Dances with Wolves (Barry)
Concierto de Aranjuez (Rodrigo)

Been "Splurging out" more on DVD's recently

Superman I/Superman II
Spellbound
Outland
"10"
Dirty Harry
Fawlty Towers (Series One)
Planet of the Apes (original)
Charade
Lawrence of Arabia

(Some of these do date back to September purchases though!!)

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Originally posted by Gae:
Fawlty Towers (Series One)

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So, how are the DVDs? I'm considering getting the complete box.

There are still only 13 Episodes aren't there?

Where does series one end and series two begin if they broke them up?

A Touch of Class........
"Hello Lord Mulberry! BASTARD!!!!!(shouts)"

The Builders........
O'Riley: "If the Good Lord..."
Fawlty (interrupting) "..is mentioned once more I'll move you closer to him!!!"

The Wedding Party
Fawlty "It is of course DISGUSTING, that you haven't shaved, but sometimes I dont shave either, which is also DISGUSTING, so I'll have some batteries sent up to your room straight away"

The Hotel Inspectors
Fawlty (to guest) "Asked the waiter? You might as well ask the Cat!!"

Gourmet Night
fawlty (to irritating boy) "Oh dear, what shape (of chips (fries))do you usually have then? Mickey Mouse shape? Amphibious landing craft shape? Poke-in-the-eye shape!!!!"

The Germans
Fawlty "You started it!!"
German guest "No we did'nt!"
Fawlty "Yes you did...you invaded Poland!!"

"WHO WON THE BLOODY WAR ANYWAY!!!!"

So many classic lines to choose from this great series.
The DVD has menus with short clips from a couple of episodes, there are a couple of interviews with Andrew Sachs (very serious guy...nothing like Manuel!!) and of course John Cleese (who is in his usual analytical and dry frame of mind...nothing like Fawlty either!!)
There are biographies of the main stars of the series and a documentary on Torquay and the original Hotel owner who Basil Fawlty was based on...pretty boring documentary really.
The worst thing on the DVD though is the commentary by the Director of the first series. Talk about the most dreariest and dullest commentary on this planet. First of all, the guy watches each episode with no sound on (or at least we cant hear anything). There are several long moments of silence, broken only by some sexist comment or insult thrown at members of the cast "If you'd have stood in the right place, the camera would have got you would'nt it?...go on, get lost then" Every now and then the guy laughs out loud with one of those laughs that sounds like some-one clearing their nasal passages while similtaneously clearing their throats. Anyway, I lasted the first episode and didn't listen to any more. Why we didn't get a commentary by John Cleese and/or Connie Booth, I'll never know. Anyway, suffice it to say, the DVD's are worth it for the episodes alone. I'll probably pick up series Two in the near future. One other thing is that even though the episodes have been supossedly "digitally re-mastered", Video tape recordings of the BBC from 1975 look pretty poor regardless of how well they are transferred. I say this because I tried watching the DVD on a big screen (with my projector) and you could see a lot of faults with the transfer. It looks as good as it ever has on a television screen though. Thats all folks! If you like "Fawlty Towers" and want to keep it for posterity, like I do, then I recommend buying the discs. Gae NP Dances with Wolves

NURSE: "Come on you, out!, out!

BASIL: "I'm sorry? Oh, I thought there was a dog in here."

Basil's wife was in for an ingroing toenail. After much Sybil-chat, Basil mutters:

"Pity it wasn't an ingroing tongue."

"Ingroing" looks strange in print. Is that the right spelling?

In the Line of Fire (Morricone) $3.50
Fatal Attraction (Jarre) $3.5
Carrington (Nyman) $3.50
Death and the Maiden (Kilar) $5
Lassie (Poledouris) $5
Rob Roy (Burwell) $5
Copycat (Young) $5
Germinal (Roques)$5
Turtle Beach (Chris Neal) $5
Mrs Doubtfire (Shore)$7

Of course, how stupid of me!

• By Request (Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams) - Including Olympic Fanfare, Liberty Fanfare, The Cowboys Overture and NCB The Mission Theme
  
• "Bonus item": Heigh-Ho! Mozart - Favorite Disney Tunes in the style of Great Classical Composers

Thanks a lot, Ken!

Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell
Traffic - Cliff Martinez

- John Williams' SUPERMAN score, the re-recording conducted by John Debney (was about time, actually :)
- Elliot Goldenthal's TITUS (should be fun :)
- Elliot Goldenthal's MICHAEL COLLINS (should be grand)

These scores aren't cheap either in Canada. The re-recording is costing me 30 Canadian bucks and MICHAEL COLLINS goes for 26.49$. I thought of buying COBB instead, but it was actually more expensive than the two-CD SUPERMAN set, and fans seem to agree that MC is way better than COBB, so we'll just have to see :)

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Originally posted by Kosh:

P.S.: As you know, I do review score CDs on my website and I'm always open to receiving some CDs for review Anyone?[/B]

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Jaws 2 - Williams

Krull - Horner

The Land Before Time - Horner

Star Wars/Close Encounters - Williams (cond. Gerhardt)

Slow month - then again, money doesn´t grown on trees, and I´m saving up for a trip to Ireland.

SFT

• The Omen - Deluxe Edition
  
• The Final Conflict - Deluxe Edition

Had to buy them in two different stores because the cheaper one sold the new FC but still had only the old Omens in the shelf.

And who needs money if he's got a Visa card anyway...

The House on Sorority Row/The Alchemist (Richard Band)

James, you were right; this is a great album (so far)!

Spy Kids Already in...

Stuart Little (Alan Silvestri) -Complete
Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri) -Score
Thirteen Days (Trevor Jones) -Complete

And of course HARRRYYYY PO-O-OTTEERRRRRRR!!! with all the bells and whistles!

Planet of the Apes...the complete Elfman on 2CDs