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Napier wrote:

Matt wrote: Criterion hates fun movies now.

Don't they consider Fanfan la Tulipe "fun"?

I dare you to find me someone who had fun watching Fanfan.

Matt wrote:I dare you to find me someone watching Fanfan.

Fixed

oldsheperd wrote:Dammit The Hospital is sold out on oldies.com. You guys are killin' me!

Amazon.ca seems to be the only retailer selling this title at its usual price. Shipping is pricey for those living in the U.S., though.

domino harvey wrote:Ball of Fire is listed as in print but it appears to be OOP and going for $30+ at Amazon. I wonder, is it too much to dream that Criterion licensed it and A Song is Born for a Killers-esque double-feature?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they both Samuel Goldwyn licensed titles?

Speaking of A Song is Born, that too seems to have gone out of print, selling for over $30 used. Amazon.ca still has it in stock.

Are any OOP titles on this sale?

Wow, that's a really good sale. Yes, a bunch, including the just-announced Dead End

perkizitore wrote:Are any OOP titles on this sale?

Most of them, I think.
And at two-fer $10.39 worth jumping on rather than waiting till they hit Big Lots or the Walmart dump bin.
Well, there goes this week's paycheck...

Kurosawa's The Quiet Duel, from BCI/Eclipse. Now MIA from Netflix, but still going for cheap on Amazon Marketplace.

P & P's Gone to Earth is now OOP. I cannot believe that this UK release commands such outrageous prices just months after I purchased it for a mere £3!. The transfer is a beauty, apparently the Disney people were responsible for it, but then decided not to issue it for some inexplicable reason. Later on it was picked up by this English distributor. If one is lucky, one might be able to track it down w/o having to pay a small fortune for the disc.

Barcelona, Where the Boys Are, and the Courtship of Eddie's Father

Possibly this belongs in the "Rediculous" thread, but I checked Amazon for prices on GONE TO EARTH and found this:
"Powell and Pressburger knew how to shock the audience with the direction of movies that featured unique plots that were, at that time, up-tapped into."
Whaaaat?

Has HVE's disc of Kurosawa's Charisma gone OOP? I'm buying it Marketplace in any case, but it's not on Amazon anymore.

Millennium Actress, apparently. Anyone have any idea why this went out of print?

Feego wrote:Millennium Actress, apparently. Anyone have any idea why this went out of print?

I seriously doubt it is because of Satoshi Kon's death. I think it's because it was a Dreamworks/Paramount release.

The UK version is still easy to get.

Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Saddest Music In The World
Badlands
Before Sunrise
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Philadelphia Story

According to the OOP thread at DVDTalk, AnimEigo's Portrait Of Hell DVD is OOP. However, it is still available for sale at AnimEigo's website for $5

Bunch of WBs gone, including:
Bullitt
Battle Cry
the Yearling
the Hudsucker Proxy
Othello (95)
S.O.B.
Woman of the Year
Tom Thumb
Silk Stockings
Prince and the Showgirl
Joe's Apartment
Bataan

Alice Adams and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde flipper also appear to have gone out of print. I wonder if some of these are going to be rereleased in keep-cases. The snapper of Cukor's Little Women went OOP a while back but was re-released in August in an amaray.

Bullitt was just re-released Tuesday in a single-disc barebones edition.

Titus wrote:Alice Adams and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde flipper also appear to have gone out of print. I wonder if some of these are going to be rereleased in keep-cases. The snapper of Cukor's Little Women went OOP a while back but was re-released in August in an amaray.

More likey that they'll reappear in those TCM 4-packs. The Tracy Jekyll & Hyde already has.

The Evil Dead Limited Edition Blu-ray.

As stated in the article, the single-disc Blu-ray will still be available with the film and commentary, but the second disc of extras will not be available (although they were pretty much all ported over from previous DVD editions).

Nice to see a limited edition that's actually limited.

Alphonse Doinel wrote:Nice to see a limited edition that's actually limited.

If it's Evil Dead, don't worry: there'll be another ultimate limited edition along in 12 months.

Cash Flagg wrote:Blow-Up

Can't be sure with WB any more, but some of these will probably re-appear in keep cases before too long.

zedz wrote:

Alphonse Doinel wrote:Nice to see a limited edition that's actually limited.

If it's Evil Dead, don't worry: there'll be another ultimate limited edition along in 12 months.

Yeah, with Anchor Bay and the EVIL DEAD films, it's more like Limitless Editions...