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

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.

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.