DVD Editions with the Best Features
 

Most of us are avid DVD collectors. I myself pride on choosing the best editions from the shops - be it Extended Cuts, Unrated Director's Cuts, Special Collector's Editions etc. etc.

Have a peek at your personal collections so far, and the ones you have listed to buy in the coming months, and tell me this...which DVD releases have the best Features on the discs? It could be 2-disc, 3-disc or even bigger box-sets.

I am not talking about the transfers/audio-video quality, but the extra features...such as featurettes, commentaries, behind-the-scenes, Easter Eggs etc. kinda stuff.

i'll add more later, but the one that comes to mind immediately is criterion's videodrome release.

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Good one, F.

One more which comes to mind is...


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Other than having 5 different versions of the movie (Final Cut, Director's Cut, Theatrical, International, and Workprint), it has two bonus discs - one packed to the brim with featurettes and deleted scenes, and the other is a docu-disc of making Blade Runner.

A must-buy for any avid DVD collector.

A Mighty Wind.

The regular edition has some very cool features. Commentary track by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy,

Full footage of the mock folk concert they staged for the movie- recorded live in front of an audience.

A bunch of "music videos" from many of the bands featured in the film.

The audio commrntary is hilarious. Guest reveals he, Shearer and McKean used to go on as the Folksmen before Spinal Tap concerts and nobody ever caught on it was them.

Pretty fond of this one:

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Comes with 2 earlier film versions of the story, a handful of shorts, radio adaptations, a documentary, studio blooper reel...just an all around great set for one of the best detective movies out there.

the six feet under boxset is pretty wonderful, too. one of the jewels of my collection.

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Yup. Definitely. Their Naked Lunch edition also has great features, but the most impressive Criterion thing I've seen yet is how packed the Slacker set is. Fans of early nineties Indie cinema should definitely get it. Kevin Smith fans should also look into it to see where he was coming from.

Most of my DVDs a 2 dics editions. I have the original star wars trilogy on VHS, Gold Edition.

My only collectors edition is my latest addition to my collection. Halloween. 2 disc, loads of making ofs, TV spots, trailers, Trivia etc. And a holographic cover.

well, i just received my vampyr criterion release in the mail today, and i have to say...it's incredible!

check out the dvdbeaver review of it. you can see how great this set is.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcom...mpyr-maybe.htm

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my favorite extra is always the commentary ... not many of the others mean that much to me .. most of them are 'behind the scenes featurettes where 90% of the content is pieces of the same goddamn movie playing over again.

I've mentioned this many times before - but the best commentaries are on the John Carpenter films and the Kevin Smith films.

very entertaining - very informitive.

also Robert Rodriguez has excellent extras in his films ... expecially the cooking school on Once Upon a Time in Mexico.