Category: recommendations

Amelie – HU DVD 401
Arrested development – HU DVD 4874 – 4876
Batman Begins – HU DVD 3175
Children of Men – HU DVD 2631
Flight of the Conchords – HU DVD 4831
Little Children – HU DVD 2714
Sixteen Candles – HU DVD 4960
Taxi Driver – HU DVD 904
Third Man – HU DVD 48
Trainspotting – HU DVD 1002

Gladiator – HU DVD 1424
Patton – HU DVD 654
Blood Diamond – DVD 2632
Kingdom of Heaven – HU DVD 2813
Lord of War – HU DVD 2097
Generation Kill – HU DVD 5081-5083
We were soldiers – HU DVD 635
Gods and Generals – HU DVD 625
Saving Private Ryan – HU DVD 1313
Band of Brothers – HU DVD 944
Letters from Iwo Jima – HU DVD 1926
Black Hawk Down – HU DVD 346
GI Jane – HU DVD 4739
Jarhead – HU DVD 2708
Rome – HU DVD 3971-3981

Recommendations from Andrew…

Shortbus – HU DVD 2568
Japon – HU DVD 3819
Werckmeister Harmonies – HU DVD 3816
Y tu mama tambien – HU DVD 454
Psycho – HU DVD 14
Taste of Cherry – HU DVD 4773
Batalla en el cielo – HU DVD 3818
Howl’s Moving Castle – HU DVD 2979
Kids – HU DVD 2150
Diving Bell and the Butterfly – HU DVD 4229

Recommendations from Kathleen…

Sex and the City – HU DVD 3901-3919
West Wing – HU DVD 3561-3605
Iron Man – HU DVD 2763
Apollo 13 – HU DVD 529
Mr. Holland’s Opus – HU DVD 5100
Mona Lisa Smile – HU DVD 921
Ratatouille – HU DVD 3814
The Kingdom – HU DVD 4678
Star Wars – HU DVD 1643 – 1646
Walk the Line – HU DVD 1899

“As for his pop-cult cred, we have been told repeatedly that The Godfather I and II (but definitely not III) are Obama’s top movie picks of all time. His favorite TV show of recent years was HBO’s gritty, Baltimore-based epic The Wire, on which his favorite character was a stick up man named Omar, who made his living ripping off local drug lords.” –“The Cool President” in this weeks The New Republic

The Godfather I – HU DVD 2541
The Godfather II – HU DVD 2542
The Wire (the complete series) – HU DVD 2861 – 2883

A few home use titles about World War II:

Band of brothers – HU DVD 944
Patton – HU DVD 654
The thin red line – HU DVD 2264
Pearl harbor – HU DVD 752
Flags of our fathers – HU DVD 2458

Check out some of these modern Shakespeare adaptations:

She’s the man (Twelfth Night) – HU DVD 4379
10 Things I hate about you (Taming of the Shrew) – HU DVD 195
Kiss Me Kate (Taming of the Shrew) – HU DVD 2560
My own private Idaho (Henry IV) – HU DVD 1346
Scotland, PA (Macbeth) – HU DVD 2435
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead (characters from Hamlet) – HU DVD 1185
Falstaff (Henry IV, Richard II, Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor) – HU DVD 1763
Kumonsu Jo (Macbeth) – HU DVD 4268
West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet) – HU DVD 278

“I chose most of these movies because they have a twist to them, things are not as they really seem. And the Muppets are awesome…”

The Muppet Show – HU DVD 1749
Contact – HU DVD 2500
Deliverance – HU DVD 175
Donnie Darko – HU DVD 2174
Election – HU DVD 3307
GoldenEye – HU DVD 4998
Jesus Camp – HU DVD 2440
Se7en – HU DVD 22
Zodiac – HU DVD 2982

It is hard to imagine, I know. But if you are interested in finding out, check out HU DVD 609, A Star is Born. The version of the film that was released by Warner Brothers in 1954 cut a half hour out of George Cukor’s film, against his wishes. What we see on DVD today is an effort to piece the original story back together using sound recordings, recovered film and still shots. To learn more about the restoration project, click here.

The Media Services collection includes several films by the director of A Star is Born, George Cukor, and its stars: Judy Garland and James Mason.

George Cukor
Adam’s Rib – HU DVD 4906
Camille – HU DVD 3094
Holiday – HU DVD 5177
Philadelphia story – HU DVD 2189

Judy Garland
Meet me in st. louis – HU DVD 906
Wizard of oz – HU DVD 666

James Mason
Bigger than life – HU DVD 3074
Island in the sun – HU DVD 3273

…according to his biography on IMDB.com.

39 Steps – HU DVD 337
Sergeant York – HU DVD 3643
Ox-bow incident – HU DVD 5194
Chariots of Fire – HU DVD 1946

I am sure he also likes a film or two that he made. Check out some of those too!

A perfect world (directed & performed) – HU DVD 1192
White hunter black heart (directed, produced & performed) – HU DVD 1191
Bird (directed, produced & performed) – HU DVD 1190
Pale rider (directed, produced & performed) – HU DVD 1189
Honkytonk man (directed, produced & performed) – HU DVD 1188
The outlaw Josey Wales (directed & performed)- HU DVD 1187
The bridges of Madison County (directed, produced & performed) – HU DVD 531
Unforgiven (directed, produced & performed) – HU DVD 582

Film festivals can be magical experiences where you can be exposed to all sorts of films you would never expect anywhere else. I have been lucky to attend and/or some film festivals over the last few years. This list represents only a sampling of films that I discovered first at a film festival, but each of these has stuck with me for one reason or another.
—Prof. Middents, AU Department of Literature

Belleville rendez–vous/The Triplets of Belleville – HU DVD 1225
Chang – DVD 679 (not Home Use)
Cidade de Deus/City of God – DVD 849 (not Home Use)
Conversations with Other Women – DVD 3607
Dependencia sexual/Sexual Dependency – HU DVD 1010
Dodsworth – HU DVD 3505
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara – HU DVD 791
Heavenly Creatures – HU DVD 678
Madame Satã – HU DVD 966
Overlord – HU DVD 3750
Reconstruction – HU DVD 2087 (not available for Home Use checkout for Spring 2009)
Yi Yi/A One and a Two… – HU DVD 1114