Barnes & Noble 50% Off Criterion Sale 2014! Top Titles to Buy!

By Brad Brevet

It’s that time of year again and it’s time to update the list for the second half of 2014 as Barnes & Noble has just kicked off their 50% off Criterion sale and as impossible a task as it is to cut things down to just a few titles, I have done my best to break Criterion’s titles down into a few categories. Hopefully those looking for box sets, specific directors or what I think are absolute musts will find this makes things a little bit easier.

Let’s get to it…

First Picks

I was given the Zatoichi collection for Christmas last year and being a collection that holds 25 films and another disc full of supplementary material it is the absolute definition of a must buy when it comes to the Criterion Collection. It is, once again, on sale for $112.49, half off the MSRP of $224.99, and worth every penny. I spent the entire year going through it.

Criterion also added new box sets this year, the most appealing of them being The Complete Jacques Tati, which includes Tati’s six feature films — Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, PlayTime, Trafic and Parade — along with seven Tati-related short films. Add to that the box set for Jacques Demy and you have some decisions to make.

A Selection of My Absolute Favorites

New Recommendations for 2014

2014 offered plenty of new titles to consider from top directors and classics in desperate need of a proper upgrade. Here are a few of my favorites.

New David Lynch and David Cronenberg

New Federico Fellini

New Ingmar Bergman

More New 2014 Titles to Consider

  • It Happened One Night
  • The Hidden Fortress [read my review here]
  • Throne of Blood [read my review here]
  • Thief
  • Red River [read my review here]
  • Rififi [read my review here]
  • [bn url=”http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-fantastic-mr-fox-george-clooney/11780069?ean=715515111416″ text=”Fantastic Mr. Fox”]
  • [bn url=”http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-breaking-the-waves-emily-watson/3636715?ean=715515114714″ text=”Breaking the Waves”] [read my review here]
  • [bn url=”http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-the-great-beauty-toni-servillo/26273890?ean=715515113014″ text=”The Great Beauty”]

And a Few More 2014 Titles

More Favorites

You have all those above? Well how about these including films from Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski and Alfred Hitchcock.

Even More

Oh, you need more? How about some movies by Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg and Guillermo del Toro?

And now here are some titles from some of my favorite individuals in the collection that haven’t yet been mentioned specifically.

Charlie Chaplin

Wes Anderson

Akira Kurosawa

Michelangelo Antonioni

Hopefully you find something that fits your taste and thanks for purchasing through these links, every purchase helps support the site.

Brad Brevet

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