I'm this close to taking my own life.
I sold all 170 of my dvds in order to get the money to finish my own short film.
It did sweep the student awards at my school, but somehow, I don't feel better.
Anyone got any dvds they don't want. :cry:
Quote from: nix
It did sweep the student awards at my school, but somehow, I don't feel better.
:yabbse-thumbup:
Don't let your lack of DVDs get you down. It's one of those sacrifices filmmakers often have to make.
Quote from: nixAnyone got any dvds they don't want. :cry:
Ask SHAFTR if he's still looking to unload this:
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Let's see the film!
I take that back. I have 3.
I let a friend borrow 2 and he gave 'em back after the big sale, and I just forgot to take one with me cuz it was sitting on my tv.
So I still have:
Strangers in Paradise
Down By Law
and
Roger Dodger.
Plus my two roommates own like 200 dvds each.
But I had the most criterions by far.
For some reason, its heart wrenching hearing people sell off their dvd collections. I may be looking to that situation shortly as I go to a larger unversity, but I don't think I'll be selling off my collection. Its too different than the usual wanted dvds in my area that they would never come close to fetching the price they were worth. If I was in NYC then it would be different. Now I'm better off selling all my books.
how much $ did u get for them? i've been thinking about doing the same thing for the same reason but i don't think i can bring myself to do it.
You sold your DVDs and didn't give us first dibs? :evil:
BANNED.
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI may be looking to that situation shortly as I go to a larger unversity
Which university?
Long, long ago...
Quote from: Weak2ndActI myself had a collection somewhere in the league of 200 dvd's, plus a shitload of laserdiscs. I would stare at them every night and think 'what should I watch?' and end up deciding I don't like any of these movies, I've seen them already, then I watch nothing. I hit rock bottom financially and needed some quick cash to dig myself out of the hole... so I sold the collection. I made out pretty well all considering... but it probably was one of the worst decisions I've ever made. I SO REGRET selling the collection. There were a lot of good titles. Sure, there's always a couple iffy purchases in the bunch, but hold onto to the stuff. You'll be happier later.
Yeah, I still regret selling the collection. This was like, three years ago, and I still haven't re-bought any of the dvds, 'cept for 'Serial Mom,' b/c I found it for 5 bucks. I'm over 200 hundred again... man, I woulda had a seriously bitchin' collection...
I've been thinking about selling a lot of my DVD's, but I couldn't bring myself to selling the Criterions.
Partly because they're Criterion, but also because I know most places that would take them wouldn't give me much money for them, not knowing how much they're worth.
I'd like my collection to be more cohesive, though... keeping only the ones I know I'll watch often and the classics. All the DVD's i don't want or that tarnish my collection need to be sold.
Hm... time to overhaul.
i'm about to sort out the good and shite in my dvd collection. i own about 500 and half of that consists of really awful ones i bought of sheer sentimentality.
can't believe that "consists" consists of three s's. :shock:
Quote from: UncleJoeyQuote from: The Gold TrumpetI may be looking to that situation shortly as I go to a larger unversity
Which university?
Northern Michigan University. For College Hockey, its one of the premiere schools in the nation.
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetQuote from: UncleJoeyQuote from: The Gold TrumpetI may be looking to that situation shortly as I go to a larger unversity
Which university?
Northern Michigan University. For College Hockey, its one of the premiere schools in the nation.
Yeah, I know. Oddly enough, a guy I went to high school with went there to play football. I'm pretty sure that program no longer exists and he's at UW-Milwaukee now, slowly but surely tranforming into a giant prick.
Well I sort of have an inn at a place here in nashville called the great escape. One of my best friends works there, so I got the most they would pay for every disc. Just over 1000 bucks total.
This allowed me to process my film and have a 3 hour telecine session.
I am very, very proud of the resulting film. Just miss my dvds... A lot.
Quote from: nixWell I sort of have an inn at a place here in nashville called the great escape. One of my best friends works there, so I got the most they would pay for every disc. Just over 1000 bucks total.
This allowed me to process my film and have a 3 hour telecine session.
I am very, very proud of the resulting film. Just miss my dvds... A lot.
your film is worth it. you can always rebuy dvds. film is forever!
Quote from: nixI sold all 170 of my dvds...
Quote from: nixJust over 1000 bucks total.
That's about $6 a DVD. Should've sold 'em to us. :elitist:
BANNED!
But I had so many standards in my collection.
Who here doesn't have Taxi Driver, The Graduate, etc.
I don't.
neither do i. (taxi driver)
i do.
Well, seeling them to you guys would've been more time consuming. I needed the money asap. Otherwise, I would've.
It broke my heart to get rid of:
The Hitchcock Criterion collection
The Third Man
Wes Anderson and PT stuff
Loves of a Blonde
Rashamon
Throne of Blood
fuck all of 'em really
Quote from: nixWell, seeling them to you guys would've been more time consuming. I needed the money asap. Otherwise, I would've.
It broke my heart to get rid of:
The Hitchcock Criterion collection
The Third Man
Wes Anderson and PT stuff
Loves of a Blonde
Rashamon
Throne of Blood
fuck all of 'em really
It aches my heart to even read that. Jesus.
Get another job to pay for the film?
Hell, go work an evening shift at 7-11 three nights a week.
Let's see the film, nix.
Quote from: meatballLet's see the film, nix.
Actually, he had to sell that, too...
I'd be happy to show it to you. I'm not too puter smart though.
It's a pretty big file (14 min long), so I wouldn't know how to go about putting it up for your viewing pleasure.
Goddamnit....
All my Coen brothers films
My Woody Allen
My Scorsese
My Godfather collection
My Criterion Godards
I'm gonna whine about this for a while...
u made ur choice, live with it.
Quote from: nixI'd be happy to show it to you. I'm not too puter smart though.
It's a pretty big file (14 min long), so I wouldn't know how to go about putting it up for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.yousendit.com
email yourself, then post the temporary link here.
I'm downsizing my DVD collection.
I moved to a new home a few weeks ago and as I put all the DVDs into boxes I realized I haven't re-watched even half of them (few I've never watched once). What is worse is that I don't even like half of the films I own. Why did I buy them? How did I buy them? And when?
Some of them are films I liked but do no more...but that's just a few of them. Most DVDs I got because they were cheap (read lousy DVD release).
There aren't enough space for all the DVDs so it makes a fantastic opportunity for me to get rid of crap. Being a completist and a collector at the same time is not a good combination, I need to have a complete DVD collection and because it's impossible to own all the films I'm gonna put a limit on myself and never exceed it but always be up-to-date with the best editions and releases (having an all-Criterion collection would be cool).
I began collecting DVDs a couple of years ago because I love movies but also, in a roundabout way, I felt it was a measure of how good I filmmaker I was. I know it doesn't make sense but it did for me at the time...it does not anymore.
I haven't decided exactly which I'll keep but I'm expecting to get rid of at least 100 DVDs.
Coelho wrote a bit about his own collecting habits...
On books and libraries
by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho
At the end of this Warrior of Light Online I comment on my earmarked books. Actually I do not have many books. Some years ago I made certain choices in life, led by the idea of trying to obtain maximum quality with a minimum amount of things. This does not mean that I opted for a monastic life – quite the contrary, when we are obliged to possess an infinite number of objects we have immense freedom. Some of my friends complain that because they have too many clothes they waste hours of their lives picking out what to wear. Since I have reduced my wardrobe to "basic black," that is one problem that I do not need to face.
But I am not here to speak about fashion, but about books. To get back to the essential, I decided to keep only 400 books in my library – some for sentimental reasons, others because I am always re-reading. This decision was made for several reasons, one of them being the sadness at seeing how collections carefully gathered during a lifetime are then sold by the pound without the least respect. Another reason was: why should I keep all these books at home? To show my friends that I am cultured? To decorate the walls? The books that I have bought will be infinitely more useful in a public library than in my house.
I used to be able to say that I need them because I am going to consult them. But today, whenever there is any need for any information at all, I connect the computer, type a key-word and what I need appears there before me. That's the Internet for you - the biggest library on Earth.
Of course I still buy books – no electronic device can possibly replace them. But as soon as I finish a book, I let it travel, give it to someone or hand it in at a public library. My intention is not to save forests or be generous; it is just that I believe that a book has a course of its own and should not be condemned to remain immobilized on a shelf.
Being a writer and living off copyrights, I may be advocating against myself – after all, the more my books are sold, the more money I earn. But that would be unfair to the reader, especially in countries where many of the government programs for buying for libraries do not use the basic criterion for a serious choice, namely the pleasure of reading a text with quality.
So let our books travel, be touched by other hands and enjoyed by other eyes. As I write this column I remember vaguely a poem by Jorge Luis Borges that speaks of the books that will never be re-opened.
Where am I now? In a little town in the French Pyrenees, sitting in a café enjoying the air-conditioning since the temperature out there is unbearable. By chance, I happen to have the complete collection of Borges at home, a couple of kilometers from where I am writing this – he is a writer that I am constantly re-reading. But why not try the test?
I cross the street. I walk for five minutes to another café, equipped with computers (a type of establishment known by the sympathetic and contradictory name of cyber-café). I say hello to the owner, order a very cold mineral water, open the page of a search program and type some words from the only verse that I remember, along with the name of the author. Less than two minutes later I have the complete poem in front of me:
There is a line by Verlaine that I'll never remember again.
There is a mirror that has seen me for the last time.
There is a door closed till the end of time.
Among the books in my library
there is one that I'll never open again.
In fact, I have the impression that I shall never re-open many of the books that I have given away – because something new and interesting is always being published and I love to read. I think that it is wonderful that people have libraries; the first contact that children have with books is usually through curiosity for those bound volumes with figures and letters. But I also think it is great when at a book-signing I meet readers with very used copies that have been lent dozens of times, which means that the book has traveled like the mind of the author traveled while he wrote it.
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