What movie do I buy for DP?

[winnybella]

I am skint this year and so he will be getting just a scarf (if I manage to finish it in time) and a couple of dvds.
He is a cinematographer and into Orson Welles, Jarmush...well, can't think now, but you get the idea...classics.
Does anyone have an idea what could I get him?
Could be even a relatively new movie, as long as it's "classic" in a way, not Die Hard 4 iyswim.

alfred hitchcock boxset

Pan's Labyrinth was excellent, and won several awards for cinematography a couple of years ago.

Coen brothers boxset

www.amazon.co.uk/Coen-Brothers-Collection-Raising-Crossing/dp/B000QJMSGY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qi d=1261127776&sr=8-2

wow that hitchcock collection is an amazing price! Mught get it for myself.

I just went to order it myself...then realised we have it

Oooh, I want to get the Hitchcock boxset- we actually have ordered one from play.com and it never arrived!
Keep the ideas coming!
Coen brothers is good, need to think which ones he has already seen.

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What about some Jimmy Cagney Winny?

Bought this set for DP last year and he loves it.

All movie mad men love Jimmy Cagney!

Coen Brothers also good (but I may be biased ).

Will have a look at James Cagney, I don't think he knows them.
Which Coen ones are best? He has seen Big Lebowski, Fargo, Barton Fink...

In order of my preference

O Brother Where Art Thou
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
No Country for Old Men
Barton Fink
Raising Arizona
The Hudsucker Proxy

Didn't like Burn After Reading or Blood Simple that much.

What about a TV box set? The Sopranos or The Wire could be good? 2 of the best television programmes ever.

Ok, great. Will go and have a look.
I didn't like Burn After Reading that much, either.

The Station Agent
Little Miss Sunshine
24/7
the Visitor
Into The Wild

I'm trying to think of things that he may not have already.

Winny I've just thought, instead of a dvd how about a very cool movie t-shirt that only true movie geeks will 'get'??

I've just bought DP 2 t-shirts for xmas from here and they are very very cool!

You can scroll through my movie name to see if any of his faves are on there.

The Visitor is supposed to be v.good, I think...We have seen the rest, except 24/7- don't know this one?
Cool website, but I think it's too late now as I'm in France, it'll probably not get here in time.
Am going to the movie shop now.
Thank you all!

It's happy family viewing but actually very good!

Gritty British social realism gets the Rocky treatment as a group of working-class no-hopers in rundown 1980s Nottingham learn the value of discipline and commitment through the art of boxing. Bob Hoskins is hugely sympathetic as Alan Darcy, the tough-love coach who drags two opposing gangs of miscreants off the streets and into the gym. Although Darcy hopes to offer his boys more than their usual existence of "taking shit twenty four seven" (i.e. all the time), his plans are soon thwarted by one physically abusive father, a drug-addicted boxer, and interference from the gym's crooked underwriter Ronnie Marsh (Frank Harper).
The feature debut from acclaimed short-film director Shane Meadows, Twenty Four Seven is a good-looking smartly paced parable that skirts around its larger social issues in favour of knockabout humour and neat narrative resolution. Kitchen-sink realism comes courtesy of the silvery black-and-white film stock shot by cinematographer Ashley Rowe, while the relentlessly upbeat mood is aided and abetted by soundtrack tunes from The Charlatans, Paul Weller, Tim Buckley and others. As mentioned, Hoskins does a sterling job as the gentle giant hiding a cauldron of suppressed rage, yet the junior players often blend into an interchangeable amalgam of spunky but anonymous youth. Elsewhere there's some skewed logic in the script (the boys agree to try boxing after missing penalty shoot-outs with Darcy), and some wasted scenes (a trip to Wales becomes an extended musical montage-"and cue Charlatans!"), but generally Meadows has kept his tale engagingly intimate and small-scale. If anything, this leaves you with the feeling this rising director has bitten off only a fraction of what you suspect his talents can chew. --Kevin Maher