64 The Third Man

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#176 Post by neilist » Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:13 am

BBC piece here centred on 'The Third Man'.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#177 Post by cpetrizzi » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:28 am

Could someone clarify? Did the first blu-ray release have the cardboard packaging or plastic? I'm guessing cardboard because people are replacing it with plastic, but I'd like someone to confirm this. Also, I noticed someone mention the difference in the SDVD release having a thicker (longer?) booklet than the blu-ray.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#178 Post by casac » Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:00 am

I recently won a copy of "The Third Man" on blu-ray from eBay and it came in the original cardboard digipack. I was just wondering if anyone has an extra insert for the plastic cases that they might be willing to sell, or if anyone know's how I can have one printed? While I have nothing against the cardboard packaging, it would just be nice to have the insert to put into a Criterion plastic case so that all of my Criterion blu-ray's could be matching. Thank you.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#179 Post by Yaanu » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:52 am

casac wrote:I recently won a copy of "The Third Man" on blu-ray from eBay and it came in the original cardboard digipack. I was just wondering if anyone has an extra insert for the plastic cases that they might be willing to sell, or if anyone know's how I can have one printed? While I have nothing against the cardboard packaging, it would just be nice to have the insert to put into a Criterion plastic case so that all of my Criterion blu-ray's could be matching. Thank you.
Email Mulvaney. They may have an extra case lying around somewhere.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#180 Post by swo17 » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:49 am

They won't. Your best bet is to keep looking on eBay.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#181 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:08 am

Sell yours and use the money to buy one in a plastic case. Might even turn a profit.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#182 Post by Moe Dickstein » Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:22 pm

I'm in the same boat, you and me can get in a bid war over the next case only that shows up :)

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#183 Post by albucat » Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:49 pm

Same here. I just kept putting off purchasing a new case and then all of a sudden they discontinued them.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#184 Post by jedidarrick » Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:14 pm

Reliance MediaWorks is doing a new restoration on The Third Man, among others.
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/class ... 201257457/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hopefully Criterion could convince StudioCanal to let them release it again like with the Tati films and The Vanishing.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#185 Post by ShellOilJunior » Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:18 am

Currently listed as "temporarily out of stock" on Amazon. They are accepting orders for the low, low price of $39.95. It could be a mistake but why not give it a try?

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#186 Post by Feiereisel » Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:52 am

I am trying so hard to not get my hopes up...but...maybe this means the SC ice is beginning to crack? Is that way too optimistic?

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#187 Post by cdnchris » Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:06 am

Yep

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#188 Post by TMDaines » Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:06 am

It's surely more likely that its all just an error or that they have across some unsold stock somewhere.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#189 Post by Grisbi » Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:19 am

just put an order in. crossing my fingers for unsold stock!

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#190 Post by domino harvey » Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:35 am

While I wouldn't hold my breath, there is some precedent for this: a couple years back, Amazon suddenly had some unsold stock of the Saura Eclipse, at that time going for a hundred bucks on the used market. I know that order got filled because my copy arrived, so I guess it's worth a shot, seeing as how there's literally nothing to lose

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#191 Post by lefeufollet » Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:44 am

domino harvey wrote:While I wouldn't hold my breath, there is some precedent for this: a couple years back, Amazon suddenly had some unsold stock of the Saura Eclipse, at that time going for a hundred bucks on the used market. I know that order got filled because my copy arrived, so I guess it's worth a shot, seeing as how there's literally nothing to lose
Speaking of Saura, the Eclipse set is also listed as "Temporarily out of stock" and available to order at $44.95.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#192 Post by Grisbi » Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:47 am

Other Criterion OOPs like Army of Shadows and Leon Morin are listed as directly sold from Amazon as well What is happening??? The Saura's are released by Optimum in R2 right? So this doesn't seem to be a Canal related thing.

EDIT: Scratch that, didn't realize Canal used to be Optimum. Hmm.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#193 Post by salad » Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:10 pm

domino harvey wrote:While I wouldn't hold my breath, there is some precedent for this: a couple years back, Amazon suddenly had some unsold stock of the Saura Eclipse, at that time going for a hundred bucks on the used market. I know that order got filled because my copy arrived, so I guess it's worth a shot, seeing as how there's literally nothing to lose
Around that time -- late 2011 --several other long OOP Studio Canal licensed Criterion DVDs showed up in stock on Amazon at half off MSRP.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#194 Post by danieltiger » Wed Mar 18, 2015 1:40 pm

Just ordered the Saura set, I'll edit this with what happens.

Just received a delivery estimate from Amazon that's the same as for the Third Man Blu Ray. April 20 - May 4.
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Re: 64 The Third Man

#195 Post by ShellOilJunior » Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:35 pm

I received a delivery estimate from Amazon:

Monday, April 20, 2015 -Monday, May 4, 2015


It seems others are getting the same delivery window.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#196 Post by criterion10 » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:02 pm

Ordered a copy myself. No reason not to give it a shot.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#197 Post by giovannii84 » Wed May 06, 2015 2:40 am

Rialto Pictures releasing new 4k restoration of 'The Third Man' in the US.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/orson ... 201488365/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#198 Post by D50 » Wed May 06, 2015 6:41 am

Updated my order recently:

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#199 Post by giovannii84 » Wed May 06, 2015 6:57 am

D50 wrote:Updated my order recently:

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I had the same thing happen to my order of the Carlos Saura Flamenco Trilogy.

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Re: 64 The Third Man

#200 Post by danieltiger » Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:06 pm

Found this write up about the upcoming Canal restoration looking "weird."

If true, that makes me sad. But also, conversely happy that my Criterion Blu-ray isn't suddenly totally out of date.

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