Hey there Amoeba, it's Edgar Wright here, director of 'The World's End'
and I am doing What's in the Bag... What's in My Bag, but it's actually what's in my basket.
So the first thing I went for was something that I already own on a digital release
but I saw this fancy box set, which has a bonus CD. This is David Bowie's new album.
His first in ten years.
Bowie's been a big hero of mine since I was a little kid
and I was very pleased when he suddenly came back to earth after a long absence in the wilderness.
Ok, next up, a load of blu-rays. So, 'Pacific Rim' directed by Guillermo del Toro
who is a very good friend of mine. Now this is one of those movies that I saw in the cinema
and whenever there's a great effects movie like this, I want to see how it's made.
And this has, it says, 14 featurettes provide in-depth looks at Kaijus, Jaegers
set stunts, sound effects, and the mythology and making of the film.
Next up, I am a Brian De Palma fan, but I have not seen 'Passion' yet
which didn't get much of a theatrical release. And I have actually...
this is a remake of a French film called 'Love Crime'
which starred Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas.
But I have not seen this De Palma remake, so I am intrigued.
Anything with De Palma and vaguely bisexual murder is gonna be good.
'Madmen' season 6. I have this on my DVR but again, I like physical media.
So I have all the other ones on box set, so I thought I would actually get this.
I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
This is one of my favorite films of the year. This is 'Frances Ha' by Noah Baumbach
starring Greta Gerwig. And I saw this at the movies and I really loved it.
And I like that they go straight to Criterion. No messing about, like 4 months later.
You smoke inside?
Yeah, don't you?
No.
Want to?
Yeah.
This makes me feel like a bad mother in 1987.
Really beautiful film. Really great, sort of reminiscent of
y'know, 70's Woody Allen and really fun. So I'm looking forward to watching this again.
Another one of my favorite films of the year is 'Spring Breakers' which I thought was fantastic.
I think I've always hated the spring break scene so when I saw this movie I was thinking, oh I love this.
It's a complete teardown of that culture.
And I thought James Franco was possibly the best I had ever seen him.
Look at my shit. Look at my shit.
And it was a fantastic Harmony Korine film.
And definitely one of those kind of movies that's kind of like a bag switch
the way they promoted it and what it actually was are two different things.
So I highly recommend this.
This is like an Amicus Anthology film from... I think this one is 1980.
But there's a lot of the seventies anthology films I really liked.
'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Vault of Horror,' 'From Beyond the Grave'
'Asylum,' 'Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.'
I love anthology horror films and this is one of the few ones I've never actually seen.
My name is Aramis. I am a vampire.
I've seen bits of it on TV and it's in a nightclub.
It's called the Monster Club.
I'm always happy to buy any of these anthology horrors.
And then the final thing I bought was in the used book sections.
In my college library, they used to have all three volumes of Danny Peary's 'Cult Movies'
I guess Danny Peary pretty much coined the term 'cult movies.'
It was not as commonplace a term as it is now
and when he brought these books out in the 80s
it was, you know, long essays on movies that were either flops at the time or
had a small but kind of passionate following.
And when I saw this in the library, I would read it from page to page and I would make a list.
And here it is, out of print for $7.99, in good condition.
and now it is my copy. So thank you, Amoeba.