Last night I was searching for a specific movie. I went searching for streaming services like Amazon, Mubi and so on, but there was nowhere to be found! Then I searched for a DVD and again I found nothing. Finally, I went through all the pirate sites that I already knew, and typed “Winter in Sokcho 2024”. I went on searching for about 30 minutes. A movie would come up, but the movie didn’t exist at all.
At that point, I realized that I might be the only person who wanted to watch this movie.
Then I asked myself, how many movies are lost like this? Maybe a copy exists somewhere forgotten, yet nowhere to be found. It was played in cinemas for some time though.
Have you ever come at this point? I will go with the book for now, the only thing that exits.
This is why I collect those old DVDs and blurays, I treasure some of those old movies that are damn hard to find now.
The BBC of Northanger Abbey was hard to find for me. Spouse and I are Jane Austen fans, and it features a young Felicity Jones and the Onion Knight from GoT. Looks like it’s on Prime Video now, wasn’t at the time. I looked everywhere, and actually found a Blu-ray copy on eBay that I grabbed. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0844794/
I love going to used music/movie stores. So much good stuff there that can’t be edited or de-streamed out of existence.