How big is your DVD wishlist

After adding the Doris Day Vol 2, James Cagney Vol 1 and the Esther Williams Collection, my DVD wishlist is nearly at 400 I try to buy 2 or three boxsets a fortnight, plus single releases, but I can never keep up. I am guessing that release dates are given 3 months in advance - so announcements for July are being made at the moment. Heavens!! I will need to sell my kids at this rate!

We still have Joan Crawford Vol 2, Rooney/Garland, Forbidden Hollywood Vol 2, Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy to be announced for this year!

Just wondering if anyone else is in the same boat.

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Not I. There's very few titles that are worthy of a purchase for me. Between the public library and Netflix, I manage to see everything I want to see without breaking the bank or inflating my collection. You could be more selective about what you buy, maybe? I mean, how many times are you really going to watch those Doris Day movies?

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My list is my Sig. I'm mainly a TV/DVD collector but there's a couple of movies that I'm waiting for releases. I'm dying for "I Walk Alone" and "Invisible Stripes". Also, "The Brass Bottle". And, how about a real release for "Charley Varrick"?

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My Warner wishlist. I know that probebly only 30% of the list will be released

20s

Lady of the Night (1925)Pretty Ladies (1925)Torrent (1926) Twelve Miles Out (1927)The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)Love (1927)West Point (1928)Across to Singapore (1928)A Woman of Affairs (1928) Four Walls (1928)Our Dancing Daughters (1928)Our Modern Maidens (1929)Untamed (1929)The Kiss (1929)The Single Standard (1929) Wild Orchids (1929)

30s
Let Us Be Gay (1930)The Divorcee (1930)Romance (1930)Our Blushing Brides (1930)Paid (1930)A Free Soul (1931)Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)Inspiration (1931)Strangers May Kiss (1931)Laughing Sinners (1931)This Modern Age (1931)Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)Illicit (1931)Possessed (1931)Night Nurse (1931)Red Dust (1932) Letty Lynton (1932)Strange Interlude (1932)As You Desire Me (1932)Smilin' Through (1932)Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)Today We Live (1933)Ladies They Talk About (1933) Ex-Lady (1933)Hold Your Man (1933)Bombshell (1933)Sadie McKee (1934)Of Human Bondage (1934) Riptide (1934)Chained (1934) The Painted Veil (1934)Forsaking All Others (1934)The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)The Girl from Missouri (1934)No More Ladies (1935)Bordertown (1935)I Live My Life (1935)Dangerous (1935)Front Page Woman (1935)Reckless (1935)Special Agent (1935)The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)Love on the Run (1936)Suzy (1936)Romeo and Juliet (1936)Riffraff (1936)It's Love I'm After (1937) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)Personal Property (1937) Kid Galahad (1937)The Bride Wore Red (1937)Conquest (1937)Mannequin (1937)Saratoga (1937)That Certain Woman (1937) The Shining Hour (1938)The Sisters (1938)The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) Juarez (1939)The Old Maid (1939)Idiot's Delight (1939)

40s
Strange Cargo (1940) All This, and Heaven Too (1940)Escape (1940)Susan and God (1940) The Great Lie (1941)A Woman's Face (1941)Two-Faced Woman (1941)When Ladies Meet (1941) Her Cardboard Lover (1942)In This Our Life (1942)We Were Dancing (1942) Above Suspicion (1943)Watch on the Rhine (1943) The Corn Is Green (1945) Confidential Agent (1945) A Stolen Life (1946)Deception (1946)Winter Meeting (1948)June Bride (1948)Beyond the Forest (1949)


50s /60s
Bright Leaf (1950) Payment on Demand (1951)Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)Torch Song (1953)The Cobweb (1955)North West Frontier (1959)Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

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In my case, I have watched my Doris Day videos dozens of times since I initially taped or bought them years ago. I buy only DVDs of films I REALLY love and have watched on video at least 60 times or more and you would be surprised how many there are!!! There are some musicals and melodramas I have seen litterally hundreds of times since starting my collection in 1986.

For sure, some months are more expensive than others. I'm thinking of May and July specifically

I redo a wish list of 200 wants each year and so far more than 20 have been released or announced so it's pretty terrific!!! I might add that most of my DVD dreams come true are the work of WHV! But needless to say my ENTIRE wishlist includes much more than 200 titles...

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I could be wrong, but I think the OP was talking about things that have already been or are scheduled to be released that they just haven't purchased yet.

if thats the case, my 'wish-list' is pretty low. Right now, there are a few TV sets I would like to pick up, but I can wait until DDD has another sale (assuming they will have another sale again after their reorganization). Otherwise, if its something I'm hot to see, I'll order it as soon as it streets. I just signed up for a year of Amazon Prime, so for the next 12 months, 2 days after street date should be the longest I have to wait (if it's something I desperately want to see).

If we are talking about unreleased wish-lists- mines getting a lot smaller every month- (and two huge spots are going to get checked off in July with the release of Secrets Of Isis and Ace In The Hole).
Most of the rest of what I want is old Universal material. And if they ever kick out box sets for Claudette Colbert, Olivia deHaviland, Ladd & Lake, and Hall and Montez...I'll be pretty much set there.
The Wind (silent) I would desperately love to see again, but it will get here eventually (probably another year or two away.

Unfortunately, there are some schlock titles that MGM and Sony have the rights too that I wish would get released, but I'm sure won't- their absence, along with Paramounts Love With The Proper Stranger will always be a disappointment,... but then again, I have hundreds of other titles, some I'm still surprised have seen the light of day, to console me.

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5 years ago I would have posted a page long list of films I wanted but now with over 1800 films, old and new, there isn't that many left that I want on dvd. Unlike others here I'm not on a mission to own every classic oldie ever made, just the films I've seen and enjoyed over the years.

Becket and Robinson Crusoe on Mars were always near the top of my wishlist but it now looks like I'll finally be striking them off the list.

Other top favorites I don't have on dvd yet are the epics - El Cid, Fall of the Roman Empire and 55 Days at Peking. They are available in other regions but I'm holding out for remastered special editions hopefully in the near future.

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my list is HUGGGGGGGE. i still have tons of films and sets on my Amazon one that I haven't got yet.

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I have so few things i want, or need now. I know of a few TV shows that will be coming out soon. Maybe a dozen or so movies i would like to see. Most have not even been announced, but if they do i will be all over them. The movies i have on my want list would be TV movie/ unsold pilots, think The Questor Tapes, and B flicks like Night of the Creeps.
I even have a few double dips i am interested in like Clint Eastwoods Sergio Leone westerns that have been out in R 2 for years.

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Roundish Numbers:

• Things that are scheduled (not all of which will make the cut): 139
• Things available that I want to a greater or lesser extent that are available: 1,950
• Things I really want that have not been released: 640
• Things that I want to a greater or lesser extent that are not available: 1,761
• Things that I have on my shelves that I haven't gotten around to watching: Don't ask.

Life? Who needs one! I've got lots of shiny silver discs!

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My Wishlist is very large, definitely over 800 titles. I try to make lists of what i want but I never succeed in compiling a complete list.

There are so many somewhat obscure titles that I love that are not on DVD that I think my wishlist will be large for quite some time.

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I have most of my most wanted films at this point so my wishlist is pretty small. Mainly now I just purchase TV sets and I still have quite a few I am wanting.

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I only add somethng to my wishlist once it's officially announced. Used to average at least sixty + titles on the list each month as I would revise the thing, but starting last fall, the lessening amount of stuff I'm waiting for allowed the number of wants to shrink down to 30 +. That said, I have a bad habit of buying cool DVDs that are not on my list that find good deals on.

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I've got WAY too many titles on my wishlist.

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I have alot but many of those are for multiple WB's DVD boxsets alone.

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Active, actually available items (movies or tv series): 105
Out of print (do I REALLY want to spend over $$$! for a DVD?):15
Scheduled for release: 19
Unavailable: 220
Some of the unavailable are either TV series that haven't had a release scheduled but are definitely planned and - what seems like - a massive amount of Peanuts and Rankin-Bass animation.

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Now that Criterion have announced 'If...' and almost announced 'Ace In The Hole', my "A-list" of wants is down to the following:

Far From The Madding Crowd (Schlesinger) (possible Warner release this year?)
Fedora (Wilder)
Lonely Are The Brave (Miller)
O Lucky Man (Anderson) (promised by Warners for this year!)
One Eyed Jacks (Brando) (needs to be rescued from public domain hell)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Polonsky)

I'd also welcome:

The Best Man (Schaffner)
Downhill Racer (Ritchie)

There are also a few movies that have appeared in the UK on acceptable Region 2 editions, but I'd buy them again if they appeared on Region 1. For example:

The Go Between (Losey)
Lost Highway (Lynch)
Marie: A True Story (Donaldson)
Yanks (Schlesinger)