Wasn't going to pick this up, given the high price, since the DVD-A was the only part of the set I really wanted. But when A&B here in Vancouver had it on their shelf for $60 Cdn ($75 at HMV down the street), I decided to jump in, even though it still felt like a lot to cough up. Happy I did...
"The Vanishing" (the original Dutch version)... not a horror film in the usual sense, perhaps, but no other film ever got under my skin like that one did -- took me days to stop shivering when I thought of it. The scariest thing about the American version is to see how frighteningly bad a remake...
I recommend Emma Thompson's hilarious commentary (with producer Lindsay Doran) from Sense and Sensibility, if you appreciate cleverness and a bit of droll British wit -- very funny, as well as informative. She had me laughing right from the Columbia logo, where she describes the difficulty of...