Paris Texas
Wages of Fear
M
Walkabout
Red Shoes
Bottle Rocket

The Secret of the Grain
Red Shoes
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Leopard
Close Up
Bigger than Life
Yojimbo/Sanjuro
Lola Montes
Letters to Fontaine
Walkabout
Red Desert
Vivre Sa Vie
Everlasting Moments
8 1/2

I don't have much knowledge of the films that Criterion releases.... but would like to get a few from B&N sale. Can you guys recommend a few blurays?

Recommendatinos are pretty uselsess without a link to your collection or some sort of reference as to what you like. Doesn't make much sense suggesting a movie if you have no interest in the genre.

Fair enough.

I am actually pretty open to all genres. Some of the samurai period films interest me more than others but I figure Criterion only picks good films so I should at least be open to watch them. The problem is I stayed away from buying DVDs/blurays except for a few blockbusters (Batman, TDK and the Bourne Trilogy). I only have 7 blurays and all of them are mainstream. I would like to expand my horizon.

In terms of Crierions Blu-Rays only, then I would suggest you start with the Sanjuro/Yojimbo box set & The Wages of Fear/ Those would be the two I'd go with for someone who has more mainstream taste.

I would recommend Chungking Express. It's a foreign release but fun enough so that anyone can enjoy it.

^ you also kind of have to be a fan of the Mamma's & Pappa's 'California Dreamin'

But if you aren't then you will be one after, so it all works out.

Got these blus:

Che
Gomorrah
Yojimbo/Sanjuro
Paris, Texas
Black Narcissus
The Red Shoes

8 1/2
Black Narcissus
Bottle Rocket
Kagemusha
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Red Shoes

Damn you! I was unable to find a copy.

Blu-ray

Days Of Heaven
Walkabout
Bigger than Life
8 1/2
The Leopard
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Paris, Texas

DVD

Night Train To Munich
Divorce, Italian Style
Monsters & Madmen

still debating on whether or not to pick up Revanche. May just let it slide till the next sale since I won't be watching it before then anyway.

Of course, you never know. it's always possible there may not be a next sale.

yojimbo/sanjuro
m
mystery train
gimme shelter
gomorrah
stagecoach

I went light:

Days of Heaven
Black Narcissus
Walkabout
Bigger Than Life

I'm pretty confident there will be another in November. I heard one of the employees telling someone that this is a sale they do twice a year, so it sounds like they intend it to be a regular thing. The thing I am worried about is them cutting out the $5 off coupon in-store for the next sale. I could totally see them doing that since they disabled it online this time. So a lot of stuff I would have waited until the next sale for, I am picking up now while I know I can save that extra 5 bones.

Thanks, I will definitely stop by Monday to get one (or both). $20 per Criterion is awesome.

Actually, it wouldn't be foreign since I am Chinese But I don't watch too many HK/mainland China movies any more since moving out of parents.

$13.50 is even more awesome which is what these can be had for in-store during the sale.

... with a paid membership to B&N and a YMMV acceptance of coupons. Gotta remember to mention that.

Yeah, your right, if he is only buying 2 Blu-Rays & doesn't go to B&N much a membership probably isn't worth it.

Have received:

Bigger Than Life
By Brakhage
Close-Up
Everlasting Moments
Gimme Shelter
Gomorrah
Howard's End
Hunger
The Leopard
Lola Montes
Monsoon Wedding
Mystery Train
Red Desert
Revanche
The Seveth Seal
Stagecoach
Walkabout
Yojimbo & Sanjuro

Shipped but haven't received yet:

Black Narcissus
Che
A Christmas Tale

On backorder:

Days of Heaven
Paris, Texas
The Red Shoes
Summer Hours
Vivre Sa Vie

Yeah, I went a little nuts.

This will come very close to giving me a complete collection of Criterion Blu-rays. I passed over a few that I can't imagine myself ever watching, like El Norte.

Possibly depressingly, I've been buying every Criterion disc as they've come out, so I only needed to pick up The Red Shoes and The Secret of the Grain to complete my collection.

I wish I'd bought Mystery Train from there instead of from DeepDiscount. They took a month to get around to shipping my order, and two weeks have passed since without any sign of it showing up in my mailbox.

12 ordered during the sale. Will post a pic when I actually get them all.

Glad to see that I wasn't the only one to really go nuts with this sale. Granted, I have no interest in most current movies so I haven't been purchasing too many BDs until now.

BD

Bigger Than Life
Black Narcissus
By Brakhage
Che
Close-Up
Everlasting Moments
Kagemusha
Last Year at Marienbad
The Leopard
Lola Montes
M
Mystery Train
Paris, Texas
Red Desert
The Red Shoes
Revanche
The Secret of the Grain
Summer Hours
Yojimbo/Sanjuro
Wings of Desire


DVD

Andrzej Wajda Three War Films
The Furies
The Human Condition
Night Train to Munich
Presenting Sacha Guitry
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy

I got 25 making the collection complete. Been watching one a day and now I can't wait for November .