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How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

I have around 350, roughly 100 on criterion.

about 5 from the 30's. Next buy probably Grand Illusion, on criterion

about 25 from the 40's. Next buy- Children Of Paradise, The Great Dictator, or Fantasia

about 40 from the 50's: next buy- probably The Apu Trilogy, just out on criterion.

about 30 from the 60's: next buy- there are about 5 I really want, but good copies are hard to find, so probably either Last Year At Marienbad or Marketa Lazarova, both out on criterion

about 35 from the 70's:again, there are about 5 I really want that are hard to find, so probably Godfather 1 & 2

about 25 from the 80's. There are around 10 that are hard to find, and I'm not sure, here, maybe Godard's Everyman For Himself, which just came out on criterion

about 65 from the 90's: Probably Eternity And A Day, or something by Zhang Yimou, like Ju Dou or Raise The Red lantern

about 100 from the 2000's: Some difficult ones to find, so probably Mulholland Drive

about 15 from the 2010's: waiting until the dust settles some more

Re: How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

About 1500 - 1600 from the 1920s thru 2010s. Maybe 60 or so Criterion.


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Re: How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

That's a huge collection, something like my library of books, which are mostly deteriorating, now.

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What is the point of buying from Criterion, the best existing company, if it's to get DVDs and not blu rays ?

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the technology is always changing. Most of my recent purchases are on blue ray, but I began collecting dvds 20 years ago.

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Ah makes sense.

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I have 2,375 films on DVD (and some bluray) ranging from 1913 (The Fantomas serials) to the present.It is hard to say which decade is represented the most, although I know that I have fewer 1980's films than any other period. I hope to get more Silent dramas, as I have hundreds of comedies from the 1920's, but only a few dozen dramatic films from the era.

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Re: How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

Wow, another collection more like my library of books in size. Am really trying to control my dvd purchases.

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i don't really know. Our bought DVDs are arranged alphabetically by title, with my husband's mixed up with mine, and I can't really be bothered to go through sorting them out into decades etc. we also have quite a lot of home recorded ones. I suppose i have a few hundred, but some of them are Tv shows.

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I have over 1000 DVD's and blu-rays, and around 500 laserdiscs.

First laserdisc purchase: Rhapsody in Blue
First DVD purchase: L.A. Confidential
First blu-ray purchase: Black Narcissus

Most of any person: Martin Sheen
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Studio: Warner Brothers

Most ever paid: laserdisc "Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" $125
Most valuable: laserdisc "To Kill A Mockingbird" personally autographed by Gregory Peck (priceless)
Most recent purchase: Season One of TV series "The Defenders" which I have not been able to watch yet

🎭All the world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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Most of any person: Martin Sheen
Most of any person in my collection is probably either Irving Bacon or Bess Flowers.


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Re: How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

200-plus. More and more classics from 30's to 60's, mainly French and American. Film noir interests me very much now, and musicals.
Anything by Bergman.

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A musical, and something by Bergman make a good double bill, :-)

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I need to upgrade my catalogue. It got very confused when I started replacing VHS with DVD . I still have 30 or so boxes of VHS Tapes, 10 to a box , plus 6 big binders of DVD's 8 to a page, sorted by actor, director, country of origin. Then there are DVD's stored in smaller cases, all together I probably have around 1500 films.

I don't like to borrow even from netflix.

The majority of films in my collection are before 1970, with the greatest number in the 40's and 50's. I also have a good collection of mini series and TV series.

It was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

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I tend to like films from the 50's forward, including the later noir, and have bought a few more recent tv series like deadwood, and the Wire.

Re: How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

Around 150. Most from the 1940s.

--Every man's death diminishes me...because I am involved in mankind--

Re: How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

At a guess, maybe around 700.

Discounting Tv, the 1930s are probably best represented.

earliest film:
Le voyage dans la lune (1902)

latest films:
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Respectable - The Mary Millington Story (2016)

At last count, I own…

4612 films on DVD

and

1768 films on Blu-Ray

I also have just under 800 movies on VHS and just under 150 films on Beta that I have never managed to upgrade to disc at a suitable price. I additionally have around 250 films from both of the extinct HD-DVD and Laserdisc formats in my collection.

No idea about an exact decade-by-decade breakdown, but my collection is *reasonably* evenly spread, so I'd say at least 500 for each decade from the 1970s onwards and at least 250 from each of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. I own relatively few 30s and 20s titles though (probably less than 250 altogether; not sure).

Criterion Collection?

33 DVDs (include Eclipse) and 27 Blu-ray, so 60 in total -- less than you.

Most people think I'm mad. At least I know I'm mad.

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I started my collection of dvds slowly, about 15 years ago, and don't want to do what I did with books or albums/cassettes/cds.

Mostly choosing very select titles of personal favorites, alternating between buying exclusive criterions, and bargains.... sticking to blue ray the last few years, no intention of growing my collection too much bigger, as most films are becoming more and more readily available over the internet. In fact, I am culling my collection all the time, and getting rid of stuff that I probably won't watch again

What I mostly want are collectibles like criterion puts out, or more obscure stuff that's hard to find, as I run a film club.

Re: How many dvd's do you own and from what decades?

I have just 140 from the 1920s to the early 2010s


2 from the 20s
3 from the 30s
6 from the 40s
7 from the 50s
14 from the 60s
21 from the 70s
28 from the 80s
39 from the 90s
21 from the 00s
3 from the 10s

I stopped collecting for a while but I'm back on it.

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