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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe try looking it up on IMDb first? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30519830/releaseinfo/

It's still playing in film festivals. The first festival showing was in September last year.

I don't pay much attention to film festivals (there are none near me, so not worth it), so I can't really say how long it usually takes for a film to be made generally available, either in a wide theatrical release or streaming/home video (I'd guess about 6 months to a year for the most popular films?) but I'm pretty sure I've seen some that have taken a couple years or more. (Hopefully someone more astute can chime in here.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's still playing but its far away from me. Thanks anyways.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

According to IMDb, the film was released in January this year (despite being a "2024" film), but this could well have been a festival release and not a general one, which is usually how it goes. Are you sure the film just hasn't been released commercially yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's a good question, which I don't know. Panron pointed out that still being played in festivals.
The only thing I know and remember, is that was played last year. Nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Had a similar experience a few years ago.

There was a film that I saw as a child called Bernard and the Genie. It had Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson in it so figured it would be easy to find.

Long story short it was on VHS only and never got a dvd remake so could never find it. Finally found it on a back water pirate site that seemed sketchy AF.

I think we're going to lose so many more movies if we haven't already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have to agree with you, we gonna lose more movies. And I believe only those who collect them or pirate them can save them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh i have that one, have for ages.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Kevin Smith’s Dogma. It recently got a theatrical rerelease but you can’t find it online

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where's that 6.9 rating coming from? It's at 7.3 in the IMDb. Also, there's a 1080 version out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rating is probably from TMDB

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, you're right. it has 69% in TMDB. I loathe TMDB ratings. There's a lot to say about IMDb ratings, but because so many people vote there, they at least allow you to broadly judge the quality of a movie. Anything below 5.5 is basically unwatchable without drugs and/or friends to riff on the movie. For the TMDB this is not the case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yea I think by default Jellyfin uses TMDB because there's a charge to use IMDB's API. I don't rely much on ratings so it never bothered me. But I do agree the ratings are shit on TMDB, if I really need to know the ratings I look at RT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/KFpNsr_p9LM Full movie has been up on YouTube in one form or another for as long as I remember

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Rights are owned by weinstein, it's problematic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Always try the Internet Archive too.

[–] Kecessa 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So many Canadian movies have been financed by public funds and then the distributors who owned the rights were sold or sent bankrupt or whatever and it becomes pretty much impossible to know who has distribution rights anymore and when you do they tell you there's no public for it so it's not worth spending money to make it available...

Hell, a local director was saying that one of her movie which had great success when it released is currently unavailable and the only way she could find a copy was through illegal means (on a Russian website or all places...) because a company bought the rights to it and is just sitting on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The Village has been out of print since the DVD days. I also couldn’t find a couple Robin Williams movies that were recommended to me: Jakob the Liar and What Dreams May Come.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

What Dreams May Come is an amazing film. $8 and change on Blu Ray. Looks like it's not on 4K yet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AQR3MQ

Jakob the Liar looks like it's only on a DVD two-pack with Moscow on the Hudson:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P16DFEQ

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://archive.org/download/good-morning-vietnam has What Dreams May Come(and a bunch of other Robin Williams movies, but not Jakob the Liar)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I have what dream may come on dvd. Is this a hard to find movie?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This movie?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes! Is this picture from a streaming service?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Kind of, this is Jellyfin's UI. A self-hosted streaming service for all the movies you own personally and no illegal stuff at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where did you get it? Private tracker?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

On some guys Jellyfin server just sitting there,, waiting to be watched.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks 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.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] restingboredface 2 points 2 weeks ago

I love going to used music/movie stores. So much good stuff there that can't be edited or de-streamed out of existence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"Stickmen"

A great film from New Zealand about an underground pool competition

Bloody impossible to find

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yep

It's awesome

I'm a Luddite though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's on Usenet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where on Usenet? Is there a y good paid or non paid provider for that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's a whole can of worms. If you search for "getting started with Usenet" there should be a few good guides.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I have a copy of this.

Absolutely epic flick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

More than most would guess I bet. Most movies have very limited release if any in theaters, and may have been part of a film festival or just someone who wants to try their hand at directing and producing and was watched once in one screening then never seen again. There's archives to try to preserve some of it but not everything gets submitted for archival or preserved.

[–] Reverendender 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Denver the Last Dinosaur. I’ll see myself out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

They made a movie?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Enchanted Journey is the rare movie in my circle.