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

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

Another thrift store find today, Respect Yourself, The Stax Records Story for $1.

been picking up a heap of excellent films on dvd recently for 5 & under, but my big score is def:

columbia pictures film noir classics vols i & ii ($5)
warner bros film noir classic collection vols i, ii, iii, iv & v ($15)
warner bros gangsters collection vols i, ii, iii & iv ($10)

currently 3 films in with another 60 or so to go

great stuff!

Got the Foo Fighters Skin and Bones show for $2 at a thrift store on Friday.

Fry's, 99¢

Larry Sanders Seasons 1-2.

Swap meet today, $1 each:
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Richard Pryor, Live In Concert (first filmed performance)

$2 each:
Mind The Gap
The Filth and the Fury (Sex Pistols doc)
The Three Geniuses, the Re-Death of Psychedelia (a Los Angeles public access TV collection, had never heard of it before)
Love Dolls Superstar: Fully Realized (director's cut)
Cut Shorts - David Markey collection of shorts and music videos.

Thrift Store, $2 each:

Days of Wine and Roses
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Miller's Crossing
M*A*S*H Seasons 1 & 5 (sealed, the former still had a $35 price tag from Borders on the shrink)
The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 1 (sealed)

Thrift store about a week ago, $1.50.

Nine Inch Nails - Beside You In Time (live 2006, ~90 min)

Night and Fog (Criterion) [Goodwill, $2]

Goodwill, $2.99

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (Box Set bonus disc documentary including a reconstruction of Something's Got To Give)

Today, a double pack of FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN and BLOOD FOR DRACULA for $2.

Stones "Some Girls Live in Texas 1978" on blu-ray for $4 at a thrift store.

4-disc Gone with the Wind box, sealed, $4.99.

Some of the DVDs I listed above, things I bought in duplicate, I've been giving away to friends the last few weeks in advance of a move. I'm trying to force myself not to buy new stuff as I try to get rid of old. But of course I continue to buy a few DVDs, books, CDs, and records. I'm a pathological accumulater.

I got Total Recall at the swap meet last week for $1. I've never seen it.

And yesterday I got a Sun Ra disk called Jazz Session new for $5.50.

Total Recall would be the perfect DVD to buy cheap, then realize when you got home that you'd bought it before.

Some DVDs I bought in the mid-'00s (e.g., my cherished Val Lewton set) became unplayable over the years due to rot. Apparently Warner DVDs ca.2005 are particularly prone. I'm not sure how widespread the phenomenon is, but it sullied the whole idea of DVD collection as film library for me.

I don't think I've ever had a DVD not play correctly because of age...I've had a few with problems the first time I played them, but not because of degradation.

i have a bunch that have been damaged by the sun, but luckily nothing irreplaceable. but i also have hundreds that i haven't looked at in 10 years so who knows what's unplayable.

backing up dvds is usually possible, at least.

as for bargains, the entire 21 disc set of Breaking Bad is now £15, less in some places.

This probably says more about the limits of my imagination than anything else, but how were your DVDs exposed to the sun? (Some kind of portable player you take outside?)

I left them out of the cases and the sun shone onto them through the windows. They are noticeably discoloured.

Kwaidan, for example. look at that discoloration on the top left edge. oni-baba had the same thing, as did one of the disks in the ozu melodrama box (was probably £20 in Fopp to replace them all)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48893702682_8a4d390574.jpg

(the really dark bit is a reflection, the smokey dark bit is the sun-damage)

good lord. i've never seen that on a dvd

Dvd-r and DVD-RW always had a 'no direct sunlight' thing on them, but, yes, was surprised when I saw this. They were Bfi and masters of cinema discs too, which you'd think would be good quality.

Goodwill just now, an 8-disk Mel Brooks collection for $4.

The first at a thrift store a couple weeks ago, for $2, the other two at a thrift store today for $1 each.

The Beach (w/DiCaprio)
Lost Highway
I, Tonya

Two-disc Help! reissue, $4 (used, but like new).

Thrift store today for $3 each.

Nude on the Moon (Doris Wishman)
Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, which also contains Opus 1, an earlier, more abstract film by Ruttman.

Got the first four seasons of Boardwalk Empire for $5 each yesterday (used but perfect shape). I actually started watching a bootleg copy of the first season a while back, but only stuck around for three or four episodes before bailing. Too good to pass up, though, so I'll try again at some point.

Yesterday at CEX: Picnic at Hanging Rock for 4.50 euros and MacGruber for 50 cents