Research Brings Oddities....

[teddog]

Today I taught myself how to cook tonkatsu! Now my apartment smells!

Okay, as for the topic, I'm going through scans of old Globe and Mail issues, coming across the movie listings since I'm often pacing through the Entertainment section. One thing that is to be expected and yet stands out are listings for movies that have vanished from the face of the Earth or at least in our society's collective mind.

And it's kinda funny, seeing these films with rave reviews, compared to what we'd consider greats of film history, and yet I've never heard of these before. Granted, there are some films that I do know and have seen - War of the Roses, Born on the Fourth of July and things like that - but they seem so much less interesting than these mystery films. Films that were seen in shoebox theaters and probably never made it to video, let alone DVD.

Even as a media geek, I must admit that I don't feel the need to protect them, since they probably suck or at least of questionable quality. At the same time, I'm kinda humbled. On the upside, at least the movie ads make for interesting studies.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

The discount/overstock store at StrathBarton Mall has hundreds and hundreds of VHS tapes for $1 each. It's packed with forgotten films. There's a lot of direct to video SF and action, granted, but there are also a ton of semi-respectable dramas and period pieces that got good reviews.