The Criterion Collection

[ksc2303]

Originally Posted by kndy

whoah...the non-Criterion Bergman box set - The Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection that is usually $90 is on sale for $4.

I looked at that earlier and it wasn't that cheap so thanks for the heads up! I better borrow some money to put in my checking account this morning... If I didn't get screwed over by borders, I canceled my order for the Oshima Eclipse set when amazon went back to $33 and they still shipped me a copy, i'd have a bit more to spend on these amazing deals (really want the Michael Haneke box set)

[kndy]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

I swear..... I'm not looking at Amazon ANY MORE now......

The Brady Bunch - The Complete Series (Seasons 1-5 + Shag Carpet Cover) - Robert Reed
$9.91 - Quantity: 1 - In Stock
Condition: New
Sold by: Supermart

ARGH! You're making me buy again! I never wanted to pay full price for this set but for $9 for a set that is typically expensive...I can't resist. Is "Happy Days" on sales too...haha...

CG....at least you got some Criterion! Did you go for those Kino box sets too?

Anyway, I hope this is legit. The good news is that Amazon is very good at protecting their consumers, so there should be no worry on that. It's just...wondering if they will be shipped or not. If it was an error, I would assume they would have fixed it by now.

[Beta Man]

Alright... for another $7.50 I had to get the Bergman set too


For anyone interested, They have the "Friday The 13th" T.V. series (complete) for under $10 It might have been $6, not sure..... but either way, I had never seen the show, but saw it was selling for about $100 by other merchants, so I thought someone would want to scoop it up.

[kndy]

I'm signing off now....just in case Beta Man comes back and entices me with another list of sets that I might want to buy. Hehe...

Hope everyone got most of what they wanted. But again....we'll see what happens in the next 24 hours or so...

[Buddy Ro]

Essential Art House 3, 4, and 5 are SUPER cheap, but he has 1 and 2 listed at regular price....those are the ones i want! Still got 3 4 and 5 anyway.

[fdm]

Went with Treasures From American Film Archives - Encore Edition. Kinda always wanted that, but was alway kinda way too much.

BRD Trilogy, by the way, excellent. The Marriage Of Maria Braun is worth the price just by itself. Escpecially at these prices.

[Beta Man]

I hope my wife isn't home when this haul gets delivered ...........

[mlisette23]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Alright... for another $7.50 I had to get the Bergman set too

Looks like you got it right on time, the cheapest price is now $23.95.

I got Scenes from a Marriage for $7.xx

[SpiderBaby]

Thanks fdm for the BRD praise.

Thanks kndy for everything. I didn't get Kino sadly (Griffith was back up in price), but I just got alot of Criterions I wasn't counting on getting for a while, so that's cool.

Thanks Beta for buying so much, so I don't feel bad.

Now I have to find some money for next week's releases (Stagecoach, etc.) Criterion charges in 2 days I think.

I am getting off due to me getting worked up about this. Hope it is true and hope everyone atleast finds out about this to get something.

[Kory]

Happy with the deals I've gotten, but I'm still pissed about missing out on certain things. Ugh.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by Kory

Happy with the deals I've gotten, but I'm still pissed about missing out on certain things. Ugh.

Me too, but I am happy with what I got. I could of picked crap for $3-$8, instead I got Criterions.

Peace everyone. Hope we wake up with good news.

[Dr.Mirakle32]

After reading the mediocre reviews for the BD, I went ahead and picked up the Criterion DVD of Spartacus. Should I have put that money towards the BD instead? This will be my first time buying the film since VHS and I want the best existing version.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by Dr.Mirakle32

After reading the mediocre reviews for the BD, I went ahead and picked up the Criterion DVD of Spartacus. Should I have put that money towards the BD instead? This will be my first time buying the film since VHS and I want the best existing version.

I have the DVD (Criterion version) already, but I bought another (so I have a sealed one ) I actually canceled my pre-order for the Blu-ray today after reading the reviews..... well, actually I read the reviews weeks ago, and said I was buying it anyways, but I changed my mind this morning..... it's just a shame the detail has been scrubbed from the Blu-ray (reportedly)

Definitely get the DVD, but you may want to rent the Blu-ray and compare, just so you can sleep better at night...... I know I'll be renting it to see it for myself.

[g.schweet]

My final tally
Truffaut's Adventures of Antoine Doinel
Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy
Bergman - Four Masterworks
Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection
The Human Condition
Rossellini's War Trilogy
Eclipse Series 3 - Late Ozu
Eclipse Series 5 - The First Films of Samuel Fuller
Eclipse Series 18 - Dusan Makavejev
Eclipse Series 19 - Chantal Akerman in the Seventies
The Billy Wilder DVD Collection
Chaplin Essanay & Mutual Collection
Columbia Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1
Kieslowski Kino Collection
Kieslowski's The Decalogue
Greta Garbo Signature Collection

$196.65 (Good thing I had $100 dollars in credit from loose change i turned into amazon credit)

Now we'll have to wait to see if they ship

[AmonTwin]

Well. I have no idea what is going on with this place but we'll see...

I ended up getting

Eclipse Series 16 - Alexander Korda's Private Lives $17.64
Stage and Spectacle - Three Films by Jean Renoir $16.38
Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa $27.91
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy $12.07
Billy Wilder DVD Collection $5.57
Golden Age of Television $8.82
Vivre Sa Vie $3.88
David Lean DVD Collection Box Set [9 Discs, Import, All Regions] (Oliver Twist /Great Expectations / Blithe Spirit / This Happy Breed /Brief Encounter /Madeleine /The Sound Barrier /Hobson's Choice) (2010) $14.75

Some of the boxsets aren't nearly as cheap as some of the other deals, but good deals nevertheless. I may cancel the Pedro Costa or the Jean Renoir boxset as they just seem a bit expensive compared to everything else. I pulled a CassavetesGodard and got a copy of Vivre Sa Vie to try and sell or perhaps just give as a gift.

I have no idea what that David Lean collection is but it appears to be a leather bound, Korean release of the R2 David Lean Collection. It just happened to appear in a search result for something else...

Thank you so much kndy [or was it BetaMan?] for finding this crazy place. I'm probably going to open the box and find a bunch of VHS tapes or something. Some of these are just way too cheap...

Edit: Nevermind. Too late to cancel anything. Card charged already. Let's hope these go through...

[Jwilly019]

Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is now out of stock.

Justin

[oyboe]

Found and bought fm the same seller as you guys:

Starblazers Season 1 - Quest For Iscandar 20.53 (normally $100+) - just look at my avatar
Starblazers Season 3 - Comet Empire 6.82 (normally $100+)
Land of the Lost Complete set 24.46

Hopefully this isn't a scam!

[kndy]

Hey everyone revised the non-Criterion list....went through my box sets that I owned...did some pricing and wow...if you guys get any of these with the current price from Super Mart, that is a steal:

* - Major price difference
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The biggest price difference is the Billy Wilder set (usually $107), Hitchcock Masterpiece (usually $95), the Greta Garbo Signature Set (usually $80), Judy Garland Signature (usually $72), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (usually $90), Chaplin Essanay usually around $65, Stanley Kramer set around $54. There were other titles that were fantastically cheap but are now sold out by the seller (Ab Fab Absolutely Everything, Sam Fuller, Griffith Masterworks v1)

Marlon Brando - 4 Movie - $1
Literary Classics Warner set – $3 *
Barbara Stanwyck Signature – $3 *
Herzog/Kinski – $4*
Billy Wilder - 9 DVD Purple Box Set - $5*
Columbia Film Noir v. 1 – $5
Claud Chabrol Collection – $5
Chaplin Essanay & Mutual Collection – $5 *
Hepburn & Tracy – $5
TCM Lon Chaney Collection $5
Robert Mitchum Signature – $5 *
Stanley Kramer Collection – $7*
Marx Bros. Collection - $7 *
Jean Luc Godard Essential – $8
Judy Garland Signature – $8 *
Woody Allen - The Woody Allen Collection (Hannah and Her Sisters / The Purple Rose of Cairo / Broadway Danny Rose / Zelig / A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy / Radio Days) (1982) - $8
Unknown Chaplin - $8
Val Lewton – Scorsese set – $9
The Douglas Fairbanks Collection – $9 *
James Cagney Signature – $9
Frank Sinatra - MGM Collection - $10
John Barrymore Collection – $11 *
Cleopatra - 75th Universal Backlot - $11
Lost & Found: Harry Langdon - $12 *
Cary Grant Signature – $13
Errol Flynn Signature v1 – $13
Rudolph Valentino (Flicker Alley) – $13
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection - $14 *
The Complete Thin Man Collection - $14 *
Greta Garbo Signature – $14 *
Lubits in Berlin – $16 *
The Krzysztof Kieslowski Collection - $16 *
That's Entertainment - The Complete Collection (BLU-RAY) - $16*
American Silent Horror Collection - $19 *
Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection - $20.38 *
Mill Creek Family Collection 250 (for the PD fans) – $22 *
Fanny Series - $28 *

BBC AMERICA:
Red Dwarf Series V and VI - $6.47 *
Young Ones - Extra Stoopid Edition - $14 *
Chef! - The Complete Collection - $15 *


BACK TO REG- PRICE (No longer on Sale):
Sam Fuller Collection – $3 *
Ingmar Bergman Special Edition - $4*
Brady Bunch – The Complete Series – $9*
Griffith Masterworks Volume 1 – $10 *
GI JOE Collectors - $10 *
Treasures from the American Film Archives – Encore – $11 *
Ab Fab - Absolutely Everything - $11 *
Twin Peaks Gold Box – $13 *

[Jwilly019]

Just placed my order:

Beauty & the Beast (RE) - $4.35
Peeping Tom - $5.60
Hiroshima Mon Amour - $3.83
Francois Truffaut's Adventures of Antoine Doinel - $4.18
Great Adaptations - $5.56
If... - $6.62
The Battle of Algiers - $9.00
Z - $7.72
Homicide - $7.76
Vivre Sa Vie - $3.88

Sadly I waited too long and missed Rosselini's War Trilogy, The Human Condition, and Ingmar Bergman - Four Masterworks. Still, not bad...if the order goes through that is.

Justin

[rich_adamson]

Well, it looks like its mostly winding down now... Got quite a few myself, and hey, if we actually get them, they will actually pay for themselves, lol.

Great Adaptations
Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films By Pedro Costa
The Last Days Of Disco
The Human Condition Trilogy
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks
Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy
Adventures Of Antoine Doinel Box Set x5 (4 to eBay and 1 for a gift, lol)
Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection
Heimat: A Chronicle Of Germany
The Michael Haneke Collection
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy
The Billy Wilder Collection
The Brady Bunch Complete Series (Mom's gonna love this for her B-Day!!)

in all, over $1450.00 (Amazon prices) for just under $240.00..... not bad at all, now just to cross all of our fingers and pray like hell that its legit!!