Criterion Prices
- swo17
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Re: 737 Les Blank: Always for Pleasure
I'm guessing that each of the Blank discs will use up more space than each of the Tati ones, but yes, one set has three discs and the other seven (on the Blu-ray).
- movielocke
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Re: 737 Les Blank: Always for Pleasure
Is that the dual format price and they never corrected it back to the standard 79.99 for three disc sets when they dropped DF?
- swo17
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Re: 737 Les Blank: Always for Pleasure
They never charged extra for dual formats though.
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Re: 737 Les Blank: Always for Pleasure
Could this be a typo, I mean the SRP? Somebody should start bombarding their FB page! It has been helpful in the past. Honestly, my heart will bleed to pay 75 bucks for 3 discs (after BN 50% off), especially when I don't even know anything about his work, but willing to experiment with my hard earned money.
- movielocke
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Re: Criterion Prices
The box sets were priced higher as df. Prior to df a three disc bluray set like Scorsese wcf was always 79.99.swo17 wrote:They never charged extra for dual formats though.
5 and 6 disc sets were 99.99.
Above that was 124.99 price tier for 7 and 8 disc sets.
- tenia
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Re: Criterion Prices
This has already been very well calculated in the "Criterion goes DF" topic : WCF is 3 discs but 6 movies, which can explain the higher price.
- DrunkenFatherFigure
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Re: Criterion Prices
The high cost of the Blank set is likely due to the fact that they're licensing 14 feature films, each of which currently cost $29.95 for a DVD of one film. http://www.lesblank.com/product-categor ... les-blank/
- zedz
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Re: Criterion Prices
Most of them aren't exactly features, but yes, the licensing costs are the most likely explanation for the cost of the set.DrunkenFatherFigure wrote:The high cost of the Blank set is likely due to the fact that they're licensing 14 feature films, each of which currently cost $29.95 for a DVD of one film. http://www.lesblank.com/product-categor ... les-blank/
- DrunkenFatherFigure
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Re: Criterion Prices
Yeah, I agree that the runtimes make them difficult to call "features," but I meant feature in the sense that there are 14 main films that the boxset is selling, and to differentiate them from the shorts.zedz wrote:Most of them aren't exactly features, but yes, the licensing costs are the most likely explanation for the cost of the set.
- domino harvey
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Re: Criterion Prices
What was the last lower tier priced Criterion Blu-Ray before Bitter Rice? I had thought they'd abandoned the practice, though I applaud the label for bringing it back
- swo17
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Re: Criterion Prices
Jellyfish Eyes!
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Re: Criterion Prices
Blue is the Warmest Color was $24.95, but that was a special case. The Uninvited was as well along with the Witch one, but that was after everyone bitched those ones were originally priced $39.95.
I don't know if Jellyfish Eyes counts since they were obviously just dumping that one.
I don't know if Jellyfish Eyes counts since they were obviously just dumping that one.
- swo17
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Re: Criterion Prices
Prior to that were early 2013 releases like Ballad of Narayama and Gate of Hell. I somewhat suspect though that this was just a one time thing to assure Murakami that no, we didn't just lower tier your movie because it's bad, here is a respectable foreign movie with lots of large-chested women that is also lower tier.