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Barnes & Noble Criterion 50% Off MSRP Sale
June 29 through August 6, 2018

CRITERION 50% OFF SALE


Looks like yet another set of dates have been decided for the official sale and online prices should start going live sometime tonight. One of the banners still says July 30th which was the original rumor, but it appears that Aug 6 is the official date.

Most individual items already have NO COUPON language in the description so this appears to be the new normal though I guess In-store can always have a different set of rules

Sale is Online (bn.com) and In-store Barnes & Noble for those stores with Media Departments
All current release DVD and Blurays should be included.
Items releasing before Aug 6th should be discounted.

dex14

Age of Innocence
Dead Man
Midnight Cowboy
Criterion Collection: Dietrich & Von Sternberg In
Bull Durham
Dragon Inn
The Hero
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

$216 total, but had $200 in gift cards. I'll get sex, lies, and videotape and A Matter of Life and Death later in the month.

Ringmaster

Of course I get a 10% off order coupon in my e-mail this morning that EXCLUDES this sale.

I bought 1 title last year and will probably do the same again. I used to buy 5-6 titles when the coupons worked.

AMERICAN

..you're better off waiting a while and getting it cheaper from a 3rd party seller on ebay..

Bill Needle

I sort of wish there was something I wanted. There hasn't been a lot lately that appeals to me, and the few that have I picked up through other sales. Maybe next year.

Anyone have recommendations from the past year's worth or so of releases that I may be overlooking? Not just a good film (most all of them are that), but something worth paying CC type money in order to own as a blind buy? I'm not a completist (I own probably 50 or 60 CC tiles now), but I am willing to broaden my scope within reason.

inri222

Nothing urgent right now, but for the next sale, Andrei Rublev will be mine.

Ringmaster

The Night of The Living Dead & Silence of the Lambs Blu Rays are great for reissues.

laidbacklarkin

Going the same route. Got a whole bunch of Criterion BDs from a bluray.com trader for $9-$10 a pop, so no point in shelling out big bucks for these, specially without a coupon. And yeah, plenty on eBay too, like with today's 15% and the recent 20% off coupons as well. No wonder, B&N is holding this sale for a longer duration.

kefrank

same for me.

Bill Needle

I bought Night previously, but Silence might be worth a pickup. Thanks!

davidh777

I have a giftcard that's been burning a hole in my wallet.

Bill Needle

Went ahead and pickup up Silence of the Lambs and Othello.

I was actually kind of surprised I didn't already have the non-Criterion version of Silence already, so that was an easy one. Othello I had previously considered but it is pricy even for a Criterion. But it qualified me for the free shipping so that makes it OK.

Killraven666

Got a couple of discounted gift cards and went by tonight.
Picked up:
The Red Shoes
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Magician
Will probably go back over the month to nab a few more.

InnocentBlood

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (2017 edition)

were any of you guys able to find this on BN.com ? they only seem to have the previous edition available. they seem to have the single disc version on sale though.

lisadoris

Picked up The Philadelphia Story and Bowling for Columbine yesterday.

papapauly

Thief
The Breakfast Club
Virgin Suicides
Silence of the lambs
Shallow Grave

DVD Polizei

Meh.

Adam Tyner

My wife and I only picked up a handful this time, since we're still working through a backlog and know we're going back in July anyway. Round 1:

• The Virgin Suicides
• Punch Drunk Love
• The Awful Truth
• The Virgin Spring

MooMooMooMoo

Criterion & Flicker Alley are pricing themselves out of the market except for MUST HAVES, imo.

These days I usually choose MOC/Eureka, or for less important to me titles Kino when they run a sale.

Classic Films

Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood next week.

Paul_SD

That's the one I've become very interested in.

Never seen any of those films before, and the pre-release hype from fans has me eager to check at least one of the films out immediately.

Today I picked up

Tom Jones
Virgin Spring
Virgin Suicides
Passion Of Joan of Arc

I was pleasantly surprised the cashier (a younger girl) let me use one of the snail mail coupons I got the other day. Averaged out to a $1 off per film, but what the hell. I'll take it.

Would love for that to be the case Tuesday when Dietrich & Von Sternberg drops, but I won't expect it.

Paul_SD

I was going to post that I bought it in store when it streeted last November, but I just remembered I didn't. I pre-ordered it from Target when they had some promotion running.

In store today I noticed they just had the single disc release. Odd.

I haven't watched Jimi or Otis yet, but I had a blast with the main film. Was never big on concert videos/films, but I greatly enjoyed this one.

Decker

Picked up :

Ghost World
Election
Bottle Rocket

Paul_SD

I guess it was a two disc set I saw then. Different cover art from the complete.
I think it was in a keepcase too, though I might be mistaken on that part.

I just checked and Amazon has the Complete set for $35. According to Deep Discount, this has a $70 msrp- so 50% off at Amazon if anyone wants it (the two disc set is $28).

kd5

Is 50% the best B&N does for Criterion?