50% off Criterion DVDs

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:59 am

Barnes and Noble stores and online. 50% entire stock. Just picked up about 12 films. Free shipping on orders over $25, and if you have a B&N card, it takes more money off.

This is what I got:

* Alphaville

* By Brakhage: An Anthology

* Bande part

* The Man Who Fell to Earth

* The Third Man

* Mon Oncle Antoine

* Science Is Fiction - 23 Films by Jean Painlev

* This Sporting Life

* Wise Blood

* Videodrome

* Seven Samurai

Might go back and pick up the new Wings of Desire pressing.

paper · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:06 am

Yeah, I should take advantage of this for some presents.

Did you see that 25 film Kurosawa box...WANT.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:15 am

Yeah, I want as well but unfortunately isn't part of the 50% off deal because it comes out after 11/23. Incredible.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:18 am

Still, $287 isn't bad for it.

I nearly bought the Cassavetes boxset for $54. 8 discs of all his films.

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:29 am

Sweet! I used to have a list of all the criterion collection movies I wanted to buy when I worked at B&N, but they were so expensive I only ended up getting one (The Wages of Fear)

I know where I'm stopping after work tomorrow.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:36 am

I don't have one locally. Closest is 20 minutes away, so I was pretty happy that it also applied online.

paper · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:38 am

FR, have you seen Documentaries of Louis Malle? Thinking of picking that up...

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:53 am

paper Wrote:

FR, have you seen Documentaries of Louis Malle? Thinking of picking that up...

They're enjoyable. I really like the Eclipse series that Criterion does. I just find that Malle's docs are good once or twice. Personally its not something I need in my collection.

Speaking of the Eclipse series, I almost want to pick up the Wm. Klein one just for Mr. Freedom.

Also the Wm. Fuller and the Larisa Shepitko ones are quality. I own the Shepitko one. The Ascent is a must-see.

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:20 am

Do you guys really have that much time to watch movies?

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:42 am

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

Do you guys really have that much time to watch movies?

I don't have cable so I watch usually a movie a night. Its no different than vegging in front of the tv and watching 2 Law and Orders.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:36 pm

Also applies to Blu-rays, sweet. Thanks for the heads up.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:41 pm

two guns holla Wrote:

Also applies to Blu-rays, sweet. Thanks for the heads up.

Yeah, I wish I had a player. Oh well.

Lrr · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:28 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

I don't have one locally. Closest is 20 minutes away, so I was pretty happy that it also applied online.

20 minutes away isn't local?

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

i've made a decision to not buy movies anymore. they just sit on my shelf. i'm selling them all on ebay.

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:35 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

I don't have one locally. Closest is 20 minutes away, so I was pretty happy that it also applied online.

Drive by one every day to and from work.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:14 am

damn

I think i'm going to pick up Repulsion in blu-ray, though I don't have a player yet.

debating about either early films of sam fuller eclipse set or the Nikkatsu Noir set

i think i'm going to get The Friends of Eddie Coyle too

duckyboy · **Posted:** Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:44 am

their website froze during check out. fuck it. don't want to pay tax anyway

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:16 am

duckyboy Wrote:

their website froze during check out. fuck it. don't want to pay tax anyway

If you buy enough from B&N then getting their card for $25 definitely lessens the blow as well. Even though I don't have one locally, it made sense because it dropped each discs price nearly $2 more each. Tax be damned.

Lrr Wrote:

20 minutes away isn't local?

In a word no. I live in a smallish town where everything is within a 5 minute drive.

Vanlandingham Wrote:

Drive by one every day to and from work.

This is a Borders town.

rparis Wrote:

i've made a decision to not buy movies anymore. they just sit on my shelf. i'm selling them all on ebay.

I made that decision long ago to stop buying movies, but then sales like this come up with quality films. I do watch them fairly frequently as well.

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:39 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

Vanlandingham Wrote:

Drive by one every day to and from work.

This is a Borders town.

I also pass a Borders on my way to work (Princeton, West Windsor, and Lawrenceville have a shit ton of stores between them).

Picked up Tanner '88, Z, Hopscotch, and Le Cercle Rouge today on my way from work. It's going to be rainy all weekend so I expect to watch them all.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:09 am

This sale is back on through Aug 1 I believe...

Definitely going to pick up some blu-rays this time.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:16 am

Yeah, I've been there and done that. Though, I'm mulling which movies to get. This time through, the card does nothing to lessen the blow besides free shipping. Also, there is a buy 2 get a 3rd free deal going on--but apparently it doesn't apply to these? I bet if I went into a store it might.

TheTheory · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:01 pm

Oh man. Definitely going to hit this. Been eyeing some of the Criterion blu rays lately and this looks like just the ticket. Hopefully my local Barnes and Noble (which is over 20 minutes away) won't be sold out of the titles I want.

TheTheory · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:02 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

Also, there is a buy 2 get a 3rd free deal going on--but apparently it doesn't apply to these? I bet if I went into a store it might.

For other sales the B2G1 deal applied. I would hope it would in this case, too.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:02 pm

i'm gonna have to remember this come next payday.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:30 pm

TheTheory Wrote:

Oh man. Definitely going to hit this. Been eyeing some of the Criterion blu rays lately and this looks like just the ticket. Hopefully my local Barnes and Noble (which is over 20 minutes away) won't be sold out of the titles I want.

Just buy them online. Free shipping over $25 even for non-members. You can get an additional 10% off if you are a AAA member and enter through the AAA site. There are a lot of other coupons out there too.

I'm waiting for the 20th when the blu-rays of The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus come out since coupons don't apply to pre-orders.

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