- JON’S DVDs YOU MAY HAVE MISSED -

           Sometimes, our personal movie lexicon may be wanting: hell, we all miss terrific movies now and again, below is my short list of movies that I've come across people not knowing.  I use the amazon.com rating only as a purely unscientific guide to determine where internet sales for a title fall, some are really high on that list, some below.  Hopefully, you may get some ideas for a rental this weekend or a gift idea for that friend you're trying to stump.

          You will find that some of the suggestions (one per week – all year) are not some obscure gem, though some are exactly that.  I’ve chosen existing DVDs that you may have missed, or haven’t thought of watching, or were hiding behind the mess of “Matrix: Revolutions”.  My criteria is purely based on movies that have a certain and definitive importance to the history of movies AND are extremely entertaining in their own right.  I have also color coded the links to aid your browsing!  Come back soon!

            KEY:  COMEDIES    DRAMA    ACTION    SCI/FI - HORROR    MUSIC    SPECIAL/TV/BOX SET

            XXXII:   Carl Theodor Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" - amazon.com rating: 2,454
            XXXI:    Okiura and Watanabe's "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" - amazon.com rating: 2,017
            XXX:     Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly" - amazon.com rating: 10,535
            XXIX:    "Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in the Park" - amazon.com rating: 535

            XXVIII:    Warner Bros.' "Looney Tunes: The Golden Collection" - amazon.com rating: 102
            XXVII:    David Lean's "Brief Encounter" (1946) - amazon.com rating: 8,195
            XXVI:     "Diary of Jack the Ripper" - amazon.com rating: 8,251
            XXV:      David Lean's "Great Expectations" (1946) - amazon.com rating: 2,793

            XXIV:     Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" - amazon.com rating: 801
            XXIII:      Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" - amazon.com rating: 4,259
            XXII:       Frederico Fellini's "Roma" - amazon.com rating: 10,059
            XXI:        Marty DiBergi's "Spinal Tap"  - amazon.com rating: 165

            XX:         Mick Jackson's "L.A. Story" - amazon.com rating: 6,636
            XIX:        Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" - amazon.com rating: 1,339
            XVIII:       Luc Besson's "Le Femme Nikita" - amazon.com rating: 1,045
            XVII:        Richard Donner's "The Goonies" - amazon.com rating: 415

            XVI:         Steven Lisberger's "Tron" - amazon.com rating: 1,437
            XV:         Orson Welles' "Othello" - amazon.com rating: 4,923
            XIV:        Tobe Hooper's "Poltergeist" - amazon.com rating: 1,112
            XIII:          Mel Brooks' "History of the World, Part I" - amazon.com rating: 642

XII:           Franco Zeffirelli's "La Traviata" - amazon.com rating: 3,116
XI:            Michael Gordon's "Cyrano de Bergerac" - amazon.com rating: 5,843
X:             Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" - amazon.com rating: 516
IX:            Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" - amazon.com rating: 772

VIII:           Leo McCarey's "Duck Soup" - amazon sales rank: 2,071
VII:            Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch"- amazon sales rank: 1,263
VI:            John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy"- amazon sales rank: 1,190
V:             Michael Mann's "Last of the Mohicans"- amazon sales rank: 408

IV:            Walt Disney's Live Features: "Mary Poppins" and "Davy Crockett"- amazon sales rank: 288/ 6,442
III:             George Roy Hill's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"- amazon sales rank: 422
II:              Luc Besson's "The Professional" - amazon sales rank: 617
I:               Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" - amazon sales rank: 1,081