I'd Buy That DVD for...Somewhere in the Neighborhood of $5

There’s a “Cheap DVDs” thread, but it died four years ago, also a “Rolling I’d Buy That for a Dollar” thread from 2008, but I guess that one ran up against the dollar-records thread. The last two or three years has been a great time for buying discounted DVDs, as companies seemingly make the slow transition over to Blu-ray. (I’ve never really been clear on what’s going on there.) So if you find anything worthwhile for $5 or thereabouts, post about it here.

All of these were $5 at a local flea market I scour once every few weeks:

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Phil Kaufman’s sort-of first film)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Boyz n the Hood (two discs)
The Wicker Man (original, Anchor Bay)

Also bought the first season of Room 222 for $12. The less said about such abject nostalgia the better.

I thought the Great Northfield Minnesota Raid was inferior to the Long Riders myself.

Walmart has $3 bins that are so big that you almost have to climb into them to reach stuff. Considering much of Walmart's local demographic, it's like bringing dumpster-diving indoors. I've never seen anything in them I'd climb in for, though.

Northfield is the only one of the four I haven't yet seen. As the Room 222 purchase indicates, I'm much more inclined to buy second-tier stuff from the '70s than from any other decade.

Those Wal-Mart bins are ridiculous! I even spoke to someone there once, suggesting that it's not a great incentive to buy when you're afraid of causing a major catastrophe if you dislodge one DVD too many.

I'm upset that Warner Bros. has put a moratorium on a large chunk of their catalog titles, probably so they can start selling them through the WB Store at a higher price in that piddly DVD-R format. I was having fun buying them in 3-packs for $5 at Big Lots.

Recently acquired for $4 each from a local rental store going OOB:

Kicking and Screaming (Criterion)
3 Women (Criterion)
Paris is Burning
Eating Raoul
Showgirls (but it skips, boo)
All About Eve
something else I can't remember

3 Women for $4? Wow--that's like just over a dollar per woman. Seriously, that's a great deal. All I have is an old VHS I taped off Bravo...which I've still never watched, for some reason.

Got these for $5 each from a guy who always has a great table of still-sealed DVDs at Toronto record shows.

The Tomorrow Show: Punk & New Wave
The Tomorrow Show: John, Paul, Tom & Ringo
You Bet Your Life: The Lost Episodes
Woodstock (2-disc director's cut)
Big Brother & the Holding Co.: Nine Hundred Nights
Helter Skelter (have no idea how this will look today; I was right into it when it played on TV in the mid-'70s)
2001: A Space Odyssey (2 discs)

King of Comedy ($5)
Targets ($5)

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry ($0.99)

I already have the Kerry film, but I bought two copies for future gifts. It's not like one of those campaign books that are embarrassments a year later--it's actually a really good film.

(Kenneth) Mars Attack today @ Big Lots w/Desperate Characters (I'm also still in possession of my Netflix copy) & What's Up Doc? for $3 apiece.

I've got a bag or two of similar Big Lots bargain discs acquired over the past several months. And if I had wanted to spend the money today, I could have also picked up Getting Straight (Elliot Gould/Candice Bergen college movie--anybody rep for it?), The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T and a bunch of Sony Pictures Classics titles for the same price.

These were from a Blockbuster buy-2-get-1-free sale, so they cost $14 together:

The Beaches of Agnes
The Great Happiness Space
Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times/5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris

$5 each at a discount store:

Disclosure (for shame, for shame--one of my favourite pieces of unmitigated junk ever)
2010: The Year We Make Contact (not crazy about the original, so this makes a lot of sense)
Erin Brockovich (never seen it)
Anne Frank Remembered (should be useful in class)
The MLB Cubs box set--eight games, eight discs, including the wild 12-11 game from '84 where Sandberg won it in extras with his second home run of the day. I remember watching that game on Saturday afternoon.

Just noticed C. Grissom's query about Getting Straight. I watched it a couple of years ago and thought it was the most hopelessly dated kind of early-'70s "New Hollywood" film. And I have a very high tolerance for almost anything in that vein.

Canadian Blockbusters started liquidating on Friday. Didn't realize this had started till today, so I got a two-day late start. I hit the two close to home this afternoon; if I can remember where they all are, there are at least another six reasonably close. Everything's 30% off to start, so all of these were just under $5:

I'm Still Here (most acclaimed film since Otto Preminger's Skidoo!)
All the Real Girls (I saw this when it came out, sort of stayed in my mind ever since)
Please Give (I thought Lovely & Amazing was pretty good)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Strangely Creepy Old Man
Punch-Drunk Love (two discs)
When the Levees Broke (two discs, easily the best thing I found today)

I also bought The Social Network for $7--controversial, inspired a long ILX thread.

I passed on the 160-minute Carlos; having seen the full six hours, the abridged version doesn't hold much appeal for me. Sadly, someone beat me to the second Spike Lee Katrina film.

Felt sorry for the girl at the first store. She was the only person working (maybe someone was on a break). She had to handle cash, field questions, deal with people like me who brought a bunch of unpriced stuff up that had to be scanned before we made up our minds, manipulate all those unwieldy plastic cases, etc. When the guy in front of me commiserated, she mumbled a very terse "They don't pay me enought for this." I'm sure they never did--it's just much worse now.

Blockbuster kind of mastered the art of understaffed stores--->shitty employee treatment. I've avoided their liquidations partially because of the scenario you've mentioned, and also because I'd be tempted into buying too much stuff. Well, and also the fact that I'm pretty sure the stuff I'd have no problem buying (IFC exclusives), probably have already headed out the back door and on to Amazon for $20 & rising.

Anyway, back to the thread topic. Half-Price Books is doing a extra 20% off sale this weekend. I picked up very gently used copies (still had all the inserts) of Our Man Flint, In Like Flint & Modesty Blaise for $4 each. While talking to a friend on the phone later, I checked the titles on Amazon and found out they were all now OOP (although the Flints are now exclusive to a in-print combo pack), with used copies of Modesty going for $20+ and new ones starting @ $30. My friend--a big Joseph Losey fan--commented that Modesty wasn't a film you spent that much for.

Bought

The Song Remains The Same (2 DVD remastered) - concert footage better than I remembered. The playacting still sucks.
BBC Sherlock Holmes w/ Peter Cushing ( 4 "long lost" episodes - Cushing was a cool Holmes though played a little too sweet and understanding compared to J. Brett)

both $6 each.

It sure didn't take long for those Blockbusters to get picked clean; the shelves are almost bare 10 days into the sale. They're down to 50% off, so these were $4 or $5:

Client #9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer[/i]
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (the Gibney documentary)
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
The Sweet Hereafter
Mean Creek

Mean Creek's the only one I haven't seen yet. I expect they'll go to 75% next week, as they try to clear out whatever's left--Police Academy 6, Christmas with the Kranks, The Godfather III, etc.

These ones were 4/$10:

Bulworth -- I cringed a lot when I saw it on release, but I realize that (sometimes, anyway) I was supposed to cringe. I'll give it another try one night.
Till the Clouds Roll By
Beat Street
Slaughter -- The Jim Brown film...Got home, discovered I already had it (with a bunch of other blaxploitation titles in the "Soul Cinema" series). This is the third time this has happened in the past couple of weeks; I also recently bought redundant sale copies of Mulholland Dr. and The Sweet Hereafter.

These were $5 each:

Act of God -- Jennifer Baichwal's documentary on people who've been struck by lightning. I didn't think it was as good as it could have been, but it's G-rated, so I might get some use out it in class.
Nerakhoon -- Looks good: http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-11-19/film/the-betrayal-nerakhoon-offers-a-phantasmagoria-of-wartime-indochina/.
High Art -- Doesn't look like my kind of thing, but a friend recently listed it as one of his 50 favourite films on a countdown we're doing.
The Rainmaker -- Aaargh...see Slaughter.
Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy
The Wild Child

Spielberg's "War Of The Worlds" (Special edition/Widescreen) $3.75

"Renegade" (aka "Blueberry" - sort of fun and eyepopping yet sorta terrible Acid Western. Based on Moebius comics series. Starring Vincent Cassell, Eddie Izzard, Michael Madsen... Yep.) $3.00

Thank you, Half.com

Weekend before last, Big Lots-

$3:

Storefront Hitchcock
Prizzi's Honor
Macon County Line
Kentucky Fried Movie

$5:

John Wayne: The Franchise Collection (budget bundle from Universal; contains Seven Sinners (w/Dietrich), The Shepherd of The Hills (Wayne as a moonshiner), Pittsburgh (w/Dietrich & Randolph Scott), The Conqueror (oh yeah), & Jet Pilot (a semi-legendary nutso anti-commie feature helmed by Hughes/Von Sternberg, co-staring Janet Leigh as a comely Russian pilot/spy--Truffaut paraised it in The Films In My Life)).

"Renegade" (aka "Blueberry" - sort of fun and eyepopping yet sorta terrible Acid Western. Based on Moebius comics series. Starring Vincent Cassell, Eddie Izzard, Michael Madsen... Yep.) $3.00

O_o

C. Grissom -- I've got the Gary Cooper and Bela Lugosi equivalents of your John Wayne collection:

http://www.amazon.ca/Cooper-Collection-Design-Ibbetson-General/dp/B0007RTB9M/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1309792389&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.ca/Lugosi-Collection-Murders-Morgue-Invisible/dp/B0009X770E/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1309792481&sr=1-1

This Film Noir one is great if you can still find it. My local Target had them in its giant budget dvd bin a year ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Film-Noir-Movie-Pack/dp/B0006Z2NS6

Not technically the same series, but definitely a good collection. I like The Strange Love of Martha Ivers a lot. Is the quality okay, though? With a collection like this--unlike the "Franchise" series, which is put out by Universal (or whoever owns the Universal catalogue)--you never know what the quality will be like.

Quality varies from film to film but "Detour" looks fantastic as do "The Stranger" and "The Hitchhiker". Well worth getting cheap.

The Sears outlet store by me put out a bunch of interesting stuff at 4/$10, and I kind of went crazy.

Didn't realize I had these already: My Kid Could Paint That, Hannah and Her Sisters, Novocaine, Cooley High

Bought these a second time intentionally: Coming Home, Cisco Pike (bought that one full price on Amazon a couple of years ago)

Woodypalooza: Broadway Danny Rose, Alice, The Purple Rose of Cairo, A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy (like the first, will likely never watch the others; passed up Scoop)

Old Stuff: Casanova's Big Night, The Gay Divorcee, Cimarron, The Ugly American, He Walked by Night, Killer's Kiss, The Curse of Frankenstein/Taste the Blood of Dracula (Hammer), The Jackie Robinson Story, Suddenly, Pride of the Yankees, Storm Warning, Made for Each Other (the Jimmy Stewart one--wish it were Joseph Bologna/Renee Taylor instead)

Newer: Eight Men Out, Fired!, Married to the Mob, The Saddest Music in the World, She's Gotta Have It, Singles, Shakespeare Behind Bars, Vernon, Florida

Because I like the '70s: Two-Minute Warning

Because Madchen Amick's in it: Dream Lover

When I went back today to get The Love God with Don Knotts, it was gone. This broke my heart.

Same 4/$10 sale as above:

Reagan: Knute Rockne All American, The Winning Team, The Hasty Heart. The Winning Team, a bio of Grover Cleveland Alexander, is one of the first half-dozen films I can remember watching as a kid.

Other old stuff: Flying Down to Rio, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, Something to Sing About, Allegheny Uprising.

Plus: The Big Bounce (1970, Ryan O'Neal, Get Shorty before Get Shorty), Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, The Tomorrow Show: Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show (Kesey/Leary/Wolfe/Grateful Dead), Copycat.

At home, I far prefer watching junk I've already seen to anything that requires thought and attention, so the only thing I've (re)watched so far is Copycat. Was surprised to see Laszlo Kovacs did the cinematography.

I just learned Kovacs did Say Anything... Cinematographers have the most strangely diverse careers in the movie. Kovacs had a bunch of romcoms later on as did Sven Nyquivst.

Big Lots, this afternoon, $3 apiece:

Go
Brick
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (original)
A Man For All Seasons (Hello again, Mr. Shaw...)
Too Late The Hero
Roadie

I limited myself to spending $20, so I had to put back Snow Angels (which was actually a resealed rental copy as opposed to a remaindered sealed edition normal for the chain), Sex and Death 101 (sorry Winona) and the 3rd season of Strangers With Candy, all which were also $3 a throw.

My friend hit up another location last week and found Petulia for $3, and the deluxe Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for $5.

Gazuntite!

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/06/06/alg_pelham4a.jpg

More from the 4/$10 place last week:

Old -- Rancho Deluxe (wrote a bit about this on the Jeff Bridges thread), Let's Do It Again, Starman, Marooned, and Starting Over (watched this last night...sort of okay for a while, then awful; for Pakula to go from All the President's Men to this in the space of four years is as sad in its way as all the other '80s horrors stories)

Older -- Father of the Bride, The Fountainhead, Platinum Blonde (don't think I knew this was Capra), and a double Three Stooges: Gold Raiders and Meet the Baron

Junk -- Jennifer 8, Taking Lives, Blood and Wine (Bob Rafelson and Nicholson, undoubtedly bad)

Recent (more or less) -- Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, don't remember it), 2:37, The Sea Inside, Vera Drake, The Fountain (Darren Arnofsky, don't remember it), Anything Else, Wag the Dog

Documentary -- The Cutting Edge (about editing--not Visions of Light, but not bad)

I just got back from an unfamilier supermarket, where I found a sealed copy of the Kino edition of Jamaica Inn mixed in w/a bunch mexican movies & direct-to-dvd indie stuff for $2.99.

4/$10 yet again:

They Died with Their Boots On, The Helen Morgan Story, The Princess and the Pirate, Cheaper by the Dozen, 3 Godfathers (presumably much better than Godfather III), White Heat (best film in the haul)

The Love God?, The McKenzie Break, A Little Romance, True Confessions (remember it as deadly dull the one time I saw it years ago), Streamers (probably the best find)

Family Business, Backbeat, Boiler Room, Gangster No. 1, Unprecedented (documentary on the 2000 election--never heard of it), Dick (a friend loves this; I liked Election much better), The Company (Altman), The Company (TV mini-series about the CIA)

Also a couple of MLB productions on the 2009 series and famous Red Sox moments.

4/$10: King Kong (1933 original, two discs), King Kong ('70s remake--Kael liked it), The Out of Towners (original; must have seen this half-a-dozen times before I was 15), The Producers (original, two discs--have never seen it).

2/$10: The Shining and Twister, two discs each.

Haven't done much cheapo dvd shopping lately, but last week I got the two disc of Elvis: That's The Way It Is plus Waking Life (both sealed new copies) from Half-Price for about $5 each. Also scored $5 copies of Young Frankenstein, Halloween, Rocky Horror Picture Show and An American Werewolf In London (the last a two disc-er) from Wal Mart as part of a Halloween sale.

Wow, was just checking on Amazon, and found another (albeit used) $5 item from my Half-Price trip, Lina Wertmuller's Love & Anarchy, is going from $19.97 used.

dudes i have a billion dvds i want to get rid of, would anyone want me to list them here? lots in their original packaging too. was trying to figure out how to unload them

List away. Be forewarned: my artistic standards go up a bit in a private sale, but I remain just as cheap.

List!

k will do later today!

I also have interest in ur day vay days

s1ocki?

Anyhoo, was out today and stopped by Big Lots, where amongst seemingly endless assortment of x-mas movies I emerged with:

$3 Each-

The Squid and the Whale
Up In Smoke (Collector's Edition)
An Almost Perfect Affair (MONICA VITTI)
Pink Cadillac

$5-

There Will Be Blood (2-disc)

Forgot about this thread.

These ones were from the 4/$10 place: Electra Glide in Blue, Divided We Fall, Bitter Victory, Towelhead, Angel Unchained/Cycle Savages, A Day at the Races, Basket Case, Tarnation, The Limits of Control, The Tempest (Cassavetes), American Pimp (outtakes from the documentary, plus a CD of period music), The Cotton Club, Avalon, The Spirit of St. Louis.

$5 each: Cabaret, Brick, Black Gunn, A Clockwork Orange (two discs), City for Conquest/"G" Men/Each Dawn I Die/White Heat (TCM), An Unreasonable Man (Nader documentary--very good).

Towelhead sucks. Some interesting ideas all run into the ground via Alan Ball Overdrive.

I've got another bag from Big Lots around here somewhere. Ah, here it is! They had a bunch of MGM catalog stuff on for $1.88 Black Friday weekend. Got The Grissom Gang & The Indian Runner while combing the stacks the following Monday. I also picked up Career Opportunities, Safe Men A Fine Madness and Modern Romance for $3 apiece.

Picked up new copies of The Passing Show-The Life & Music of Ronnie Lane ($4) & "The Complete M-Squad w/Lee Marvin" (15 discs-$16) @ Half-Price during the year-end sale.

Got the 2-disc 70th anniversary Wizard of Oz for $4 @ Wal-Mart.

Finally, Discs found in Strange Places:

The President's Analyst-$4 @ Staples, the office supply store.
The Late Show-$3 @ Ross, the clothing & housewares store. I also got a pair of New Balance cleats in my size for 49 cents.

Yeah, Towelhead was pretty crude (and I love American Beauty). I think we're finding things that fell off the back of the same truck: The Grissom Gang, Modern Romance, The President's Analyst, and the MGM stuff all turn up here, too.

What else? 4/$10: Ghost Dog, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, The Haunting (Robert Wise original), A New Kind of Love (Paul Newman--never heard of it), Adventures of Don Juan, For Your Consideration, The Fog ('70s). Also Ultimate Gretzky, even though I don't think I've watched a hockey game since 1994.

A different Big Lots:

$1.88- Vernon, Florida
$3.00- Lookin' To Get Out! "Extended Version"

There were some other things I passed on because they had multiples upon multiples. I think they got in a new shipment of MGM & Warner cast-offs.

Definitely the same truck--the place I go to always has a couple of copies of Vernon, Florida. Keep an eye open for The King of Kong and My Kid Could Paint That.

$3 each: After Hours, The Statement, An Education, Half Nelson, Synecdoche New York, The Animation Show.

4/$10: Never So Few (Sinatra), Frost Nixon, Fail Safe (recent TV version), The Story of Seabiscuit, John Q., In America.

$1: The Bronx Is Burning. (Three episodes into this. Hard to get past John Turturro's pinned-back ears, but it's almost okay...or least the bits of real footage are great.)

$3 for The Brown Bunny from Goodwill some weeks back. Haven't watched it yet.

Big $2.99 sale at Home Hardware. That's where all serious film people shop, right?

Superman: The Theatrical Serials Collection, Vols. 1-4 (not George Reeves--had never heard of this)
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Loud Quiet Loud: A Film About the Pixies
Everything Is Nice (Matador video anthology)
Andersonville (Frankenheimer TV film)
The Apartment
Borat
The Wedding Singer
Spanglish (as much as I love Broadcast News, not expecting much)
Young Doctors in Love (don't ask)
The Messenger
Rounders, The Squid and the Whale (cheap gifts for the future)

$5 each at a record show on the weekend:

There Will Be Blood (two discs)
The Dirty Dozen (two discs)
Doctor Zhivago (two discs)
Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who ("Including All-New Interviews with Rock Icons Sting, Eddie Vedder, and The Edge"...I bought it anyway)

Big $2.99 sale at Home Hardware. That's where all serious film people shop, right?

Big Lots! Where I picked up my There Will Be Blood!

Young Doctors in Love (don't ask)

Avoiding a perfectly good Garry Marshall joke.

Young Doctors in Love (don't ask)

ooh! i bought this for around $5 some years ago but never got around to watching it, and it didn't survive our last house-move.

Kimberly McArthur. (Hangs head shamefully.)

Big Lots keeps getting mentioned in this thread. We don't have them up here, but it sounds like our equivalent might be Giant Tiger.

Speaking of...

My first Big Lots in yoinks. They've gotten what appears to be a whole new set of stock, including at least 30 copies each of Me and Orson Welles and Greenberg for $3 apiece. However, for $3 I just take home their only copy of this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81PTwRfuFTL._AA1500_.jpg

Which looks to be the Best Worst Thing Ever, but will probably will just be a thundering mediocrity.

I also got a $3 copy of Ingmar Bergman's memoir Images: My Life In Film from the book table.

Went back to that Home Hardware today and found something excellent ($2.99):

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/2250/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome_dvd.jpg

I'd completely forgotten about that show. The Flintstones notwithstanding, the obvious blueprint for The Simpsons and The Family Guy. Also got Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan, a documentary on Jack Clement.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/2250/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome_dvd.jpg

The half-dozen places I monitor don't seem to change their stock much these days, so this is two months' worth.

$5 -- Save the Tiger, It, Animal House (2 discs), The Poseidon Adventure (2 discs), Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned, The Bible, Patton (2 discs), Ray (2 discs), Bellissima, Satan Never Sleeps, Terminator 2: Judgement Day (2 discs), Alexander (2 discs), Film Socialisme, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Shoot the Moon, Poetry, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2 discs). (For someone who hardly ever looks at extras, I'll buy just about anything if it's two discs.)

$4 -- Rain Man

$3 -- Laurel Canyon, Wild Things (for shame)

4/$10 -- Four Friends, The Door in the Floor, Bull Durham, The Robe, Curse of the Golden Flower, The Stranger Wore a Gun, War of the Worlds (Spielberg), The Sure Thing, Nurse Betty, The Great Ziegfeld, House of Wax/Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Philadelphia Story, Ocean's 11 (Sinatra), Sweet Bird of Youth, The Plainsman.

$2 -- Fruit of the Vine (skateboarders).

So far I've watched It, The Door in the Floor (weird--reminded me a bit of The Squid and the Whale, though not nearly as good), and, for the 900th time, Save the Tiger (a test case for how much early-'70s pretension you can stand). Started and abandoned Four Friends and Alexander.

(10,000th post. I was hoping that when I looked up from the computer, there'd be a receiving line of wiseguys telling me I'd broke my cherry.)

ooh - anything good on the second disk of animal house? i have the original special edition from years back, on one disk

Seeing this revive reminded me I hadn't even busted the shrinkwrap on Passion Play nearly three months after posting about buying it upthread.

So I took the plunge tonight and as I predicted it sadly falls into the "Thundering Mediocrity" category, despite odd moments hinting at "Best Worst Thing Ever".

Fun Facts: It was shot by Christopher Doyle. Bill Murray stepped in for an actor who had to drop out. Solomon Burke has a cameo as himself. While watching, I was questioning the plausibility of some minor details, but then realized that I was questioning logic regarding a film where Megan Fox plays a girl born with bird wings who has sex with Mickey Rourke which grossed $3600 total in the US.--boy was my face red!

They probably just stuck the same Animal House extras onto a second disc to lure people like me, but listed on the cover: "Where Are They Now?", "The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion," and, the real prize, "Scene It?".

The search for Passion Play begins.

ah... thanks clemenza. i think your instincts are correct.

Blu-ray:

The New World (Extended Edition)
Evil Dead 2
$7 each

One of my local "$1 stores" has a spinning rack full of newish flicks for $6. Picked up the the latest "Star Trek" reboot and "Empire Of The Sun". Still...wish they were cheaper : )

Big Lots, $3 each:

River's Edge
Stardust Memories
A Serious Man
All That Jazz "Special Music Edition"

I was cashing out at a Goodwill today, happy with all these British post-war big band albums I had found, and this was sitting underneath the counter for $15:

http://www.myshoptoday.com.au/system/files/imagecache/product_image/0753356_0.jpg

I think it's a slightly later version of the box Amazon sells, this one including 49 Up. Easily one of the best things I've ever found in a lifetime of pack-ratting.

The other day, at Ross the clothing store:

A Star Is Born "Deluxe Edition" two-discer of the Cukor version (first disc is a flipper--why were they still doing this in 2010?) reduced to $3.49.

Yesterday, Big Lots, all $3:

Broncho Billy
Bright Lights, Big City "Special Edition"*
Snow Angels
Grand Prix (already had it, turned it over as a donated door prize at the auto-related event I went to later in the afternoon)

Then a few doors down @ Half-Price Books:

Election/You Can Count On Me "Double Feature" (sealed, $5)
"The Dana Carvey Show" complete series (sealed, $3 "Super Buy")

*Which right now is actually cheaper on Amazon than the earlier pan'n'scan/no extras disc with Fox/Cates/Kiefer on the cover.

whats the best way to sell a lot of dvds / blurays

dudes i have a billion dvds i want to get rid of, would anyone want me to list them here? lots in their original packaging too. was trying to figure out how to unload them
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, November 6, 2011 11:55 PM (9 months ago)

We're still waiting...

ha!!
okay. i will list them i promise.

2/$10:

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (Japanese and U.S. versions--I can study the differences)
Rendition
Lassie Come Home/Son of Lassie/Courage of Lassie (no Abbott & Costello Meet Lassie, unfortunately)
Broken Silence (five Holocaust documentaries, Spielberg connection)
Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop (with music by...Nirvana?)
Curse of the Demon/Night of the Demon (jackpot!)

Election/You Can Count On Me "Double Feature" (sealed, $5)
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:00 PM (3 days ago)

Love both those films. (Took me a second to get the connection, duh.)

Big Lots, $3 each:

Excalibur
Melvin and Howard

4/$10 (used):

Cyrus
Man on the Moon
The Thin Red Line
Crash (two discs--the stodgy one nobody likes)

2/$10

Sunset Boulevard
Battle of the Bulge
Taxi to the Dark Side
Christmas in Connecticut/A Christmas Carol/The Shop Around the Corner/It Happened on 5th Avenue (TCM)

Barnes & Noble, $5:

Reds (2-disc)

They've got a bunch of vintage Paramount stuff in their $5 bin now: the 70s Great Gatsby, collector's edition Chinatown, Ordinary People, Murder on the Orient Express...

Big Lots, normally $3 each except I broke down and "Buzz Club Rewards" card for 20% off, so now they are $2.40 apiece:

The Devil's Rejects "Two-Disc Director's Cut"
Ronin "Collector's Edition" (2-disc)
King Rat
Midnight Cowboy "Collector's Edition" (2-disc)
The Crook "English Subtitles"
Invasion of The Body Snatchers (Kaufman) "Collector's Edition" (2-disc)
The Major and The Minor
The Stranger (Welles) Non-PD edition from MGM/Fox
National Lampoon's Vacation new edition from a couple years ago
Amazon Women on The Moon

I've got the Midnight Cowboy two-disc; didn't know there was one for Body Snatchers. What does "non-PD edition" mean?

$3: Hidden Agenda and Oldboy.
$5: One False Move, A Small Circle of Friends, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Criterion). I doubt I'll ever watch the latter--had zero interest for me when it came out.

It probably means public domain.

Yeah, Public Domain. On the back cover the original copyright is credited not to a studio but to "The Haig Corp." Welles' The Stranger used to pop up in bargain sets with other PD titles like the original DOA, ...Martha Ivers etc., but apparently MGM re-copywrited it in 2007 and put out a bare-bones disc under the "Film Noir" banner.

As for the Invasion... CE, it came out about 10 years after the original disc to grease the wheels for the Kidman/Craig remake. It ports over the Kaufman commentary and adds some technical featurettes ("The Special Effects Pod", "The Cinematography Pod" etc.) plus a new anamorphic widesceen transfer (the old disc was a Pan & Scan/4:3 Letterbox Widescreen flipper).

Well, as part of my shopping experience yesterday, I received a "one-day only" 20% voucher whose one good day was today. So once again I suckle at Big Lot's proverbial teat/crack pipe of cheap dvds. (different location tho)

$2.40 each:

Me & Orson Welles
A Little Help (starring Jenna "Pam from The Office" Fischer and...Dion DiMucci?!)
The Front Page (Billy Wilder version)
Strange Brew
Greenberg
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
I Know Who Killed Me (films like this single-handily justify the existence of bargain bins everywhere) (also includes the special feature "Extended Strip Dance Scene"--did Sony know their audience or what?)

$4:

Wild Things trilogy (that there are two more of these films--albeit barely related direct to dvd jobs--is as much news to me as you)

Saw your post and decided to take my 20% off coupon to my local BL (didn't need it, they were ringing up everybody's stuff at %20 off). Got:

Reno 911: Miami
It's All True (Orson Welles' "lost" movie)
Oleana
Greenburg
Orgazmo

$2.40 each. Had Hostel in hand for $4, but decided I didn't need to see it again.

For some reason, this one discount store in the area that's usually a wasted trip had some good stuff from Universal:

$3: Slaughterhouse-Five, Trick Baby, Your Friends & Neighbors
$5: This Gun for Hire, Black Angel (never heard of it, but there's a quote from Sarris on the back), Marnie, and the American The Man Who Knew Too Much

Also, in the interest of full disclosure, a two-disc Memoirs of a Geisha for $5.

3/$5: American Buffalo, Addicted to Plastic, Alfie (remake)

$3: Light Sleeper, The Lost Room, High Roller, Best Seller. Got through 15 minutes of High Roller before shutting it off. I remembered Best Seller as passable junk--same guy who directed Tarantino favourites Rolling Thunder and The Outfit--but it wasn't all that passable.

$5: Fort Apache, They Were Expendable, The Howling

I only buy DVDs for my kids these days, because they're the only ones who are going to watch them enough to make them worth owning. $5 is my cut-off for them, too, with occasional exceptions. Some recent $5-and-under scores: Coraline, The Iron Giant, The Neverending Story, The Dark Crystal.

I remembered Best Seller as passable junk--same guy who directed Tarantino favourites Rolling Thunder and The Outfit--but it wasn't all that passable.

I think John Fylnn might have been a two-film wonder. Those two films both deserve the high praise tho.

Big Lots, where I combed the picked over racks to seemingly no avail. "Is this the end of me and cheap dvds?"* I thought, before finally landing on the following:

$5: Eight Men Out "20th Anniversary Edition"

$2.88: Charley Varrick (which is full-frame, and probably the only way I'll get to see it until both the film and I go blu someday)

*I found a copy of Jesus' Son for $9. I've never seen a single film that expensive there. It's only about 90 cents more direct from Amazon.

At my local swap meet last Sunday, for $37 (didn't try to bargain):

I'm Not There (that Bob Dylan thing, 2 discs)
The Shiver of the Vampires (Jean Rollin film from 1970)
Altman's Nashville
Helter Skelter (apparently a director's cut of a TV production)
A History Lesson (doc on LA punk in 1984 - Meat Puppets, Redd Kros, Minutemen, Twisted Roots)
The Tomorrow Show Punk and New Wave (2 disc comp of shows from 1977-81)
National Geographic's Taboo season 1

Jesus' Son is a wonderful movie.

That A History Lesson, though... was really disappointed by that.

H-E-B (for the unhip, a Texas grocery store chain) $3.99 each:

The Quiller Memorandum
Halls of Montezuma
The Magus
The Seven-Ups
No Way Out (the Poitier/Widmark/Darnell noir)
The Omen "Collector's Edition" (2 discs in a steelbook)

The price sticker's claim that these are all "previously viewed", but methinks these are really remainders offloaded by Fox and mixed by the store in a dumpbin with a bunch of genuine retired rentals.

BTW if anyone cares, I watched that Charley Varrick disc that evening, and I wonder if it's just open-matte instead of pan'n'scan. IMDB sez it was shot 1.37:1 but protected for 1.85:1 which was the projection AR. It didn't seen very pan'n'scanny with some scenes having major head room.

Something excellent for $5 yesterday: a new copy of Payday, the '72 film with Rip Torn as a washed-up country singer. "36 hours in the life of a madman," according to the cover.

Also, $7 each for new copies: two-disc Howl and Hour of the Wolf.

Payday's a good'un. There's a passage in Guralnick's I Feel Like Going Home wehere he mentions that on separate occasions Waylon Jennings, Johnny Paycheck, and IIRC, either David Allen Coe or Merle Haggard assured him that the film was based on their life and no others.

Over the last several months, at several different Big Lots, pretty much because of this thread:

$5
There Will Be Blood - feature only
A Fish Called Wanda - 2-Disc Collector's Edition

$3
The Graduate
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Brick
Ronin - 2-Disc Collector's Edition
The Big Red One - 2-Disc Special Edition
Wolf Creek
Get Shorty - 2-Disc Collector's Edition
National Lampoon's Vacation
Sweet and Lowdown
Roxanne
True Stories
Species - 2-Disc Collector's Edition
Strange Brew (first thing I saw when I got to the kiosk…)
A Mighty Wind (…last thing I found after twice digging through the dross)
King Kong (Peter Jackson) - 3-Disc Deluxe Extended Edition (<<<< LOL)
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock
Burn After Reading
Do The Right Thing
The Right Stuff
10

$5: An American in Paris, Fort Worth/Colt .45/Tall Man Riding (Randolph Scott), Lost in a Harem/Abbott & Costello in Hollywood

$3: A World Apart, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Sentinel, Antony and Cleopatra (1972)

$2: Dangerous Liaisons, Barton Fink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CNyzdmXhe0

$3

After Hours
Casualties of War
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Carrie - "1970s Decades Collection" (includes a CD with eight 70s tunes on it wtf???)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (!!!!!)

Thanksgiving-

Big Lots, $3.75 each (that day's sale price/promotion):

Mad Max "Special Edition"
All The Right Moves

Toys R Us, $1.00:

Funny Bones

Black Friday evening @ a different Big Lots-

$1.88:

Experiment In Terror (perhaps the find of the evening--disc must have been sitting in some wherehouse, has been OOP for ages and goes for $25+ on Amazon)
Heartbeeps
La Chamade ("Heartbeat") (late 60s Francoise Sagan adaptation w/Deneuve & Piccoli)
The Long Goodbye (already have, will be stocking stuffer for friend tbd)
Kiss Me, Stupid
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rebecca
"Don Knotts: Reluctant Hero Pack" (bundle of The Love God?, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Reluctant Astronaut and his sought after Bresson collaboration The Shakiest Gun In The West)

$3:

Raggedy Man (fullframe--boo!)
Volver
When Did You Last See Your Father?
"Mission Hill: The Complete Series" (animated series w/Wallace Langham, Brian Posehn, and Jane Wiedlin that ran for 5 minutes on the WB back in '99-2000. been meaning to pick it up for yoinks, so this was the other find of the night)

$5:

Alice (Woody Allen)

Between this, my HEB trip the other week, and the B & N Criterion sale, I finally may have crossed the threshold of having too many fucking movies.

A Don Knotts box set for $1.88: truly a Thanksgiving to remember. (Absence of The Incredible Mr. Limpet notwithstanding.)

Saw a couple at a thrift store on Sunday but didn't get em - Sick (the Bob Flanagan doc), and God Told me To... which is about a serial killer and has Andy Kaufman and the late Deborah Raffin in it. Anyone know if these are any good?

Both of those are amazing

Will have to stop by again soon, they were 3 or 4 bucks each.

A Don Knotts box set for $1.88: truly a Thanksgiving to remember. (Absence of The Incredible Mr. Limpet notwithstanding.)

They actually had several copies of that one separately for $3 (It's a WB title, while the box is from Universal), so I passed for the time being. But Knottsfever may lead me back...

"Don Knotts: Reluctant Hero Pack" amazing

Sick (the Bob Flanagan doc) is p amazing but keep the blindfold handy for the hammer scene.

Saw a couple at a thrift store on Sunday but didn't get em - Sick (the Bob Flanagan doc), and God Told Me To... which is about a serial killer and has Andy Kaufman and the late Deborah Raffin in it. Anyone know if these are any good?

― nickn, Monday, November 26, 2012

Finally went back last Sunday, Sick was gone but I did get the other one for $3.

I rolled the dice on the Mayan thing and have been stocking up on cheap DVDs. Well played, me.

$5: Cujo, Purple Noon, Joyride, The Host, Dead Man, Crash (the comatose one film critics like...some, anyway)

3/$10: North by Northwest, The Agronomist, Adoration, Dead Alive, Naked Lunch

$3: Joe, Capricorn One, The End of Violence, Paraíso Travel, Dr T and the Women, Thirst, Back to Bataan, Extract, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Born into Brothels, Volver, Candyman, Horsemen (watched this--HOF awful performance from Dennis Quaid), Monkey Shines, Airplane, Fun with Dick & Jane ('70s), Deep Cover, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.

Also a Bob Hope box with seven films for $15. I'm occasionally seeing Big Lots stickers on some of this stuff, so, as suspected, it all comes from the same warehouse.

we are in a golden age of cheap, overwhelmingly plentiful entertainment. some good finds in there.

Momus Man of Letters for $1. It's actually a 36-minute VHS tape, but I'm including it cause it's Momus.

I picked up Mel Brooks's "To Be or Not To Be" at a flea market for about $5 this summer. Good fun.

Heartbeeps is weird, like in a "This must have been greenlit between regimes" way.

H-E-B, $3.99:

The Great White Hope
Warlock (the Widmark/Fonda/Quinn western)
Casino Royale "Collector's Edition" (the '67 version, reissued to tie in with Quantum of Solace; doesn't come with the 50s version, which I think other editions of this do)

Another thrift store haul, they were having a 99 cent sale:

Dead Ringer (Bette Davis movie from 1964)
Play Misty For Me
South Pacific (2-disk "Collector's Edition")
Volver
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
History Channel doc on the 1906 SF earthquake

See Thread Revive on phone while running errands, remember there's a Big Lots not 5 minutes from where I stand, bargain sirens begin to sing...

$3:

Beautiful Creatures
The Gingerbread Man (Altman once claimed this was the biggest time he ever got screwed by a studio)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (Knottsfever did indeed bring me back)
Compulsion
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

$5:

"Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Volume 1" (2-disc comp featuring a bunch of Warner holdings with the odd notice on the back cover "[this collection] is intended for the Adult Collector and is Not Suitable for Children", which leads me to believe it contains the long-anticipated "Wilma Flintstone & Betty Rubble lezz it up" cartoon)

$3: March of the Penguins, L.A. Story (Kael's last-ever review, I think), Storytelling, Get Shorty, The Green Berets

$5: Don't Bother to Knock, The Accidental Tourist, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, Annie Hall

H-E-B, $3.99:

The Newton Boys

Big Lots, $3:

The Border
Panic In The Streets (I wish I could find more of the Fox noirs this way)

PS, I watched the "Flintstones" ep on that Saturday Morning set. There was no hot Wilma on Betty action to be had.

All Fred and Barney, eh?

Worse--Fred and...Dino.

3/$10: The Limey, Land of Plenty (Wenders--looks bad), Interview with the Assassin (looks gimmicky)

$5: Take Shelter, Assault on Precinct 13 (original), Red Hook Summer, Basquiat, Rollover (early-'80s Pakula film I'd forgotten)

$10: Elizabeth Taylor Turner/MGM Collection (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Father of the Bride, The Sandpiper)

$20: Hepburn/Tracy box with all nine films + documentary (thought this was incredibly lucky, but I see it's on Amazon for even less)

Uh-Oh, Big Lot's is having a 20% sale on everything for rewards members for part of this weekend.

I started browsing through this online catalogue the other day, and it seemed like everything you and I are buying from these cutout bins was there:

http://www.daedalusbooks.com/Products/?Media=DVD

Ah, that's not as fun as digging through stacks of discs flanked by discontinued lawn furntiture and nearly expired Little Debbie's.

Big Lots 20% Weekend

$2.40:

Brando-Rama w/ The Teahouse of The August Moon, The Formula, Mutiny On The Bounty (two-disc "Special Edition") & A Countess From Hong Kong.
She's Gotta Have It
Moon Over Parador
Cold Comfort Farm
Hilary and Jackie
The Baxter

$4:

Village of The Damned/Children of The Damned "Horror Double Feature"
On Her Majesty's Secret Service "Special Edition" (from 2000--the first SE of this title)
Xanadu "Magical Edition"
The Thrill of It All! (Doris Day/James Garner advertising satire from '63. Script by Carl Reiner, direction by Norman Jewison. Watched last night and is amsuing in very Kennedy-era way. Wonder if the "Mad Men" creatives ever saw it?)

was pretty happy to find Slap Shot for $4.99 at a gas station in Forest, Mississippi

$4:

Village of The Damned/Children of The Damned "Horror Double Feature"

Every time I see this, I want to buy it all over again--great deal. A (somewhat annoying) former VJ here, Kim Clarke Champniss, was in one or both of them when he was a kid.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_jL30Z1R09Y/0.jpg

Hmm, didn't know that.

On a somewhat related note, Big Lots has started carrying a fair amount of cds. It looks like they've struck deals w/Concord Music Group (found a bunch of their Jazz reissues and some Stax stuff in the bin) and Wal-Mart (several copies of Kiss' Sonic Boom and AC/DC's Black Ice alongside discarded copies of the latter's back catalog--I got the Columbia High Voltage for $4 sale price).

I also found a copy of Chinese Democracy.

4/$10: Do the Right Thing (2-discs), The Class, Me & Orson Welles, Consenting Adults (Pakula)/An Innocent Man

3/$10: Lorna's Silence, Inland Empire, Elevator, Here, 12, Battle Beneath the Earth/The Ultimate Warrior

I'll get to the ones with subtitles later--tawdry '90s thrillers are my go-to films at home, so I'm already all over Consenting Adults.

Haven't done this in awhile, and besides the $5 CD bin at Fry's (Universal & Sony catalog titles as far as the eye can see!) is quickly becoming my new money pit.

H-E-B, $3.99:

Tony Rome
Man of The West

These two purchases were separated by like a month. The store's stock is seemingly frozen.

I also just ordered Caddyshack for $3.99 to fill out an Amazon order for free shipping, and I missed getting a copy of Foreplay (70s sex comedy omnibus thing w/Jerry Orbach, Paul Dooley, Zero Mostel & others, now distributed by Troma) from Fry's for around $1.79.

Same here--of the four or five places I check semi-regularly, the stock has been frozen for months in all but one of them, as if that's it for budget DVDs once they're gone. Also, the Zellers chain here was bought out by Target, and Target has nothing. I've consequently been forced to expand into the high-rent district of $7 and $10 DVDs, where I sometimes run into Donald Trump and Warren Buffet while browsing bins.

$10: Warners Academy Award Winners from the '50s (Around the World in 80 Days, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Bad and the Beautiful)
Marlene Dietrich: The Glamour Collection (Morocco,Blonde Venus, The Devil Is a Woman, The Flame of New Orleans, Golden Earrings)

$7: Fiddler on the Roof (2 discs)
The Seven-Ups
Darling
Murder, Inc.

$5: Twilight Zone: The Movie
Chariots of Fire
Hereafter
Viva Knievel!
Piranha
Foxes
Valley Girl
The Net
The War on the War on Drugs
Casablanca (2 discs)

$3: Somewhere

of the four or five places I check semi-regularly, the stock has been frozen for months in all but one of them, as if that's it for budget DVDs once they're gone.

I hear that. Was out today and happened to pass by a less-frequented by me Big Lot's. I dropped in, more out of curiosity than the need to actually buy something since I'm still wading through the purchases from the last several months.

First of all, their stock is the smallest I've ever seen at this location (lots of empty space on shelves). Secondly, pretty much everything they had was stuff they'd had to have had for at least a few months, almost all of which falling into the categories of "already got" or "never gonna get". And finally, although I ended up buying no dvds, I was still out three bucks because I got ambushed by a panhandler inside the store. On top of that, this person hadn't held my three singles 30 seconds before asking for another $10-15 so they could leave and tie up the convoluted sob story I just heard. Put me right out of whatever spending mood I had left in me.

Ugh.

Also symbolic (and more on dvd topic), I found a copy of Gigantic, a 2009 Zooey Deschanel/Paul Dano/John Goodman quirkfest, only to discover somebody already liberated the disc from the case. This was a $3 movie...at Big Lot's...and still it was stolen.

Ghost World for $1.50 at a thrift store. It was a Blockbuster rental, but the disk appears to be in good condition.

For $2 I found a copy of King Vidor's 1929 Halleluja, his first talkie (also a 'singie') and the first all-black feature from a major studio. Disc extras include two additional Vitaphone musical 2-reelers from the '30s. A nice find.

$5: All the Real Girls, Snow Angels (also David Gordon Green--no recollection of it coming out), Network (2 discs, so I can be twice as ambivalent), Night of the Hunter, Halloween, Get Low, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Osama, Munich, Proof of Life, Caddyshack, Brick Lane, Ulee's Gold, Houdini (one of the very first films I watched as a kid).

$3: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Shane (didn't realize it was full-screen--useless), Narrow Margin, Chalk (some Morgan Spurlock pseudo-documentary that follows three first-year teachers--not hopeful).

$3 or $5 (I've opened and watched them all, and I don't remember): Source Code, Everything Must Go, Random Hearts, One Hour Photo, Deja Vu, Bernie.

Snow Angels (also David Gordon Green--no recollection of it coming out)

It didn't really come out. It was one of the last films distributed by Warner Independent (Towelhead was another), and iirc, it's spare release was after they'd shut down offices and promotion. No wonder DGG went into Comedies & TV afterward.

Shane (didn't realize it was full-screen--useless)

The George Stevens western? I think it was shot full-frame ('53 release).

On My End, Wal-Mart, $5 each:

Pretty In Pink "Everything's Duckie Edition"
Planes, Trains and Automobiles "Those Aren't Pillows!" Edition

I've seen Shane three or four times, but only on TV, I think, so I always assumed it was widescreen. It seems like a film that ought to be widescreen...Anyway, glad to hear what I've got is okay.

The subtitles of those Hughes DVDs are hilarious. I wonder if they'd extend the format to other releases.

Deliverance "Squeal like a pig" edition.

I've seen Shane three or four times, but only on TV, I think, so I always assumed it was widescreen. It seems like a film that ought to be widescreen...Anyway, glad to hear what I've got is okay.

― clemenza, Monday, June 10, 2013 6:40 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jeff Wells' Stopped Clock Moment. It has since been announced that the blu will have standard ("correct") and the wider version.

Big Lots, $3:

Gentleman Broncos
There's Something About Mary "Digital Copy" (one regular dvd & a data disc in a slimline case)

This location was down to one four-way floor display of discs, easily the smallest assortment I've ever seen there. Last time, back in January, this one had two overloaded four-ways and an endcap. On the brightside, according to my receipt, both of today's purchases were part of a "May Assortment". So they are still getting stuff in, albeit in smaller amounts.

$5: The Fountainhead, A Wedding (I think I'm close to having every Altman film--can't be missing more than five), Revenge ("I consider Revenge to be Tony Scott's masterpiece"; Tarantino quote on the cover--bought it anyway), The Andromeda Strain (TV remake).

$7: used copy of 1900

$10: Brando Franchise Collection (The Night of the Following Day, The Ugly American, A Countess From Hong Kong, The Appaloosa)

$20: Natalie Wood Collection (Bombers B-52, Cash McCall, Splendor in the Grass, Gypsy, Sex and the Single Girl, Inside Daisy Closer)

Tried to watch Sex and the Single Girl, bailed after 20 minutes.

Clintpalooza @ Wal-Mart, $4:

A Perfect World
The Gauntlet
Any Which Way You Can
Every Which Way But Loose

The former pair were birthday presents for a family member. The latter duo are mine.

Can't find the Clyde movie parody from "The Critic" on youtube, so enjoy this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7PxhwDGqw

I see cheap films from "The Eastwood Collection" all over the place--I've bought two or three. Somebody must have broken up a whole bunch of box sets.

Wal-Mart, $5:

Once Upon A Time In America (two-disc "Special Edition" that Once Upon A Time Retailed For $26)

Amoeba Records, Hollywood

SNL Best of Tracy Morgan, $3.

Had a few others in hand, but started thinking about all the DVDs I have at home that I've never watched, so put them back. These included Me and You and Everyone We Know, Pauline At the Beach, Band of Outsiders, a Japanese movie about a wave of schoolgirl suicides, $5 each, and American Splendor for $2. Ten years ago I would have jumped on stuff like that but I have such a huge backlog, and there's a swap meet a block from me that has good stuff turn up regularly for 4-5 bucks.

I hear ya re:backlog. Without getting into tmi territory, let's just say that due to recent illnesses I've had extended periods where it was hard to just sit and merely watch a dvd. I'm getting better, starting again on making a dent in the piles. I will say that I'm probably never gonna buy at the volume as chronicled in this thread ever again.

Today @ Half-Price Books:

Back To School "Extra-Curricular Edition" used, $5
The Anderson Tapes new, $6

Nickn: Band of Outsiders (the Criterion, I assume) for $5 is pretty great--get back there today!

Yeah, I've kind of had non-buyer's regret for that one. but I've seen it once or twice before and it does seem to pop up on cable now and then. And Amoeba is a half-hour drive from me, so I think I'll just give it up to the universe.

$4: Collapse, Burma VJ, The Man from London, Bitter/Sweet
$5: The Evil Dead, Casino Royale, In Like Flint, Hot Tub Time Machine
$10: Alien/Aliens/Alien³ box

I missed the Barnes & Noble Criterion sale. I bought Hot Tub Time Machine instead.

Well, the Criterion sale goes to the end of the month in case you want to see something other than Jessica Pare's boobs before then. ;-)

I was in a different Wal-Mart the other night, pushing my cart down the back aisle when I come upon not one, not two, not three, but four different bargain dvd dumpbins in a row. I really don't need to be diving in, but I notice a copy of Young Adult perched atop one of the $5 receptacles. I pick it up and notice it's stock tag (the sticker in the upper-right hand corner of the cover) lists it as a March '13 arrival. It seems odd that any $5 dvd would be kicking around that long (this is Wal-Mart, not Big Lot's). So I finally find a working scanner in the front of the store and lo & behold it's $9.96. Back to the shelves with you, Charlize!

And that's my cheap dvd story for this week...

Went to Big Lots for their 20% off sale and got:

Mean Streets, $4. Wasn't sure if I already had it or not, but went for it anyway. My DVD collection is in no shape to determine that easily, even now that I'm home.
Dave Chappelle's Block Party, $2.40.

And the big Barnes and Noble near me doesn't carry DVDs :(

^^I was on the other side of town one afternoon with some time to kill after breakfast. There was a B&N within walking distance, so I head over figuring I can browse the newsstand and music/video section. They didn't have the the latter, and in the valuable floorspace it probably once occupied there was A NOOK SHOWROOM.

Not surprisingly--this thread and the one on cheap records sum up my mindset as a voracious consumer of stuff--I went and checked the Barnes and Noble site after Grissom's post the other day, and it was all too expensive once I realized the posted prices were after discount. Lots that I'd love to own, but after postage, nothing less than $25. I still have Criterions from the sale two years ago I haven't watched.

Yeah, I tend to snag a Criterion here and there whenever one of these sales pops up, and as a result I have a few (Wings of Desire, Night of the Hunter, Seventh Seal) that are still in plastic. Kinda like waiting until a) its been a while since I've seen them, and b) I have time to explore all of the special features and whatnot.

Anyway, added The Royal Tenenbaums to my pile with this most recent B&N sale.

War Movie sale @ Wal Mart, $4:

Stalag 17 "Special Collector's Edition"
In Harm's Way
Three Kings

Fry's, $1.50:

Repo Chick
Foreplay

Paper Moon for $2 at Value Village!

$5: Bird (found it boring at the time, the kind of thing that sometimes looks better to me years later)
The Undefeated (the fantasyland Palin documentary)
Quantum of Solace
Casino Royale
How Do You Know (most recent James Brooks film--undoubtedly bad)
Love & Other Drugs
Urban Cowboy
Executive Decision/Unlawful Entry

$4: A Civil Action
Bottle Rocket

$3: All or Nothing
Nightwatching
Tell Me a Riddle (Lee Grant directed)
Wish You Were Here (saw this when it came out--whatever happened to Emily Lloyd?)
Beautiful Kate (Rachel Ward directed)
Peacock

Half-Price Books 20% Sale, $7.99:

Stones In Exile
Parks and Recreation: Season Two (used & complete--for the same price I could have also picked up Seasons 1 & 3-4, but you can get the former cheap new and the latter pair were sans slip cases)

Another Big Lots 20% off weekend is upon us...

Prior weeks-

Wal Mart $5:

Trading Places "Looking Good, Feeling Good" Edition
Urban Cowboy (I finally own the one-time official film of my current hometown)

Half-Price Books, $9.95:

"Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" The Complete First Season

Today-

Barnes & Noble, $4.99:

Cannonball Run (in WIDESCREEN, or at least cropped to 16:9)

Big Lots 20% Sale

$2.40:

Sunshine
Hudson Hawk
Three Smart Girls
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Bobby Deerfield
Shock Treatment 25th Anniversary Edition
"Creature Comforts America" The Complete First Season

$4.00:

Superbad 2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition
Denzel Washington Triple Feature w/Glory, Devil In A Blue Dress & A Soldier's Story

Do yourself a favour and watch Cannonball Run with the directors commentary on. It is hilarious.

Big Lots today:

Black Swan - $4
Borat - $2.40
Sideways - $2.40
Fast Food Nation - $2.40
Silver City (a John Syles film) - $1.60

Do yourself a favour and watch Cannonball Run with the directors commentary on. It is hilarious.

Upon listening, I think the movie is better with the commentary on. Needham & Ruddy just having a grand old time telling stories re:Stars & Cars, pointing out all their friends and associates who cameoed, and sharing film making philosophies ("When in doubt, blow something up!").

A couple of months' worth:

$5: A Shot in the Dark, Extreme Measures, Gentleman's Agreement, Perfect Sense, Edge of Darkness, Gothika, Deception

$3: A Bucket of Blood, 21 Hours at Munich, Mystery Date, The Perfect Storm, The Other End of the Line, Southland Tales, My Son, My Son, What Have You Done, Whatever Works, Borderline, Butterfly Dreaming, The Architect, Exiled, Page One: Inside the New York Times, Even Money, Along Came a Spider, Chattahoochee, The Dead Girl, Transsiberian

$3: [...] Southland Tales

You were overcharged!

$1 for Avanti! at a charity rummage sale. I saw this when I was in high school and liked it, hope it holds up.

From the Out of the Closet thrift store:

The Squid and the Whale - $3
A Serious Man - $2.75

natl geo future weapons, the game stop snitchin dvd, animatrix (actlly bought this one), and two others. p swit 199ç bin

There was a store I used to mention that had overruns with Big Lots price tags. I stopped going there for a long time, but they had some good $5 stuff yesterday:

Casablance (forgetting I bought a double last year...), Dark Passage, Guys and Dolls, Horse Feathers, Road to Morocco

Elsewhere:

3/$10 -- Defense of the Realm, Steal This Movie, The Player

$3 -- Blue Car, 12 Monkeys, Sleepwalking, Morvern Callar, Blue Valentine

$5 -- The Night Listener, Frozen, The Ides of March, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Body Double, Murder by Numbers, The Grudge, Spider-man 3

Wal Mart, $5:

The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Jennifer's Body
The Sand Pebbles (two-disc special edition with two cuts of the film plus loads of archival material & featurettes alongside a booklet reprint of the roadshow program)

I've been emailed advance copies of next week's Thanksgiving/Black Friday Big Lots ads (Rewards Club yo) and it appears the only dvd promotion they're running is $8 Disney blus on BF. So...no warehouse dumps this year?

Inland Empire for $8 (has 2nd disk of extras!)
Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble (both in one package) for $10.

Had an Amoeba Groupon I had to use.

from a used book sale $2 each:
3 Jodorowsky movies: Holy Mountain, Fando y Lis, La Cravate
Looney Tunes Spotlight 6 twofer

also Raiders of the Lost Ark from amazon for $0.01 plus shipping

Black Friday, before & beyond:

H-E-B, $3.99:

Peepers (amusing mid-70s noir spoof w/Michael Caine, Natalie Wood & Timothy Carey)
Cousin Bette

Target, $5.99:

Silver Linings Playbook

Best Buy, $1.99:

Jaws "30th Anniversary Edition"

Krogers, $1.99:

Do The Right Thing "20th Anniversary Edition"

Wal Mart, $3.95:

Magic Mike

Black Friday time is a great one for picking up TV boxes: got the last two "Mad Men"s for $9 each at Target (the last set only dropped a few weeks ago) and managed to not spend a pretty penny getting the back half of "Breaking Bad" through Best Buy, Target, and Amazon.

One of my go-to stores, the Big Lots-connected one, is closing down. So this was after a 20% discount:

$4: Breakfast at Tiffany's (two discs), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Electric Horseman, Hideaway/Hush

$2.50: Anatomy of a Murder, The Front, Winchester '73, The Runaways

What else is new?--already had the first two and the last. I wasn't sure if the store-wide discount applied till I cashed out; will go back for some more.

(The Anatomy disc, on Columbia, says "This film is presented in a FULL SCREEN VERSION which preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio, approx. 1.33:1." That didn't seem right--Preminger = widescreen in my mind--but it said original theatrical aspect ratio, so I figured everything was okay. I just checked, and the Criterion is 1.85:1. So is Columbia just lying, or am I misinterpreting?)

Hopefully your DVD comes with the awesome trailer. But if not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWjctRQSMfg

(The Anatomy disc, on Columbia, says "This film is presented in a FULL SCREEN VERSION which preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio, approx. 1.33:1." That didn't seem right--Preminger = widescreen in my mind--but it said original theatrical aspect ratio, so I figured everything was okay. I just checked, and the Criterion is 1.85:1. So is Columbia just lying, or am I misinterpreting?)

Columbia is lying. Their disc is an open-matte transfer (not pan-and-scan) with the intent to be projected at 1.85.1. There's a chance that upon initial release it may have played in some theatres that weren't yet equipped with wider screens or proper matte plates in the 1.33:1 ratio. When Criterion announced their edition, blogger/sociopath/self-appointed aspect ratio policeman Jeffrey Wells went on the warpath with his usual rhetoric about the "1.85:1 Fascists" (his term, not mine) "cleaving' (ditto) the tops and bottoms of frames blah blah blah. Criterion responded by sharing on FB a photo taken inside the theatre during the the film's premiere as the film unspooled, which clearly revealed a 1.85:1 image.

Ironically, the Full-Screen AoAM disc is now oop, but you can get a dvd-r edition of the widescreen version (presumably the same transfer as the CC, but sans extras) from their MOD service for slightly less money than the CC dvd. What a world!

One more thing: "PANTIES!"

I knew you'd be able to fill me in--thanks. Don't think I'll ever open the disc then (which does include more than one trailer--xpost)--I can watch a junky thriller in full-screen, but not anything where it matters. I have seen it in a theatre once or twice.

I think the biggest problem is how offended you are by excessive headroom.

Anatomy image comparisons

Half-Price Books 20% off sale

The Hired Hand "Collector's Edition" 2-disc sealed - $5.59
Slade In Flame, sealed - $1.60
"Red Hot + Blue", sealed dvd/cd combo - ''
Taffin, used - 80 cents (a bargain at twice the price just so I can say I own one of the greatest pieces of scenery chewing in Cinema history: http://youtu.be/tXcgt6l_LcA )

I also got a British edition of Kael's Deeper Into Movies for $4.79.

Made another (and final--not much left) trip to the LW store going out of business.

$2.50: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The American, Pale Rider
$4.00: Dark Shadows, Sweeny Todd (2 discs), The Big Chill, For Your Eyes Only (2 discs), Die Another Day (2 discs)

Also, from some other store, Dangerous Liasons (the television version with Catherine Deneuve) and The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 2 for 2/$15.

My sister gets screeners from where she works, so I came home from Xmas with about 20 DVDs, including Spring Breakers, Shutter Island, The Master, End of Watch. I may enter the whole list later.

Best Buy Boxing Day blu-ray sale:

Inglourious Basterds $4.99
Chronicle $6.99

The Hired Hand "Collector's Edition" 2-disc sealed - $5.59

^^ so good, such a great soundtrack too.

Wal Mart, $5:

End of Watch

'', $3:

Raising Arizona

Pawn Shop, 4 for $10 (all used):

Boom Town
China Seas
Wife Versus Secretary*
Dirty Deeds (Aussie gangster flick w/Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neil & John Goodman)

*I think they were parting out this box--I put back San Francisco.

Spotted $4 copies of The Falcon and the Snowman and Johnny Dangerously in the HMV bargain bin last weekend, and put both back after deliberating for a brief minute. Haven't seen the former in almost 20 years, and the latter in at least 25, and am wondering if I should go back for either next weekend.

johnny dangerously still rules

Same Chain, Different Pawn Shop, 5 for $10 (all used):

Love Me or Leave Me
Suspicion
The Wrong Man
I Confess
Strangers on A Train (two disc)

Once again with the parting out of box sets--this time the WB Hitch set and this Doris Day one (had Calamity Jane in hand before finding all the Hitch's).

Two of the stores I'd regularly go to have closed within the past couple of months, leaving basically two places where I can still buy this stuff (not counting regular chain-store sale bins). I'm going through withdrawal.

$5: The Kids Are All Right, Primal Fear, All the President's Men (two discs, replacing the single I already had)

4/$10: Excalibur, The Invention of Lying, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Late Shift

$5 is exactly what I paid at HMV for a drastically marked-down Tree of Life recently, a coupla months after scoffing at its ridiculous original marked price of $35.99.

Big Lot's, $3:

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Shane
Altered States
The Yakuza
Savages (the Linney-PSH one)
Baby, the Rain Must Fall

Also, for those curious about replenishment cycles, according to my ticket most of these were from a "February assortment". The exceptions were Savages & The Yakuza, both from a "Horror/Thriller assortment" (WTF? on the former film) from the months before last Halloween.

At the Pasadena City College swap meet:

$1 each: King Of Comedy, The Doom Generation
$2: Journey to the Flames (Burning Man doc)
$2.50 each: Chuck and Buck, Wildflowers
$5 each: Arrested Development Seasons 1 and 2, It (Clara Bow, includes a doc on Bow), Chappaqua, Last Days of Disco, and a Something Weird three-on-a-disk with Rent-a-Girl, Aroused, and Help Wanted Female (mid-60s sleaze)

had gone to a library book sale w/ my mother & bought pauline at the beach for $2

later, my gf came over and the dvd was still out on my table.
she said-- 'oh is your mom still here?'
i was like 'what? no'
she said 'oh so you bought pauline at the beach?'

p good zing

Walmart, $3.96:

North By Northwest "50th Anniversary Edition" (2-disc)
Malcolm X (2-disc)

This one location had a floor display featuring these and other WB special editions (Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett..., True Romance, the Burton Batmans...).

Last weekend at a thrift store,

$3 for season 1 of the Dave Chappelle show (12 eps on 2 disks).

My first Big Lot's in three months, and they had nothing I wanted to buy. Well, maybe a couple things, but they were all in quantities guaranteeing they'll still be on the racks in the future alongside copies of movies I already own. As for the rest...more and more of stuff that already wasn't selling...I had no idea Jessica Simpson had made so many movies...Burt Reynolds did a VOLLYBALL movie in the last few years?

My local BL seems to be getting out of the DVD business. Last time I was there they were down to maybe 100 DVDs (total, not titles), all of which consisted of movies I had seen there over 6 months ago.

They might be doing that at some of the stores. The one I went to is maybe the biggest one in the area. They still had a sizable selection, albeit not as large as it once was & with a heavier emphasis on $5 titles and a current "2 for $14" tv box set promotion. Since I didn't buy anything, I don't have any replenishment cycle info from a receipt.

PS: That Burt Reynolds Vollyball movie is from 2006: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403946/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_25

Co-starring Tom Arnold and Gary Busey because, of course it does.

Tony Danza ...
Himself (uncredited)

Target, $5 each:

Party Down, Seasons 1 & 2

Big Lots, $3

Adaptation

Also, in an amusing postscript to:

*I found a copy of Jesus' Son for $9. I've never seen a single film that expensive there. It's only about 90 cents more direct from Amazon.

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Over a year and a half later, this same copy was still sitting on the shelf. I notice a closeout printout on the rack which indicates its label color (white) is included in a sale. I take a chance and lo and behold the movie is mine for the princely sum of 90 cents. My receipt tells me the store mislabeled the disc as a "Warner 3 Pack" upon receiving it, hence the high original price.

great movie, that one.

Every junkie's like the setting sun, ditto anyone addicted to dump bins. Even when supply is very short.

$3: Stonebrook, Deal, Further, Married Life, Cronos, Nobody's Fool, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, Leaves of Grass, The Promotion, 54, The Truth About Charlie (two discs--includes Charade), Straight Out of Brooklyn, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, The Life of David Gale

$4 (Wal-Mart--thankfully racked at the front of the store, not in one of their may-cause-the-building-to-topple-over-if-disturbed sale bins): Stoker, Trance, Twixt

$5: The Interpreter, Hobo with a Shotgun (two discs)

I'm still pondering the existence of Twixt. Hope I'm wrong, but I'm guessing Coppola would have done better lending the name to a breakfast cereal.

Bought a $2 copy of Kitchen Party, a Canadian teen comedy from the 90s that I'm interested in primarily because Robin Wood loved it, at my school's bookstore yesterday. Considered Mazursky's The Tempest, but put it down because I couldn't remember if it was supposed to be interesting-bad or just plain bad.

Freebies (!!)--thanks to a kindly friend doing a collection purge--of:

Born Yesterday (blu-ray)
Titus (blu-ray)
Rear Window (2DVD set)
Strangers on a Train (2DVD set)

Somewhat reluctantly gave up a blu-ray of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia to another friend who was picking through the same pile. I grabbed it first, but it just seemed to mean more to him, plus he was already noticeably peeved about missing out on the Titus that I wasn't relinquishing.

Another Big Lot's 20% sale weekend. Went to the location I wrote about on June 22nd, and it looks like they haven't got anything in since then. Ended up buying two cds for $4 each (Aerosmith-Live Bootleg and an expanded Heart-Little Queen).

Salvation Army thrift store was having a 50% off sale, got SNL Best of Will Farrell and Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper (live at Hammersmith Ballroom 2006). $1 each.

Not much out there, is there? I haven't binged in ages--I might find two or three things at a time now. Not $5, but I bought a used copy of Tony Richardson's The Border today, which I've wanted to see for ages. (I think I may have seen it on release, but I don't remember a thing.)

Local swap meet today, got Sugarcult's Action, which seems to be a few videos, home video footage, a photo scrapbook, and some live performance stuff. Also $1.

HEB, $3.33:

World's Greatest Dad (used, resealed)

They actually had a reasonably big assortment of used IFC & Magnolia releases from the past several years as '3 for $10' specials. They just had one of these, so I snapped it up. not sure I want any of the other stuff, alotta faceless indie fare.

A while back at Walmart, $5:

To Have And Have Not

Suddenly in stock because Bacall had died (same reason I suddenly started seeing Johnny Winter albums in the CD bin).

Mixed bag of remaindered, sale, and used stuff:

$3: The Double, Raising Victor Vargas, Bad Company (junky thriller, not the Robert Benton movie)

$5: The Minus Man, Died Pretty Things, Millennium Mambo, Less Than Zero, The Abyss, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Contagion

$10: The Boris Karloff Collection (five movies, half-price sale)

$11: Universal Spotlight Collection (The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, Phantom of the Opera--same sale)

$5: Vamp

Now I know what I'm watching on Halloween this year.

No Direction Home, the Scorsese Dylan doc, at a thrift store for #2.50. By the date on the price tag it was stocked today. (They also had the I'm Not There movie, but I already have that so I left it for someone else.)

HEB, $4.99:

John & Mary
Laura

I always jump a little when I find a Fox Noir title in the budget bins. I'd put back the one copy they had of John & Mary about a month ago, so between it still being there (amongst a load of new Fox & MGM castoffs) and landing the sole copy of Laura this was a good day.

Arrested Development, season 3.
Velvet Goldmine.

$3 each

Another thrift store.

Four 1-hour Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show ($2 ea)
Lovely & Amazing ($2.50)
It Happened One Night ($2.75)

Half-Price Books, $10 (reduced from $20 with coupon):

James Stewart Signature Collection box set (The Cheyenne Social Club / Firecreek / The FBI Story / The Naked Spur / The Spirit of St. Louis / The Stratton Story)

Big Lots, $5:

Hot Fuzz "3-Disc Collector's Edition"

$3:

42nd Street
The Longest Yard "Lockdown Edition"

Half-Price Books, $1 (all used):

Bodies, Rest & Motion
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America "Special Collector's Edition"
"Richard Pryor Double Feature" w/Moving (1988, never heard of it--supporting cast full of SCTV/SNL people) & Greased Lightning

My dad took me to see the B&B movie on a weekday afternoon during xmas break in '96. It'd been out maybe a week or so, but we were among only about other 5-8 people at the screening (if that many, and it was in a big room to boot). When I got back to school, I found out I was only one of maybe three people in my Grade 8 who'd actually seen it. Scream (which opened the same day) was the cool movie to have seen right then.

Moving (1988, never heard of it--supporting cast full of SCTV/SNL people)

here's a story from the writer!

https://wfmu.org/LCD/20/pryor.html

it's basically Pryor does Domestic Cosby. It flopped.

i loved Moving as a kid. I'm guessing it isn't very good, however.

Another thrift store haul.

Each $1.99, plus a 30% discount they do every Saturday from 9 till noon.
The Great Escape
Children of Men
Body Worlds (a doc about that human body "plastination" technique). I saw their show in LA a few years ago.

altered states
the wild bunch
the quiet earth*
casanova (dennis potter collection)
do not adjust your set (mostly for the bonzo's appearances)

*haven't seen this since it used to get occasionally played on tv here in the early nineties (bruno lawrence!)

Big Lots

$2.10:

In The Company Of Men (still vividly remember all the critical kudos this got when I was unable to see it in High School, and also how disappointed I was when I finally saw it ten or so years later...am willing to give it another chance)

$3:

They Were Expendable
A Big Hand For The Little Lady
48 Hrs.
The Lost Boys Two-Disc Special Edition

Amoeba, Hollywood:

Eyes Wide Shut for $5 (2-disk collection, w/ Kubrick docs)
Coupling (BBC series, first season)
The Boondocks (first season episodes 6-10)
Reno 911 (second season, episodes 1-7)
Filter Magazine, See What You're Missing Vol 6

Last 4 were in the $1 bins, with a buy 3 get one free deal.

I used to love the Boondocks when it was a cartoon strip, but haven't seen a single second of the animated version before.

In other news, didn't see a single CD I was willing to part money for - I R old.

stupid FYE store across the street is closing for good. most of these were 5 bucks or under.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10923337_10153652678592137_2835534503247763049_n.jpg?oh=dce53538d67e4fd2fbec1aa9996bdeba&oe=5569746C&__gda__=1428421242_0bafdc19f2a71620a75c6995d815711f

i'm an art movie lover...

and maria has never seen training day! it's unbelievable...

Rescue Dawn is great, and The Chosen One is essential viewing for lovers of truly misguided films

Cedar Rapids was fun.

are my kids gonna like The Chosen One? was gonna watch it with them...

The Raid 2 on BR for $5? nice score!

i'm a big fan of The Animal.

most of the blu-ray ones were like $2.50.

$3 each at two different Goodwill stores:

Hannah and Her Sisters
The British Beat Live!

rescue dawn is almost unequivocally awful!

eh, it's serviceable

The Raid was cool but i think i actually prefer that judge dredd trapped in a building movie!

hah. yeah, they have the same general plot and they even came out within a year of each other!
i like Dredd, but no way I could put that ahead of The Raid and its non-stop sequences of people getting stabbed and/or shot in the face

no, don't get me wrong the raid was cool. but dredd was a delightful surprise. and it's over the topness was tops. both grandly over the top.

$1: Trucker, Being Elmo, Life in a Day

$3: One More Time (past-due-date Rat Pack), This Movie Is Broken, The Conspirator (Redford directed--never heard of it), The Tollbooth, Psycho II/III/IV

$5: Terri, Runner, Stone, Supergirl, Silver Linings Playbook ("Class of '99" major American filmmaker who most flagrantly sold out to awards-baiting)

Left behind Denys Arcand's Stardom, thinking I had it--just on VHS, turns out.

is that the one with Michelle Monaghan as the most beautiful trucker ever?

That's the one--far-fetched, maybe? I'd never heard of it till today.

$3 at a thrift store: Cluster live at Spaceland (an LA club) from 1996.

They also had Winged Migration, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy a movie about birds.

Swap meet on Sunday from 2 different sellers, $1 each.

Casino Royale (1967)
The Right Spectacle, Elvis Costello videos 1978-94.
Rachel Getting Married
Chasing Amy (Criterion Collection, had to buy it!)
Blades of Glory
Reservoir Dogs (2 disk version) I've managed to never have seen this.

Thrift store, $4 each.

Powaqqatsi
The 400 Blows
Bringing Up Baby (2 disk set)

$3: It's All About Love, The Basket, The Last Mogul, Sound and Fury (documentary), Best Boy, Kings Go Forth, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy. Also, a couple of budget collections that I bought for one or two films each: The Last Detail and Gardens of Stone is on one, There's a Girl in My Soup is on the other.

I think I saw The Hellstrom Chronicle at a drive-in as a kid; other than that--and Hellstrom's claim is dubious--Best Boy would have been the first documentary I ever saw in a theatre, '79 or '80.

Idiocracy for $3 at a thrift store.

Half-Price Books, $3.99

Married To The Mob

It was kind of cool because I was just glancing at the dvds, and decided to check if they had this one--and they did! Which I've found to sort of hard when I'm not looking for something super common or obvious.

In related news, I jumped when I saw they had a used copy of Where's Poppa?--my best friend has been looking for a copy--but put it back just as quickly when seeing the price: $29.99.
My friend is cool and all, but not $29.99 for a used DVD cool.

Love's, a truckstop in BFE, Texas--5 for $10

That's The Way of The World
Father of The Bride (original)
The Set-Up
Hallelujah
Count Yorga Vampire

WalMart, WBFE, Texas--$5

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Enough Said
10 Things I Hate About You "10th Anniversary Edition"

Two thrift stores a week ago, about $3 each:
Laura
Fellini's And The Ship Sails On (Criterion)
Orson Welles' The Trial
Babel
Trainspotting (2 disk version)
Bill Hicks live
and two Get Smart 4-disk boxes. Supposed to be one season in each box but the disks inside were scrambled, one box had S3 disks 2-4 plus S4 disk 1, the other had S5 disks 1-3 and a Beverly Hillbillies disk. I spent some time scouring the shelves there looking for an empty Beverly Hillbillies box, or some loose Get Smart disks, but found neither.

Another thrift store, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Vol 1 (unopened), a 3 disk set with 26 episodes for $6.

Big Lots, $3:

The Roaring Twenties

Half-Price Books, $4.99

The Wild Angels (sealed)

HPB, a week later during the 20% off sale (all used)

$3.99:

The Assassination Bureau
Sweet Charity

$6.40:

Lonely Are The Brave

The latter pair were off a rack of discs in slim cases. At first I thought they were old rentals, but probably what they really were was a collection where the prior owner decided to do some space saving by tossing the old thick cases and put the discs + inserts in the smaller ones. Which is kind of a good idea if you have bunch of regular dvds (not Criterions or other stuff that have intricate packaging, books etc.) and the time to do it.

$5: To the Wonder, In the Heat of the Night (probably not a good double-bill)

$3: Breaking and Entering, The Grifters, Good, Tully, August the First, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers/The Princess of Nebraska, From the Other Side/South, How to Survive a Plague, Trishna, Regular or Super (Mies van der Rohe documentary), Spring Breakers (because I'm confident it's going to look so much better the second time)

Last weekend at a thrift store.

City of Lost Children
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Dangerous Crossing

$2.10 ea (store does a 30% off sale Saturday from 9 am - noon).
The last two are in 20th Century Fox's film noir series.

Friends Fort Bend County Library Sale Area, $2 apiece:

San Quentin
South side 1-1000
G-Men
City For Conquest
Bullets or Ballots
A Slight Case of Murder
Each Dawn I Die
D.O.A. (original)
Forgotten Noir Vol. 5: FBI Girl & Tough Assignment
Forgotten Noir Vol. 6: I'll Get You & Fingerprints Don't Lie

karakter
time of the wolf
man of iron (człowiek z żelaza)
fassbinder on melodrama: effi briest/martha/fear of fear
lili marleen

a couple of dollars each. fassbinders and wajda ex-library stock.

$2.10 for Flight of the Conchords, complete season 1
$3 for Terry Gilliam's Tideland (2-disc set)

Two different thrift stores.

This might not be the best place for it, but whatever:

Does anybody want a free blu-ray of the Dutch horror/whatever film Borgman? I have two to give away, both with minor subtitle errors (it took Drafthouse two tries to get correct pressings out to everyone who bought it from them, but they did it, without requiring us to send anything back). The movie's perfectly watchable; it's just that the subtitle track is actually a duplicate of the closed caption track, so you get sound effect descriptions as well.

If you're interested, drop me an email.

Goodwill thrift store, $3 each:

Me and You and Everyone We Know
Contempt (Criterion 2-disk set!)

Both of these (and Gus Van Sant's Elephant) were away from the DVD section, as if someone was intending to buy them, but they were there the whole time I was in the store so I assumed they were abandoned when I looked at them (I noticed the pile earlier but not the contents).

If that Criterion Contempt is complete and in nice shape, you've found quite the bargain--used copies start at $99.95 on Amazon.

Same thrift store as for Contempt, I found the Criterion 2-disk Fear and Loathing DVD today, also $3.

(Also a couple of Patti Smith books, Early Work 1970-1979, and Patti Smith Complete 1976-2006).

H-E-B, $3.99:

Pretty Poison
Blood and Wine

$3.34:

Vendetta For The Saint

Another thrift store run Saturday (2 stores).

$2.10 ea
Broken Flowers (Bill Murray)
Coffee and Cigarettes
Freeway (Reese Witherspoon & Kiefer Sutherland)
For Your Consideration

Also bought Wild At Heart on VHS for 70 cents.

at the other store:
$2.50 ea
Foxfire (guilty pleasure)
Shutter
Damsels In Distress (the find of the day!)

$2.00 ea
From the Head (indie movie set in a strip club, had a rec by David Lynch on the cover)
Bastards of Young (2 disc set about bands like Jimmy Eat World)

$1.50
His Girl Friday

$0.75 ea
Gulliver's Travels (the 1939 animated one)
Betty Boop collection

Half-Price Books, Clearance Section

$3

The Fall of The Roman Empire & El Cid sealed combo pack--both films are 2-disc sets

$2 (used)

"I Love You, Alice B. Toklas"
The Long Voyage Home

Thrift store:

10 Film Noir movies on 2 discs ($3)

Bonnie and Clyde deluxe package (2 discs and a book) ($4)

The Busby Berkeley Collection, six movies, unopened, $15. Couldn't pass it up. If I ever develop in interest in musicals, of which I presently have close to none, I may even watch some of it.

Thrift Store, $2 each

Dark Passage
The Asphalt Jungle
Fawlty Towers: Complete Collection (2001 edition)

Thrift store, $3 ea

Badlands
Cool Hand Luke
Extras season 1
Pinocchio (Disney, 2-disc set)

They also had a copy of Breathless that I picked up, but I started to think I already had it so I put it back. If not I'll check again next week.

Half-Price Books

$4.99:

The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (sealed)
Fort Apache (used)

$7.99:

This Land Is Mine (used)

I didn't know the latter was even out on disc. It, along with The World, The..., is a Warner Archive DVD-R, which you don't often see for sale in a store used or otherwise.

The liquidators who've been moving around from store to store here for a decade-plus have taken over a Michael's in a nearby outlet mall. The space is huge, the prices are great (3/$10 or 7/$20, box sets $10 or 3/$25), the selection is not. A lot of what's there is very, very familiar from the previous locations.

An American in Werewolf (HD/DVD), The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Sunset Boulevard (wasn't sure if I had the DVD...into the gift pile), The Moth Diaries (Mary Harron, looks good), Personal Best, Masters of Science Fiction (TV series), Plan 9 from Outer Space, Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette's dump-bin debut), Démoniaque (French version with English subtitles; I honestly thought I was buying the Gordon Willis-directed Windows--Talia Shire stars--but no), '68.

Was sorta shocked to just learn that Windows ever even got a DVD release, albeit one of those "Limited Edition Collection" ones that currently go for $30+ on Amazon. YouTube's got it, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icdqkf_lj2A

(Among the "Related Videos" is a half-hour long video from something called "Infamous Sphere" takes a look the film as "the worst professionally made queer film ever.")

Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever DVD, $4.99!

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Not surprising I'd get them confused--it's almost Christmas, and I'm still sorting out students in the three classes that come to my room for art. When I looked at the director's name for Démoniaque (The Landlady), it didn't seem right--I thought the director was someone I knew, even though I'd forgotten it was Willis. I remember the reviews were terrible at the time, but at 19--maybe because of Willis--it looked like something I ought to see.

Thrift store today (same one I passed up on Breathless at because I thought I already had it, turns out I didn't and it wasn't there today).

$3 each:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC version, 2 disks)
Ultimate Flint Collection (2 disks) - Our Man Flint and In Like Flint, plus a 1976 TV movie meant to be a series pilot, Our Man Flint: Dead On Target.

A month later!

Another thrift store series.
First one ($2.10):
Midnight Cowboy

Second ($$2.70 ea):
Inception
Where Angels Go... Trouble Follows (guilty pleasure)

Third ($3 ea):
Dogville
Louie, 2nd season (2 discs)
Reflections of Evil (don't know what this is but the case was intriguing)
Jandek on Cornwood (not really familiar with him, despite reading about him for 15 years on ILM)

Two more thrift store finds:

Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky ($1.35)
Ang Lee's The Ice storm ($2.70)

Big Lot's, $5:

Holiday

Swap meet from a few weeks ago, $1 each:

Blade Runner
Baraka
Who Gets To Call It Art? - 80 minute doc about the 1960s NY art scene by Peter Rosen. "With music from The Velvet Underground, Can, Eric Dolphy, and The Monks"
Ambient Art - Impressionism (68 minutes of a slideshow of 340 paintings)

A couple weeks later I found Velvet Goldmine at a thrift store for 25 cents.

Today at a thrift store, $2 each:

Zodiac
Irreversible
A Patch of Blue
The Virgin Suicides
The Dreamers (Bertolucci)
American Psycho (unrated version)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Rohmer)
The Best of Insomniac

$5: Babe, On Any Given Sunday, Margin Call
$3: Jack Goes Boating
$1: Chapter 27 (Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman--looks terrible), Caught Up (Cynda Williams), plus some duplicates: Payday, Capturing the Friedmans, one other I can't remember.

Saw Who Gets To Call It Art? a few years ago--more specifically, it's a Henry Geldzahler documentary.

The Sears outlet store where I bought probably a third of the stuff I've listed on this thread closes up this week.

Liquidation sale at the last prominent Toronto rental place, Queen Video, opened in 1981:

http://www.blogto.com/film/2016/03/queen_video_closing_original_location_after_35_years/

(Their sister store on Bloor is staying open, and there are probably a handful of other really small ones scattered around.)

I had to return something, so I was there when they opened this morning--the sale started yesterday. Too crowded and too overwhelming; I grabbed a few things and was out in 20 minutes. Should be open for a few more weeks.

$7: Painters Painting, Black White + Gray, The Cool School (same guy who did Best of Enemies), Room 237
$20: Jean-Pierre Gorin Criterion box

I probably could have also had the Allan King Criterion box for $20 if I hadn't stupidly asked if the films were individually priced. The manager stepped in and said no, but that one should be $30.

Last Saturday at a rental store:

Violent Femmes live at the Hacienda, '83 and '84 for $7.

Half-Price Books, $9.99 (used)

TCM Astaire & Rogers Vol.1 (The Gay Divorcee; Swing Time; Top Hat; and Shall We Dance?)

The cool thing about this is that unlike many of these budget collections, this collection is the four regular DVDs of the films with the bonus features (which are all pretty worthwhile) in a single case.

Of course I was back at Queen Video today. Wasn't as chaotic as yesterday. Never even thought to look for the Wiseman films they stock there yesterday; got lucky and found a whole bunch in one spot.

$7: Primate, Essene, Titicut Follies, Meat, Multi-Handicapped, Welfare (this will be the single best purchase of this entire sale no matter how many times I go back), Basic Training, Before Stonewall, Herb & Dorothy, Visual Acoustics

$10: La Comédie-Française

$20: Norman Mailer Criterion box

Dropped into Queen Video again. Prices are down a little--$6 for documentaries, $15 for Criterion (which are almost all gone anyway). So all of these were $6:

Last Shop Standing, The Angola 3, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, Word Wars, Lake of Fire, Henri-Cartier-Bresson, In the Land of the Deaf (same guy who made Être et avoir). Left a few behind where I was hedging, so I'll check back in a week or two.

always been (somewhat) curious about mailer's films^

picked these up for $5 nz a piece (so a bit over 2 pounds or a few us dollars)

THE FILMS OF JEAN VIGO vigo
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA vertov
KINO-EYE/THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN vertov
MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS kawalerowicz
SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT has
ALICE svankmajer
EYES WITHOUT A FACE franju
SALO pasolini
RED DESERT antonioni
PARIS NOUS APPARTIENT rivette
UNE FEMME MARIEE godard
SLOW MOTION godard
RANCHO NOTORIOUS lang
THE LODGER hitchcock
YOUNG AND INNOCENT hitchcock
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET fuller
STROMBOLI rossellini
CULLODEN watkins
THE WAR GAME watkins
PUNISHMENT PARK watkins

Where did you find all that for so cheap?

local guy having a clear-out of his collection, mostly older releases (the vertov's are from the nineties in these weird looking cardboard digi packs that i've never seen before) so i guess he's upgrading or something... not sure if he's a critic or just a manic collector. also sent me a list of the other dvds he's selling, lots of criterions, bfi flipside releases & so on (but that lot up there is enough for me for awhile!)

Thrift store, $2 each:

Paris, Texas
Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival
Community, 1st season
Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers and Tides
Absolutely Fabulous, series 4
The Royal Tenenbaums (2 disc Criterion)
Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach, also a Criterion)

HEB, $4.99:

Coffey/Friday Foster "Double Feature" (2-dvds)

Thrift Store, $2.00 (all used):

The Paper Chase
Trainspotting (2-disc)
You Can't Take It With You (Capra)
Desperately Seeking Susan

Thrift store:

Upright Citizens Brigade, season 1, $3
Get a Life (Chris Elliot), Vol 1 (4 episodes), $3
TV Carnage - A Sore for Sighted Eyes, $4 Think I've seen their stuff before and not sure it's my thing anymore (lol old), but thought I'd give it a try.

Mr Mom (Dragoti, 1983) - sealed new £1 in poundland - John Hughes screenplay, p. solid cast - Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Jeffrey Tambor, Christopher Lloyd - how bad cld it be?
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (Sher, 1960) - sealed new £1 in poundland - stop motion effects by Ray Harryhausen
The Scout (Ritchie, 1994) - w/ Albert Brooks, one of 4 credited screenwriters along w/ Roger Angell, Andrew Bergman and Monica Johnson - how bad etc etc?
Life During Wartime (Solondz, 2009) - 50p in a charity shop - only really like Welcome to the Dollhouse, this could be bad?

Mr Mom is a lot of fun.

Half-Price Books, $2 (used):

A Letter To Three Wives

Thrift store finds:

The Filth and the Fury (Sex Pistols doc) - $4
The complete Fawlty Towers (remastered edition, unopened) - $13

recently acquired all the danger man episodes in two different sets for less than 20 bucks, which = about a dollar a disc... doesn't have the sheer wtfuckery of the prisoner but still very entertaining!

other cheap stuff:

a for andromeda/andromeda breakthrough
figures in a landscape
alexander nevsky
the end of st. petersburg
hiroshima mon amour
va savoir
the entertainer
loot
marnie
the voyage
satyricon
la dolce vita
56 rue pigalle
and then there were none
lair of the white worm
fearless vampire killers
passion of anna
serpent's egg
hammett
the long goodbye
the french connection
scanners

Nice haul.

tati: the restored collection for a dollar :-D

Thrift store:
Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang - Puppet Motel for $3
Art City, A Ruling Passion (Contemporary art world doc) $3
Far From Heaven $1.50 (blue tag half price day)

Just noticed that Puppet Motel is a CD ROM for Macintosh, hope I can get anything out of it.

Half-Price Books

$3: Archer: Season 1 (used)

$2: Delicatessen (used); A Most Violent Year (new)

solid!

Thrift store last Sunday, $7 for all 4.

Royal Tenenbaums (2-disk Criterion set)
Best In Show
Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (Death Cab tour film)
Short #11 Ecstacy (short film collection, include 32-min doc on Saul Bass)

I thought I already had Tenenbaums (and I see above I found the Criterion one before), but I figured it was cheap enough to go for it anyway.

Another thrift store run. $1 each.

Little Britain 1st series
Little Dieter Needs To Fly
In The Company Of Men
Life Of Brien
Plagues & Pleasures On The Salton Sea (1 hr doc on the SS, narrated by John Waters, I think it's on youtube, but nice to have a disk)

Half-Price Books, $2 (used)

Prairie Home Companion
Joni Mitchell: Refuge of The Roads (early '80s performance/doc thing)

Werckmeister Harmonies for £5 from hmv just before Christmas.

Goodwill, $1.50 (used)

MST3K--Manos: Hands of Fate

HEB, $3.99

The Girl Can't Help It (already have it in the Mansfield box, present for a friend)
Sid & Nancy: Collector's Edition

caught goodwill slippin and left with a minty copy of the Criterion BURDEN OF DREAMS for $3

i've been buying some magic (as in legerdemain) dvds online for around $5, as one of the prominent magic stores seems to be getting rid of its dvd inventory. gregory wilson's pyrotechnic pasteboards is particularly good.

Half Price Books, $2 (used):

The Girl In The Cafe
I Love You, Man
The Ballad of Mott The Hoople (w/all the inserts)

$5 (used):

Fleetwood Mac: The Dance
T.Rex: Born To Boogie (single disc version)

Thrift store, $2 for the director's cut of Woodstock (2 disks). Unopened, too!

a couple of dollars each...

godard - détective
clouzot - les diaboliques

Dropped in an HMV tonight that has six days left. (The closings seem to be staggered.) Nothing that exceptional. In Like Flint, Young Frankenstein, Fathom, and Panic in the Streets for $4-something, also the second season of The Leftovers for $12.50. I'll try to catch the mall store close by, but don't think it's worth venturing downtown to the flagship store.

Found In The realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger doc) at a thrift store for $3. I've seen it on youtube but it's nice having a higher res copy. There's an interview with Jessica Yu on it, as well as the usual stills, trailer, storyboard.

Also picked up a Psychedelic Furs concert (Live from the House of Blues, 2001) on VHS, unopened for $2.

Bought Coppola's Dracula and Branagh's Frankenstein on Blu-Ray, both bundled together but on separate discs with all the extras from their individual releases, for $10. So that's basically $5 each.

A lunchtime Salvation Army run, $2 ea.

Charade (1963 Criterion the Grant / Hepburn movie)
Taxi Driver
12 Monkeys
Seven Samurai (Criterion)
Dr. Strangelove
Sex & Drugs ( a compilation of 50s-70s films for showing teenagers)
Bruce Springsteen in concert (1992 MTV Unplugged plus a few more)
Steve Earle & the Dukes Transcendental Blues Live
Steve Earle Live from Austin (1986)

Charade is a blue-ray, and I don't even own a player yet. And I'm not really familiar with Earle, but at $2 each I figure I can risk it.

And there was another Criterion Royal Tennenbaums on the shelf, but as I have 2 now I decided to leave it.

HEB, $3.99

Haywire

what dope drops off blu-rays at the salvation army

Goodwill thrift store today:

The Sugarland Express (has been on the shelf for 2 months, so half price) $1.50
Pan's Labyrynth (2-disks, includes a bunch of other stuff) $3
Gravity (2-disks, includes a making-of doc) $3
Sybil (2-disks, includes a doc on the real Sybil and other things) $3

Funny that Sugarland has come up on the road movie thread and I see it in the store.
And I never saw Gravity, but I'm sure it will look great on my 20" CRT TV.

A different thrift store today, Friends With Money for $1.

Half-Price Books, 20% off sale:

$4.80: Go Ride The Music/West Pole (sealed twofer of vintage San Francisco psych docs--the former a live in the studio thing with Jefferson Airplane & Quicksilver, the latter a Ralph J. Gleason-hosted scene survey w/promo films from the aforementioned acts along w/the Dead, Steve Miller, plus perhaps the only live footage of Ace of Cups)

$1.60: The Deer Hunter; Groundhog Day "Special Edition" (used)

The last two were snagged from the clearance bin, and were actually cheaper than the CDs I grabbed from the same section. Never thought I'd see THAT day.

Goodwill, used

$1.99: Harem Scarum

$2.99: The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol. 1

Didn't expect to find either of those in there.

Also worth noting that they had a huge collection of either bootlegs or somebody's back-up DVD-Rs (complete with scanned cover art) for $2 a pop--they really will try to sell anything.

good score!

Half-Price Books, $2 (all used)

The Beatles: The First US Visit
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin'
Dick Tracy
The Running Man "Special Edition" (2-disc)
Deconstructing Harry
The Color of Money

A couple weeks ago, I think for $2 each:
Dr Strangelove (already had a copy)
Joy Division doc from 2007 by Grant Gee

Yesterday, $3 each:
Reno 911 first season
Reno 911 third season
Orchestra Rehearsal
Things Behind the Sun

Goodwill...

$5.99: Freaks and Geeks (complete series)
$2.99: The River (Criterion Collection)

They also had the Armageddon CC for $2.99, but I didn't bite.

Good score on that F&G!

$1 each at Salvation Army (50% off everything day)

Spinal Tap (already have it, of course, but I know there are two different commentaries and I'm not sure I have this version.
Memento, which I may also already have.
Josie and the Pussycats, which I just read something about. On arriving at home I see it's the "Edited for Family Viewing" edition.

2/$5 at a local used bookstore:

The Aristocats (never seen)
Point Break (probably dopey, but I have fond early 90s memories of it)

point break is a masterpiece, the aristocats features some unfortunate racism

Point Break is super dopey and that's why it's fun
Josie has had a cool resurgence lately, i dig it. It's slight, but fun and silly

if you've seen baffleck's the town, point break will make you go "hey wait a sec"

HEB, $2.99:

Freaky Friday (original)
The Good Thief

Goodwill thrift store today:

Guided By Voices - The Who Went Home And Cried - $3
The Skeleton Twins (blue ray) - $4

I like Skeleton Twins, it's sweet

$6, but the The Pink Panther box set!

Freebies from a friend who has upgraded all of these:

Fellini Satyricon
Mulholland Dr.
The Brood
MacBeth (Polanski)
Phantom of The Paradise

Salvation Army thrift store today:

My So-Called Life complete series (6 disks) - $1.40
Burn To Shine, Seattle WA, 01.27.07 (some music performance series thing where people/bands play in buildings about to be torn down) - $1.40

Ronald McDonald House rummage sale:
Volumes 1-3 of Beavis and Butthead ("the Mike Judge collection"), $2 each

Salvation Army thrift store:
Get Smart season 1, $2

first scene of the get smart pilot is hilarious today

Amazon is selling the complete Resident Evil series on Blu-Ray (six movies) for $5.96.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUPaxgIo98

xp damn, i would've bit on that for $6!

Goodwill thrift store today:
These for $1.50 each (half price on green tags).
Grave of the Fireflies
Burn After Reading
Tales From the Gimli Hospital (score!)

$3 each
Total Recall
POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English

And a box set for $6
Undecided (4 disks, the whole series) I loved Freaks and Geeks but don't remember watching much of this.

It's up and down, obviously not as good as F&G but has its moments

I think I did start watching it but didn't continue, either because I didn't think it was worth it or just had other things to do (pre-online/DVR era).

i've seen a few Resident Evil movies in my day. they were some fun trash!

Kung Fu Panda 3 for £4.99. It will now almost certainly be on TV at Christmas.

Satantango, all 432 minutes of it, for 5 quid in fopp yesterday.

(lots of other favourites in there as well, things i already have for much cheaper than i paid for them)

Thrift store,
Persepolis, $3
Dancer In The Dark, $3
Louis CK - Hilarious, $2
Sarah Silverman Program - season two volume 1, $2

I finally own a Blu-Ray player (Christmas gift), so now I have to fight the temptation to (insanely) start re-buying stuff I already have on DVD. Bought four new ones today for $5 each: The Social Network, Third Person, State of Play, and J. Edgar. Three of them I already own. The last one, I don't even like.

That's how I was when I got my first CD player.

God yes, I'm pretty sure I bought the first Simply Red album. Literally have not thought about that in 30 years.

The only time this temptation will kick in is when it's something cheap. I'd never buy something at full price because I think the Blu-Ray's going to be significantly better than the DVD I have--I just don't have the eye for that, and even if I did, I still wouldn't do it. When something's dirt-cheap, though, I'm suddenly "J. Edgar? Geez, I hated that--but it's only $5!"

(It's like a variation on the bad-restaurant joke Woody Allen tells in Annie Hall.)

Thrift store for a dollar.

Don't Be Afraid To Pogo - documentary on the LA punk band The Gears.

pictures
the shooting
cassavetes collection
the exterminating angel
the 39 steps (criterion)

Big Lots 20% off day;

Starship Troopers, $2.40
Martha Marcy May Marlene, $2.40
The Big Sleep, $4
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (2 disks), $4
Arrested Development season 4, $6.40 I've never seen a season 4 set before, and here's a cheap one.

On the way back home stopped at Goodwill,
The Science of Sleep, $4

WalMart, $9.97

The Midnight Special Collection (6-disc condensed set of the subscription series, appears to be missing the comedian clips and some music featured on those discs)

Goodwill today:
American Movie, $3

Other thrift store:
Factory Girl (uncut edition), $2

thrift stores: (1.99 to 2.99 a pop)
There Will Be blood (2-disc)
Hot Fuzz (3 discs for some reason)
For a Few Dollars More (2 disc)
Total Recall (sealed Blu-ray)
Mulholland Dr.
The Thin Red Line

Blu-rays, $5 each: Boyhood, Daughter, Third Person, Winter Sleep

DVDs, $5: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 8 Seconds, Ivory Tower

DVDs, $3: Peggy Sue Got Married, Virginia, The Fall of an Angel, 400 Days, Marie and Bruce, It Follows, The Lobster, The Riot Club

Also bought a couple of Boyhood DVDs for $3--cheap future gifts for two lucky people.

Half-Price Books, $2 (used):

Inherent Vice

Thrift store, $3 each

Jackie Brown (2-disk edition)
Singin' In The Rain

Picked up a new BR copy of Your Name at the local overstock liquidators for less than $10. Also Ariel Pink's Pom Pom on 2LP vinyl for $5 (snagged 2 copies of that one, tbh; one to sell & one to keep). The vinyl was mixed in with a pallet load of dog shit calendars, just the 2 APs and one lonely copy of something by Panic! at the Disco, its cover oddly reminiscent of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.

Weird, cuz their stock is usually limited to expired snack experiments and huge loafers. They had Baby Driver too, but...

the passenger
odd man out/victim/this sporting life
dead reckoning/in a lonely place/the harder they fall
quatermass & the pit/the nanny/dracula: prince of darkness/frankenstein created woman/the devil rides out

Swap meet today, $1 each. And while I appreciate the low prices for used DVDs these days, I can't help but think this portends that new DVDs won't be released as much as before, and re-sellers will give up trying to make money selling used disks. There was a guy that had a very large catalog of disks that sold here but he's been gone for over a year. He charged $4 or $5 per disk but there was good depth in his bins.

Shopgirl
Brokedown Palace
SNL Best Of Phil Hartman

(mini Claire Danes fest)

Goodwill, $3.99 each (used):

Mr. Show Seasons 1+2
Mr. Show Season 4

$2 - used, unscratched copy of The Bourne Identity in the extended cut (big whoop)

Bigger, Longer, Bourneier

97p (plus postage) for a copy on Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August from Amazon marketplace.

About £3 (plus postage) for Kurosawa's Scandal (ditto)

The last two I need won't be as easy (Dreams has just been reissued but is expensive and The Idiot is oop)

Documentaries, $2.99 each:

Arranged, Cutie and the Boxer, Iraq in Fragments, Mr. Gaga, Watermark

It's supposed to be very good, but Cutie and the Boxer is such a terrible title.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PS3)
Mass Effect 3 (PS3)

both cib each for $5 at goodwill

Video games?

Best thing I got recently was a used copy of Robert Drew's Primary, his Kennedy-Humphrey film, for $3. I got it at a flea-market kiosk where I used to buy a lot of DVDs until they reconfigured their floor-space for...more vinyl.

Just ordered the Blu-Ray of Ridley Scott's The Counselor (screenplay by Cormac McCarthy) on eBay for $5. It's actually a 2 Blu-Ray set, because it includes a director's cut that's 20 minutes longer. Since it was one of the most baffling, insane movies I've ever sat through in a theater, I figured I'd check out the long version and see if it gets even weirder.

Picked up Ciao, Manhattan a couple weeks ago for $1.50.
I know it's trash, but such a low price! (thrift store half-price, because it had been on the shelves for a while).

The Spectacular Now, $3

ah, when Miles Teller was cute

I passed on The Best of Times (the Robin Williams/Kurt Russel movie) because I couldn't remember if it was supposed to be any good, and a couple of seasons of Frasier because I'm pretty sure the whole season is available for free On Demand. But mostly because I didn't want to break any large bills (also bought a book).

Was that Ciao, Manhattan the PlexiFilm edition? That was one of my first DVDs. A nice faux-Criterion edition with some great bounses, particularly the deleted scenes. You get to see Paul America throw his script away and speed off set in a sports car, a party scene that the director appeared in but doesn't remember (in the commentary, the interviewer notes the huge toke he took off a joint on-camera and says, "that's why!"), and footage from this big be-in thing with Allen Ginsberg and Uma Thurman's parents.

Got a documentary on Haskell Wexler for $3 today.

Just received a sealed copy of Six Films By Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Homo Sapiens 2016, Over the Years 2015, Abendland 2011, Our Daily Bread blu ray, Elsewhere 2001, Pripyat 1999) for $8.42 (normally, $45). Post-human non-verbal apocalypse, here I come.

How??!?

MK: surprise "used" sale on my Amz wishlist.

Was that Ciao, Manhattan the PlexiFilm edition? ...

― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain)

It is! The 30th anniversary edition, per the cover.I guess I made out better than I thought.

Half-Price Books, $1.60:

Drinking Buddies

Thrift store finds:

about a month ago:
Superbad (2 disk version) $3

today:
Wholphin vol 2 "DVD magazine of rare and unseen short films" $2
Wholphin vol 4 $2

Absolutely Fabulous complete series 3 for $2

Ray Bradbury Theater (3 disks) for $3

Surprising finds at Goodwill Books:

Rosemary's Baby (Criterion Blu-ray, $3)
Solaris (Criterion DVD, $5)

thumbs up

Thrift store finds.

Kids In The Hall, Season 2 (4 disks), $5
Bjork, Live from Athens, Greece 2004, $3

Atthe swap meet, $1 each

The Doors (2 disk version)
Funny Ha Ha

After I bought them I wasn't sure I didn't already have the Doors one, but for a buck who cares. I don't have my disks organized so it may take a while to check if I already have one.

Thrift store's half-price day, $1 each:

To Die For
Carnal Knowledge

Two volumes of the original Betty Boop cartoons for $2 each.

The Fog, $2.

Went to a Repair Cafe today (volunteers fix stuff for free) and at the "really really free" table I found the Herzog/Kinski box set, 6 movies.

With the B&N half price sale and an extra $15 off with the members card, the new Ingmar Bergman box set comes out to $4.50 per blu-ray, with a good book thrown in.

My copy of that set just arrived a couple days ago. It's fucking huge.

danger: diabolik

I have a box with dvds that includes some french box sets (Rohmer, Melville, Malle, a few others) and some Simpsons seasons and I don't know, all in all like 100 discs, and I have no idea how I'm going to get rid of them

a few years ago i bought a european blu-ray of 8 1/2 because it was cheap. it has no english subtitles. i don't even like 8 1/2.

^^^ New I Love Film board description.