Barnes and Noble 50% off Criterion Sale Recommendations (July 2024)! 

The Roaring Twenties is so much better than I thought it would be. It looks so good with the 4k restoration!

Parasite... I remember watching this at the firehouse (I'm a firefighter) back in 2021 and the entire crew had our jaws on the floor by the end of it. That's hard to do in our field 😂 Great video brother.

The Worst Person In The World was one of the ones I rushed out to buy. I loved it so much! It was my #1 favorite movie of 2021 and one of my favorites of all time.

My more anticipated pickup next month is Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Super list! and it's great to hear all the points of view of dedicated Criterion fans! I have an oldie and a goodie--Night of the Hunter! Profound in so many ways! And it says so much about childhood, America, and Americans!

I'll strongly second the recommendation for Romeo and Juliet. I had never seen it before and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Shakespeare fans might also want to check out Roman Polanski's Macbeth and Orson Welles' Othello.

Love your excellent comments on the movies and agree with your assessments of them! Love that you got into older movies as well as the newer! So many ignore older movies. I will return !!!

such an awesome video. definitely getting a few of these. might make my own video because i need to gush about “to sleep with anger” in order to get more people to pick it up this summer haha! have a great one, my man.

I bought Bound (which was directed by the Wachowski BROTHERS), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Throne of Blood, To Die For, and Anatomy of a Fall.

I went a little overboard on my sale pickups this time around. lol La Haine and Do the Right Thing = perfect double feature.

Excellent Video! Just a quick camera tip. Because you had a picture with a face behind you, the camera got confused a few times and tried to focus on that face instead of your face. Auto Focus will work better without that on behind you. Thanks for the excellent recommendations!

Awesome recommendations man! My wallet is gonna hurt this month!

This will be my first sale. As I’m visiting in the States. Very excited and I’m gonna pick up a region A player to bring back with me since the region free is too expensive

Badlands is one of my favorite movies. Malick’s follow up, Days of Heaven, is just as good.

thanks for the recommendations, like the channel

Great recommendations James! Always great to hear someone talk about cinema who loves cinema. I might have to check out those box sets during the sale. Thanks!

I wish Criterion would release The Crying Game on Blu-ray/4K, same with the movie Priest ( 1994 ) which is a brilliant film.

Farewell My Concubine is my one and only major recommendation for this July sale. Buy it. It’s incredible.

Thank you, great list. It is helping me get back into watching film. Haven't seen Passion of Joan of Arc since it was released on DVD. You deserve a lot more subscribers.

Glad you recommended the Olympics box set. That box set is the only Criterion release I've ever pre-ordered. The only disappointment is that there are no extras except for the book that's included. It's hard to criticize such an amazing set that most of us Olympics aficionados never thought we'd ever get but I would have liked to have had some English narration tracks on some of the non-English language films which many of the films had originally for international releases. Its mind-boggling why they wouldn't have included those.

I didn't get any email from them about the sale and had to google around and came across this video, thank you for the information!

First time I have watched you and loved your content. Subscribed!

💗Happy Summer, James and your loved ones. I am not surprised that I already have most of these recommendations in my collection because I listen to your advice all of the time. The only new one from this list will be "The Passion of Joan of Arc." Thank you once again and I look forward to all future postings.

Love your channel and your passion for film!!

Excellent recommendations as always James!

Nice choices. Recommendations I have are: Still Walking by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Gimme Shelter- Rolling Stones Documentary Black Narcissus by Powell and Pressburger The Sword of Doom- Kihachi Okamoto Two Lane Blacktop - Marty Helman Summer Hours - Oliver Assayas Boxsets John Cassevetes Five Films America Lost and Found- The BBC story

Always the best time of the year great choices James.

I'm planning on ordering Risky Business and Bound on 4K.

Great video! I totally agree with the WKW box set, that is a perfect boxset for the Summer time! One title I would recommend that was not mentioned in the video would be A Brighter Summer Day, perfect film for the Summer time!!! I will not be participating on this B&N sale but I will be ready for Criterions next flash sale!

To Die For has been OOP for awhile so I love seeing the 4K edition. The Red Shoes is also a great 4k release (I'd pair it with Perfect Blue/Black Swan)- as well as any of the Lynch films! Great video- I keep hearing good things about the Varda set!

Raoul Walsh has never disappointed me! Great recommendations! I’ll check out Roaring 20s for sure! Thanks!

Thanks James ! I just got a multi-region player and can finally start getting hold of some US only releases I've been wanting for ages ! The Criterion of "Ghost World" is one I'm definitely planning on picking up.

I enjoyed your video! Cool recommendations for this upcoming sale! And Go Dawgs!

FYI: None of the Criterion sale videos applies toward a Premium Membership and they charged $6 shipping for the Olympic box set. I canceled my membership and got a refund after finding that out. Some things that are out of stock or not in 4K yet can sometimes be found on Amazon for the same price. Several things you mentioned were out of stock.

I’m going to get Perfect Days, Pat Garrett, Peeping Tom, Lone Star, The Others and The Roar Twenties.

I'd like to get The Trial, Peeping Tom, Blood Simple, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Maybe Perfect Days as well. I'll see if I find them in-store, though.

Great cold James. Do The Right Thing definitely received a 4K release.

Lots of good recommendations here! I have a few of this on my list to pickup.

That romeo and juliet bluray does look great

Summertime is so good! David Lean, Katharine Hepburn, Venice… what more do you need? 😄

I’m strongly considering getting the Fellini boxed set. We’ll see though. I’m definitely getting I Am Cuba, High Sierra is high on my list, I’ll probably get Passion of Joan of Arc and The Phantom Carriage as well. If you haven’t seen The Phantom Carriage, I highly recommend it. I believe it was Bergman’s favorite movie. It’s an amazing silent movie.

I already have The Roaring Twenties on the Criterion Blu Ray.

Of the stack you presented, I'd be most interested in The Roaring Twenties, the two Olympic singles and Bergman Island. I wanted to comment on your thoughts re: La Haine. Quote: "What I like about this film is that this presents Paris and France not in the usual romanticized way that we normally think about this place." You point out that the picture is about 3 young men "experiencing the violence and the mayhem in the suburbs of Paris". Disturbing and uneasiness isn't something I relish during a movie viewing experience, with some exceptions but by and large, if I can watch a delightful, colorful and romantic film like Amelie vs. the "gritty esthetic" that La Haine brings, I'll always take the former. The one title I'm definitely leaning toward is the new one "Victims of Sin". That cover art has completely sold me. And I've seen more pictures inside the release that contains much more that style artwork, so, that alone is nudging me strongly. We shall see. Oh, and one more too. Am thinking of Memories of Murder. Anyway James, keep up the good work. Always enjoy your perspective.

I loved this. I’m picking up La Haine and The Worst Woman in the World, plus I Am Cuba, To Die For and Bound. I have a bunch of the others you mentioned. A suggestion, your camera is set to focus on faces. You should set it to manual and a good f stop like 11 and your focus should lock on you and the discs you are showing off.

Thinking about grabbing Bound and The Fisher King in this sale. Most of the movies in the CC leave me cold, though.

Checked out Summertime recently with the “Set in Venice” playlist and loved it! Definitely grabbing it this sale!

Definitely picking up Summertime and Badlands! I'm also getting the Godzilla Showa Era boxset

I'm hoping to just get the new Peeping Tom 4K and if I have enough rewards, either Cat People or The Blob

Any idea why amazon/barnes & noble have some 4k listed as 30% instead of 50%? Looking to pick up REAL LIFE and HAPPINESS but neither have changed for weeks. Wonder why?

I found a 4k of Do the Right Thing but not a Criterion 4k

I watched worst person in the world a few months back on a Sunday morning and it felt like the absolute wrong time to watch it, if you have a region b setup I’d recommend the trilogy release from MUBI that has reprise and Oslo August 31 on blu-ray as well

My 3 Most Wanted Picks Up For July Criterion Sale Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid 4K Risky Business 4K The Underground Railroad

what day does the sale officially start? is it just july 1st or a couple days earlier? (this will be my first time shopping the criterion sale)

We have nothing like that here in Brazil, James. We have to import for a fortune. 😢😢

Anyone know the exact date the sale will start?

do you use letterbox

Bergman Island. this is an Extra Feature on the company's latest re-release of another Bergman film, The Seventh Seal. So get that for a 2fer. This is like a documentary extra and not a full movie.