Rebuilding My DVD Collection
So I have been working on rebuilding my DVD collection since I had to sell off what I had before, which, in the end was a very good thing since I wanted to rebuild it from scratch anyways. I decided that this time around, and from now on, I want a collection that has mostly film sets in it and also only contains films that inspire me on some level.
Doing it this way has several positives, one of which is that my film collection will be limited to a much smaller size if I were to just try and buy every film I found to be good, which is what I was doing before. I’ve also decided that it will not contain a lot of TV show sets like I was doing before as well when I was collecting Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and at some point wanted to start adding Babylon 5 to my collection. Besides, with things like Netflix and their ability to watch movies on my TV (once I get to that capability), and borrowing films from the library or renting from other video stores, it makes it very easy to just focus on what really grabs me and inspires me on some creative level since I can always just rent films that I find good from various sources.
To start my collection off with a bang, I decided to begin it with some of Chaplin’s works, so I purchased The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2, which contains City Lights, The Circus, The Kid, A King in New York, A Woman of Paris, Monsieur Verdoux, The Chaplin Revue, and a documentary tit
led Charlie – The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. I’ve already seen most of the movies from this film set, of which my favorites are City Lights, The Kid, and Monsieur Verdoux, and am looking forward to checking the rest out as time allows. These are very good box sets and I do recommend them if you plan on getting a few of Chaplin’s movies. I will eventually have all his works including all volumes of this particular collection, but one piece at a time for now. Also be sure to check out my writer’s journal for some movie reviews of some of the films on this set, and I will especially at least do one for Monsieur Verdoux since I think it is one of his better films, yet least known.
The other film I bought was the 15th Anniversary Edition of Chaplin which stars Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin and is Sir Richard Attenborough’s biographical film of the life and times of Charles Chaplin. I had originally owned an older version of the film, but saw that they had an anniversary edition out after I reset my DVD collection and decided to get it again since I watch it all the time and really enjoy the film, plus I just can’t get enough of Charlie Chaplin and Robert Downey Jr. definitely brings him to life very brilliantly in this film.
So those are the only two things I have for my DVD collection for now and I probably won’t add anything else for a few months, but will update the status of my collection as I add new pieces to it. There are quite a few silent film sets out there that I want and I’ve already got a handful of films that I would like to add to it as well.
You can check out what I plan to add to the collection in the future by checking out my film wishlist off of Amazon. I’ll be updating it on a regular basis and will be removing things as they are added to the collection obviously, so keep a look out from time to time if you are interested.