I Just Bought...

[Kellen]

movie gallery going out of business sale.

that's all there is in the little towns in East Tx, except the occasional Blockbuster - where is this sale?

I got these at a movie gallery here in missouri.  we have a few blockbusters here, one was going out of business but i didn't get there in time and it was an empty store.

[mogwai]

[tpfkabi]

I just heard Hollywood Video is going bankrupt.

The one here has pretty much the only decent foreign film/Criterion selection in the entire area that I'm aware of.

They might have some OOP Criterion...if I remember what even is OOP.

[SiliasRuby]

[ono]

I just heard Hollywood Video is going bankrupt.

The one here has pretty much the only decent foreign film/Criterion selection in the entire area that I'm aware of.

They might have some OOP Criterion...if I remember what even is OOP.

This is true.  One near me closed Sunday afternoon.  When I entered, DVDs were 3/$6.  By the time I was done shopping, they had dropped the price to $1.48 each.  Bought about 30 more titles, some I'll keep, some I'll resell after watching.  Also bought several Blu-Rays ($5.99 each).  Good for a resale, too.  Got about 35 movies for $85, will make a good bit of that back with the resales.

Celebrity
Hilary and Jackie
Matchstick Men
Sweet and Lowdown
The Quiet American
Putney Swope
Intermission
Love and Death
The Long Goodbye
Roger Dodger
Gigli
Dancer in the Dark
The Safety of Objects
In the Cut
American Rhapsody
Permanent Midnight
Laurel Canyon
Ordinary People
The Two Jakes
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Me Without You
In the Bedroom
Romance and Cigarettes
Hollywoodland
The 4th Dimension
Hotel
Door in the Floor
Happy Endings
Silver City
Havoc
Fur
Birds of America
The Girl in the Cafe

Blu-Rays for resale:
Synecdoche, NY; Sisterhood 2; Sunshine Cleaning; Revolutionary Road; Lymelife; House Bunny

Also bought some Kevin Smith Blu-Rays; stuff I didn't have: Clerks 15th, Dogma, Clerks II.  Also, Mallrats and an Evening With... II and III on DVD.  Been reading a lot of his writing lately, and it made me want to go and somewhat round out his oeuvre in my collection.

[tpfkabi]

I think they just started here so it's 3 for $20, which is still getting Criterion cheaper than I see them used on Amazon. I got the main ones I wanted and hopefully at the end of this week they'll go down again and no one would have gotten the ones I wanted.

There may be someone else with my tastes because I noticed there wasn't a single Kurosawa title...

[Kellen]

[Captain of Industry]

Can't wait for Dagur Kari's Good Heart.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/thegoodheart/

[polkablues]

Another Hollywood Video closing down.  They have about a month left before they're shuttered, so I'm going back in a few weeks to finish picking the meat off the carcass.

[samsong]

[tpfkabi]

The crappy part about buying Criterion via a rental store is that they usually always throw away the booklets. I guess they just dump them in the trash? I don't know why not leave them in the case if it will fit.

[modage]

[Pubrick]

I guess they just dump them in the trash?

hahahah are you serious, you're confused as to what ppl do when they throw away things? i don't know, bigideas (you should really change your name it's so wrong it's past the point of irony), i GUESS they might throw it the bin.. i GUESS they might grab it by the corner with their tiny wee fingers and step on the lever of the bin if it's that kind of bin to raise the lid, or it could just be a plastic bag that has been tied to the handle of a kitchen drawer, either way they carefully place it atop the pile of rubbish previously placed there as a result of a million other backstories, like the remains of food that has been thrown away after most of it has been consumed, i GUESS there could be a banana peel in there and maybe even some old cheese ooh stinky!

or maybe this person who discarded their criterion booklet years ago one day took it out of the case to read it and fell asleep with it on their chest, and their dog came and grabbed it off them and chewed it up (bad dog!), and when the person woke up he picked up the tattered remains of the booklet and shrugged but was slightly annoyed at having to plug in the vaccuum cleaner to pick up most of the tiny pieces of paper that had scattered across the room, and then emptied the contents of the bag or if it was bagless they might have stood there for a second staring at the swirling contents of the vacuum's transparent compartment before they turned it off cos they think it looks cool.

or maybe they just shoved it up their ass.

anyone else want to have a guess at what happened to this booklet?

[SiliasRuby]

[picolas]

anyone else want to have a guess at what happened to this booklet?

i work in a video store and i can confirm that criterion booklets are almost always disassembled and sold for scrap in the closest alleyway or pet shop. criterion alleyway lurkers trade pages back and forth like baseball cards, eventually recreating an entire booklet solely for the chance to pretend they've "leant" their criterions to someone else when a friend is visiting, thereby quietly cementing a reputation as 'the person with all those criterions'. they also sometimes roll the pages and use them to snort coke at parties, again as a fake status symbol. 'whoa! that guy uses criterion booklet pages to snort coke! i'm hiring that guy tomorrow morning!' etc. and of course pet shops use the pages to train animals not to pee on all the latest booklets by lining half the cage with criterion, and half with regular pee paper. for advanced animals, a checkerboard pattern may be applied. sometimes even swirls. but only for monkeys and parrots, the geniuses of the animal kingdom.