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.

  • @50MYT@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•3 days ago

    I have two of these movies - rare hard to find gems, I know they exist because I have seen them.

    1. The theatrical release of Revolver. Guy Ritchie made an epic version of this that was fantastic. Critics hated it. I saw it at the theatre and thought it was brilliant.

    The issue is the online ones are all the studio edited version. They dumbed it down and made it even worse to try get some money out of it. You know you have the right copy when the credits roll to just black with piano over the top.

    1. The theatrical release with active subtitles in English of Day Watch (2004) version. The cool subtitles change and move round the screen depending on what’s going on. It was so well done but I only saw it in the theatre on release.