Heads up!!!! 50% off Criterions

Today was my last trip to the store. I think I got some pretty good ones and fairly cheap too using a 15% off coupon and membership discount.

Roberto Rossolini’s War Trilogy
3 Women
That Hamilton Woman
Z

There are four coupons left for this sale (for members):

For Members:

Non-Members can still use these:

“CANADA

Has anyone from Canada ordered from this sale?

B&N charges a nominal amount for sales tax. Was the amount updated to include HST? Any other charges?

The new 15% coupon didn’t work for me. Treated the same as all other coupons for the Criterion sale."

The shipping is more for Canada, but not outrageous. Buying Criterions in Canada is a ripoff in any store (I believe they cost at least $10-$30 dollars more than US stores), so the 50% off sale more than makes up for the few dollars in shipping to Canada. Some coupons work for me, some don’t, just try another one.

The Red Shoes Bluray – just got canceled from my online order due to out of stock! If you are intent on buying it, you better go to an actual store instead. Just a little tip.

I just picked up a large slate of stuff today but I think I will go back and at least get 2 more titles with those 5 dollar coupons. Hell yeah!

man, i wish i’d seen that coupon before i stopped off at BN. i didn’t know about that one! ah well,

i picked up Crumb, The Magician, and The Night of the Hunter.

I’m done. I couldn’t really afford these…

Oops…I accidentally duplicated one of the coupons above…here is the other one:

Remember to right click and view image file and then print so the Barnes and Noble URL will show on your print out.

Broke down and bought

- War Trilogy .. Rossellini
- Magician .. Bergman

The hunger pains were still so bad I then bought eight more DVDs, none of which is close in quality to the two purchases from B&N. An O/C mind can be a terrifying thing.

My final tally:
Eclipse Series 18: Dusan Makavejev Free Radical
Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties
Les Amants
Howards End
The Virgin Spring
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Brand Upon the Brain
Vivre sa Vie

does anyone know exactly what time it ends? is it midnight sundaynight – right at monday.. or end of monday midnight? no one at b&n seems to know.

did three 225$ orders but would like to grab a few things tomorrow unless it ends at midnight or something.

@CEDIS – Last time this happened, it ended 9:00 PST (Midnight- Monday EST). So if that is the case, you have about two hours from now I suppose…

Final Damage:

didn’t go too crazy this time

Brakhage: an Anthology, vol 1 and 2 bluray

Late Ozu
Silent Ozu

Ugetsu

Close-Up bluray

Night and Fog

well i guess we’ll have to see if it happens again this summer, i think its usually around july or so. now, time to watch the stuff i bought…

house
darjeeling limited
the magician
the night of the hunter
crumb

It was a pretty great sale… I really hope there’s another one (and there better be if the first half of 2011 is anything like 2010).

My final tally this go around: All Blu-ray
-America Lost and Found (not technically from the sale, but it was from B&N, and at 40% off – plus AAA 10%… so I’m counting it)
-Antichrist
-Breathless
-Close-Up
-House
-The Magician
-Modern Times
-The Night of the Hunter
-Paths of Glory
-Seven Samurai
-Videodrome (again not part of the sale, but with discounts and coupons I got it for $16 on Borders.com, so I’m counting it)
-Wages of Fear

Here’s to a great sale! Now let’s hope they stick with it and give us another great one in July!

Final tally:

Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks
Jules & Jim
The Last Temptation of Christ
Last Year at Marienbad
Late Spring
Modern Times
The River
The Rules of the Game
Wings of Desire
Tokyo Story

My wallet hates me so much right now.

I only picked up the Eric Rohmer box set this time around, but I also purchased a BD of Pierrot Le Fou new from the authorized seller listed on the B&N website, so that was not technically part of the sale.

I decided to add the Louis Malle Eclipse set just awhile ago (thanks to those who recommended it to me!), so all I need for my Eclipse Series collection is the Flamenco set (which is OOP but was never my priority – although everyone who has it seem to say it is a must-buy). I will have to say, so far….I have not been disappointed by an Eclipse series release. Oh, and one thing, many of you have asked me if I had “The Golden Age of Television”, I bought it at the beginning of the sale and started watching it and man, I love it.

OK….Final haul:

3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
Close-Up
Crumb
Drunken Angel
Eclipse Series 1: Early Bergman
Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle
Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy
Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women
Eclipse Series 14: Rossellini’s History Films—Renaissance and Enlightenment
Eclipse Series 16: Alexander Korda’s Private Lives
Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir
Eclipse Series 20: George Bernard Shaw on Film
Eclipse Series 22: Presenting Sacha Guitry
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
Early Summer
Golden Age of Television
Human Condition
Ivan’s childhood
La Ronde
Le Plaisir
Louie Bluie
The Magician
Mishima – A Life in Four Chapters
Patriotism
Thin Red Line
Mystery Train
Night on Earth
Night Train to Munich
Sawdust and Tinsel
Stranger than Paradise
Stray Dog

There are five more I want to get…but with the Warner Gangsters sets and Forbidden Hollywood sets on sale on Amazon right now for the lowest prices I have seen, these other five Criterions I want will have to wait. Hopefully they don’t go OOP though.

La Bete Humain
Trouble in Paradise
Hara-Kiri
Bad Timing
Stage and Spectacle: Renoir set

I’m hoping there is a Criterion sale next year. Whoever owns B&N…hopefully they do it.

What I got in total from the sale:
Chungking Express
By Brakhage
Last Year at Marienbad
The Leopard
Night of the Hunter
The Thin Red Line
Days of Heaven
Paris, TX
Wings of Desire
House
Charade
Breathless
Seven Samurai
The Red Shoes

Final….

Blu Ray:
Paths of Glory
House
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line
Night of the Hunter

DVD:
La Haine
The Red Balloon

Oh, and Naked Lunch dvd.

Final, all blu ray.

The Darjeeling Limited
The Thin Red Line
Paths of Glory
Crumb
Walkabout
Wings of Desire
Chungking Express
Bottle Rocket
The Seventh Seal
Seven Samurai

Pre-ordering Videodrome and Cronos for next month too.

Final Tally:

House
Paths of Glory
La Haine
The Hit
Last Year at Marienbad
Night of the Hunter
Modern Times
Vampyr
The Furies
The Exterminating Angel
High and Low
Walkabout
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
The Magician
Sawdust and Tinsel
The Fugitive Kind
The Thin Red Line
My Own Private Idaho
Port of Shadows
Brand Upon the Brain!
Chunking Express
Under the Volcano
Ugestu
Roberto Rosesellini’s War Triolgy

Phew! It’s finally over! Alas, the final damage:

8 1/2 blu
Antichrist blu
Darjeeling Limited blu
Everlasting Moments blu
Lola Montes blu
Paris Texas blu
Red Shoes blu
Walkabout blu
4 by Agnes Vardas (boxset includes 4 of her features)
Autumn Afternoon
Flowers of St. Francis
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Late Spring
Mamma Roma
Le Samurai

Ended up with:

House
Vivre Sa Vie
Black Orpheus
Crumb
Louie Bluie
Repulsion
Band of Outsiders
Wings of Desire
Pandora’s Box
La Jetee/Sans Soleil
Stranger Than Paradise
Spirit of the Beehive
Paths of Glory
and the Bergman Trilogy

really hope they have this sale again!

I think I did better at this sale than all the others, hope this wasn’t the last one!

House
The Magician
Black Orpheus
Modern Times
Cronos
Night of the Hunter
Playtime
Alphaville
Stagecoach
Sanjuro
My Dinner With Andre

Did anyone ever manage to snatch up oop criterions still miraculously lying on the shelf unsold in a B&N during the sale?

Oh, I guess so Viewer Ben, since you bought Alphaville.

And my tally:

—Six Moral Tales
—Bigger Than Life
—F for Fake
—The Night of the Hunter
—Wings of Desire
—The Exterminating Angel
—L’Eclisse

I would have been okay if I’d stopped there, but the collector bug forced me to find and purchase the three OOP titles I’ve really wanted:

—That Obscure Object of Desire
—Contempt
—Straw Dogs

Z. Bart,

Did you manage to find those out of print titles 50% through B&N, or did you find them through other avenues while the discount was in effect.

Because I have Contempt already but would like to snatch up Obscure Object at a reasonable price if I can.

Rossi, I went through Amazon. There are currently a number of “Like New” copies available for less than $20 via that site. Seems pretty fair for an OOP title like that one.