DVD and Blu-ray Disc bargains!

[Roscoe]

I've had my eye on that Lean/Coward box, but the only film in it I really want is BRIEF ENCOUNTER.

[Mister Matt]

Had to get The Game and The Ice Storm. For now. Recently picked up the Criterion release of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at Costco.

[Jordan Catalano]

THE ICE STORM is my favorite film and the blu ray is just so gorgeous.

[Mister Matt]

The first time I saw Ice Storm, it wasn't what I was expecting and I hated it. Something made me revisit the films a few years later and I was engrossed in it and have loved it ever since. And The Game is my favorite Fincher film. I was a bit saddened that it didn't pick up any Oscar noms.

[best12bars]

Okay, I kinda really hate it when you guys mention discs I haven't ordered yet, but suddenly feel compelled to own ...

*adds Ice Storm and Brief Encounter to the endless list*

And for those of you who care about such things, Blu-ray Discs are still the best quality available! No streaming service offers the same quality. Not even VUDU (which comes the closest).

So go ahead and watch your low-def, blurry, pixelated HD, phony quality streaming if you want to.

Until they get it right ... and they haven't yet ...

BLU-RAY RULES.

So there.

[TotallyEffed]

Completely agree, Besty! Nothing compares, ESPECIALLY to Criterion. The best! I am beyond thrilled they are finally releasing an Almodovar film. I am just hoping that is the first of many! I would also love them to give Hedwig a Blu-Ray release.

[strummergirl]

New job with an uptick and income plus less driving means less mileage and therefore money for gas meant I was allowed to go nuts this year.

My buys:
Berlin Alexanderplatz- Yup. I can afford it with this sale. Now only if I have the time to watch all of it.
Shoah- Like, I love my thought process that I bought two of the most time consuming discs in the whole damn Collection.
Persona Blu-Ray
4 by Agnes Varda
Eisenstein The Sound Years

That is enough for me.

[Mister Matt]

Now, if we could only get Criterion to pick up Raise the Red Lantern...

[Jordan Catalano]

I'll never switch over to an all streaming library of my movies. I like having my nearly 3,000 titles on the walls and being surrounded by them.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

I'm still baffled when friends say they just download movies (either legally or illegally), and are shocked when they see me and my partner's BD collection--which is relatively small, in the hundreds, nothing approaching the thousands like some of you guys' collections. There's just nothing about streaming that can compare to owning a physical copy of a movie. I love buying new BDs, it's one of my favorite things to do, and I love being able to look at my collection and choose to watch VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA for the 30th time. I would never do that with a movie I own digitally. I don't even download the digital copies that come with most BDs. Streaming is great for rentals, but the idea of not owning physical BDs is pretty crazy to me.

[haterobics]

"I don't even download the digital copies that come with most BDs."

Do you need my e-mail address to send all those codes to?

[morosco]

The Mel Brooks Collection [Blu-ray]
$21.99

Disc 1: The Twelve Chairs
Disc 2: Blazing Saddles
Disc 3: Young Frankenstein
Disc 4: Silent Movie
Disc 5: High Anxiety
Disc 6: History of the World - Part 1
Disc 7: To Be or Not to Be
Disc 8: Spaceballs
Disc 9: Robin Hood: Men in Tights

-7 Featurettes Plus 6 Blu-ray Exclusive Featurettes
-4 Trivia Tracks
-5 Isolated Score Tracks
-Commentaries, Interviews, Documentaries, Still Gallaries and more on selected films
The Mel Brooks Collection [Blu-ray] (2012)

[Roscoe]

Criterion-wise, I picked up:

MASTER OF THE HOUSE, a sweet little domestic comedy/drama from Carl Theodor Dreyer, believe it or not.

L'ECLISSE and LA NOTTE -- two Antonionis I've been wanting to check out for a while.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK -- complete with a paperback reprint of Joan Lindsay's novel.

WAGES OF FEAR -- to go along with the Blu-Ray of SORCERER I picked up a few weeks back.

LIFE OF OHARU -- maybe this will be the Mizoguchi where I finally see what all the fuss is about.

PATHS OF GLORY -- I already see what all the shouting's about on this one.

I just didn't have it in me to drop $50.00 on the half-price Lean/Coward box set. Too many movies I'd seldom if ever watch, I'd only ever watch the sublime BRIEF ENCOUNTER anyway.

[Jordan Catalano]

Amazon has THE WEST WING box set on sale for $62 today, down from $300.