How do you organize your collection?

[Knight42092]

I put my DVDs near my desk in alphabetical order. I do the same with my video games, everyone thinks I'm nuts.

[Disney-Fan]

Well, I recently rearranged mine. Here's my way of sorting 'em out:
I have two shelves. On the top shelf I have Disney animated movies, organized chronologicaly. After them I have the treasures I have (tin cases excluded). After the treasures there is Pixar DVDs organized chronologicaly, and after them Dreamworks in the same way. On the same shelf I continue with any other movie I have in no particular order (unless there's a sequel next to it). On the shelf below I put all my box sets (ex: Spiderman 1+2, Gladiator EE, Star Wars '77-'83). I'll probably move my Xena cases over there once I have more of 'em!

[Escapay]

And also what does NOIR mean when talking about movies?

magicalwands answered the first question, so I'll answer this one.

"Noir" is part of "Film Noir" and was a popular style of filming in the 1940s. It's basically a thriller/mystery that is shot using specific lighting tones and a very bleak kind of storyline, usually murder or gangbusters or all those other things that happen in dark alleys at night. The Maltese Falcon, for one, is considered the quintessential Film Noir.

Fox Film Noir, which I cited, is a line that 20th Century Fox started this year as the banner for many of their film noir movies. In order, they are:

1. Laura (perhaps the best of all the current selections so far)
2. Call Northside 777
3. Panic in the Streets
4. House of Bamboo (the only non-1940s film, it's a Cinemascope and Technicolor picture from 1955)
5. Nightmare Alley
6. The Street With No Name
7. The House on 92nd Street
8. Somewhere in the Night
9. Whirlpool (more a pschological drama than film noir)

December 13 (I think) will bring in:

10. The Dark Corner
11. No Way Out or Kiss of Death (Kiss of Death has been delayed repeatedly, and it may show up in this wave, as it's on pre-order at Amazon, but No Way Out is what is advertised in the promotional booklets in FFN 7-9)
12. Where the Sidewalk Ends (the third Gene Tierney movie in the line, the other two were Laura and Whirlpool)

Escapay