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

Today at a thrift store for $4
Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday on Criterion.

I've been going to thrift stores since the last post, but the pickin's keep getting slimmer and slimmer. Yesterday, though, I was at a Goodwill and discovered that somebody had dumped their Criterion collection. So I got:

Videodrome (2 disks)
Kwaidan
Jigoku
Jules and Jim (2 disks)
La Jetee/Sans Soleil
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (2 disks)
That Obscure Object of Desire
Band of Outsiders
8 1/2 (2 disks)
The Third Man (2 disks)

And on non-Criterion labels:
Persona
L'Age D'Or

All for $56 (why yes, I am eligible for the 15% senior discount)
I left 8-10 on the shelf because I either already had them or wasn't interested.
I also think I already own 1-2 of the ones I bought, but wasn't sure.

That is definitely worth posting about!

great haul! I should get L'Age D'Or one of these days
never seen a Criterion in a second hand store but did find a Kenneth Anger collection for v. cheap recently

That two-disc Third Man is a real score, it wasn't in print very long.

Today at a thrift store, $2.

The Anniversary Party.

I remember liking it the one time I saw it, and it has a commentary, so what the hell.

Nickn's post a little above is the only kind of Criterion Flash Sale that means anything to me.

lol
I went back to the store a couple days later and the rest of the Criterions were gone.

I had a find like that but on a lesser scale, I think I got Cria Cuervos, Battle of Algiers and Carlos the Jackal (not all Criterion) along with a Renoir and something else decent. $2 a disc tho!

I just found The Films of Charles & Ray Eames Volume 2 in one of those little free libraries

Swap meet yesterday, $1 each.

Interiors
Casino Royale
Fay Grim

The seller had a Criterion/art house section for $8 each, but nothing I had to have.

Thrift store just now, $1 each.

Larry Clark's Kids
Neil Young's Greendale

Not sure I've ever heard anything good about Greendale, but now's my chance to find out.

Also found the Frantz/Weymouth book Remain In Love for $2.

Big Lots 20% off sale

Wild River (Blu): $4.79
Mad Max Fury Road (3-D Blu Combo): $3.99

Halfway tempted to try to flip the latter, as it's oop and certain copies bring $$ online (but probably not the one I got)

At the Repair Cafe's Really, Really Free table today,

SLC Punk
Rocky Horror Picture Show

I may already have SLC Punk, and if so I'll drop it off at the next one.

BTW, anyone curious about what's at Big Lots these days entertainment-wise it's a lot of Blu-Rays and DVD combo packs. They also have a lot of full-season/full-series TV sets, probably leftovers from Black Friday. Amusingly, a number of these were obviously Canadian imports from Quebec, as they had bilingual packaging.

Sony's dumped a bunch of $7 catalogue CDs, and I found a Sean Mendes double-LP for $25.

Both of the Big Lots closest to me have shut down, don't know where the next nearest one is now, but I should find out.

I was up in north Houston today, laughing about how that--spaced out over a particular 15-20 mile stretch of road no less--up there they've got four Big Lots (and a fifth if you stretch in our another 15 or so miles...and a another three that are a little further north on freeways that cross the road in question).

saw a DVD of Morvern Callar for a buck at a record store in LA today. That's definitely worth a dollar!

More 20% Off Blu-Rays At Big Lots:

Friday Night Lights [film] ($2.39)
Terminator ($5.59)
Psycho 60th Anniversary [two cuts] ($7.19)
West Side Story 50th Anniversary Blu Combo ($7.99)

I put back a copy of the Twin Peaks Gold DVD Set, which would have been about $16 w/the discount.

The FNL is one of those early Blus with the breathless back cover notes about quaint stuff like "High Definition" and "BluRay Live".

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

― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:52 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Prophecy? 10 years on and the fourway rack with the movies was next to another one packed with Little Debbie's.

I'm sick y'all...they keep sending me Big Lots coupons

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Blu), $3.99
True History of The Kelly Gang (Blu), $3.19
Edge of Seventeen, $1.20
Howard The Duck Special Edition, $2.39
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 50th Anniversary, $4.00

Was in the Giant Tiger in Stratford today, which I used to post about regularly in this thread. They still keep one stand-up rack of sale DVDs. Truly honoring the spirit of this thread, got Indecent Proposal and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2005 issue) for $4.99 each. I'd say it's about 70/30 against me ever watching the latter.

$4 today at Goodwill: A Hard Day's Night, 2-disk version.

Thrift store today, $2 for Cat Ballou. (I've never seen it.)

Cat Ballou is OK-ish. It's Hollywood's version of self-satire. Even the musical soundtrack is self-consciously satirical. In case the audience doesn't 'get it', it all but screams "we're just having a bit of harmless fun here, good people!"

$1.50 at a thrift store:
The Eye of the Beholder: The Artistry of James Hubbell (he's an "Organic" architect)

$2 at a thrift store, Moonrise Kingdom

I liked this one when I saw it years ago, but Anderson's batting average has been low lately.

And lol, at the same store I bought a DVD cabinet, that allegedly holds 183 DVDs ($10).

Thrift store today, $2 each

Deliverance
Fever the Music of Peggy Lee

Saw this on FB, reminded me of this thread: A store in Round Rock, TX is closing (owner retiring) and the stock is being auctioned online in lots.

Gaylord Pallets of 1300 DVD/Blus and 3000+ CDs apiece.

Opening bids of $5 per pallet. (Now up to $6-7!)

Shipping is probably a nightmare, so these are either locals for pickup, or big-time operators who can handle it.

But Good Fucking Grief at that volume of product!

https://www.proxibid.com/Garner-Associates-Auctioneers/Retro-Star-Music/event-catalog/261227?p=2&sort=4#cnTb

We Own The Night & Perdita Durango for 9 euro at CEX lastcweek

Was in my first-ever Big Lots today in Michigan and got two 30 for 30 boxes for $5 (Vol. 2, 16-30) and $7 (Vol. 1, 1-15). To balance that with some consumer stupidity, I bought a box--"box"--of 2022 baseball cards for $17 thinking there were 100 cards in there and there were 12.

Any good movies on the boxes?

... there were 12.

Oh, and welcome to America.

I'm mostly interested in the baseball 30 x 30s: "Fernando Nation," "Four Days in October" (2004 Red Sox), "The House of Steinbrenner," "You Don't Know Bo." But many others look good too, including one on Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter.

Went yard-sale cruising this morning, generally a bad/sad experience around here, but found Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia DVD for a buck.