BreakBeatDJ

The BF Blind Buy GB?

For those who missed the US version last year. It is in stock at near retail, much lower than Ebay prices. SUPERMAN I-IV STEELBOOK 4K SET Ships from a third party with a 4.9/5 rating, and full Amazon backed returns See @Boilersteel comparison with Italian version above for more details.

THEORY11 HARRY POTTER BOX SET BACK IN STOCK

I have all of his books, first edition FSG, including his biography Pilgrim in the Ruins, signed by Jay Tolson who has become somewhat of a “friend” over the years. I swear you’re the first person in a long time that has ever even heard of him. The only true American Existentialist novelist. I read The Moviegoer every year around my birthday. Have you read the essays? I just came across a first edition of Lost in the Cosmos last week in a used book store. I have one already but almost bought it as a backup 🤣. One more nerdy thing . . . His daughter had a bookstore in New Orleans called Kumquat Books, I made my pilgrimage there, met her, and 25 years later still use the bookmark I got in Walker Percy’s daughter’s bookstore in every book I read. The same one. Somehow, I’m sure it makes every book better.

@hansreinhardt what’s your take on the Picard Legacy box? Sale on Amazon right now.

Agreed. I really liked it. There were several moments that paid tribute to the original, but it really felt like a fresh take and it worked for me.

So glad you're a Fletch Quoter. I'm also an habitual Fletch Quoter. I actually won a contest. 🤣 Can I borrow your towel for a sec? My car just hit a water buffalo.

Extra points for a very nice graphic layout with the floor! And 2001 Manta in the hero spot. Obviously you're a creative professional.

I use MyUS.com but rarely use it anymore because I’ve found that unless it is an amazing deal, or the sales you referred to, I can get things on secondary market often for cheaper when including the cost of the service and shipping. But still, glad it’s an option.

did you use a shipping service? Or do you mean back when they still shipped to IS from UK store?

Cool beans, thanks for confirming bud. I hope this is an omen for the future. I didnt realize how much stuff I bought from Zavvi until I couldn’t any more.

there were always a handful of titles you could get shipped here to US. But it seemed to have expanded recently. Just wondering if anyone in the States has noticed.

Anyone else notice that Zavvi US has almost two pages of steels now? For months and months, sometimes they would only have 10 or less available for US, now it's nearly two pages. Not sure it means anything, maybe I just haven't looked for a while.

You're def right, that's the tour de force. Have you seen Todd Haynes' movie Safe, Julianne Moore? For some reason that always struck me as a 1990s version of Woman/Influence. Stylistically completely different, but embracing and exploring the complications of the lives of women under the pressure of domestic definition, women as the anti-victim, suffering from that "problem with no name" (Betty Friedman). Highly recommend any Todd Haynes movie actually.

I don't want to bog down this thread with a history of cinema rant . . . but, Cassavetes also invented Kickstarter. The dude was a force. ------- The story goes like this: it’s 1956, and John Cassavetes is an ambitious young actor teaching workshops in New York City. One night, Cassavetes appears on Jean Shepard’s late night talk show, Night People, to promote some of his upcoming projects. On the show, Cassavetes starts griping about the artificiality of Hollywood and his disdain for the repetitive and formulaic drivel the studio system churns out. In a general sense, he insults the very project he was supposed to be there promoting. Cassavetes then tells listeners that if they want to see something authentic, unpolished, and intimate, that they should send him money and he’ll make it happen. Shockingly enough, money started rolling in. Cassavetes amassed about $2,000 from the appearance. So he made good on his promise, and his directorial debut Shadows was born. Along with the crowdfunding and financing from friends, as well as his paychecks from acting jobs, he secured $40,000 for the film. Compared to the amount studios usually spent on films at the time, this was nothing. (For some perspective: Paramount spent around $1.75 million on Sunset Boulevard in 1950.) _____ I'll stop now. Enjoy your adventure through 60s/70s independent cinema!

So glad you watched this film @hansreinhardt !!! My avatar thanks you. This is the most important film in Independent cinema history. It is literally the first American "New Wave" independent movie ever. This movie changed everything. A generation of filmmakers, including Scorsese, Coppola, et al, credit this film as being the one that set them free (Scorsese noted - ". . . after Shadows there were no more excuses."). The 60s cinema, and Irving Penn's true masterpiece Bonnie and Clyde, don't happen unless Cassavetes makes this movie. It was a colossal moment in film history that is almost impossible for us to imagine now. With a 16mm camera, an ensemble of young hungry actors, and 2 years, he literally lit the fuse that would eventually bring down old Hollywood, with this one little movie. Here is what I wrote for Challenge 12 about Cassavetes, mentioning Shadows. ______ JOHN CASSAVETES (probably not a surprise to those of you who looked closely at my vague avatar) The beginning of the end of old Hollywood began with one director and one film: John Cassavetes' 1959 Shadows. Scorsese noted - after Shadows there were no more excuses. Cassavetes inspired a landslide of filmmakers to challenge studio system control and fight for creative freedom, both in style and content. We take it for granted that studios want to hear what Fincher, Lynch, Nolan, and others mentioned here, have to say. When Cassavetes made Shadows, a movie about the adventures of three black siblings in New York, with his stolen shots and 16mm verite loose camera, no one was interested. He made it anyway. And he kept making them. Over the next two decades Cassavetes funded his independent films (Husbands, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, Minnie & Moskowitz, etc.) by appearing as an actor in movies like The Dirty Dozen and Rosemary's Baby. Cassavetes took great joy in using Hollywood money to undermine Hollywood itself. His avant garde filmmaking style is disarming to many. His camera is never judgmental. It doesn't guide the eye to where you should look, it forces you to open your eyes. He doesn't tell you what you should think, the action plays out in front of you and you are forced to participate. It's the cinema of embracing the complexity of being authentically human, not by pointing it out, but by experiencing it. My favorite Cassavetes' film is Husbands. But, I love his wife and collaborator Gena Rowland's brave and shocking performance in A Woman Under the Influence. By the time Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde becomes a counter culture darling of individualism and self-expression in 1967, old Hollywood was diminished. And the independent film wave of the 90s (Soderbergh, PTA, Linklater, Ferrara, Egoyan, Haynes, Leigh, Jarmusch, Sofia C., Tarantino) blew up what was left. John Cassavetes lit the fuse for all of them. ______

Yeah, I agree. The first one was so ridiculous, but, I can not stop watching it once I start. This one will hopefully leverage some great effects to be even more over the top. I'm hoping to see Glenn Powell vertically surf an F5 on a flying cow.

And still do.

Yeah, I know zero tricks. But I consider collecting cards part of cardistry, my way of deluding myself I'm good with a deck. However on game night, my fellas love to see what deck I'm going to pull out. You have to really break these decks in to actually play with them. We have a coupla bros who have gotten good at cheating with the new slippery decks. I'm def a collector of the art on the cards first.

Hey, nice to have another member interested in cardistry decks. I'd point you to a subscription at King's Wild Project. I like Theory11, but often their designs can feel a bit computer-y to me. Don't get me wrong, they are fantastic decks and I have many of them. But Jackson Robinson is a fantastic illustrator and I actually prefer his LoTR decks at King's Wild, they take on more of a book illustration, shire feel, than the T11 decks. Follow King's Wild Project's Kickstarter, that's where the really good stuff ends up. Their legacy boxes are beautiful. Fellowship Two Towers

Oh all good, okay . . . my sarcasm often doesn't translate on forums and I get in to trouble for it occasionally. I actually should thank Ken for his patience when I said that . . . @deckard99 calmly and zen like let me find out I was an idiot on my own.

@Gary K Is the above edit clearer that I'm making fun of myself? Which I do regularly. 🤣

Is this the worst take on an edition ever? OCTOBER 26, 2022 BreakBeatDJ wrote about MAG BR2049 "Are there any other examples of large acrylic cases? . . . . It has a bit of a, "padlocked razors at the pharmacy" feel." Geez was I wrong, this BR2049 acrylic case is amazing. • BLADE RUNNER 2049 : MAG MPM #07 Thanks MP staff for the great packaging and this amazing edition • THE PRESTIGE : BLUFANS EXCLUSINVE #49 4K/BR WEA STEELBOOK DOUBLE LENTICULAR Thanks @extantsrevenge @cypheria078 and MP staff • THE GREAT GATSBY : BLUFANS EXCLUSIVE #51 4K/BR WEA STEELBOOK DOUBLE LENTICULAR Thanks @extantsrevenge @cypheria078 and MP staff

Legends of the Fall more a propos. Anyone else got one? Seriously though, hope you’re not hurt too badly @hansreinhardt. I see a toddler gate as my secret Santa gift to you next year.