Looking for movies to borrow or otherwise watch

[carbonel]

(sent to my entire friends list, but really mostly meant for locals, I suppose)

Specific movies, that is. For the last (eep!) 12 years, I've been slowly working my way through Leonard Maltin's 4-star movie list, almost exclusively via Netflix rentals. ("Slowly" because I've been alternating it with other stuff -- plus all the current material on my DVR.) I'm now about halfway through the list -- alphabetically, at least, because I suspect the back half of the alphabet contains fewer titles. If anyone's interested, I could post the list here.

But while the availability of movies on the list from Netflix started out a bit thin in 2000 but has increased gratifyingly, there are still a number of movies that just aren't available from there; either they were available once but went out of print, or were never acquired by Netflix for some reason, or were never released on DVD. (Elia Kazan's America, America just came available last year, so I still hold out hope.)

To celebrate finishing through the letter L, I'm posting my "haven't found yet" list here. If anyone has any of these to lend me, in any usable format, I'd be most grateful. I can play DVD and videotape, and for these will borrow Blu-Ray or videodisc as necessary.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
The Big Parade (1925)
Cavalcade (1933)
The Crowd (1928)
Day in the Country, A (1946)
Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
Dead of Night (1945)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
Docks of New York (1928)
Every Man for Himself and God Against All (1975)
For Heaven's Sake (1926)
4 Clowns (1970)
Golden Age of Comedy, The (1957)
Greed (1925)
Harvest (1937)
Innocent, The (1976)
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1964)
La Chienne (1931)
La Traviata (1982)
Lili (1953)
Magic Box, The (1951)
Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
Memory of Justice, The (1976)

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Damn, I came very close to being able to say "I've never even heard of any of those". But then The Magnificent Ambersons turned up. Ah well.

Don't have copies of any of them, anyway, sorry.

[carbonel]

Most of them are pretty obscure -- silent films, foreign films, or compilations.

Lili and The Magnificent Ambersons are the only ones I'd expect someone who's not a film buff to recognize. Possibly there have been rights issues that kept those two from being issued in DVD format. Or lack of interest, I suppose, but that seems unlikely given how many more obscure films have been released in DVD.

I think libraries (and interlibrary loan) are going to be my best bet.