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

There’s a “Cheap DVDs” thread, but it died four years ago, also a “Rolling I’d Buy That for a Dollar” thread from 2008, but I guess that one ran up against the dollar-records thread. The last two or three years has been a great time for buying discounted DVDs, as companies seemingly make the slow transition over to Blu-ray. (I’ve never really been clear on what’s going on there.) So if you find anything worthwhile for $5 or thereabouts, post about it here.

All of these were $5 at a local flea market I scour once every few weeks:

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Phil Kaufman’s sort-of first film)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Boyz n the Hood (two discs)
The Wicker Man (original, Anchor Bay)

Also bought the first season of Room 222 for $12. The less said about such abject nostalgia the better.

I thought the Great Northfield Minnesota Raid was inferior to the Long Riders myself.

Walmart has $3 bins that are so big that you almost have to climb into them to reach stuff. Considering much of Walmart's local demographic, it's like bringing dumpster-diving indoors. I've never seen anything in them I'd climb in for, though.

Northfield is the only one of the four I haven't yet seen. As the Room 222 purchase indicates, I'm much more inclined to buy second-tier stuff from the '70s than from any other decade.

Those Wal-Mart bins are ridiculous! I even spoke to someone there once, suggesting that it's not a great incentive to buy when you're afraid of causing a major catastrophe if you dislodge one DVD too many.

I'm upset that Warner Bros. has put a moratorium on a large chunk of their catalog titles, probably so they can start selling them through the WB Store at a higher price in that piddly DVD-R format. I was having fun buying them in 3-packs for $5 at Big Lots.

Recently acquired for $4 each from a local rental store going OOB:

Kicking and Screaming (Criterion)
3 Women (Criterion)
Paris is Burning
Eating Raoul
Showgirls (but it skips, boo)
All About Eve
something else I can't remember

3 Women for $4? Wow--that's like just over a dollar per woman. Seriously, that's a great deal. All I have is an old VHS I taped off Bravo...which I've still never watched, for some reason.

Got these for $5 each from a guy who always has a great table of still-sealed DVDs at Toronto record shows.

The Tomorrow Show: Punk & New Wave
The Tomorrow Show: John, Paul, Tom & Ringo
You Bet Your Life: The Lost Episodes
Woodstock (2-disc director's cut)
Big Brother & the Holding Co.: Nine Hundred Nights
Helter Skelter (have no idea how this will look today; I was right into it when it played on TV in the mid-'70s)
2001: A Space Odyssey (2 discs)

King of Comedy ($5)
Targets ($5)

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry ($0.99)

I already have the Kerry film, but I bought two copies for future gifts. It's not like one of those campaign books that are embarrassments a year later--it's actually a really good film.

(Kenneth) Mars Attack today @ Big Lots w/Desperate Characters (I'm also still in possession of my Netflix copy) & What's Up Doc? for $3 apiece.

I've got a bag or two of similar Big Lots bargain discs acquired over the past several months. And if I had wanted to spend the money today, I could have also picked up Getting Straight (Elliot Gould/Candice Bergen college movie--anybody rep for it?), The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T and a bunch of Sony Pictures Classics titles for the same price.

These were from a Blockbuster buy-2-get-1-free sale, so they cost $14 together:

The Beaches of Agnes
The Great Happiness Space
Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times/5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris

$5 each at a discount store:

Disclosure (for shame, for shame--one of my favourite pieces of unmitigated junk ever)
2010: The Year We Make Contact (not crazy about the original, so this makes a lot of sense)
Erin Brockovich (never seen it)
Anne Frank Remembered (should be useful in class)
The MLB Cubs box set--eight games, eight discs, including the wild 12-11 game from '84 where Sandberg won it in extras with his second home run of the day. I remember watching that game on Saturday afternoon.

Just noticed C. Grissom's query about Getting Straight. I watched it a couple of years ago and thought it was the most hopelessly dated kind of early-'70s "New Hollywood" film. And I have a very high tolerance for almost anything in that vein.

Canadian Blockbusters started liquidating on Friday. Didn't realize this had started till today, so I got a two-day late start. I hit the two close to home this afternoon; if I can remember where they all are, there are at least another six reasonably close. Everything's 30% off to start, so all of these were just under $5:

I'm Still Here (most acclaimed film since Otto Preminger's Skidoo!)
All the Real Girls (I saw this when it came out, sort of stayed in my mind ever since)
Please Give (I thought Lovely & Amazing was pretty good)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Strangely Creepy Old Man
Punch-Drunk Love (two discs)
When the Levees Broke (two discs, easily the best thing I found today)

I also bought The Social Network for $7--controversial, inspired a long ILX thread.

I passed on the 160-minute Carlos; having seen the full six hours, the abridged version doesn't hold much appeal for me. Sadly, someone beat me to the second Spike Lee Katrina film.

Felt sorry for the girl at the first store. She was the only person working (maybe someone was on a break). She had to handle cash, field questions, deal with people like me who brought a bunch of unpriced stuff up that had to be scanned before we made up our minds, manipulate all those unwieldy plastic cases, etc. When the guy in front of me commiserated, she mumbled a very terse "They don't pay me enought for this." I'm sure they never did--it's just much worse now.

Blockbuster kind of mastered the art of understaffed stores--->shitty employee treatment. I've avoided their liquidations partially because of the scenario you've mentioned, and also because I'd be tempted into buying too much stuff. Well, and also the fact that I'm pretty sure the stuff I'd have no problem buying (IFC exclusives), probably have already headed out the back door and on to Amazon for $20 & rising.

Anyway, back to the thread topic. Half-Price Books is doing a extra 20% off sale this weekend. I picked up very gently used copies (still had all the inserts) of Our Man Flint, In Like Flint & Modesty Blaise for $4 each. While talking to a friend on the phone later, I checked the titles on Amazon and found out they were all now OOP (although the Flints are now exclusive to a in-print combo pack), with used copies of Modesty going for $20+ and new ones starting @ $30. My friend--a big Joseph Losey fan--commented that Modesty wasn't a film you spent that much for.

Bought

The Song Remains The Same (2 DVD remastered) - concert footage better than I remembered. The playacting still sucks.
BBC Sherlock Holmes w/ Peter Cushing ( 4 "long lost" episodes - Cushing was a cool Holmes though played a little too sweet and understanding compared to J. Brett)

both $6 each.

It sure didn't take long for those Blockbusters to get picked clean; the shelves are almost bare 10 days into the sale. They're down to 50% off, so these were $4 or $5:

Client #9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer[/i]
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (the Gibney documentary)
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
The Sweet Hereafter
Mean Creek

Mean Creek's the only one I haven't seen yet. I expect they'll go to 75% next week, as they try to clear out whatever's left--Police Academy 6, Christmas with the Kranks, The Godfather III, etc.

These ones were 4/$10:

Bulworth -- I cringed a lot when I saw it on release, but I realize that (sometimes, anyway) I was supposed to cringe. I'll give it another try one night.
Till the Clouds Roll By
Beat Street
Slaughter -- The Jim Brown film...Got home, discovered I already had it (with a bunch of other blaxploitation titles in the "Soul Cinema" series). This is the third time this has happened in the past couple of weeks; I also recently bought redundant sale copies of Mulholland Dr. and The Sweet Hereafter.

These were $5 each:

Act of God -- Jennifer Baichwal's documentary on people who've been struck by lightning. I didn't think it was as good as it could have been, but it's G-rated, so I might get some use out it in class.
Nerakhoon -- Looks good: http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-11-19/film/the-betrayal-nerakhoon-offers-a-phantasmagoria-of-wartime-indochina/.
High Art -- Doesn't look like my kind of thing, but a friend recently listed it as one of his 50 favourite films on a countdown we're doing.
The Rainmaker -- Aaargh...see Slaughter.
Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy
The Wild Child

Spielberg's "War Of The Worlds" (Special edition/Widescreen) $3.75

"Renegade" (aka "Blueberry" - sort of fun and eyepopping yet sorta terrible Acid Western. Based on Moebius comics series. Starring Vincent Cassell, Eddie Izzard, Michael Madsen... Yep.) $3.00

Thank you, Half.com

Weekend before last, Big Lots-

$3:

Storefront Hitchcock
Prizzi's Honor
Macon County Line
Kentucky Fried Movie

$5:

John Wayne: The Franchise Collection (budget bundle from Universal; contains Seven Sinners (w/Dietrich), The Shepherd of The Hills (Wayne as a moonshiner), Pittsburgh (w/Dietrich & Randolph Scott), The Conqueror (oh yeah), & Jet Pilot (a semi-legendary nutso anti-commie feature helmed by Hughes/Von Sternberg, co-staring Janet Leigh as a comely Russian pilot/spy--Truffaut paraised it in The Films In My Life)).

"Renegade" (aka "Blueberry" - sort of fun and eyepopping yet sorta terrible Acid Western. Based on Moebius comics series. Starring Vincent Cassell, Eddie Izzard, Michael Madsen... Yep.) $3.00

O_o

C. Grissom -- I've got the Gary Cooper and Bela Lugosi equivalents of your John Wayne collection:

http://www.amazon.ca/Cooper-Collection-Design-Ibbetson-General/dp/B0007RTB9M/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1309792389&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.ca/Lugosi-Collection-Murders-Morgue-Invisible/dp/B0009X770E/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1309792481&sr=1-1

This Film Noir one is great if you can still find it. My local Target had them in its giant budget dvd bin a year ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Film-Noir-Movie-Pack/dp/B0006Z2NS6

Not technically the same series, but definitely a good collection. I like The Strange Love of Martha Ivers a lot. Is the quality okay, though? With a collection like this--unlike the "Franchise" series, which is put out by Universal (or whoever owns the Universal catalogue)--you never know what the quality will be like.

Quality varies from film to film but "Detour" looks fantastic as do "The Stranger" and "The Hitchhiker". Well worth getting cheap.

The Sears outlet store by me put out a bunch of interesting stuff at 4/$10, and I kind of went crazy.

Didn't realize I had these already: My Kid Could Paint That, Hannah and Her Sisters, Novocaine, Cooley High

Bought these a second time intentionally: Coming Home, Cisco Pike (bought that one full price on Amazon a couple of years ago)

Woodypalooza: Broadway Danny Rose, Alice, The Purple Rose of Cairo, A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy (like the first, will likely never watch the others; passed up Scoop)

Old Stuff: Casanova's Big Night, The Gay Divorcee, Cimarron, The Ugly American, He Walked by Night, Killer's Kiss, The Curse of Frankenstein/Taste the Blood of Dracula (Hammer), The Jackie Robinson Story, Suddenly, Pride of the Yankees, Storm Warning, Made for Each Other (the Jimmy Stewart one--wish it were Joseph Bologna/Renee Taylor instead)

Newer: Eight Men Out, Fired!, Married to the Mob, The Saddest Music in the World, She's Gotta Have It, Singles, Shakespeare Behind Bars, Vernon, Florida

Because I like the '70s: Two-Minute Warning

Because Madchen Amick's in it: Dream Lover

When I went back today to get The Love God with Don Knotts, it was gone. This broke my heart.

Same 4/$10 sale as above:

Reagan: Knute Rockne All American, The Winning Team, The Hasty Heart. The Winning Team, a bio of Grover Cleveland Alexander, is one of the first half-dozen films I can remember watching as a kid.

Other old stuff: Flying Down to Rio, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, Something to Sing About, Allegheny Uprising.

Plus: The Big Bounce (1970, Ryan O'Neal, Get Shorty before Get Shorty), Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, The Tomorrow Show: Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show (Kesey/Leary/Wolfe/Grateful Dead), Copycat.

At home, I far prefer watching junk I've already seen to anything that requires thought and attention, so the only thing I've (re)watched so far is Copycat. Was surprised to see Laszlo Kovacs did the cinematography.

I just learned Kovacs did Say Anything... Cinematographers have the most strangely diverse careers in the movie. Kovacs had a bunch of romcoms later on as did Sven Nyquivst.

Big Lots, this afternoon, $3 apiece:

Go
Brick
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (original)
A Man For All Seasons (Hello again, Mr. Shaw...)
Too Late The Hero
Roadie

I limited myself to spending $20, so I had to put back Snow Angels (which was actually a resealed rental copy as opposed to a remaindered sealed edition normal for the chain), Sex and Death 101 (sorry Winona) and the 3rd season of Strangers With Candy, all which were also $3 a throw.

My friend hit up another location last week and found Petulia for $3, and the deluxe Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for $5.

Gazuntite!

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More from the 4/$10 place last week:

Old -- Rancho Deluxe (wrote a bit about this on the Jeff Bridges thread), Let's Do It Again, Starman, Marooned, and Starting Over (watched this last night...sort of okay for a while, then awful; for Pakula to go from All the President's Men to this in the space of four years is as sad in its way as all the other '80s horrors stories)

Older -- Father of the Bride, The Fountainhead, Platinum Blonde (don't think I knew this was Capra), and a double Three Stooges: Gold Raiders and Meet the Baron

Junk -- Jennifer 8, Taking Lives, Blood and Wine (Bob Rafelson and Nicholson, undoubtedly bad)

Recent (more or less) -- Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, don't remember it), 2:37, The Sea Inside, Vera Drake, The Fountain (Darren Arnofsky, don't remember it), Anything Else, Wag the Dog

Documentary -- The Cutting Edge (about editing--not Visions of Light, but not bad)

I just got back from an unfamilier supermarket, where I found a sealed copy of the Kino edition of Jamaica Inn mixed in w/a bunch mexican movies & direct-to-dvd indie stuff for $2.99.

4/$10 yet again:

They Died with Their Boots On, The Helen Morgan Story, The Princess and the Pirate, Cheaper by the Dozen, 3 Godfathers (presumably much better than Godfather III), White Heat (best film in the haul)

The Love God?, The McKenzie Break, A Little Romance, True Confessions (remember it as deadly dull the one time I saw it years ago), Streamers (probably the best find)

Family Business, Backbeat, Boiler Room, Gangster No. 1, Unprecedented (documentary on the 2000 election--never heard of it), Dick (a friend loves this; I liked Election much better), The Company (Altman), The Company (TV mini-series about the CIA)

Also a couple of MLB productions on the 2009 series and famous Red Sox moments.

4/$10: King Kong (1933 original, two discs), King Kong ('70s remake--Kael liked it), The Out of Towners (original; must have seen this half-a-dozen times before I was 15), The Producers (original, two discs--have never seen it).

2/$10: The Shining and Twister, two discs each.

Haven't done much cheapo dvd shopping lately, but last week I got the two disc of Elvis: That's The Way It Is plus Waking Life (both sealed new copies) from Half-Price for about $5 each. Also scored $5 copies of Young Frankenstein, Halloween, Rocky Horror Picture Show and An American Werewolf In London (the last a two disc-er) from Wal Mart as part of a Halloween sale.

Wow, was just checking on Amazon, and found another (albeit used) $5 item from my Half-Price trip, Lina Wertmuller's Love & Anarchy, is going from $19.97 used.

dudes i have a billion dvds i want to get rid of, would anyone want me to list them here? lots in their original packaging too. was trying to figure out how to unload them

List away. Be forewarned: my artistic standards go up a bit in a private sale, but I remain just as cheap.

List!

k will do later today!

I also have interest in ur day vay days

s1ocki?

Anyhoo, was out today and stopped by Big Lots, where amongst seemingly endless assortment of x-mas movies I emerged with:

$3 Each-

The Squid and the Whale
Up In Smoke (Collector's Edition)
An Almost Perfect Affair (MONICA VITTI)
Pink Cadillac

$5-

There Will Be Blood (2-disc)

Forgot about this thread.

These ones were from the 4/$10 place: Electra Glide in Blue, Divided We Fall, Bitter Victory, Towelhead, Angel Unchained/Cycle Savages, A Day at the Races, Basket Case, Tarnation, The Limits of Control, The Tempest (Cassavetes), American Pimp (outtakes from the documentary, plus a CD of period music), The Cotton Club, Avalon, The Spirit of St. Louis.

$5 each: Cabaret, Brick, Black Gunn, A Clockwork Orange (two discs), City for Conquest/"G" Men/Each Dawn I Die/White Heat (TCM), An Unreasonable Man (Nader documentary--very good).

Towelhead sucks. Some interesting ideas all run into the ground via Alan Ball Overdrive.

I've got another bag from Big Lots around here somewhere. Ah, here it is! They had a bunch of MGM catalog stuff on for $1.88 Black Friday weekend. Got The Grissom Gang & The Indian Runner while combing the stacks the following Monday. I also picked up Career Opportunities, Safe Men A Fine Madness and Modern Romance for $3 apiece.

Picked up new copies of The Passing Show-The Life & Music of Ronnie Lane ($4) & "The Complete M-Squad w/Lee Marvin" (15 discs-$16) @ Half-Price during the year-end sale.

Got the 2-disc 70th anniversary Wizard of Oz for $4 @ Wal-Mart.

Finally, Discs found in Strange Places:

The President's Analyst-$4 @ Staples, the office supply store.
The Late Show-$3 @ Ross, the clothing & housewares store. I also got a pair of New Balance cleats in my size for 49 cents.

Yeah, Towelhead was pretty crude (and I love American Beauty). I think we're finding things that fell off the back of the same truck: The Grissom Gang, Modern Romance, The President's Analyst, and the MGM stuff all turn up here, too.

What else? 4/$10: Ghost Dog, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, The Haunting (Robert Wise original), A New Kind of Love (Paul Newman--never heard of it), Adventures of Don Juan, For Your Consideration, The Fog ('70s). Also Ultimate Gretzky, even though I don't think I've watched a hockey game since 1994.

A different Big Lots:

$1.88- Vernon, Florida
$3.00- Lookin' To Get Out! "Extended Version"

There were some other things I passed on because they had multiples upon multiples. I think they got in a new shipment of MGM & Warner cast-offs.

Definitely the same truck--the place I go to always has a couple of copies of Vernon, Florida. Keep an eye open for The King of Kong and My Kid Could Paint That.

$3 each: After Hours, The Statement, An Education, Half Nelson, Synecdoche New York, The Animation Show.

4/$10: Never So Few (Sinatra), Frost Nixon, Fail Safe (recent TV version), The Story of Seabiscuit, John Q., In America.

$1: The Bronx Is Burning. (Three episodes into this. Hard to get past John Turturro's pinned-back ears, but it's almost okay...or least the bits of real footage are great.)

$3 for The Brown Bunny from Goodwill some weeks back. Haven't watched it yet.

Thrift store today, $2.

Paul McCartney - Back In The US (live show from 2002)

Thrift store today, $2 each.

James Brown - Live From the House of Blues (Las Vegas)
Prince - Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas
The Office - Overtime (US Office show, looks like a bunch of extras - "As Not Seen On TV")

Recent acquirings of moderate interest:

Breaking Glass (DVD) - seems to be OOP in its UK version. Not a great film but the music biz critique seems genuinly angry if on the nose, fun turns in small rolls from people like Jim Broadbent and Ken Campbell. Daniels is always good fun. Yeah...

Wild Style (25th Anniversary DVD) - nice extras, interviews with the main cast members, director's commentary.

Zack Snyder's Justice League Trilogy (Blu-ray) - never seen any of these, and.. now I have. Man Of Steel actually much better than I expected, I think that's a director's cut as well. I don't love these but I do appreciate how he plays it 'straight' in contrast to Marvel's meta-postmodern laffs. Seems like if you can go along with it there's more potential for these to retain some mythic charge. That said, the best bit in the whole lot is the Song To The Siren / hotdog scene. I gather one of those actors has made himself more than a little problematic.

Also hsout out to Jonathan Pryce's very convincing smackhead bass player in BG.

Sax player! Just testing to see who's laying attention.

Also on the to watch when in sufficiently loosened state of mind pile:

Cyborg³ The Recycler featuring Malcolm McDowell

Abel Ferrara's The Gladiator

36 Chambers Of Shaolin

$2 today at a thrift store:

Tarantino's Death Proof - 2 disk version, extended and unrated and a bunch of extras

$2 Australian at a reuse/recycle shop yesterday: Criterion 3-disc Battle of Algiers
Sealed 4-disc Assayas Carlos the Jackal
Sealed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Rivette’s Grande Illusion
A lesser Studio Ghibli
Reygadas’ Japón

From the Dollar Tree ($1.25 each):

Breakin' (DVD)
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (DVD)
Magic Mike (Blu/DVD combo)

From my local library bookstore ($1 each):

Hitman (2007) (Blu)
Step Brothers (2 disc Blu Ray)

Today at thrift store, $3 each

The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter (Criterion edition)
Live Forever - The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop

Today at a thrift store, $3

Deconstructing the Beatles (2017, 3-disk set - Scott Freiman looks at the White Album, Sgt Pepper's, Rubber Soul, and Revolver).

Never heard of this, but figured at $3 I couldn't pass it up.

About a month ago:
David Crosby: Remember My Name
Cat Stevens: Majikat (live show from 1976, before he left the biz)

Monday:
Belle De Jour

$4 each, at a thrift store where $3 used to be the standard.

Today at a thrift store, $2 each:

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Jackson Browne: Going Home (1994 show)
Rick Steve's Spain (8 30-min episodes)
Visions of Sicily

I'm watching the current season of White Lotus, so I had to get that last one.

$3 for Terry Gilliam's Tideland (2-disc set)

― nickn, Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:17 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Tideland (2 disk version)

― nickn, Sunday, November 3, 2019 7:15 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Guess what I bought today? Only $1. I thought I might already have it, but wasn't sure I had the 2-disk set.

william wyler's "ben-hur"?

most recent score for me, last month, was globe unity orchestra's "compositions" LP for about a dollar at a goodwill

Nick, I've accidentally bought many things twice, but I'm pretty sure never three times--kudos.

Second time I've done it too, check up thread for my Velvet Goldmine purchases.

Today at a thrift store, $4 each:

The Bangles, Return To Bangleonia (live 2000)
The Sacred Triangle: Bowie, Iggy, & Lou 1971-1973
Pixies Acoustic Live In Newport (acoustic live from 2005)
The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark (MST3K people doing their thing on videos)

Today at a thrift store, $3

The Beatles - The First US Visit (2003 release of the 1964 doc. Maysles brothers and a couple other directors)

Today at a thrift store, $3 each for seasons 1-3 of Community. Almost let it go because I think I can re-watch on line for free, but . . . deleted scenes!, gag reels!, commentary on every episode!, mini-docs on certain episodes!

the gag reels are generally great from what i remember

$3 at a thrift store: The Clash - Westway To The World

Goodwill Select, $1.99:

Hot Town Cool City (local PBS documentary from 2007 about unique Houston businesses and tourist spots, around half of which either aren't around anymore or not what they once were)

Today at a thrift store for $4
Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday on Criterion.

I've been going to thrift stores since the last post, but the pickin's keep getting slimmer and slimmer. Yesterday, though, I was at a Goodwill and discovered that somebody had dumped their Criterion collection. So I got:

Videodrome (2 disks)
Kwaidan
Jigoku
Jules and Jim (2 disks)
La Jetee/Sans Soleil
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (2 disks)
That Obscure Object of Desire
Band of Outsiders
8 1/2 (2 disks)
The Third Man (2 disks)

And on non-Criterion labels:
Persona
L'Age D'Or

All for $56 (why yes, I am eligible for the 15% senior discount)
I left 8-10 on the shelf because I either already had them or wasn't interested.
I also think I already own 1-2 of the ones I bought, but wasn't sure.

That is definitely worth posting about!

great haul! I should get L'Age D'Or one of these days
never seen a Criterion in a second hand store but did find a Kenneth Anger collection for v. cheap recently

That two-disc Third Man is a real score, it wasn't in print very long.

Today at a thrift store, $2.

The Anniversary Party.

I remember liking it the one time I saw it, and it has a commentary, so what the hell.

Nickn's post a little above is the only kind of Criterion Flash Sale that means anything to me.

lol
I went back to the store a couple days later and the rest of the Criterions were gone.

I had a find like that but on a lesser scale, I think I got Cria Cuervos, Battle of Algiers and Carlos the Jackal (not all Criterion) along with a Renoir and something else decent. $2 a disc tho!

I just found The Films of Charles & Ray Eames Volume 2 in one of those little free libraries

Swap meet yesterday, $1 each.

Interiors
Casino Royale
Fay Grim

The seller had a Criterion/art house section for $8 each, but nothing I had to have.

Thrift store just now, $1 each.

Larry Clark's Kids
Neil Young's Greendale

Not sure I've ever heard anything good about Greendale, but now's my chance to find out.

Also found the Frantz/Weymouth book Remain In Love for $2.

Big Lots 20% off sale

Wild River (Blu): $4.79
Mad Max Fury Road (3-D Blu Combo): $3.99

Halfway tempted to try to flip the latter, as it's oop and certain copies bring $$ online (but probably not the one I got)

At the Repair Cafe's Really, Really Free table today,

SLC Punk
Rocky Horror Picture Show

I may already have SLC Punk, and if so I'll drop it off at the next one.

BTW, anyone curious about what's at Big Lots these days entertainment-wise it's a lot of Blu-Rays and DVD combo packs. They also have a lot of full-season/full-series TV sets, probably leftovers from Black Friday. Amusingly, a number of these were obviously Canadian imports from Quebec, as they had bilingual packaging.

Sony's dumped a bunch of $7 catalogue CDs, and I found a Sean Mendes double-LP for $25.

Both of the Big Lots closest to me have shut down, don't know where the next nearest one is now, but I should find out.

I was up in north Houston today, laughing about how that--spaced out over a particular 15-20 mile stretch of road no less--up there they've got four Big Lots (and a fifth if you stretch in our another 15 or so miles...and a another three that are a little further north on freeways that cross the road in question).

saw a DVD of Morvern Callar for a buck at a record store in LA today. That's definitely worth a dollar!

More 20% Off Blu-Rays At Big Lots:

Friday Night Lights [film] ($2.39)
Terminator ($5.59)
Psycho 60th Anniversary [two cuts] ($7.19)
West Side Story 50th Anniversary Blu Combo ($7.99)

I put back a copy of the Twin Peaks Gold DVD Set, which would have been about $16 w/the discount.

The FNL is one of those early Blus with the breathless back cover notes about quaint stuff like "High Definition" and "BluRay Live".

Ah, that's not as fun as digging through stacks of discs flanked by discontinued lawn furntiture and nearly expired Little Debbie's.

― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:52 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Prophecy? 10 years on and the fourway rack with the movies was next to another one packed with Little Debbie's.

I'm sick y'all...they keep sending me Big Lots coupons

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Blu), $3.99
True History of The Kelly Gang (Blu), $3.19
Edge of Seventeen, $1.20
Howard The Duck Special Edition, $2.39
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 50th Anniversary, $4.00

Was in the Giant Tiger in Stratford today, which I used to post about regularly in this thread. They still keep one stand-up rack of sale DVDs. Truly honoring the spirit of this thread, got Indecent Proposal and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2005 issue) for $4.99 each. I'd say it's about 70/30 against me ever watching the latter.

$4 today at Goodwill: A Hard Day's Night, 2-disk version.

Thrift store today, $2 for Cat Ballou. (I've never seen it.)

Cat Ballou is OK-ish. It's Hollywood's version of self-satire. Even the musical soundtrack is self-consciously satirical. In case the audience doesn't 'get it', it all but screams "we're just having a bit of harmless fun here, good people!"

$1.50 at a thrift store:
The Eye of the Beholder: The Artistry of James Hubbell (he's an "Organic" architect)

$2 at a thrift store, Moonrise Kingdom

I liked this one when I saw it years ago, but Anderson's batting average has been low lately.

And lol, at the same store I bought a DVD cabinet, that allegedly holds 183 DVDs ($10).