olivefilms.com Deals (criterion, docs, OOP, film movement)

[maxw101]

olivefilms.com has one of the best selections of documentaries and indy films like film movement, along with some criterion and box set deals. I'll list a few that jumped out at me. Almost every price on the site matches or beats DeepDiscountDVD.

You do have to pay for shipping, but its $2 and the prices still come out lower than almost all other sites I've seen, not to mention a lot of these titles you will never find on other sites.

Heres some that caught my eye. Not nearly all of them...

Docs - great selection. lots of hard to find, quality titles
General Idi Amin (criterion) $22
Not Angels but Angels $19
Promises $22
To Be and To Have $22
Inner Tour $18
Life and Debt $21
Distorted Morality $5
War Photographer (great doc) $19
Five Obstructions $15

Box Sets
Antoine Doinel Set $68
Yakuza Papers Set $70
Zatoichi 7-DVD Set $72
Samurai Trilogy $50
Ingmar Bergman A Film Trilogy $56
Four Samurai Classics $69

Criterion
Fanny and Alexander 2 disc $22
Fanny and Alexander 5 disc $42
Tanner '88 $22

Film Movement
Raja $20
Manito $20
Man of the Year $20 (if you liked City of God, worth seeing)
Middle of the World $20
El Bola $20

All About Lily Chou Chou $21

Some of the OOP Titles Available (prices jacked up, but some titles can't be found)
Rebecca
Notorious
Straw Dogs
Spellbound
Pixote

[cleaver]

Straw Dogs $25.95.
http://olivefilms.com/strawdogsdvd.html

[Daniel-A]

Rebecca for $60. I thought retailers had to sell for MSRP or less.

[fliggil]

Believe it or not, the Fanny & Alexander 5-disc box is only $40 in store at Best Buy. The Bank Dick is about $4 cheaper through Amazon, but their prices for Notorious and Straw Dogs are about right. Looks like they have some interesting docs and foreign stuff there though, I'll keep it in mind for the future, thanks.

[Cameron]

Criterions M is not OOP....good deals though

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Rebecca for $60. I thought retailers had to sell for MSRP or less.

Hah! Don't you know what the S in MSRP stands for?

[dx23]

New Member + Suspicious website with great deals = self-promotion

[The Cow]

New Member + Suspicious website with great deals = self-promotion
"New Member" has been around over a year. And has posted nothing shady in the past. Little trigger happy?

[LASERMOVIES]

Criterions M is not OOP....good deals though

The first release of M by Criterion is OOP but who cares since it was reissued with a better transfer and extras.

[fliggil]

The first release of M by Criterion is OOP but who cares since it was reissued with a better transfer and extras.

The Completists.

[Funk]

The Completists.

a.k.a. people who collect spine numbers first, and watch movies second.

[dick_grayson]

well, I only have the first one....so what does that make me? :lol:


thanks, OP!

[maxw101]

New Member + Suspicious website with great deals = self-promotion

Or a longtime lurker who found a deal that he thought was worth posting and give back to the deals that others here have helped me get.

And I don't know how its suspicious. Its sponsored by Yahoo Store actually, so you're basically shopping from them. The only thing I've ever had to do with this site is that I've purchased from them. Sorry.

Seriously, though, what do you want me to do? 'new members' aren't allowed to post great deals here because its automatically self-promotion?

[PotVsKtl]

I'm in a position to tell you definitively that this site is not "sponsored by Yahoo! Store." It's on the Yahoo! Store platform, but so are 1 out of every 9 online stores. They are simply paying Yahoo! to host.

EDIT: That doesn't amount to me saying there's anything wrong with the site, it's just not a Yahoo! property.

[maxw101]

Okay. I stand corrected, but I hope the point remains.

[pilot]

OP isn't spamming something he's involved in (I checked) ..let's keep the thread on track ..

[Cameron]

well, I only have the first one....so what does that make me? :lol:


thanks, OP!

someone who needs to trade up...seriously...the new disc is amazing

[dick_grayson]

thanks! I might have to pick up Tanner '88 and Idi Amin.

[yojimbo1]

Please tell me why everyone is so excited. All the criterions (I think) can be had cheaper elsewhere except maybe the OOP. I don't know about the other titles but mainly people have just mentioned criterions anyway.

I don't intend any sarcasm, maybe I am missing something.

[maxw101]

Please tell me why everyone is so excited. All the criterions (I think) can be had cheaper elsewhere except maybe the OOP. I don't know about the other titles but mainly people have just mentioned criterions anyway.

I don't intend any sarcasm, maybe I am missing something.

Over 75% of the criterions meet or beat DeepDiscountDVD, which has some of the best prices. You're right that they're not spectacularly jaw-dropping, but they're good. And the reason I personally bought from this site is that they have a bunch of docs and film movement DVDs which are very hard to find. Their selection is quite unique, and I haven't seen any other sites like it.

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Cheapest pricing on Criterions tends to be dvdplanet - they usually beat DDD by ~15-20%. YMMV on specific titles.