Found a good deal on a movie?

[Knaldskalle]

Yes! Thanks for that coupon, I used it to get Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project.

Another one I'd really like to get my clammy hands on... Maybe some other time.

[funkybusiness]

the complete series of the Golden Girls is like 36 euro on amazon.de. 7 whole seasons. or staffel or whatever. That's crazy. oh and the new Kubrick blu-ray set is 100 us dollars cheaper from amazon.de than amazon.com.

[Melvelet]

My favourite ebay Criterion seller has a lot of really good prices (and they only charge 5 USD for shipping to Europe): http://www.ebay.com/sch/DVDs-Bluray-Dis ... on&_sop=15

[Knaldskalle]

www.deepdiscount.com is having a sale on Criterion titles. From a glance it appears to be around 40-45% off MSRP for most titles.

[Knaldskalle]

Criterion.com is having a 24 hour flash sale: All in-stock titles are 50% off the MSRP.

[Knaldskalle]

Amazon.co.uk seems to have a pretty good sale on select Masters of Cinema Blu-rays and DVDs.

Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (blu-ray) and The Testaments of Dr. Mabuse (dual format) are 5.99 GBP each.
Nosferatu (blu-ray) is 6.99 GBP.

There are probably others that I haven't found yet.

Edit:
Sunrise, A Song of two humans (dual format edition): 5.99 GBP
There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk) (DVD only): 3.99 GBP

I think this is definitely worth checking out for hidden gems.

[funkybusiness]

Amazon.co.uk seems to have a pretty good sale on select Masters of Cinema Blu-rays and DVDs.

Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (blu-ray) and The Testaments of Dr. Mabuse (dual format) are 5.99 GBP each.
Nosferatu (blu-ray) is 6.99 GBP.

There are probably others that I haven't found yet.

Edit:
Sunrise, A Song of two humans (dual format edition): 5.99 GBP
There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk) (DVD only): 3.99 GBP

I think this is definitely worth checking out for hidden gems.

The Lost Weekend Steelbook Edition 5.99
Coeur Fidele 5.99
Phantom/Die Finanzen Des Grossherzogs DVD only 5.99
Tokyo Sonata 7.99
The Passion of Joan of Arc Steelbook 7.99
Island of Lost Souls Steelbook with that wtf cover 5.99
Touch of Evil with like 8 versions of the film 6.99
La signora senze camelie 5.99
The Burmese Harp 5.99
Cleopatra Steelbook 5.99
Pigs & Battleships/Stolen Desire 5.99
Bicycle Thieves 6.75
Naked Island 5.99
Ruggles of Red Cap 7.99
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 7.99
La planete sauvage 6.99

pretty sure they're all 3rd party dealers so. just sayin. good luck on international shipping.

[Knaldskalle]

pretty sure they're all 3rd party dealers so. just sayin. good luck on international shipping.

It also says "Fulfilled by Amazon" on all the ones I've looked at, so international shipping isn't eye-gougingly horrible. Right now I have 4 movies in my "basket" and shipping estimates from UK to US say 6.05 GBP.

[Edit: Hitchcock's Lifeboat Dual Format Limited Edition Steelbook: 5.99 GBP. Must... resist...! Argh!]

[brokenface]

Best Media Group is essentially Eureka I think - they plug the deals on their facebook (been doing them every week or so for a while).

scroll through this to see all of them:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aag/main?ie= ... 0N63WWWJ0E

[funkybusiness]

Best Media Group is essentially Eureka I think - they plug the deals on their facebook (been doing them every week or so for a while).

scroll through this to see all of them:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aag/main?ie= ... 0N63WWWJ0E

World Cinema Foundation Vol.1 for 14.99 dang.

[Knaldskalle]

Arrow Academy seems to have something going on as well (still amazon.co.uk):

Night of the Hunter (blu-ray): 6.50 GBP
The Long Goodbye (blu-ray): 6.75 GBP
Bicycle Thieves (blu-ray): 6.75 GBP
Les Diaboliques (blu-ray): 6.20 GBP

[Pretentious Hipster]

Thanks for the heads up with Masters of Cinema. I decided to get these:

Coeur Fidele
Das Testament Des Dr. Mabuse
The Naked Island
There's Always Tomorrow

[Knaldskalle]

I'm having a really hard time with this... I wan't to spend hundreds of dollars! A lot of these have been on my wishlist for a while, just waiting for the price to drop. Now it suddenly drops on all of them. Argh!

Some of their prices are a little odd. Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (dual format) is 10.99 GBP. Same movie in a limited edition steelbook is 5.99 GBP.
[edit: Actually, the same goes for Lifeboat, regular is 8.99 GBP, steelbook, 6.99 GBP.]

[Knaldskalle]

Alright, after a lot of hemming and hawing, I cut my "basket" down to two, Dr. Mabuse der Spieler and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, both in steelbooks.

It hurt to cut Lifeboat steelbook, Nosferatu and Sunrise, but I've got other movie related expenses coming up this month.

[funkybusiness]

The Ford at Fox boxset [DVD, 24 films] is $55.99 on amazon us. that's 81% off its $300 list.


features these films [Just Pals / The Iron Horse / 3 Bad Men / Four Sons / Hangman's House / Born Reckless / Up the River / Seas Beneath / Doctor Bull / Pilgrimage / Judge Priest / The World Moves On / Steamboat 'Round the Bend / The Prisoner of Shark Island / Wee Willie Winkie / Four Men and a Prayer / Drums Along the Mohawk / Young Mr. Lincoln / The Grapes of Wrath / Tobacco Road / How Green Was My Valley / My Darling Clementine / When Willie Comes Marching Home / What Price Glory] + documentaries and stuff.

[Knaldskalle]

The Ford at Fox boxset [DVD, 24 films] is $55.99 on amazon us. that's 81% off its $300 list.


features these films [Just Pals / The Iron Horse / 3 Bad Men / Four Sons / Hangman's House / Born Reckless / Up the River / Seas Beneath / Doctor Bull / Pilgrimage / Judge Priest / The World Moves On / Steamboat 'Round the Bend / The Prisoner of Shark Island / Wee Willie Winkie / Four Men and a Prayer / Drums Along the Mohawk / Young Mr. Lincoln / The Grapes of Wrath / Tobacco Road / How Green Was My Valley / My Darling Clementine / When Willie Comes Marching Home / What Price Glory] + documentaries and stuff.

*goes to Amazon website to check this out. Catches glimpse of most recent review. Whaaa...?*



(it's clear that she's talking about Judge Priest and Amazon links to it at the top of the page).

[Jay Mars]

The Ford at Fox boxset [DVD, 24 films] is $55.99 on amazon us. that's 81% off its $300 list.


features these films [Just Pals / The Iron Horse / 3 Bad Men / Four Sons / Hangman's House / Born Reckless / Up the River / Seas Beneath / Doctor Bull / Pilgrimage / Judge Priest / The World Moves On / Steamboat 'Round the Bend / The Prisoner of Shark Island / Wee Willie Winkie / Four Men and a Prayer / Drums Along the Mohawk / Young Mr. Lincoln / The Grapes of Wrath / Tobacco Road / How Green Was My Valley / My Darling Clementine / When Willie Comes Marching Home / What Price Glory] + documentaries and stuff.

*goes to Amazon website to check this out. Catches glimpse of most recent review. Whaaa...?*



(it's clear that she's talking about Judge Priest and Amazon links to it at the top of the page).

If she thinks Judge Priest shows "the truth about race relations," I doubt she has any black friends, let alone many.

[Knaldskalle]

The Ford at Fox boxset [DVD, 24 films] is $55.99 on amazon us. that's 81% off its $300 list.


features these films [Just Pals / The Iron Horse / 3 Bad Men / Four Sons / Hangman's House / Born Reckless / Up the River / Seas Beneath / Doctor Bull / Pilgrimage / Judge Priest / The World Moves On / Steamboat 'Round the Bend / The Prisoner of Shark Island / Wee Willie Winkie / Four Men and a Prayer / Drums Along the Mohawk / Young Mr. Lincoln / The Grapes of Wrath / Tobacco Road / How Green Was My Valley / My Darling Clementine / When Willie Comes Marching Home / What Price Glory] + documentaries and stuff.

*goes to Amazon website to check this out. Catches glimpse of most recent review. Whaaa...?*



(it's clear that she's talking about Judge Priest and Amazon links to it at the top of the page).

If she thinks Judge Priest shows "the truth about race relations," I doubt she has any black friends, let alone many.

The whole "review" is just absurd. Both Judge Priest and its remake, Under the Sun, are clearly patronizing towards black people (I'm hesitant to say racist since I can't tell if it's meant to depict "conditions as they were" or if it genuinely shares the sentiment), so if this is what "race relations are really like" in the South things are worse than I thought... I won't bother getting into the (even more problematic) remainder of her review.

[Knaldskalle]

Amazon.com is selling the Criterion Collection Zatoichi 25-movie box set for $98 today only. It's the lowest price I've seen, and I'm terribly tempted...

[edit: Now with link.]

[Knaldskalle]

Amazon.co.uk is selling Artificial Eye's 5 disc blu-ray box set The Satyajit Ray Collection for 19.99 GBP. The set contains The Big City (Mahanagar), The Lonely Wife (Charulata), The Coward (Kapurush) and The Hero (Nayak), all supposedly in a very good quality, but a barebones release (no extras worth talking about). It's Region B-locked.

[edit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Satyajit-Ra ... B00ID50V1W]

[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

Amazon.com is selling the Criterion Collection Zatoichi 25-movie box set for $98 today only. It's the lowest price I've seen, and I'm terribly tempted...

[edit: Now with link.]

Oh, I missed this post.
I'm definitely getting this sooner or later.

[monty]

Amazon.com is selling the Criterion Collection Zatoichi 25-movie box set for $98 today only. It's the lowest price I've seen, and I'm terribly tempted...

[edit: Now with link.]

Oh, I missed this post.
I'm definitely getting this sooner or later.

Damn, I missed it too. Did you go for it , knalds?

[brokenface]

Amazon.co.uk is selling Artificial Eye's 5 disc blu-ray box set The Satyajit Ray Collection for 19.99 GBP. The set contains The Big City (Mahanagar), The Lonely Wife (Charulata), The Coward (Kapurush) and The Hero (Nayak), all supposedly in a very good quality, but a barebones release (no extras worth talking about). It's Region B-locked.

[edit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Satyajit-Ra ... B00ID50V1W]

Ooh thanks! I've been waiting for that one to drop a little, has stubbornly remained around £30 since release. At 20 I can justify it to myself Very much hoping they will bring out a port of Criterion's remastered Apu trilogy.


Some other Artificial Eye boxes I noticed at good price on DVD (the Carax has a bluray version but 7* the price, the Rohmer's aren't greatest picture quality but okay):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Leos-Carax- ... 00NGJPVSI/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Four-Seas ... 0006VXFGE/

and Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mizoguchi-Colle ... B006WPC29O
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Anto ... 00OP9CPXM/

Also a very good price for any Imamura fans:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IMAMURA-MASTERP ... 013GM4KDG/

[funkybusiness]

good deals on the ray and the mizoguchi. I remember that mizoguchi being closer to 40 or 50 last I looked.

and I hadn't heard about the Imamura set. looks real nice.

[brokenface]

and I hadn't heard about the Imamura set. looks real nice.

It's a reissue really as they've all been released individually before. but a neat way to get them all together.

[funkybusiness]

two pre-order deals:

The Apu Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition, the new amazing looking restorations, list price one hundred, $49.99 pre-order.

The Jonas Mekas set from Kino that I mentioned the other day, featuring Lost, Lost, Lost, Walden and six (or seven?) short films (and audio commentaries from Mekas) went down in price today to $29.99!

both have a release date of Nov. 17.

[Knaldskalle]

Amazon.com is selling the Criterion Collection Zatoichi 25-movie box set for $98 today only. It's the lowest price I've seen, and I'm terribly tempted...

[edit: Now with link.]

Oh, I missed this post.
I'm definitely getting this sooner or later.

Damn, I missed it too. Did you go for it , knalds?

Naw, I had my eyes on another couple of titles and couldn't justify the cost.

Barnes & Noble usually has a Criterion sale close to Christmas (November?) with the titles at 50% off MSRP - and if you scour the web you can lower the price even further with coupons (and if you're a member of B&N you can get it even lower). I read about people buying the set for something like $79 total. Trying to figure out if I can somehow manage that.

[Knaldskalle]

Amazon.co.uk is right now selling Faust, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu for less than 10 GBP each on blu-ray. I snagged Faust for 8.73 GBP and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for 9.73 GBP. Nosferatu can be had for 9.73 GBP.

[brokenface]

I really want their Caligari release. But spent a lot on blus lately, so might have to hold off

elsewhere I spotted the BFI Robbe-Grillet boxset at a good price (£27.75): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alain-Robbe-Gri ... 00I5QVSVG/

also they got a 3 for £20 and a 2 for £10. both have a few good Arrow titles (amongst many others):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... ords=arrow
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... ords=arrow

I got the Koyaanisqatsi+Powaqqatsi set and Naked City (along with Black Narcissus) plus Day of the Dead (& Grand Budapest Hotel). £30 all in

[Knaldskalle]

I really want their Caligari release. But spent a lot on blus lately, so might have to hold off

elsewhere I spotted the BFI Robbe-Grillet boxset at a good price (£27.75): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alain-Robbe-Gri ... 00I5QVSVG/

also they got a 3 for £20 and a 2 for £10. both have a few good Arrow titles (amongst many others):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... ords=arrow
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... ords=arrow

I got the Koyaanisqatsi+Powaqqatsi set and Naked City (along with Black Narcissus) plus Day of the Dead (& Grand Budapest Hotel). £30 all in

That's a pretty good deal. If I hadn't just blown my monthly allotment on the two silents, I'd most likely try Black Sabbath, Blanche and then perhaps Bicycle Thieves. Or Young and Innocent by Hitchcock, even though it's not very good.

Some of those inclusions are weird, though. "Warm Bodies" (whatever that is) is 5.70 GBP. Buy 3 for 20?

[funkybusiness]

I just saw this release on dvdbeaver and somehow hadn't heard of it until rightnow

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_ ... lu-ray.htm

and if you head on over to flicker alley's website you can order it for $45 buuut for $80 you can get both it and the Unseen Cinema boxset which alone is 20 hours of a-g! (dvd only on the Unseen Cinema) http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview ... _garde.htm

[Knaldskalle]

Barnes & Noble has it's semiannual Criterion Collection sale: 50% off MSRP on all titles. If you're a member you can get an additional 10% off in-store-only and there are (both member and non-member) coupons floating around as well.

[Knaldskalle]

On top of the 50% off Criterion titles, B&N has just started accepting online Black Friday coupons for an additional 30% off one item. The code is 30BFRIDAY. The coupon is valid from NOW until 11/29/2015. That's up to 65% off Criterion titles...

Apparently the coupon is reusable, but I haven't tried that (it's supposed to be a one shot deal, but B&N seems to have messed up their system).

[Lonewolf2003]

On top of the 50% off Criterion titles, B&N has just started accepting online Black Friday coupons for an additional 30% off one item. The code is 30BFRIDAY. The coupon is valid from NOW until 11/29/2015. That's up to 65% off Criterion titles...

Apparently the coupon is reusable, but I haven't tried that (it's supposed to be a one shot deal, but B&N seems to have messed up their system).

Thanks. Apu trilogy is now (also) coming my way.

[Knaldskalle]

On top of the 50% off Criterion titles, B&N has just started accepting online Black Friday coupons for an additional 30% off one item. The code is 30BFRIDAY. The coupon is valid from NOW until 11/29/2015. That's up to 65% off Criterion titles...

Apparently the coupon is reusable, but I haven't tried that (it's supposed to be a one shot deal, but B&N seems to have messed up their system).

Thanks. Apu trilogy is now (also) coming my way.

With the additional 30% off that suddenly becomes a very reasonable ~$35, down from $99.99. Not bad.

[Kasparius]

I bought Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead and Red River on Blu Ray.

[funkybusiness]

I bought Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead and Red River on Blu Ray.

I also bought all of those (and some others). Red River comes with the novel! too bad for all the whining (read: lower sales, mostly from institutions(?)) that stopped Criterion from producing dual formats or we'd have even more novels with releases.

[Knaldskalle]

I bought Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead and Red River on Blu Ray.

I also bought all of those (and some others). Red River comes with the novel! too bad for all the whining (read: lower sales, mostly from institutions(?)) that stopped Criterion from producing dual formats or we'd have even more novels with releases.

The problem was, I think, that Criterion priced the dual format sets at the higher blu-ray price point, which ticked off the DVD buyers and the people who buy blu-rays didn't want the DVD.

In the UK dual-format seems to be the norm, most of my Eureka blus are dual format and it seems most Arrow titles are dual as well.

[funkybusiness]

I bought Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead and Red River on Blu Ray.

I also bought all of those (and some others). Red River comes with the novel! too bad for all the whining (read: lower sales, mostly from institutions(?)) that stopped Criterion from producing dual formats or we'd have even more novels with releases.

The problem was, I think, that Criterion priced the dual format sets at the higher blu-ray price point, which ticked off the DVD buyers and the people who buy blu-rays didn't want the DVD.

In the UK dual-format seems to be the norm, most of my Eureka blus are dual format and it seems most Arrow titles are dual as well.

yeah, dvd buyers didn't want to pay 5-10 dollars more per title (and if you're an institution buying dozens or hundreds of copies, that adds up) and the blu-ray copy that wouldn't be available for lending (probably junked) and bluray buyers were little babies crying about receiving coasters they were never going to use.

from criterion's pov, dual format should have been great. you only have to make one product, cutting costs literally in half and saving immensely on storage and shipping costs, you can up the number of titles produced and introduce a wider array of films, ie Tootsie. all of this failed miserably and so we're stuck with shitty movies like Mulholland Dr. in glorious single format releases.

[Lonewolf2003]

I also bought all of those (and some others). Red River comes with the novel! too bad for all the whining (read: lower sales, mostly from institutions(?)) that stopped Criterion from producing dual formats or we'd have even more novels with releases.

The problem was, I think, that Criterion priced the dual format sets at the higher blu-ray price point, which ticked off the DVD buyers and the people who buy blu-rays didn't want the DVD.

In the UK dual-format seems to be the norm, most of my Eureka blus are dual format and it seems most Arrow titles are dual as well.

yeah, dvd buyers didn't want to pay 5-10 dollars more per title (and if you're an institution buying dozens or hundreds of copies, that adds up) and the blu-ray copy that wouldn't be available for lending (probably junked) and bluray buyers were little babies crying about receiving coasters they were never going to use.

from criterion's pov, dual format should have been great. you only have to make one product, cutting costs literally in half and saving immensely on storage and shipping costs, you can up the number of titles produced and introduce a wider array of films, ie Tootsie. all of this failed miserably and so we're stuck with shitty movies like Mulholland Dr. in glorious single format releases.

I never understood the point of the dual format either. I just want the blu-ray, don't care about the dvd. Does anybody? And for the people that just want the dvd, the price are always pretty high for dvds compared the only dvds.