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

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

Went nuts at the swap meet today, one seller said his stock was from a guy who was liquidating and it was "first time out." $2 each

Miracle Mile
Roger Corman Drive-In Collection (5 movies on 2 disks)
Tideland (2 disk version)
The Onion Movie Raw & Uncut
Southland Tales
Five Easy Pieces
Edmund
Best of Tromadance , Vol 4 (short films from Troma)
It Might Get Loud
Too Cool For School (12 movies on 3 disks, trashy teen-oriented movies)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Apocalypse Now Redux

Many were still wrapped (bought at Big Lots or dept stores)

Thrift store yesterday, $3 each

Bjork-Volumen
Requiem for a Dream (director's cut)

Miracle Mile is a good find!

It's been on my must-watch list for quite a while.

Thrift store half price day, $1 each.

Monty Python - the Life of Python (BBC/A&E doc, 2 disks)
Bow Wow Wow - 1982 Live Compilation

At a thrift store (in Joshua Tree), $2

Hallelujah!, Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance

Friends of Library Sale, $2:

It's Always Fair Weather

Dollar Tree, $1:

Afternoon Delight
SNL Presents: The Best of TV Funhouse
Her (Blu-Ray)
Inherent Vice (Blu-Ray)

Thrift store, $1

Kurosawa's High and Low on Criterion

I was in there last Friday and they had Once Upon A Time In The West (2-disk version) and the cheapskate in me decided to wait till today (their weekly half-price day) to get it. Gone today, of course.

Godzilla (1954) £3 from fopp (with purchase). i have a copy that was given away with the guardian a few years ago but this is the bfi version with booklet and commentary.

I can never resist those £3-with-purchase piles at the Fopp counter. Last time I got Kore-Eda's Air Doll and the time before that A Woman Under The Influence. Pretty random selection they come up with.

I got the St Etienne dvd a few years ago.

(in the same £3 deal)

Half-Price Books, $1.60 (used):

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

They also had for same price a copy of the Olive Films 3-disc edition of 1900, but it was missing the disc w/the second half of the movie, so no.

Thrift store, $3.

Far From Heaven

Also got a Mountain Goats CD for $1 (Transcendental Youth), but it has no booklet.

Went nuts at the swap meet again today, same seller, $2 each

Pecker
2001: A Space Odyssy
Exiles (not the Bunker Hill one, a French couple road trip through Algeria)
Jackie Brown
The Elephant Man
Cannibal! The Musical
After Hours
They All Laughed
Once Upon A Time In The West (bypassed this one at a thrift store a month ago)
Cool Hand Luke

Got a new 3-CD box set of Ken Russell at the BBC for under $15 a few weeks ago. All I've seen by him are a couple of his wild late films, Altered States and Lair of the White Worm--always assumed I'd hate his famous '70s films. So obviously I just had to have this.

Last week at a thrift store, $1 each:
Tropic Thunder 2-disk edition
Solaris (Clooney version)
Paul Simon and Friends - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song performance
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 1
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 2

Couple days ago at a different TS, $2 each:
7 Worlds Collide - Neil Finn and Friends live at the St James
Novocaine (Steve Martin)
thirteen

Thrift store last Friday, $1 each

Youth In Revolt
Rachel Getting Married

and the swap meet Sunday, $1
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