Accidentally started a small tradition last night. You see, I recently made a list of all the movies in my collection that I've never seen. The list came to about 250 films (this includes individual films in box sets) -- or roughly half to a third of my collection (depending on how you're counting). Given the huge number of films unexperienced and the large number of DVDs I buy in a month, it seemed best for me to start working through that list.
( Thunderball, The Adventures of Robin Hood, It Happened One Night, and The Lady Vanishes )

Stay tuned for even more Cinema Blog hijinks. I'm sure I'll have some.

Bad News: I got outbid on yet another Rebecca Criterion DVD. It's out of print, I've lusted after it ever since I saw the movie, but I'm no good at sniping. The thing is, the 2-disc set goes for anywhere from 80 to 100 dollars. I'm always the next-to-highest bid which means I'm always getting sniped at the last minute. I'm not willing to go higher than 85 for it, so I need to strategize.

Good News: I did win another DVD I bid on, the Criterion edition of The Seven Samurai, and I got it for only 10 bucks plus shipping.

Today was Bela Lugosi day on TCM. But I've already missed most of the ones I haven't seen. Crap crap crap.

ETA: For your amusement -- The original Psycho trailer. It's actually quite funny.

Just finished up Julia's Alfred Hitchcock class (I've been tagging along every week, lack-of-actual-student-status be damned). Good stuff. I love Alfred Hitchcock.

The films we saw (in order of omglove):

Psycho*
Rebecca
Vertigo
Notorious*
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest*
Rear Window*
Suspicion (discarding ending)
Shadow of a Doubt*
Foreign Correspondent
The 39 Steps
Suspicion (including ending)
Spellbound*

Film I had already seen prior to this class are marked with an asterik.

( Random things I've learned )