DVD and Blu-ray Disc bargains!

[morosco]

Lawrence of Arabia $9.99
2001: A Space Odyssey $6.96
Inception $6.96
Saving Private Ryan $9.99

Many more.

Big Amazon blu-ray sale

[best12bars]

A lot of past Best Picture winners are on sale now, under $10. Many of the Blu-ray transfers look fantastic.

Favorites (meaning the picture and audio quality are truly outstanding):

Wings
Casablanca
Mrs. Miniver
Gladiator
Braveheart
No Country For Old Men
Lawrence of Arabia
Gone With the Wind
Dances With Wolves
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Ben-Hur
Terms of Endearment
Rebecca
An American In Paris
Gigi
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
West Side Story
Shakespeare in Love

Pretty good to very good video and audio:

Best Years of Our Lives
Amadeus
Grand Hotel


Ones on sale that I have yet to see:

American Beauty
Unforgiven
The Hurt Locker
The Silence of the Lambs
Platoon
A Beautiful Mind
Rain Man
Slumdog Millionaire
The English Patient
Crash
The Departed

... and all of the above are under $10 right now!

[strummergirl]

I just wanted to point out that the BITWC is pretty bare-bone and Criterion noted on its website that they plan on putting out a larger edition. IFC/Sundance Selects were hedging their bets, believing that Adele Exarchopoulos had a reasonable shot at major acting awards and perhaps an Oscar nomination that they wanted an affordable disc available- hence why it was already at a much lower in price by Criterion Collection standards.

I got The Last Days of Disco and Rohmer's Six Moral Tales from the Criterion flash sale.

The Hurt Locker Blu-Ray was one of the first ones I ever bought. Excellent sound and audio quality but lacks extras (there's at least an insightful commentary by Bigelow but nothing much else) given it was put out by Summit Entertainment who had to hastily put out a disc because it was put out originally in the summer by them.

[Mildred Plotka]

The Fox store has a 50 percent off sale going on their award winners. Not a gigantic selection ,but was able to pre-order Norma Rae for about 6 bucks and grab The Three Faces of Eve and with free shipping. Looks like there's a a flash sale today for 50 percent off TV shows, too.

Blu-Rays for 50% off:
All About Eve
Black Swan
Crazy Heart
Gentleman's Agreement
How Green Was My Valley
Norma Rae
Patton
Slumdog Millionaire
The French Connection
The Last King of Scotland
The Three Faces of Eve
Walk the Line
Wall Street

Promo Code: WINNER
(Tv Sale code is BINGE)

http://www.foxconnect.com/promos/award-winning-film-sale.html?format=128

[best12bars]

Sweet! Thanks, Mildred!

[Mildred Plotka]

Just got an email from Screenarchives.com. 36 Twilight Time titles will be $10 off each March 19-March 24. The Twilight Time
discs are never discounted, so thought I'd let everyone know. I've loved everything I've gotten from them except Titus (terrible transfer, the DVD actually looks better than their High-Def version).



RAPTURE (1965)
PICNIC (1955)
ROOTS OF HEAVEN (195
SWAMP WATER (1941)
PAL JOEY (1957)
DEMETRIUS & THE GLADIATORS (1954)
BITE THE BULLET (1975)
DESIREE (1954)
THE WAYWARD BUS (1957)
COVER GIRL (1944)
HIGH TIME (1960)
STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989)
THE SOUND AND THE FURY (1959)
RAINS OF RANCHIPUR (1955)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE (195
BELOVED INFIDEL (1959)
LOST HORIZON (1973)
THE BLUE LAGOON (1980)
EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (1962)
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA (1971)
OUR MAN FLINT (1966)
IN LIKE FLINT (1967)
PONY SOLDIER (1952)
SONG OF BERNADETTE (1943)
PHILADELPHIA (1993)
THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN (1970)
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (1955)
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)
THE DISAPPEARANCE (1977)
SEXY BEAST (2000)
ALAMO BAY (1985)
MINDWARP (1992)
THE OTHER (1972)
JANE EYRE (1944)
ROYAL FLASH (1975)
TITUS (1999)
THE KREMLIN LETTER (1970)
VIOLENT SATURDAY (1955)
WOMAN OBSESSED (1959)
MY COUSIN RACHEL (1952)

[best12bars]

This is a rare sale, indeed, for Twilight Time! First one that I know of. I only have a few discs because of the cost.

But I will say that "Lost Horizon" and "Picnic" both have fantastic image and sound. Picnic, in particular, is a huge improvement over the old DVD.

I also have Oliver!, but that's not included in this sale. Neither are pre-orders. I'm interested in "All the King's Men," but I will wait to find out if it's a good-quality transfer.

[Mildred Plotka]

Picnic and Lost Horizon are the 2 I am planning on picking up!

Steel Magnolias is the only 1 I own from the sale list. If you love the movie, the transfer is a great choice for upgrade.

Also have Bye Bye Birdie, The Way We Were, and Oliver!, all of which I highly recommend on blu (Birdie especially feels like an entirely new experience). Titus is the only 1 I regret buying (I guess many copies were returned per a bluray.com thread).

I believe Sleepless in Seattle and Philadelphia are the same editions licensed in the UK and it's actually significantly cheaper to purchase on the Amazon UK site than going with the Twilight edition (I'm pretty sure both are region free in UK).

[best12bars]

Thanks for sharing all that info, Mildred! Much appreciated.

[best12bars]

The Hitchcock Blu-ray box set with 15 of his classic films is back on sale today for $105.49!


Amazon link

[strummergirl]

The June announcements for the Criterion Collection came out and All That Heaven Allows got the dual-format upgrade. It also got a bulk up in supplements, that includes Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson's Home Movies.

Bookmark that for the next Criterion sale.

http://www.criterion.com/films/635-all-that-heaven-allows

[best12bars]

Thanks, strummergirl. I already paid a pretty penny for the first Criterion DVD. Still, I'm glad they have restored it, and I hope it's a noticeable improvement. The first one is dark, muddy, and overly grainy. I know that's partially to do with how it was originally lit and photographed, but it seemed to go too far (think earlier releases of The Godfather movies).

I won't shell out for it again unless it's a significant improvement and has a decent sale price.

I hope they tackle Magnificent Obsession at some point, too. That one was/is in worse shape than All That Heaven Allows.

Both are terrific Sirk films, though.

And for those interested, "All That Heaven Allows" is (for the most part) the inspiration for "Far From Heaven."

[EricMontreal22]

I wonder if they will upgrade their Magnificent Obsession and Written on the Wind as well?

Like Besty, I remember paying what seemed like a fortune for the original Criterion release, but I am tempted to upgrade... at some point.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Mildred, is there some kind of special link you have to go for the sale? I want to get Lost Horizon but it's still listed at $29.99.

[romantico]

Sale does not start until 4:00PM eastern time. Try this link at 4 or after.

http://www.screenarchives.com/index.cfm

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Thanks.

[Mildred Plotka]

Looks like the sale is up now. I clicked on the Twilight Time link up top and filtered by price low to high.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Thanks! Although I'm such a dipsh*t, I was reading that your post said they blu-rays would be ten dollars, not ten dollars off!

[Mildred Plotka]

God I wish!

[Jordan Catalano]

I was at Target today and saw that they had a ton of Disney Blu Rays (FROZEN included) for only $13.

[Marianne2]

Don't know if anyone cares about this or not. Amazon has in their blu-ray deal of the week the Best of Warner Bros 50 Film collection for $181.99. List price said it was $597.92.

Movies include:

1. Grand Hotel* (1932)
2. Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935)
3. Wizard of Oz (1939)
4. Gone with The Wind* (1939)
5. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
6. Mrs. Miniver* (1942)
7. Casablanca* (1942)
8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (194
9. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
10. American in Paris, An* (1951)
11. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
12. Gigi(195
13. North By Northwest (1959)
14. Ben-Hur* (1959)
15. How the West Was Won (1962)
16. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
17. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
18. 2001: A Space Odyssey (196
19. Bullitt (196
20. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
21. Dirty Harry (1971)
22. Clockwork Orange, A (1972)
23. Exorcist, The (1973)
24. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* (1975)
25. Superman, The Movie (1977)
26. Shining, The (1980)
27. Chariots of Fire* (1981)
28. Risky Business (1983)
29. Amadeus* (1984)
30. Color Purple, The (1985)
31. Lethal Weapon (1987)
32. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
33. Driving Miss Daisy* (1989)
34. Goodfellas (1990)
35. Unforgiven* (1992)
36. Bodyguard, The(1992)
37. Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) (1994)
38. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
39. Matrix, The (1999)
40. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
41. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
42. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
43. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003)
44. Million Dollar Baby* (2005)
45. Departed, The* (2006)
46. Dark Knight, The (200
47. Blind Side, The (2009)
48. Hangover, The (2009)
49. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
50. Inception (2010)

[DAME]

Not a bad deal. Got so many of them already.. and the ones I don't I can't picture myself sitting down to watch them. But... this is not a bad deal.

[best12bars]

The 50 percent off sale is back on!

Barnes and Noble link

[Roscoe]

I picked up the radiant HARD DAY'S NIGHT Blu-ray the other day -- deeeeelish. Others will be mine, I'm sure.

[best12bars]

I just ordered BDs for Grey Gardens (finally, with both movies on it) and All That Heaven Allows.

[Roscoe]

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