Superdaddy

[QUOTE=Paul_SD;Today I plan to go back for Eric Rohmers Six Moral Tales and a few others.
(I remember how bummed a lot of people were when DD canceled the orders on the SMT set a couple summers back. I think the price with the 25% off coupon here will beat that by a good $10. If only I could exercise patience for more things, I'd save a hell of a lot of money).[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I remember getting this during the last B&N sale for thirty-some dollars by stacking a couple of discounts. Felt like I was stealing it at first (but I got over it).

Herzog4Life

[QUOTE=RobLutter;983615 They kinda sucked for blu-ray... there were no copies of the newest Criterions or Monterey Pop to be seen. Might try out the Lakeline location some time next week and see how it goes over there.[/QUOTE]

I bought most of my blu ray titles at this location. Sorry :/

Paul_SD

Just got back with it. Didn't realize that they would take one of each coupon with no hassle. In fact, the first location I went to, it sounded like the guy would have taken as many coupons as I had commensurate with the number of discs purchased. I had a whole bunch of $5 off ones in the car, but didn't want to push my luck. I was happy to get the Rohmer set and Eddie Coyle.
Hit another one on the way home and picked up Howards End (Bd) and Spy Who Came In From The Cold. I'm eyeing the Lubsitch musicals set and might try to hit another one before they close tonight.

HistoryProf

The woodland mall story has a LOT more stock than the rivertown store...and the staff is also extremely coupon friendly. I've spent most of my $ there and have had zero problems using multiple $5 coupons just by doing separate transactions. it's worth the extra 10 minutes to drive over there. They gave me a tough time at Rivertown when I wanted to use two of the $5 coupons.

HistoryProf

and to add to the haul, I did pick up the two recent Mellvilles (Le Doulos & Le Deuxieme Souffle) and Blast of Silence - all w/ $5 off coupons - at the Woodland Mall store. Then I had to go towards Holland on my way home so checked there just to avoid Rivertown and the old lady working was really nice, but the selection had been cleaned out - she said a guy was in earlier and had bought over 20 and said he'd be back later I did get Sansho the Bailiff and In the Mood for Love for the wife - only had one $5 coupon left on me along w/ a 25% off, so just used one of each....both for $28 out the door is fine....i figure i won't worry too much about the 50 cent difference between the two coupons.

Want to get a few more of the lower tier discs before this is over...since I got the membership 10 days ago, i'm actually now within the terms of the new $5 coupon - not that anyone has even looked at that....but it's nice to know I will be completely legit walking in

sleepyhead55

Has anyone watched their Howards End BD yet? I came across this negative review in Amazon and was wondering whether or not it had any merit as I was thinking of picking this BD up.



1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Blu Ray image quality worse than DVD!!!, November 9, 2009
By I. Tang "tang1an" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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I pre-ordered this BluRay and to my disappointment, at certain spots, e.g. at several outdoor scenes, I see severe pixelation and 'snow storm; artifacts. Why pay extra to see an inferior image? I wonder if it is the remastering or this particular disc I got, but this kind of quality is deeply disappointing. I certainly had no such problems with 'A Passage to India' and ' A Room with a View'. My BluRay player is a top of the line machine so I am sure it's not my hardware. So what's wrong?

tasog37

I haven't seen it personally, however DVDBeaver gave it a positive review.

"The improved image quality of this hi-def transfer was definitely an integral part of my viewing experience."

Sessa17

Will after making several B & N trips since this sale started so far all I have bought has been .

First Films of Sam Fuller $15.48
White Dog $8.50

Two phenomenal deals, but I have come to the conclusion that I think I own every single Criterion I want. If anyone is bored & wants to go through my collection & recommend me something feel free to do so. I have no interest in owning every Criterion, that is crazy, I just want the movies I will enjoy enough to watch more than once.

riotinmyskull

brute force

Sessa17

I bought that during the last sale, if it's not in my sig I need to correct that.

Sessa17

I bought a shit load the last 50% off sale, & so far that Eric Rohmer set was the single best blind-buy I bought. I absolutely love it for the price its at during this sale, I can't recommend it enough.

MBoyd

Owning every Criterion Blu-ray is still within the realm of possibility!

Sessa17

For the price right now, it's worth it. I just buy the movies I enjoy though, I have no interest in Howard's End or The Last Emperor no matter how cheap. I have zero interest in ever revisiting those movies.

Spunkymonkey

Smart man. Too many people have a mindset of "must own Criterions!" While I respect most of the movies they put out some of them bore me to tears or just don't interest me. I don't care if they were $5, I don't want to own movies I don't like.

NoirFan

Sessa17, a few purchase suggestions:

Au husard Balthazar
L'Avventura
Battle of Algiers
La bete Humaine
Bicycle Thieves
Brazil
Children of Paradise
Days of Heaven
Down by Law
Drunken Angel
Eyes Without a Face
Grand Illusion
I Know Where I'm Going!
Ikiru
Cassavetes Box
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Naked Prey
Mouchette
Night on Earth
Overlord
Passion of Joan of Arc
Peeping Tom
Pickpocket
Playtime (Blu-ray)
The River
Short Cuts
Slacker
La Strada
Stranger than Paradise
Stray Dog
Sullivan's Travels
Thieves Highway
This Sporting Life
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu
Unfaithfully Yours
Sansho the Bailiff

BuckNaked2k

Well, I just struck again. Picked up:

- Nikkatsu Noir box set
- The Killers
- Homicide

Used a 25% off coupon on NN, and $5 coupons on t'other two. Then I snagged Roadhouse (BD) (surprisingly not in the criterion Collection!) to bump my total over $50, and use that $5 coupon. Out 'o there for just under $60 total before taxes...

Nidreu

Sorry, too lazy to read the whole thread.

Is the cheapest way to just use a $5 off coupon after using member discount?

And if I'm getting a box set I can use the 25% off instead of the $5 off?

I'll probably only pick up a couple titles, but its better than nothing.

Slave2Blu

Yes, since the 25% coupon is dead.

Shagrath

My order I placed on Saturday for Third Man Blu-Ray just got canceled. Guess they only found a handful in the warehouse. Good luck to anyone else that ordered it.

Paul_SD

The films in his Comedies & Proverbs cycle were amongst the first foreign films I ever watched in the mid eighties, back when I was consciously trying to broaden my horizons. I loved his work. Never seen these earlier films.
My viewing habits over the last 15 years or so have veered towards less challenging, lighter 'popcorn' stuff. I don't watch anywhere near the amount of foreign, subbed material that I did in the late 80's/early 90's.
So I wasn't too heartbroken when I missed the SMT set in that DD sale. In fact, I don't think I ever gave it a second thought. But now that I have the set in my hands, I'm looking forward to digging into it. May take a while though. Lot of backlog to get through (even more now after the haul from this sale).

Made a second trip yesterday and picked up
Bicycle Thieves
49th Parallel
The Lubitsch Musicals
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Bd)

will probably be picking up a couple every day for a while

logboy

gomorrah BD - out nov 24th - if sale's for 2 weeks and started the 10th, the 24th would be the last day. will this work in my favour, anyone?

JoeySeven

Bought today in store.last day of the 25% off coupon.
Sales person was okay,had problems with $5 off $50 had to buy 3 $40 Criterions for them to accept it,besides that it went okay.

No way would they let me do more then one $5 off a DVD,I didn't even ask.
all in all not a bad deal.


1-The Human Condition (1959) - The Criterion Collection(10% + 25% off)$27

2-Essential Arts Vol IV( 50% off+ (10% + 25% off)
Not alot of extras if any,but you get 6 movies,I now have all 4 boxsets--$34

3-The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
--My own Private Idaho(have the Canadian DVD,but need all the Criterins extras on this great movie)
--Pierrot Le Fou(blu-ray)might exchange,I have the rental from netflix I need to watch first.$44 or about $15 each.

Mosskeeto

The Union Square location had at least 10 copies of the MP BR (I think it was the single disc, right?) as of 4 pm Sunday in the general blu-ray section.
There were significant voids in what has been a stuffed Criterion display and I'm told the main warehouse in Florida is running through it's inventory; so they weren't sure about restocks. I'm a little skeptical...but I did notice that they used to replenish the shelves with stock from the back and from the gaps, it appears that's over.
Sunday's acquisitions:
The Earrings of Madame de...
Death Of A Cyclist
Under The Volcano
each with a $5 off coupon.

biglou114

Wow, this is a depressing sale. I realized that there is only one Criterion film that (is released) that I actually want to own. If only I could order The Golden Age of Television at 50% off.

Trevor

Probably not. It's already been mentioned a couple times that titles released on 11/24 will not be part of the sale. YMMV of course.