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

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