These are all blind buys I purchased this week:
- The Levelling, Saint Maud, Bait, The Falling and After Love were all mentioned as exceptional films from the last decade by The Observer's chief film critic, Mark Kermode, who is stepping down after ten years...
Example of a recent blind buy, courtesy of the Criterion collection. Never heard of it - it's not listed in Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide, with 16 000 entries. The only member on this forum, who made a recommendation when the title was announced, was Mr. Bujaki.
The Watermelon Woman is part of...
Could be you're too young to be of a generation, where we went over to our friends' houses and poured over their LP and VHS collections. It's not the same, looking at someone's iTunes collection!
My question to you is: why would one only limit themselves to films, which they had seen before? The joy of film collecting for me, has been to purchase all of the Criterion collection. Even though I am a film freak, there are still enormous numbers of films I haven't seen. And this is taking...