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..I'm glad I jumped on this..great price..

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Snake's in Texas, y'all. His math was right (for him, because he only thinks of himself)
I hope they don't cancel the $39.99 orders, but they're definitely within their rights to do so.

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It's not a drastic price mistake. Barnes & Noble will eventually offer the set at 50% off. Given Amazon's bargaining power with distributors, I suspect this was an intentional loss leader at their unit cost. You start seeing Amazon pull these kind of stunts as they begin to ramp up for the all-important Q3 and Q4.

Criterion pulls in affluent consumer demographics, which is Amazon's primary target. Amazon does very little by mistake...

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I checked my order details and it seems they are honoring the price even though it is back up to $99.99. As a couple of folks already pointed out...with coupons and the 50% off sale this set could probably be acquired for $60 or more off of the msrp. Since I do not do the Barnes and Noble thing I am glad I got in on the $39.99 + tax price. A 3 disc criterion for less than 44 including tax and shiping works for me.

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However it happened, it hit #1 on Amazon's bestseller list (Bluray/Action&Adventure). Pretty good for a pulpy samurai series.

For as long as it stayed up, I'm also beginning to suspect it might have been something to drive traffic.

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$99.99 on sale at 50% off with a 20% off coupon = $39.99

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Yeah, but getting it for $40 on amazon means we get it when it's released and won't have to wait for the B&N sale.

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Which will likely coincide with the next BN sale. (11/8).

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Well, I bought it last night, but I didn't realize my wife had let the Prime expire to try to save us some money. She noticed the shipping charge today, reactivated our Prime and tried to redo the order but Amazon wouldn't do it at the old price. Apparently shipping for one Bluray set was $10.38 without Prime? Is that normal?

I'll wait till November, it'll be fun making the trip to the local store in Oak Brook and seeing all the Christmas decorations.

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Amazon is one strict little cookie, nowadays, eh?

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I meant the high shipping charge. We've had Prime for so little no I don't remember what they used to be like.

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Not sure about the high shipping charges either, I always make the formerly $35 threshold or now $49 for free shipment.
Just thought they would at least honor the $39.99 price after reactivating your prime.

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LW&C *and* Dreams? What an amazing month :up:

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and with my Amazon credit card I get triple Amazon points

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I guess the Before Trilogy.

I hope they'll offer Before Sunrise separately. I liked the two sequels, but I think the first one stands out as the best and is much more re-watchable IMO.

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"Before" trilogy, no doubt! Glad the many rumors were true and that I held out till now.

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For me, it's the middle one.

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New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2004 by film historian Drew Casper, featuring recordings of actor James Whitmore
New interviews with film noir historian Eddie Muller and cinematographer John Bailey
Archival footage of writer-director John Huston discussing the film
Pharos of Chaos, a 1983 documentary about actor Sterling Hayden
Episode of the television program City Lights from 1979 featuring John Huston
Audio excerpts of archival interviews with Huston
Excerpts from footage of the 1983 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony honoring Huston, featuring actor Sam Jaffe and the filmmaker
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
More!


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New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate Italian-language soundtrack
Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree, an hour-long episode of The South Bank Show from 1981, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot
New program featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016
Archival interviews with Olmi
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film critic Deborah Young

New cover by F. Ron Miller

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New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Frank Burke, author of Fellini’s Films
Deleted scenes
New interview with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino on the lasting influence of director Federico Fellini
New interview with Italian poet and Fellini friend Valerio Magrelli
Images from the Felliniana archive of collector Don Young
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs


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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

High-definition digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New conversation between director Laurie Anderson and coproducer Jake Perlin
Footage of Anderson’s 2016 Concert for Dogs
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny

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Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring writer Jean-Claude Carrière and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel
Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein from 2006
Trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and an interview with director Luis Buñuel from the 1970s

Cover by Neil Kellerhouse









In for Huston, Fellini and Bunuel.

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Loved this movie! Too bad the extras look so skimpy. Bah, who cares? It's really about the movie. It's wondrous (reviewed it when it came out: https://indieethos.com/2015/12/08/he...a-film-review/)

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The Exterminating Angel :up:

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so when it's stated "Restored high-definition digital transfer" that means 2K ??

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I believe it refers to a 1080p HD Telecine, ie not a recent 2k scan.

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Looks like the Del Toro trilogy boxed set will come in a square box:

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I wonder what the dimensions on that are, and what the inside looks like...

(Criterion's facebook page has annactual photo of the box.)

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45 Years

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Interesting. It's a great movie. In fact I think it was one of the best films I saw in 2015, but I don't know if it's a re-watch for me, though.

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DVD Beaver on Pan's Labyrinth & Lone Wolf and Cub:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-r...th_blu-ray.htm

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-r...ub_blu-ray.htm

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Why does he compare the Pan's Labyrinth Criterion Blu-ray to the DVD? Why not compare it to the existing Blu-ray?

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New releases are only compared to whatever old releases were originally reviewed on the site. I assume that for whatever reason, the original BD was never reviewed.

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..the animiego bluray of lone wolf and cub looks much better than the criterion release..

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In the review he says the Criterion is vastly superior to the Animiego as it has a lot of edge-enhancement. As far as the stills, some look better than others, but overall the Criterion looks better to me, also, it has white subtitles to Animiego's yellow, and I like white subs much better. I didn't know we were getting Shogun Assassin in this set - so stoked!

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I wonder why Criterion didn't add subtitles to Shogun Assassin? It seems like an oversight to me as they add subtitles to ALL of their movies.

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The Animego release was a waxy, smeared mess. Not even close to CC.

Does it need them? It's a dubbed film, unless you have hearing issues and need the subs. I do agree, though; should've been an easy addition.

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..yellow sub-titles are much easier to read and judging by the still frames i still say animiegos look better than criterions..

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WTF? It has SHOGUN ASSASSIN too. WTF. That's badass. Fuckin' A, motherfuckers. That one is fun as hell.

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I have issues understanding dialogue sometimes and subtitles are very helpful. It's somewhat understandable when a label like Mill Creek or even Shout! don't include them, but it's pretty disappointing when Criterion leaves them off.

I know it's technically only a bonus feature so it won't keep me from buying but it's a strike against the company overall.

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Yes, I guess the better question would've been why they haven't reviewed the original Blu-ray.

I presume most people have purchased the existing Blu-ray, as it was very inexpensive. I'd like to know if it's worth upgrading.

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If you had the US disc, it had some DNR applied to it (like some other New Line titles at the time). I got the UK version, which didn't have that.

However, that version lacked the lossless audio on the US release, so this one should have the best of both worlds.