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

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.

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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.

Not much out there, is there? I haven't binged in ages--I might find two or three things at a time now. Not $5, but I bought a used copy of Tony Richardson's The Border today, which I've wanted to see for ages. (I think I may have seen it on release, but I don't remember a thing.)

Local swap meet today, got Sugarcult's Action, which seems to be a few videos, home video footage, a photo scrapbook, and some live performance stuff. Also $1.

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!