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

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.

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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.