst I have several friends who are Pratchett fans, finding a Robert Rankin Fan is rare. If you are one, then I say Sproutlore

ADGS

I loved the original Brentford and Armageddon trilogies, and the first few after that, but after a while he seemed to be repeating himself a bit much. The in-jokes were great for a while (it's a tradition or an old charter or something), but by the time I opted out some of the books seemed to be little more than in-jokes. Whereas Pratchett started off brilliant, but then managed to complexify and deepen as an artist in ways of which most litfic darlings can only dream.