DVDs at DealsDirect
August 21st 2008 22:14
In the spirit of this site, I took a look at their DVD section, which is admittedly small, and has the usual boxsets that I'd never watch.
But there's a little bit of gold in there - for example, an Alfred Hitchcock box set for just $35. I reviewed "Vertigo" earlier this month, but, honestly, you can never watch "Psycho" or "Rear Window" too many times, though I wouldn't recommend it, lest you develop some peculiar habits.
The real gem of the DealsDirect collection, though, is "Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution", the incredible science fiction film from Jean-Luc Godard, a rare treat. I reviewed it here, finding it to be mysteriously complex, a totalitarian nightmare, made bizarre by the advance of time, with little or no special effects.
It's on sale for $19.99, and seems like they might run out of stock at any second.
"Alphaville" features one particularly gruesome scene, where condemned criminals, who are just regular people with slightly dissenting views, are forced to stand on a diving board at a swimming pool.
They are then shot, and a squad of female swimmers chase the wounded man in the pool, stabbing him gleefully. The horror of the scene is augmented by the seemingly innocuous setting - I'm still fitfully nervous at the local swimming pool.
Now that's the way to make memorable science fiction...
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