...and the spending continues!

Just got two Masters of Cinema dvds:

Onibaba
The Devil and Daniel Webster

Plus the Criterion of Man Bites Dog - think this is going to be the biggest year yet for dvd purchases . . .

Got a little extra money yesterday so I made a cheap DVD order that included Naoko Ogigami's Kamome Diner, Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood and Yoshifumi Kondo's Whisper of the Heart.

Some bargains today:

Voy A Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) - championed by Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal - from Fopp for £5 along with Return to Normandy by Nicolas 'Etre et Avoir' Philibert for £2!

Also got Alex Cox's X Films hardback for £6 from Fopp.

Walking along Euston Road I came across a bookshop where all of the books on sale were £2 or less! So I duly bought Joe Eszterhas's biography Hollywood Animal (hardback) and producer Michael Deeley's biography Blade Runners, Deer Hunters & Blowing the Bloody Doors Off.
I also found the first two volumes of 2000AD writer John Smith's Devlin Waugh. He's probably one of my favourite comic story writers and the fact that he's from my home town has nothing to do with it

Also I was chuffed to see a VHS copy of Philip Ridley's The Passion of Darkly Noon on the door mat when I got home - a film I've been wanting to see for ages.

And finally I just spunked a significant amount on a region 4 release of Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, which has all 3 films and an interview with the man himself (Greenaway not Luper, although some might say...).
I'm incredibly excited about this and think this might be the best purchase of the year for me, even though it's only February.

What the fuck?!

I ordered Onibaba and The Devil and Daniel Webster from Zavvi the other day. This morning I get a package from Zavvi, and what's inside? Fucking X Men Origins: Wolverine . . .

Nagisa Oshima's The Sun's Burial.

You know you want it really

Well it doesn't look like I've paid for it, so I'm keeping the damn thing. Not quite as good as the time hmv sent me four additional Vengeance Trilogy boxsets . . .

Takashi Miike's Bird People in China, Young Thugs: Nostalgia and Young Thugs: Innocent Blood,

I absolutely love this film and it's probably my joint favourite Miike along with Gozu.

Slippery Jack, I hope you get your copy of The Devil and Daniel Webster soon. I thought it was an excellent film.

Yeah got it this morning - one of the many highlights of the 70MC. The Eureka disc comes with an essay booklet that includes the original story it is based on.

But no sign of Onibaba, and no email reply from Zavvi . . .

I picked up a Jodorowsky box set sort of by accident off the Amazon marketplace for a tenner because I was after a copy of El Topo for 70MC. I think I might have been drunk when I ordered it because I didn't look too closely at what was in it. It just seemed a reasonable price for the one film I was after. I was quite pleasantly surprised when it turned up yesterday - the Anchor Bay set with Fando y Lis, El Topo, Holy Mountain, La Cravatte, and 2 soundtrack CDs.

El Topo is amazing, and I'm really enjoying the soundtracks. I should get drunk more often.

I got a similar boxset on ebay a while ago, but released by Siren Visual on region 4. It's an awesome package although it didn't include La Cravatte, but it does have the fascinating documentary La Constellation Jodorowsky.

I got Holy Mountain for my birthday (from me mum) but it was an Italian version. It does have an English dubbing option but annoyed I'm missing out on the directors commentary and assorted stuff on it. The Jonathan Ross 80s doc on Jodorowsky is brilliant:

Ross "Your critics say that your films are violent and that you hate women."
Jodorowsky "Thats because I LOVE violence and I HATE women."

The Midnight Movies section on Jodorowsky is OK.

Takashi Ishii's Black Angel 2.