It retails at $50, 50% brought it to $24.98. I used the $5 off a dvd/blu of $20 or more. This brought it to $20. 10% off for members brought it to $18 or so. I got Che for $18 as well. If I could scan the receipt, I would.

Idk, it's happened to me a few times (not with Criterion), where I've ordered something and they send me an e-mail saying it's backordered or what not.

http://www.hulu.com/for-all-mankind
^if you want to know what this BD is about, you can watch it FREE on the web (yes this is Legit from Criterion themselves, authorizing Hulu)

Nice. Good deal.

I'm dissapointed with the supplements on Yojimbo. The white subtitles, on all the white photos are impossible for me to read.

My B&N membership expired right after the big Thanksgiving sale last year. Didn't realize it till i tried to use my card this morning.:o Oh well, $65.59 got me: M, Black Narcissus, and Mystery Train.:whip: None too shabby.

Can someone sum up the audio "deal" on The Leopard? Does the Italian version have Lancaster speaking italian, or is it dubbed by an Italian actor? The back cover of the movie say the American version, "features Lancasters real voice" or something like that.

In the Italian version, quite a few of the actors' voices are dubbed in Italian. Reading the booklet will tell you that some actors were speaking American, Italian, French, etc. during the shooting of the film. However, they were all later dubbed over.

The shorter "American" version does feature Lancaster's actual voice dubbed-in in English.

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On larger sets with better audio set ups you can clearly see/hear that the lip movements while timed correctly aren't matched well in a lot of scenes.

I received my order I made last Monday, last Thursday (4 days) and I received my Wednesday order today (4 business days).

But I did not order any titles that said "1-2 weeks shipped" nor did I order anything that had "pre-order". Only ordered titles that had "will be shipped within 24 hours".

Criterion also posted on Facebook a few hours ago:

Eighteen Zatoichi films plus FOR ALL MANKIND. Keep your eyes peeled for more soon!

The way to avoid waiting for shipping is to call your BN and ask to order the film(s). This way the films will be available on release date with the store's stock.

OCD runs rampant among Blu-ray collectors. There's nothing wrong with the cardboard cases, just personal preference.

From Criterion's Twitter... 'Inception' Meets 'Black Narcissus'

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Because they are very thin, flimsy and frankly they suck. I don't have a problem with the By Brakhage and The Leopard cases either. Those are solid quality. Nothing like their original digipak Blu-Ray "cases."

I ordered three movies on 7/13/10 & one arrived yesterday. The other two have shipped so they should be here today or tomorrow.

Picked up "Pandora's Box" and "The Naked City." I also got a new copy of "Fallen Idol" off Ebay at a very reasonable price. :) A good haul.

I think it's a little bit of all those things plus the fact that digipak cases are notoriously flimsy and easily damaged.

Criterion's blu-rays are all going to be in clear cases from now on unless it's a film with multiple discs ala the Stan Brakhage set, The Leopard, etc. If it's a box set that contains more than one individual film, it will be a box slip case with two separate clear cases within, like the Montery Pop box set, Yojimbo & Sanjuro box set, or the Che box set.

Seven Samurai will more than likely be a clear case since it looks to be a one disc set, but retaining all of the features of the epic 3 disc restored version from a couple years ago. This of course, is because it's possible to put the entire film in a blu-ray transfer plus all the special features on one disc due to the huge capacity of a BD.

Off topic, but did anyone see Inception this weekend? I've seen it 3 times now and I thought it was a masterstroke of cinema. That Christopher Nolan could take a high concept studio tent-pole summer blockbuster and turn it into his most personal film yet is something of a miracle. I'm so glad we have auteurs like Nolan working today who are able to bridge the gap between cinephiles and mainstream average movie-goers so well. :rock:

Masterstroke, I wouldn't call it that. But I'm not going to say I didn't enjoy it. It was really good. Nolan, though is being praised by many internet people as "the greatest film director", is a little overhyped by that statement, just for the fact the man made a couple of bat flicks so they "have to like" everything he does. One thing he is though, is prob the best blockbuster making filmmaker in Hollywood by a longshot and that is from his teasing way of storytelling, which is a positive for me. His mix of action and story is clever, and that is what makes him great in what he does.

But #3 film of all-time on IMDB? Come on now. That is the perfect case of hype for a movie 2 years down the road these people will have nothing to do with, because guess what? What they really want (Batman 3) will be out, and that will slide into the "BEST MOVIE EVER" spot.

I for one like this movie more than his Batman films.

I'd already call him one of the better Directors around today. The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Prestige and Memento all range betwen very good to among my favorite films of all-time. His only film I really consider a complete turd sandwich was Insomnia. Havn't seen Inception so can't speak on that film yet.

I really enjoyed Inception but the need of some people to declare a brand new movie the greatest ever is beyond me. They did the same thing with The Dark Knight, Avatar, and Titanic. some people seem easily swayed to me.

So, if Criterion put the 3-disc DVD set of "The Leopard" on two blu-ray discs, then you're expecting them to put a 3-disc DVD set of "Seven Samurai" on one blu-ray? How does that make any sense? Obviously, it doesn't make sense to do that and you must not ever look on Criterion's site to know that "Seven Samurai" is already slated to be a 2-disc blu-ray set just like "The Leopard." You do realize that a single blu-ray disc isn't capable of handling a 3-hour film and a multitude of supplements without sacrificing A/V quality, right? And, I'm 99% sure that the packaging for "Seven Samurai" will be the same cardboard slipcover packaging as "The Leopard."

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