Watching My Collection

INTRODUCTION

In this thread i shall document 2 major things, reading and watching.

I had thought i'd do nothing else here, but be forewarned that i might go to rate the last film watched thread to give my thoughts about stuff, but if i do that i want to write them on a document and then copy and paste it there.

This thread therefore shall detail the 3 things i take most pleasure with film, books and music. When i get to my 500th entry, a sketch will have been made and can begin to be judged by others, before that, i'm immune and impervious to any judgments.

MUSIC FOR SILENT FILMS

1. Intolerance -- 1916



2 Blu-rays

Disc 1 -- the film -- 2 hrs 47 mins 29 sec

Disc 2

The Fall of Babylon -- 1 hr 2 mins 34 secs
The Mother and the Law -- 1 hr 39 mins 32 secs
Kevin Brownlow -- 19 mins 1 sec

2. Chaplin at Keystone -- 1914




4 DVDs

Disc 1

Making a Living
Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal.
Mabel’s Strange Predicament
A Thief Catcher
Between Showers
A Film Johnnie
Tango Tangles
His Favorite Pastime
Cruel, Cruel Love
The Star Boarder
Mabel at the Wheel
Twenty Minutes of Love
Caught in a Cabaret

Disc 2

Caught in the Rain -- 11 mins 12 secs
A Busy Day -- 5 mins 59 secs
The Fatal Mallet -- 13 mins 54 secs
The Knockout -- 30 mins 12 secs
Mabel’s Busy Day -- 12 mins 41 secs
Mabel’s Married Life -- 14 mins 40 secs
Laughing Gas -- 12 mins 50 secs
The Property Man -- 24 mins 3 secs
The Face on the Barroom Floor -- 11 mins 49 secs
Recreation -- 6 mins 23 secs

Disc 3

The Masquerader -- 12 min 24 secs
His New Profession -- 11 mins 32 secs
The Rounders -- 13 mins 17 secs
The New Janitor
Those Love Pangs
Dough and Dynamite
Gentlemen of Nerve
His Musical Career
His Trysting Places

Disc 4

Tillie’s Punctured Romance
Getting Acquainted
His Prehistoric Past

Special Features

Charlie’s White Elephant
Inside the Keystone Project
Silent Traces
A Thief Catcher

3. Cowboy Bebop -- 1998




4 Blu-rays

Disc 1 -- 3 hrs 38 mins 39 secs

1. Asteroid Blues --
2. Stray Dog Strut -- May 22
3. Honky Tonk Women
4. Gateway Shuffle
5. Ballad of Fallen Angels
6. Sympathy for the Devil
7. Heavy Metal Queen
8. Waltz for Venus
9. Jamming With Edward

4. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany -- 1984



6 DVDs

I've seen this a few times but never finished 2 and 3 in the main trilogy, i've always said that when i give up social media i'll immerse myself in it, so in essence i'm through with social media, this whole thread is about making what i love obliterate my own petty existence.

Disc 1

Episode 1: The Call of Faraway Places -- 1 hr 59 mins 22 secs

Disc 2

Episode 2: The Centre of the World -- 1 hr 29 mins 39 secs
Episode 3: The Best Christmas Ever -- 57 mins 52 secs

5. The Holy Mountain -- 1926



1 Blu-ray

film -- 1 hr 45 mins 40 secs
commentary
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl -- 1993 -- 3 hrs 8 mins 26 secs ((1:21))

6. Triumph of the Will -- 1935



1 DVD

film -- 1 hr 50 mins 30 secs
commentary
Day of Freedom -- 16 mins 44 secs

7. The Charlie Chaplin Collection




11 Blu-rays

Disc 5

The Great Dictator -- 1940 -- 2 hrs 5 mins 7 secs

8. 1917 -- 2019



1 Blu-ray / 1 DVD

film -- 1 hr 58 mins 58 secs (credits start at 1 hr 49 mins 29 secs)
The Weight of the World: Sam Mendes -- 4 mins 9 secs
Allied Forces: Making 1917 -- 12 mins 1 sec
The Score of 1917 -- 3 mins 52 secs
In the Triangles -- 6 mins 59 secs
Recreating History -- 10 mins 59 secs
Commentary with Sam Mendes
Commentary with Roger Deakins

9. The Werner Herzog Collection



10 DVDs

This was one of the last things i bought before getting a multi region Blu-ray player, they look fine on DVD however, but i got my eye on that Shout Factory set whenever i want my Herzog in high def. Herzog was my introduction to international arthouse cinema.

Disc 1

Aguirre, The Wrath of God -- 1 hr 30 mins 39 secs
Commentary with Herzog and Norman Hill
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz -- 14 mins 53 secs
Last Words -- 12 mins 41 secs
Precautions Against Fanatics -- 10 mins 39 secs
Fata Morgana -- 1 hr 13 mins 15 secs with commentary and english version

10. Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers



6 Blu-rays

Disc 1 -- Alice Guy-Blache

Mixed Pets -- 14 mins 4 secs
Tramp Strategy -- 1911 -- 12 mins 1 sec
Greater Love Hath No Man -- 16 mins 21 secs
Algie the Miner -- (with commentary by Alison McMahon) -- 9 min 56 secs
Falling Leaves --
The Little Rangers --
Canned Harmony --
A Fool and His Money --
The High Cost of Living --
The Coming of Sunbeam --
Burstop Homes' Murder Case --
A House Divided --
Matrimony's Speed Limit --
The Ocean Waif --
The Colleen Bawn --
On the Brink --
The Cricket --

Disc 2 -- Louis Weber

From Death to Life -- 13 min 51 secs
Fine Feathers -- 14 mins 43 secs

11. Fear of Fear -- 1975




a top 10 RWF for me, dreamy and fatalistic 1 hr 28 mins 3 secs ((16:25))

12. Battles Without Honour and Humanity



5 Blu-rays

Disc 1

Battles Without Honour and Humanity -- 1 hr 39 mins
commentary by Stuart Galbraith IV ((1:02))
Yakuza Graveyard -- 10 mins 54 secs

Disc 2

Hiroshima Death Match

Disc 3

Proxy War

Disc 4

Police Tactics

Disc 5

Final Episode

13. Fantomas -- 1913



3 DVDs

Disc 1

In the Shadow of the Guillotine -- 54 mins 35 secs
Juve vs Fantomas -- 1 hr 2 mins 4 secs
commentary
The Nativity -- 14 min
The Dwarf -- 17 mins
Louis Feuillade: Master of Many Forms -- 10 mins

Fear of Fear!


Good one.


So overlooked, sometimes even I forget how much I like it.

14. Lubitsch in Berlin



3 Blu-rays

This saves me a few pennies, since with it i don't need those Kino Classics editions of these films

Disc 1

I Don't Want To Be a Man -- 1918 -- Musik -- Neil Brand -- 45 mins 23 secs
The Doll -- 1918 -- 1 hr 5 mins 23 secs
The Oyster Princess -- 1919 -- 57 mins 57 secs

Disc 2

Sumurun -- 1920
Anna Boleyn -- 1920 - 2 hrs 3 mins 55 secs -- this is a soon to be released Kino title

Disc 3

Die Bergkatze (The Wild Cat) -- 1921 -- 1 hr 25 mins 41 secs
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schoenhauser Allee to Hollywood -- 2006 -- 1 hr 49 mins 32 secs

Embedded in this thread i must include what i read, and i must try to use this as an incentive to stick through the books i read to finishing them, as all i read is on my kindle, the percentage of where i'm at will be continually updated, each entry of this will contain anywhere between 10 to 50 books/volumes.

My aim is to spend a roughly 3 times more reading than watching, this thread overall shall be a record of this endeavor, this reading here begins with a renewed interest in what should be made evident, as a part of the study of evil, and controversial literature, and Historical studies, biography, memoir, applicable philosophy, classic novel collections

Reading My Collection Part 1


1. William L. Shirer -- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- 1,249 pages -- 4%
2. Ian Kershaw -- Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris -- 912 pages -- 5%
3. Ian Kershaw -- Hitler 1936 To 1945: Nemesis -- 1,168 pages
4. Adolf Hitler -- Mein Kampf -- 720 pages -- 7%
5. La Rochefoucauld -- Maxims -- translated by Leonard Tancock -- 128 pages -- 8%
6. The Complete Novels of Anthony Trollope -- 26,758 pages -- 1%
7. John Calvin -- Institutes of the Christian Religion -- 3,001 pages -- 11%
8. Plato Complete Works -- 1,838 pages -- 1%
9. E.M. Cioran -- A Short History of Decay -- 202 pages -- 4%
10. Walter Kaufmann -- Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist -- 559 pages -- 8%
11. Joel R. Beeke -- Reformed Systematic Theology: Vol. 1 -- 1,761 pages -- 9%
12. ESV Reformation Study Bible* -- 15,586 pages -- 1%

*not reading most of the study notes at this time

15. Fleshpot on 42nd Street -- 1973



1 Blu-ray / 1 DVD

This is probably Andy Milligan's finest achievement, and a film i can only watch by myself. It's 1 am now and i hope i can get away with it!!

Presented in both -- 1.33:1 and 1.85:1
1 hr 27 mins 17 secs
commentary with Samm Deighan, Heather Drain and Kat Ellinger ((I LOVE Samm and Kat, the Daughters of Darkness))
Locations 'Then and Now' -- 4 mins 1 sec

16. Buster Keaton The Complete Short Films 1917 - 1923




4 Blu-rays

This is one of my most prized possessions, i start watching on disc 3 because i've watched the first 2 so many times but eventually i'll have it all recorded here.

Disc 3

The Scarecrow -- 19 mins 11 sec
Neighbors -- 18 mins 45 secs