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

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...

FWIW, if you're in NYC, the Housing Works Bookstore has Blu-rays all for a flat $5 and the selection ain't bad.

https://www.housingworks.org/locations/bookstore-cafe

$2 for Elton John Live At Madison Square Garden (2007)

2 disks, first is that show and second is a bunch of other performances from 1970 onward.

A few days ago at a thrift store, $3 for Tracy Takes On seasons 3 and 4 (3 disks).

was looking at the complete walking dead, all 11 series, listed at £140, and then figured the earlier, incompete boxes might be cheaper... got 1-7 for £17, which is 33 disks, so ~50p each. even if 8, 9, 10 and 11 are £25 each then i'm still quids in.

Today at a thrift store, $3, Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste (Galaxie 500 2-disks).

This time I did know I already had it, but for $3 how could I not?

Even tho I had half of them, I was delighted to find the BBC Life box set for $15 ($US10) - 24 discs of prime Attenborough. When he was out amongst it and the narratives were thought-provoking and detailed, rather than “look at these penguins playing”.

At a thrift store, for $2.50, Square Pegs full series (3 disks).

haha, I just got that at Half-Price for $6! watched the first half-dozen eps, holds up pretty well to be honest

"Totally different head ..."

Arrived at a thrift store as a volunteer was unboxing disc donations. For $10 US I got
The Ascent (Criterion blu)
Ophuls’ “La Ronde” (blu but French only, argh)
The Others 4K
Serpico and a triple Polanski set on DVD
Bergman’s “Face to Face” on blu

At a thrift store, for $4,The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.
An MGM "special release" with a few extra "making of" type features. Still sealed.

At a thrift store, for $4, Almodovar's What Have I Done To Deserve This.

Yesterday at a thrift store:
That Girl (season 1, sealed box) $5
Woody Allen's Love and Death $4
Blank Generation $4 (the Ulli Lommel film with Richard Hell)
Studio Classics box set $4 (4 discs, 20th Century Fox)
All About Eve
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Inn of the Seventh Happiness
The Valley of the Dolls

That Girl, nice!

Got a sealed copy of something I already had as a bootleg for $5 yesterday: the first season of Big Little Lies.

got Hugo and Shutter Island blu rays for £1 each the other day from the local charity shop. Hugo is a cute film! kids are a bit too posh for my liking and could have done without Sasha Baron Cohen doing his 'Allo 'Allo impression, but otherwise I quite enjoyed it. the scenes which recreate Melies making films were incredible, suspect they were the main reason Marty made the film.

$4 each at a thrift store:

John Coltrane Live In '60, '61, & '65
The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (a film about Of Montreal)

I had a John Cage disc in hand but figured I'd never watch it so I put it back.

Well pleased to find a second copy of a pretty rare Australian film I love called “Return Home” yesterday for a dollar. Giving it to my fellow film tragic friend who doesn’t have a copy.

Aaaah, I remember that one. One of those pre-internet Aus films acclaimed for bit and then suddenly it seems like the NFSA or ACMI et al have the only copies in the country lol. (I think curiosity eventually led me to a cruddy VHS rip -- I mainly recall Joe Camilleri as a busker!)

Yeah! And now I discover it had a 35th anniversary restoration release a few months ago, so I’ll grab the blu ray …

Yesterday, $2 at a thrift store: the Can DVD set (3 disks!).

I already have it but couldn't pass that up (backup copy). It had been sitting there since Mar 27 so the store had it at half price.

Green Acres, S2, $2.99. I won't even think about starting it until I get hold of S1; Green Acres was a show with many complicated, overlapping storylines, with dozens of enigmatic and troubled characters to keep track of.

Ha, yes.

Just got back from a thrift store:
Peter Gabriel Growing Up Live for $3.

xpost I mean if you take Green Acres as a US equivalent to The Prisoner much is explained.

Most of Green Acres is explained in the theme song.

Arnold Ziffel? A Rover in disguise.

Had no idea it lasted six seasons (in my mind, it was two maximum). I'm most intrigued by the stories they came up for seasons 4, 5, and 6.

Got the Bad News Bears Go to Japan DVD for $2.40 this past weekend, which completes the set.

there's somebody famous in that iirc. tomisaburo wakayama?

(yes, for some value of famous)

Everyone is utterly wasted in it, but I had to complete the trilogy.

(the second of the series-Bad News Bears in Breaking Training-is also terrible but essential viewing if you grew up in Houston for the Astrodome scenes and old-timey Houston location shots)