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Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:47 pm**

Thanks for the shout. I got The Big Clock, Hold Back the Dawn Crime & Punishment, and Nightfall. All had booklets.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2019 12:09 am**

Arrow's Canadian distributor, https://www.unobstructedview.com/, is having a 50 % sale all through November. When you compare it with what it costs to order from Amazon (CA or UK) as well as third-party vendors, it comes out quite favourably for Canadian buyers (exchange rate factored in). They are also having a 40 % sale on their Criterion catalog, which they also distribute. Again, comparison with the 50 % sales from Criterion or B&N comes out in favour of Unobstructedview, as long as you order over 100 $ to qualify for free shipping.

They of course only carry titles for which Arrow has a Region A license, which means that many Bava films are not available, nor other titles like The Hound of the Baskerviles and no doubt several others. Service is good: an order I placed yesterday arrived today (Toronto to Ottawa-Gatineau) and in a previous order one disc was missing but a replacement one was shipped the day after I wrote them about it.

There are a few Criterion titles that do not appear to be covered by the sale, like The Circus, Häxan and the Godzilla set. They also do not carry the Eclipse line as far as I can make out. Likewise, Arrow's new release of The Far Country is not listed on their Web site.

And to answer a crucial existential question: all 6 of the Arrow single titles I ordered came with the booklets. The Romero box set had the book, it goes without saying.

Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2019 10:05 pm**

Florinaldo wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 12:09 am Arrow's Canadian distributor, https://www.unobstructedview.com/, is having a 50 % sale all through November. When you compare it with what it costs to order from Amazon (CA or UK) as well as third-party vendors, it comes out quite favourably for Canadian buyers (exchange rate factored in). They are also having a 40 % sale on their Criterion catalog, which they also distribute. Again, comparison with the 50 % sales from Criterion or B&N comes out in favour of Unobstructedview, as long as you order over 100 $ to qualify for free shipping.

Thanks a bunch! The Arrows work out to be a fair bit less than B&N (Criterions a little more, I found.) PLUS - they had The Stunt Man in stock (which I got for 15% off after signing up for the newsletter.)

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:46 am**

Arrow Video on Facebook wrote:SALE ALERT! We're launching a MASSIVE sale across 500+ titles, including a handful of Out of Print Ltd. Editions ! This sale is replacing our annual Christmas Sale and will run from November 28 - December 13, right before we move to our brand new warehouse in 2020!

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:57 am**

^^^ is this through their main site? They sell the R1 versions of their releases correct? If somehow the R1 LE's of Deep Red and Crimson Peak become available for the sale I'm gonna have to add to my shopping list tomorrow

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2019 11:06 am**

It looks like it's on their usual UK website which doesn't sell US releases.

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2019 11:12 am**

Please include Second Run
Please include Second Run
Please include Second Run
Please include Second Run
Please include Second Run

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:02 pm**

Sale went live. Some real bargains there including Second Run Blu-rays for £8, Gorin/Eight Hours/Guitry boxsets for £15 etc, but the site cannae take the strain.

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:13 pm**

And a Marx Brothers boxset sold at an inflated £40.

Arrow Books are at £5 apiece, boxsets usually at £25 and vinyls at £10 or £15. 7 Second Run are offered at £8 apiece + the Marc Isaacs set at £20. There are about 20 TWF titles, between £5 and 8 apiece (except the Toshiaki Toyoda set which is at £12).
About 20 LE releases, most at full prices : Phenomena and Donnie Darko are at £30, Candyman (£25), City of the Living Dead (£25), Cat 'O Nine Tails (£25), The Apartment (£25)...
Most standard releases are at £7.5, with some July / Aug ones at £10, and 15 older ones at £5.

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:25 pm**

Some less popular Academy titles are even £5: Magnificent Doll!

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:31 pm**

Surprisingly, some recent Academy Crime and Punishment and Hold Back the Dawn are included ut not The Big Clock and Nightfall.

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:38 pm**

Amazon might be cheaper for some of the more recent ones too.

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:42 pm**

Weird that most of the Second Run stuff isn’t included - Oh well, maybe next time.

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:50 pm**

Godard/Gorin is 15£

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:20 pm**

Best bargain is Gomorra Season 4 for only £10. Been £25+ until a few weeks ago when it dropped to £15 or so on Amazon. An all-time great TV series for my money.

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:19 pm**

Is U.S. shipping now £10.50 by default? I was going to pick up two titles but £2.25 shipping no longer seems to be an option.

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:31 am**

Amazon UK has Nightfall and several others on sale for similar prices. I bought that and Crime and Punishment from there since the latter was already sold out via Arrow.

Posted: **Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:39 pm**

Florinaldo wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 12:09 am Arrow's Canadian distributor, https://www.unobstructedview.com/, is having a 50 % sale all through November. When you compare it with what it costs to order from Amazon (CA or UK) as well as third-party vendors, it comes out quite favourably for Canadian buyers (exchange rate factored in). They are also having a 40 % sale on their Criterion catalog, which they also distribute. Again, comparison with the 50 % sales from Criterion or B&N comes out in favour of Unobstructedview, as long as you order over 100 $ to qualify for free shipping.

Thanks for your post as I just received my parcel today (Sunday of all days!) in which I ordered Suzuki's THE EARLY YEARS VOL. 1 and THE TAISHO TRILOGY plus THE BUDDHIST TRILOGY all of which I thought I would never have a chance to get for a fair price. All sealed and no damage to the packaging at all

Posted: **Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:17 am**

Ovader wrote: Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:39 pmThanks for your post as I just received my parcel today (Sunday of all days!) in which I ordered Suzuki's THE EARLY YEARS VOL. 1 and THE TAISHO TRILOGY plus THE BUDDHIST TRILOGY all of which I thought I would never have a chance to get for a fair price. All sealed and no damage to the packaging at all

I am glad that the information was useful. They appear to be a reliable seller. One has to get used to the quirks of their listings and the search engine, which tend to list films under their orignal language titles; which means if you look for Dreyer's Master of the House, you won't find it unless you input "Du Skal Aere Din Hustru" or the director's name. Same with French and Japanese titles for example.

I also notice that at the start of their month-long sales, some titles seem not to be included as was the case with The Circus and Hâxan, but the prices dropped to include the sale discount after a week or two. The Godzilla box set, which was full price when the Criterion sale started is now (for a "limited time only") at 160 $, 6 $ lower than the Amazon.ca price and 40 dollars less than it was a few weeks ago. Still not low enough to justify buying it in my view.

In December they are having a Kino Lorber sale with, as usual, a number of titles missing from their inventory (although they are available from Amazon.ca).

Posted: **Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:11 am**

hearthesilence wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:19 pm Is U.S. shipping now £10.50 by default? I was going to pick up two titles but £2.25 shipping no longer seems to be an option.

This definitely stopped me from picking up a couple of things. Hopefully not a permanent change.

Posted: **Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:29 am**

My sale package was shipped finally Tuesday and should have arrived Wednesay, but for the first time with these tracked shipments (to the US) it seems to have gotten stuck in Memphis (customs presumably) and no telling for how long.

(Also a good reminder of why I usually wait until January for these year-end Arrow sales.)

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2020 8:08 pm**

Diabolikdvd have the lowest price for the Gamera box set that I've seen yet at $114.

Posted: **Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:40 pm**

Flash sale at arrowfilms.com . Looks like a great deal on that Godard and Gorin set.

Posted: **Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:55 pm**

Bah, no Second Run titles

Posted: **Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:10 am**

Flash sale on some Academy titles.

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