I got a, uh, unexpected check in the mail today, and as I don't have any immediate needs, I'd like to get some more DVDs.
As most here know, because I'm deaf--born that way--movies (along with much else, including of course television) have never been any part of my life, until a heart attack floored me and friends got together to make up some method of enabling me to "hear" youtube on the computer.
Okay, so suddenly I got "into" movies.
The deal however is that I have to watch one eight or ten times before I finally "get" it, which is time-consuming, so I have to be selective about what I'm going to watch. Thus far I've had really good luck.
I was familiar with the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia before, but after I got the DVD of it and watched it a few times, I picked up on things heretofore invisible to me. Ditto with the punch-lines in Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas The Mikado and HMS Pinafore. Every time I watch one, even if it's the sixth or seventh time by then, I'm always seeing and "hearing" things I hadn't before.
So.....while I'm still re-watching them to pick up what I'd missed on previous viewings, I've gone through the gamut of DVDs I own--which includes the aforementioned Lawrence, along with the 1970 classic Waterloo and the greatest movie ever made, 1989's La Revolution francaise. And there's 1984's Amadeus and 1983's Peter the Great, 2002's six-hour long Napoleon, and the 1971 six-part BBC series Elizabeth R.
And the 1962 Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason. It's a "heart-warmer," and hence not my favorite sort of thing, but I viewed it for sentimental reasons.
I'm now soliciting suggestions for a few other new movies where DVDs are available for purchase; I prefer the heroic epics (such as Waterloo or Peter the Great and somesuch). Historical accuracy's important to me, personally, but I believe I'm familiar enough with history (of dead white men) that I can accurately see the fiction and non-fiction in a movie.
Any suggestions? This is all a broad unexplored thing for me.