The Criterion Collection

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

Well, Terence Malick does'nt do a commentary an any of his films, yet Criterion has two of his titles out. They could have commentaries by film historians or other cast and crew members on a film like Woody's "Annie Hall" for example.

The main reason why no Woody Allen films have supplements is because he usually the color correction for video and that's it. Nothing is done but getting the film ready for video.

If Criterion did one of his films they could find some extras no doubt.

[Crimson King]

I wonder if the Easy Rider blu from Sony will go OOP. I'm keeping mine since it's such a cool package, I love digibooks and proud to say it!

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Time to keep refreshing Criterion's website now

I think you can safely lay off the F5 key until after noon, Beta.

CC

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

I think you can safely lay off the F5 key until after noon, Beta.

CC

Usually it's around 11 am Eastern Time.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

I wonder if the Easy Rider blu from Sony will go OOP. I'm keeping mine since it's such a cool package, I love digibooks and proud to say it!

I am keeping mine too..... and it has nothing to do with packaging etc... for whatever reason, with DVDs and now Blu-rays.... if I get a new/better version of something, I always just hang onto the old one. I guess I'm too lazy, or perhaps it's the fact that the effort involved isn't worth the money you get back if you sell it.

If Criterion released "Ran" for instance (not gonna happen, but just go with it) on Blu-ray, I'd keep my Studio Canal version (and my Criterion DVD)

I guess I'm not very good at selling stuff! I bought a 2-pack deal when it was really cheap, and I sold one of the movies for $14 or so, but by the time I went to the Post office and paid for packaging, shipping, Delivery Confirmation, etc.... It really wasn't worth my time and effort to put up with the line etc..... and I live really close to a post office too

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

I think you can safely lay off the F5 key until after noon, Beta.

CC

I have a MacBook...... my F5 key doesn't do squat


Wait until my wife finds out I got the BBS Story...... Including the DVD, I swear it's only the second time I've bought HEAD. I'm sure some of you more Hard-Core Monkees would put that number to shame

[rkish]

Originally Posted by Eny-

The BBS set is $73 at B&N. With the library link it can be had for $66 (51% off).

Their system doesn't let me stack any voucher with the library link but a bargain all the same.

You'll notice that they didn't bring down the price until AFTER the 25% coup.

That is still a GREAT price...and I thought my little deal was going to be the best price at this time!

I guess I did pretty well, even though I acted before this latest price drop. It was $89.05 on their website 1-2 weeks ago and I had a manager tell me that if I did it "in-store", I could get the additional 10% off AND free express shipping. When I came back this past week to do the order, she couldn't get the 10% (members discount) for me, so she took the current price at the time (it had gone up to $92.61 by that time) and was able to override the 25% coup to get the price down to $69.46 before tax...so $75.10 after taxes. That includes free express shipping, so I should either get it on the realease date or a day or so afterwards (their warehouse is close, as their store gets new shipments quickly).

Worse case...the library link would have saved me around $3.00...I guess I can't complain.

[Arkadin]

sold some HD DVDs and used the GC I got to pre-order BBS on amazon.
WOO HOO!!!
HD DVD--still good for something.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

sold some HD DVDs and used the GC I got to pre-order BBS on amazon.
WOO HOO!!!
HD DVD--still good for something.

I would still think you would be better off pre-ordering some new Criterion titles within the first few days of Amazon having them up for order (When they're priced at $27.99) and just buy the BBS set for $20 less at B&N via the Library link......

Just think.... whatever they announce today, in the next 5 hours or so..... could already be paid for

[Arkadin]

Beta--yeah definitely a good idea.
The thing is I didn't get quite enough to cover the entire cost so I still had to pay a little, and since I accepted payment via GC I figured if I wanted the BBS set it was now or months from now.
I've made 4 orders from B&N in the past 2 weeks with the sale,
so I figured maybe I should take a break from there.
the early pre-order prices are better on amazon for sure lately.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

FYI to anyone interested..... I searched "BBS STORY" and only the DVD set came up...... to find the Blu-ray version, I just searched "Lost and Found" and it was one of the top 5 or 6 listed. Odd

Also... thanks for this... I'm going to order it, and hope they fulfill it


EDIT:

Time to keep refreshing Criterion's website now

Believe it or not...if you search their website under "America Lost and Found", it will list both the BD and DVD sets.

[Crimson King]

My BBS blu-ray set came out to $69.55 w/tax using the ol' library link! B&N BETTER NOT CANCEL OUR ORDERS! The funny thing is the DVD set cost 2 bucks more...

[rkish]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

I think you can safely lay off the F5 key until after noon, Beta.

CC

I hope that the rumors of Ozu's "Tokyo Story" are true...I'm this close to ordering it from BFI/Amazon UK after the holidays. It would be nice to get this through CC, with hopefully more supplements.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by rkish

I hope that the rumors of Ozu's "Tokyo Story" are true...I'm this close to ordering it from BFI/Amazon UK after the holidays. It would be nice to get this through CC, with hopefully more supplements.

I netflixed this....... got the DVD sitting on my kitchen counter, but haven't watched it yet..... My wife isn't sure she'll like it based on the description, so it's been on my counter for a few days now


EDIT:

Nevermind.... it's "Tokyo Sonata" that we got

[Marcus Wright]

Whats BBC?

[deadkidsean]

Originally Posted by rkish

I hope that the rumors of Ozu's "Tokyo Story" are true...I'm this close to ordering it from BFI/Amazon UK after the holidays. It would be nice to get this through CC, with hopefully more supplements.

As tired as this rumor is, in addition to Tokyo Story, I'm really crossing my fingers for Rashomon.


And/or another Fellini.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by Marcus Wright

Whats BBC?

A television broadcasting company in the UK

[rkish]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

I netflixed this....... got the DVD sitting on my kitchen counter, but haven't watched it yet..... My wife isn't sure she'll like it based on the description, so it's been on my counter for a few days now


EDIT:

Nevermind.... it's "Tokyo Sonata" that we got

Hey...been there...done that!

If you have NetFlix...Ozu's "Tokyo Story" is streamable...that is how I first checked it out.

If you've seen Leo McCarey's "Make Way For Tomorrow", it's like a Japanese version of that. Same premise...if fact, Ozu stated that Make Way For Tomorrow was a big influence on him, especially for Tokyo Story.

The BFI package is supposedly quite good...if you have a multi-region player. It comes with BD and DVD...I think some of the supplements are on the DVD. But if CC is going to release this, there are other UK BDs I can get in the coming months.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by Marcus Wright

Whats BBC?

Been Buying Criterion for the last two weeks!

REALLY... British Broadcasting Corporation

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Nevermind.... it's "Tokyo Sonata" that we got

Return it now and just order the MOC region-free blu-ray.

CC