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Since I wasn't prepared to buy two titles to get Criterion's discount, Amazon was the right choice for me. And I think all the pertinent points have been made here.

So the lesson here is to order right away, if the title is important to you. And it's a little cheaper and faster, as I've just discovered to my surprise, if you order from Amazon rather than B/N. That's pretty much that.

Because "the normal price" from Criterion/B&N is twice as much as the item would cost you elsewhere, so 50% off simply puts it in the same ballpark as Amazon, rather than providing a meaningful reduction. As pointed out, paying Amazon's street-date price for this item actually comes out cheaper...

Thanks, Josh. The "fifty percent off!" thing is guaranteed to get one's attention, and I still feel a real 50% reduction should mean 50% off the price most human beings are paying for this thing, not the cutting-in-half of a crazy "twice as much" original number that no buyer takes seriously...

Defective disc issues aside, I found it interesting that ordering the KANE 4K set from Amazon at their release price is actually cheaper than going the B&N "fifty per cent off" route. That 50% B/N price reduction pertains to Criterion's original, insanely inflated price of sixty bucks-plus, as...

Here's the original ad for CITIZEN KANE when the landmark film debuted on NY TV way back when...