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I was wondering the very same thing! Being a collector of Orson Welles material, not to mention a great admirer of John Huston, I was eagerly looking forward to this appearing in my Xmas stocking. Oh, well. There's always my birthday, I suppose.

They are very rare. As are the Remains of the Day lunchboxes.

As someone who has actually lost everything before (I live in New Orleans, do the math), I must say that the stuff you think you'd replace instantly ain't necessarily so. A year on, my small collection -- I have about 80 DVDs at the present time -- bears little resemblance to my old one. Money...

I used to own the double-sided disc. The day I bought it, I tried it in both of my girlfriend's DVD players -- a Sony and a CyberHome -- and it refused to load in either. Dejected at losing the chance to impose (what she sees as) my bizarre taste in movies once again, I trundled home. Lo and...

In a word: no. This question raises its head frequently, Anderson's masterpiece being among the most highly anticipated of all potential, future DVD releases. Paramount remastered it several years ago, and a Malcolm McDowell commentary was recorded at that time. However, the DVD has failed...

Re. DVDfromKorea.com: nice to see their website has been right-click disabled … to prevent potential customers from adding it to their favourites folders, no doubt. Smart move, kids.

I'm not that pissed about it, but I WILL have my money back. $28 is $28, and it's better in my pocket than in some French bank account. But it's the principle at the end of the day; I don't like being ripped off. Bank of America just didn't want to deal with it because a) it was a foreign...

Well, the whole credit card thing has been a pain in the arse ever since I moved to America -- from Britain -- five years ago. For the first two years I was here I couldn't get a card to save my life, even though my credit in Britain was perfect. America is so solipsistic. Then, as if from...

Amazon.fr are my first stop for French stuff, but they don't always have everything I am looking for. Sometimes you've got to shop around the less-established websites, and that's when problems can arise. Devendenaute consistently ignored my e-mails, and have since removed the Welles title...

Irina: Once you go hack, you never go back, baby ;) The most you can do -- unless you know someone in the relevant country who is willing to act as a middle-man -- is to bundle your orders together to save on shipping. But it isn't always as easy as that, I know. I have an issue at the...

You're not having an easy time of it of late, are you, Irina? Have you, by any chance, considered going region-locked? :)

That sucks. Have they charged your credit card yet? Luckily, I don't have any orders outstanding with them at the moment. I love that site, though ... everything is dead cheap -- even the postage -- and always beautifully packaged. I'm interested to know how you get on.

Yeah, it's been down for a couple of weeks now, at least -- just vanished overnight. I do hope it's just a Web issue, and they haven't gone out of business; they are one of my favourite e-tailers for Far Eastern stuff.

The reason why dvd.it are so expensive, shipping-wise, is that they send American orders by courier. I ordered a DVD from them a few months back, and it arrived in New Orleans three days later. THREE DAYS from Italy! I ordered on Monday (with the seven-hour time difference, it was already...

I can't believe no one has mentioned "The Devil Rides Out" yet. Christopher Lee plays a good guy for once, while the hisses from the gallery go to the underrated Charles Gray for a wonderfully creepy performance as leader of the Satanist cult. Some nice special effects, and even an appearance by...