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

Video games?

Best thing I got recently was a used copy of Robert Drew's Primary, his Kennedy-Humphrey film, for $3. I got it at a flea-market kiosk where I used to buy a lot of DVDs until they reconfigured their floor-space for...more vinyl.

Just ordered the Blu-Ray of Ridley Scott's The Counselor (screenplay by Cormac McCarthy) on eBay for $5. It's actually a 2 Blu-Ray set, because it includes a director's cut that's 20 minutes longer. Since it was one of the most baffling, insane movies I've ever sat through in a theater, I figured I'd check out the long version and see if it gets even weirder.

Picked up Ciao, Manhattan a couple weeks ago for $1.50.
I know it's trash, but such a low price! (thrift store half-price, because it had been on the shelves for a while).

The Spectacular Now, $3

ah, when Miles Teller was cute

I passed on The Best of Times (the Robin Williams/Kurt Russel movie) because I couldn't remember if it was supposed to be any good, and a couple of seasons of Frasier because I'm pretty sure the whole season is available for free On Demand. But mostly because I didn't want to break any large bills (also bought a book).

Was that Ciao, Manhattan the PlexiFilm edition? That was one of my first DVDs. A nice faux-Criterion edition with some great bounses, particularly the deleted scenes. You get to see Paul America throw his script away and speed off set in a sports car, a party scene that the director appeared in but doesn't remember (in the commentary, the interviewer notes the huge toke he took off a joint on-camera and says, "that's why!"), and footage from this big be-in thing with Allen Ginsberg and Uma Thurman's parents.

Got a documentary on Haskell Wexler for $3 today.

Just received a sealed copy of Six Films By Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Homo Sapiens 2016, Over the Years 2015, Abendland 2011, Our Daily Bread blu ray, Elsewhere 2001, Pripyat 1999) for $8.42 (normally, $45). Post-human non-verbal apocalypse, here I come.

How??!?

MK: surprise "used" sale on my Amz wishlist.

Was that Ciao, Manhattan the PlexiFilm edition? ...

― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain)

It is! The 30th anniversary edition, per the cover.I guess I made out better than I thought.

Half-Price Books, $1.60:

Drinking Buddies

Thrift store finds:

about a month ago:
Superbad (2 disk version) $3

today:
Wholphin vol 2 "DVD magazine of rare and unseen short films" $2
Wholphin vol 4 $2

Absolutely Fabulous complete series 3 for $2

Ray Bradbury Theater (3 disks) for $3

Surprising finds at Goodwill Books:

Rosemary's Baby (Criterion Blu-ray, $3)
Solaris (Criterion DVD, $5)

thumbs up

Thrift store finds.

Kids In The Hall, Season 2 (4 disks), $5
Bjork, Live from Athens, Greece 2004, $3

Atthe swap meet, $1 each

The Doors (2 disk version)
Funny Ha Ha

After I bought them I wasn't sure I didn't already have the Doors one, but for a buck who cares. I don't have my disks organized so it may take a while to check if I already have one.

Thrift store's half-price day, $1 each:

To Die For
Carnal Knowledge

Two volumes of the original Betty Boop cartoons for $2 each.

The Fog, $2.

Went to a Repair Cafe today (volunteers fix stuff for free) and at the "really really free" table I found the Herzog/Kinski box set, 6 movies.

With the B&N half price sale and an extra $15 off with the members card, the new Ingmar Bergman box set comes out to $4.50 per blu-ray, with a good book thrown in.

My copy of that set just arrived a couple days ago. It's fucking huge.

danger: diabolik

I have a box with dvds that includes some french box sets (Rohmer, Melville, Malle, a few others) and some Simpsons seasons and I don't know, all in all like 100 discs, and I have no idea how I'm going to get rid of them

a few years ago i bought a european blu-ray of 8 1/2 because it was cheap. it has no english subtitles. i don't even like 8 1/2.

^^^ New I Love Film board description.

Today at a thrift store, $3 each:

When You're Strange (Doors doc)
Fur (Diane Arbus "imaginary portrait")
Studio Ghibli collection, 6 disk set, but disks 2 and 3 were missing.

Friends of Library Sale Shelf, $12 total:

The Verdict "Collector's Edition" 2-disc
Born Yesterday
Imagine John Lennon "Deluxe Edition"
6 Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus (sealed)

Forgot to enter these, from a week or two ago. $3 each except for the Warhol, $2.

Sarah Silverman Show – season 1
Barton Fink
Tapeheads
Please Give
Superstar: Andy Warhol doc

Half-Price Books 20%-off sale (all used):

Plan 9 From Outer Space ($1.60)
Luck: The Complete 1st Season ($2.40)
The Science of Sleep ($3.99)
Ninotchka ('')
Double Indemnity ('')
Ed Wood ($4.39)
Ride The Pink Horse [Criterion] ($6.00)
The Simpsons: The Complete Season 4 (8.00)

And then yesterday I went back but they'd ended the sale, which didn't stop me from grabbing:

Ocean's 11: 3 Film Collection ($5.99)

Big Lots:

Ocean's 11/Robin & The 7 Hoods "TCM Double Feature" ($2.50)
The Interview/This Is The End "TCM Laugh Out Loud Double Feature" ($3)
Fletch ('')

Friends of Library Shelf:

$5: Inagaki's The Samurai Trilogy (sealed Criterion reissue)

that is a good deal

I should have posted this here too, if any of you are ebay buyers.

An art gallery is selling a lot of Criterions on ebay, for those interested. It's located near me but I never remembered to go and check it out in person.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/flickhead/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from&fbclid=IwAR0y3j78QfCEz3DTitovRhc7zLOtPfkt8Or6G-sBVHfC48wYDz7xYMb8V84

For those with region-free players, the Brexit related US/UK exchange rate is facilitating some cheap deals for North Americans. Also key is that the US prestige labels like Criterion and Kino Lorber chose a luxury price point, whereas the UK (and for that matter, German) labels price art films like more mainstream fare, for the very same transfer. VAT is deducted for export orders, so ATM the price in $ comes close to the price in £. While I picked up a bunch more in the $8-$10 range (shipping over the pond will be about $8 from Amz.co.uk, so I made one big order), the most notable deals were blu-rays of Let the Sunshine In for about $5 and the Three Colours trilogy for about $13.

Dollar Tree, $1 each (duh):

Just Shoot Me!: Seasons 1 & 2
The IT Crowd: Season 2
Cedar Rapids: The Super Awesome Edition
Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates

Saw a Russian version of Zabriskie Point in a thrift store today for $5, didn't buy it because I wasn't sure it would play on my player. I didn't see NTSC anywhere. Also saw a Marx Bros set (6 or 7 movies) for $7 or 8 that I should have gotten, maybe I'll go back for it.

Friends of Library, $5:

Bruce Lee Ultimate Collection Box Set: The Big Boss; Fist of Fury; Way of The Dragon; Game of Death; and Game of Death II (sealed)

Half-Price Books, $2.40 (used)

Come Drink With Me

At my Friends of the Library charity bookstore, all lightly used:

North by Northwest, $2.
The Third Man, $2.
Stagecoach, $1.50.
The Eagle Huntress (documentary) $2.
I Am Not Your Negro (documentary), $1.50.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (documentary), $1.50.

Big Lots clearance bin:

75¢: Martha Marcy May Marlene
$1.25: The Iron Giant "Special Edition"
$1.50: Boogie Nights 2-disc*

*Have this already, but it's in storage somewhere.

Thrift store today, manstrokewoman, both seasons on 2 disks, for $1.

Thrift store today (again), the Bogart / Bacall collection, unopened, for $7.

The Big Sleep
To Have and Have Not
Key Largo
Dark Passage

Swap meet on Sunday, $1 each:

Pink Floyd at Pompeii - Says director's cut from 2003, but I think this has been re-released in a more elaborate form since.
Monty Python/Holy Grail 2-disk set - Probably don't need to see this again but I assume the commentaries are worth doing.

oh my, the director's cut of Live at Pompeii is bad on a scale that transcends hilarity - the wonderful original footage intercut with eye-wateringly bad 90s home-computer "space" animations. If you got the same DVD as me, fortunately the original is on there and excellent quality.

Ha, OK, I guess I'm in for a treat.

Thrift store today, $1 each:

Jesus' Son
Valley Girl

solid haul