Films That Should Be on DVD Already
compiled by Craig J. Clark

Starting in February 2005 and running through December 2006, every Monday in Dada I highlighted a film or TV show (or music video or occasionally something else entirely) that I believed should be on DVD already -- and eventually some of the films actually did start showing up on DVD. Now here they are in one place, with release dates for all of the entries that are currently available. As you will be able to see, some of them took a little longer than others...

Title (Year) Director/Writer/Producer/Performer Entry Date Release Date
1) Hamlet (1996) Kenneth Branagh 02/14/05 08/14/07
2) Home of the Brave (1986) Laurie Anderson 02/21/05  
3) Swimming to Cambodia (1987) Jonathan Demme 02/28/05  
    Monster in a Box (1991) Nick Broomfield 02/28/05 11/28/06
4) Cul-de-sac (1966) Roman Polanski 03/07/05  
5) Bedazzled (1967) Stanley Donen 03/14/05 04/03/07
6) The Exterminating Angel (1962) Luis Buñuel 03/21/05 02/17/09
    Simon of the Desert (1965) Luis Buñuel 03/21/05 02/17/09
7) Kafka (1991) Steven Soderbergh 03/28/05  
8) The Pigeon Egg Strategy (1998) Max Makowski 04/04/05  
9) Help! (1965) Richard Lester 04/11/05 11/06/07
10) Lost Highway (1997) David Lynch 04/18/05 03/25/08
11) Performance (1970) Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg 04/25/05 02/13/07
12) Viridiana (1961) Luis Bunuel 05/02/05 05/23/06
13) All Fall Down (1962) John Frankenheimer 05/09/05 03/23/09
14) Le Samourai (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville 05/16/05 10/25/05
15) From Beyond (1986) Stuart Gordon 05/23/05 09/11/07
16) Petulia (1968) Richard Lester 05/30/05 06/20/06
17) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Akira Kurosawa 06/06/05 01/10/06
18) A Perfect Couple (1979) Robert Altman 06/13/05 04/25/06
19) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Orson Welles 06/20/05  
20) O Lucky Man! (1973) Lindsay Anderson 06/27/05 10/23/07
21) The Miracle of Flight (1974) Terry Gilliam 07/04/05  
       Storytime (1968) Terry Gilliam 07/04/05  
22) Secrets (1973) Michael Palin & Terry Jones 07/11/05  
23) Rutland Weekend Television (1975-76) Eric Idle 07/18/05  
24) Out of the Trees (1976) Graham Chapman 07/25/05  
25) The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) Kevin Billington 08/01/05  
26) Time Piece (1965) Jim Henson 08/08/05  
27) The Beatles at Shea Stadium (1966) Dick Fontaine 08/15/05  
28) From the Drain (1967) David Cronenberg 08/22/05  
29) if... (1968) Lindsay Anderson 08/29/05 06/19/07
30) The Milky Way (1969) Luis Buñuel 09/05/05 08/21/07
31) The Bed Sitting Room (1969) Richard Lester 09/12/05  
32) Leo the Last (1970) John Boorman 09/19/05  
33) Castaway (1987) Nicolas Roeg 09/26/05  
34) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Landis/Spielberg/Dante/Miller 10/03/05 10/09/07
35) Someone's Watching Me! (1978) John Carpenter 10/10/05 09/25/07
36) Daughter of Darkness (1990) Stuart Gordon 10/17/05  
37) The Conqueror Worm (1968) Michael Reeves 10/24/05 09/11/07
38) The Devils (1971) Ken Russell 10/31/05  
39) Skeletons in the Closet (1989) Oingo Boingo 11/07/05  
40) The Golden Age of Video (1989) Thomas Dolby 11/14/05  
41) Laurie Anderson: Collected Videos (1990) Laurie Anderon 11/21/05  
42) Urgh! A Music War (1981) Derek Burbidge 11/28/05  
43) Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979) Michael O'Donoghue 12/05/05 01/13/09
44) Police Squad! (1982) Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker 12/12/05 11/07/06
45) Twitch City (1998-2000) Don McKellar 12/19/05 02/20/07
46) Dodes'ka-den (1970) Akira Kurosawa 01/09/06 03/17/09
47) Brewster McCloud (1970) Robert Altman 01/16/06  
48) The Early Works of Albert Brooks (1975-76) Albert Brooks 01/23/06 12/05/06
49) Let It Be (1970) Michael Lindsay-Hogg 01/30/06  
50) Multiple Maniacs (1970) John Waters 02/06/06  
51) M. Butterfly (1993) David Cronenberg 02/13/06  
52) Tristana (1970) Luis Buñuel 02/20/06  
53) Flash Gordon (1980) Michael Hodges 02/27/06 08/07/07
54) The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) Richard Lester & Peter Sellers 03/06/06  
55) The Secret Cinema (1968) Paul Bartel 03/13/06  
56) The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1995) Todd Louiso 03/20/06  
57) Blue (1992) Don McKellar 03/27/06  
58) Forklift Driver Klaus (2000) Stefan Prehn & Jorg Wagner 04/03/06  
59) Two Nudes Bathing (1995) John Boorman 04/10/06  
       I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991) John Boorman 04/10/06  
60) Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) Jim Mallon 04/17/06 05/06/08
61) Shivers (1975) David Cronenberg 04/24/06  
62) Gumby 1 (1995) Art Clokey 05/01/06 04/22/08
63) Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971) Woody Allen 05/08/06  
64) Simon (1980) Marshall Brickman 05/15/06  
65) Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) Arthur Penn 05/22/06  
66) The Cube (1969) Jim Henson 05/29/06  
67) Space Ghost (1966-68) William Hanna & Joseph Barbera 06/05/06 07/17/07
68) The Wrong Box (1966) Bryan Forbes 06/12/06  
69) Royal Flash (1975) Richard Lester 06/19/06 04/03/07
70) Chimes at Midnight (1965) Orson Welles 06/26/06  
71) Reds (1981) Warren Beatty 07/03/06 10/17/06
72) King of the Hill (1993) Steven Soderbergh 07/10/06  
73) Two Men in Manhattan (1959) Jean-Pierre Melville 07/17/06  
74) Nazarin (1959) Luis Buñuel 07/24/06 09/02/08
75) Zabagabee (1987) Barnes & Barnes 07/31/06  
76) Three Men in a Boat (1975) Stephen Frears 08/07/06  
77) Sabotage (1936) Alfred Hitchcock 08/14/06 10/14/08
78) Island of Lost Souls (1933) Erle C. Kenton 08/21/06  
79) The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Jack Gold 08/28/06 05/29/07
80) Personal Services (1987) Terry Jones 09/04/06 01/24/07
81) The Woman in the Window (1944) Fritz Lang 09/11/06 07/10/07
82) The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1988) Dean Parisot 09/18/06  
83) Catch Us If You Can (1965) John Boorman 09/25/06  
84) The Giant Claw (1957) Fred D. Sears 10/02/06 10/16/07
85) How I Won the War (1967) Richard Lester 10/09/06  
86) Invisible Thread (1987) Penn & Teller 10/16/06  
87) Al TV (1989) "Weird Al" Yankovic 10/23/06  
88) The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Val Guest 10/30/06  
89) The Steel Helmet (1951) Samuel Fuller 11/06/06 08/14/07
90) Outlaw of Gor (1989) John "Bud" Carlos 11/13/06  
91) SubUrbia (1996) Richard Linklater 11/20/06  
92) Thieves Like Us (1974) Robert Altman 11/27/06 04/17/07
93) The Tracey Ullman Show (1987-90) Tracey Ullman 12/04/06  
94) Morton & Hayes (1991) Christopher Guest 12/11/06  
95) Sin City Spectacular (1998-99) Penn & Teller 12/18/06  
96) Santa Claus (1959) Rene Cardona 12/25/06  
      39 out of 100

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