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Some great specials at the BFI store right now.

Several films/sets at half-price, £10 instead of £20:
Electric Edwardians, link
A Cottage on Dartmoor, link
Fairy Tales: Early Stencil Colour Films from Pathé, link
Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers, link (I own this, it's great!)
Dreyer's Master of the House, link
Chaplin Mutuals, vol 1, vol 2
Frank Borzage films, vol 1, vol 2
People on Sunday, link
Lotte Reiniger Fairytale Films, link

Also ...
Piccadilly, link, £9
A Throw of Dice, link, £8
Adventures of Prince Achmed, BR/DVD, link, £11

And the best special of all ... two Ozu silent collections reduced from £30 to £12
Ozu student comedies, link
Ozu gangster films, link

I guess it's obvious that I treated myself to a few things

Some great specials at the BFI store right now.

Several films/sets at half-price, £10 instead of £20:
Electric Edwardians, link
A Cottage on Dartmoor, link
Fairy Tales: Early Stencil Colour Films from Pathé, link
Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers, link (I own this, it's great!)
Dreyer's Master of the House, link
Chaplin Mutuals, vol 1, vol 2
Frank Borzage films, vol 1, vol 2
People on Sunday, link
Lotte Reiniger Fairytale Films, link

Also ...
Piccadilly, link, £9
A Throw of Dice, link, £8
Adventures of Prince Achmed, BR/DVD, link, £11

And the best special of all ... two Ozu silent collections reduced from £30 to £12
Ozu student comedies, link
Ozu gangster films, link

I guess it's obvious that I treated myself to a few things

Actually almost all of these are cheaper still at amazon.co.uk

Criterion Sale

For the last two years (at least) Criterion has had a "Flash Sale" of 50% off full retail prices
near the end of February. Last year it was on Feb. 25, the year before on the 26th.

So, clean up those wish lists, etc., just in case.

Rick

Don't know if there is anybody left that doesn't already have it, but I noticed that Oldies.com has Pauk Gierucki's "The Forgotten Films of Fatty Arbuckle" 4 DVD box set on closeout for $9.98. It originally sold for $50. A smokin' deal

FORD AT FOX COLLECTION for $50 plus shipping. About $250 off list.

http://www.hamiltonbook.com/Movies/ford ... collection

Over twelve pounds in weight, this 24-film box set stands as tall as John Ford's peerless career. Includes Just Pals; The Iron Horse; 3 Bad Men; Four Sons; Hangman's House; Born Reckless; Up the River; Seas Beneath; Pilgrimage; Doctor Bull; The World Moves On; Judge Priest; Steamboat 'Round the Bend; The Prisoner of Shark Island; Wee Willie Winkie; Four Men and a Prayer; Young Mr. Lincoln; Drums Along the Mowhawk; The Grapes of Wrath; Tobacco Road; How Green Was My Valley; My Darling Clementine; When Willie Comes Marching Home; and What Price Glory, plus the documentary Becoming John Ford. Also includes the 168-page, 12"x12" hardcover photography book Ford at Fox; and reproductions of theatrical souvenir brochures for The Iron Horse and Four Sons. In Color and B&W. Nearly 40 hours on twenty-one DVDs, some double-sided.

Rick

For those interested VCI is having a 50% off sale that lasts until March 3rd 11:59PM.

Coupon code is VCIBLAST50

I am not sure if they have many silents but I ordered titles I've been wanting for a very long time for $42.14 USD including shipping!

Animation
-SOMEWHERE IN DREAMLAND

Serials
-PHANTOM EMPIRE PHANTOM EMPIRE
-RETURN OF CHANDU
-UNDERSEA KINGDOM

Bizarre of the bizarre documentary!
-CHARIOTS OF THE GODS

Everything is 50% off.

http://www.vcientertainment.com/index.p ... ommon/home

For the next twenty-four hours at Criterion.com, all in-stock Blu-rays and DVDs will be 50% off the suggested retail price (SRP)! It’s a great chance to catch up with our exciting recent releases, including The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Don’t Look Now, Every Man for Himself, Fellini Satyricon, The Soft Skin, Tootsie, and Watership Down. Just enter the promotional code SPRING on your shopping cart page to apply the discount. If you need some help deciding what to buy, we’ve created a real-time dashboard where you can see top sellers and what’s running low, plus categories like art-house classics, melodramas, midnight movies, “I Love the ’80s,” and more. And we’ll be adding new themes every few hours. The code expires at noon EDT tomorrow, March 11, so don’t delay!

There are a number of Eureka steelbook blu-rays and DVDs on offer at amazon at the moment.
http://amzn.to/1EG4Y6d

Ford At Fox Collection: John Ford's Silent Epics (Just Pals / Four Sons / The Iron Horse / Hangman's House / Bad Men) 57% off at amazon.
$21.49
http://www.amazon.com/Ford-At-Fox-Collection-Hangmans/dp/B000WMA6IC/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1433531926&sr=1-1&keywords=john+ford+silents

The Lost World (1960 & 1925) for 60% off, $7.99 at Amazon.

2 DVDs, Fox Home Entertainment

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-1960-1 ... world+1960" target="_blank" target="_blank

Rick

Amazon.ca is offering the Blu-Ray edition of Wings for only $6.99 CDN. Great deal for our Canadian members.

http://www.amazon.ca/Wings-Blu-ray-Clar ... ords=wings

Amazon Criterion sale:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_acss_bw_ ... d_i=285082

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (4K Restored) [Blu-ray] is 58% off, $12.49 at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Cabinet-Dr-Caliga ... ari+bluray" target="_blank

Amazon says it will be back in stock on Oct. 4th.
Kino
German intertitles with optional English Subtitles
Score performed by the Studio For Film Music at the University of Music, Freiburg
Special Features: Booklet Essay by Kristin Thompson, Caligari: How Horror Came to the Cinema (Documentary, 52 minutes), Additional Music Score by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Image Gallery, Restoration Demonstration

Rick

Criterion flash sale until noon tomorrow:

Some from Kino on Amazon (US):

Fantomas [Blu-ray] (Pre-order for January) for 50% off, $24.99
http://www.amazon.com/Fantomas-Blu-ray-Edmund-Br" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blankéon/dp/B0172K6R4S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446268089&sr=8-1&keywords=fantomas+blu+ray

and

Les Vampires: 2-Disc Kino Classics Edition [Blu-ray] for 47% off, $21.01
http://www.amazon.com/Vampires-2-Disc-K ... as+blu+ray" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank


Rick

Out of stock now but looks like a good deal if you're patient.

Buster Keaton Short Films Collection: 1920-1923 (Three-Disc Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray]

http://www.amazon.com/Buster-Keaton-Sho ... 534&sr=1-1" target="_blank

Deepdiscount.com has a 15 percent off sale for Cyber Monday enter code Click15 - and they usually have the best prices online and only require a $25 purchase for free postage.

Tip - If you don't see a title under dvd look it up under "all products" - I've found several dvds there that don't pull up when specificially looking for dvds for some reason, usually smaller company titles. They also have several made-on-demand titles at lower prices than at those sites.

Not in stock at the moment, but you can order it and wait:

$115.49 at Amazon, 61% off. It's not on the main page, but it's at the top of the link below:

The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection [14-Disc Blu-ray Box Set]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... 701&sr=8-1" target="_blank

Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item.

This is a great bargain for those who have not already purchased a lot of the Kino Buster Keaton blu-rays (such as me).
One of the reviews is very helpful and will answer a lot of questions.

Rick

That's an excellent find, Rick! I already have too many of the films to make it feasible, but I appreciate you sharing the information.

Picked up blu-rays of Faust ($16.27, 53% off) and Phantom ($18.44, 54% off) at amazon today. Looks like some other Kino titles are on sale as well.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013CG18X6?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014K366AU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Add Sherlock Jr./Three Ages.

($16.50, 53% off)
http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Jr-Three-Ages-Blu-ray/dp/B0041CGOZI/ref=sr_1_226?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1452007917&sr=1-226&keywords=kino+lorber&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011

...and The General, Potemkin, Birth of a Nation, The Blue Angel, Metropolis, and Nosferatu all over 50% off.

If you missed Criterion's recent 50% off sale, Amazon has at least some at 45% off right now.
Here's one:
Speedy (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] $21.99
http://www.amazon.com/Speedy-Criterion- ... on+blu+ray" target="_blank

Rick

$14.56 at amazon.

Thanks, Coleman! I grabbed that one.

also $14.56 at amazon

There are quite a few Kino silents (including Blu-rays) on sale at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_f ... 2650303011

I got an e-mail last night from Grapevine advertising a Grapevine March Madness Sale. The sale does not apply to DVD's issued in 2016. The sale is for purchasing two or more DVD's issued prior to 2016 and you get 50% off. Glad for that recent thread of Grapevine Gems. I can use this sale to start chipping away at the suggestions I got.

Sale ends 31 March.

Not sure if this has been posted here or not, but All-Day Entertainment's 3-DVD set American Slapstick Vol. 2 is priced to clear at $5. I just got one last week, and have already blazed my way through the first disc, which includes a number of early Harold Lloyd shorts, some of Hal Roach's lesser-known players and a batch of Educational Pictures shorts. Quality ranges from good to very good to excellent, with shorts by Snub Pollard, Lloyd Hamilton, Syd Chaplin, Larry Semon (with Babe Hardy) and Alice Howell as well as Lloyd.

For Amazon Prime Members Only. (sometimes these exclusives become available to everyone later.)
DVD storage boxes. I don't have any experience with these, but they have nice reviews
and the price is right: EDIT: There are some very bad reviews too, didn't read those before.

Snap-N-Store DVD Storage Boxes, 15.5 x 5.5 x 7.625 Inches, Black, 2 Boxes per Pack (SNS01618)
$5.81, 66% off

http://www.amazon.com/Snap-N-Store-Stor ... NS01618%29" target="_blank" target="_blank

Rick

Thanks Rick for the alert, those boxes look very useful!