Scarecrow Video claims to have it on VHS..."rental by approval"

Take three deep breaths, and then head over to Scarecrow Video on Roosevelt. They have it on VHS. Scarecrow should be your first stop for everything. Netflix is OK for what it is, but their selection blows.

It's NOT? That is a disgusting damn shame and I am equally pissed. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Scarecrow, but frankly, VHS just does not cut it anymore. I dont even own a VCR right now. Also Scarecrow's "rental by approval" thing always makes me nervious, with that deposit business.

Well, gee, either you want to see it or you don't. If you do, it's sitting right there. The deposit is nothing to be afraid of. It reflects the limited availability of a replacement should you decide to steal or destroy it.

Hmm, checking over at Amazon, I see you can buy a Korean pirate DVD for $20, and a legit one (but out of print) for $50. Here's another DVD for $10, probably a pirate. Oh, and a German DVD for $22, PAL & region 2, so you'll need a multi-region player, but you have one of those already, don't you? You should get one; they don't make interesting movies in the US any more.

So: much fuss over nothing.

Mr. Constant: Remove The Gingerdead Man from your Netflix queue immediately. It is awful and not in a good way.

I don't have a VCR, currently, and, quite frankly, while Scarecrow is pretty much guaranteed to be the best video store in the world, The Motherfucking African Motherfucking Queen is one of those fifty or so American movies that should be immediately available in whatever new format that gets created (Myself, I'll start buying movies when they release them on those crystal-image thingies from the old Superman movies...I'm also looking forward to flying through outer space while screaming on an old record cover.) And, finally:

Oh, and a German DVD for $22, PAL & region 2, so you'll need a multi-region player, but you have one of those already, don't you? You should get one; they don't make interesting movies in the US any more.

So: much fuss over nothing.

Fnarf, I don't own a PAL & region 2, because I don't believe that one should have to be James Bond to enjoy one's home entertainment. And as to interesting movies in the US, speaking as someone who saw Slither this weekend, you simply couldn't be more wrong.
Hi-ho!

The Seattle Library has "The African Queen" on video. Yes, there's a waiting list, but you also get to keep it for a lot longer than regular rental places allow. AND, in searching for it on their web site, you'll probably discover a bunch of other films you'd want to see, for FREE!

Maybe they're afraid that if they release "The African Queen" on DVD everyone will finally realize how much it blows. Yeah, I said it.

Paul, the video is also available through the UW libraries.* You can watch it there on a VCR in a "private media carrel" or a group study room.

*requires friendship with a UW student, alum, faculty, or staff member.

comments about Pal and region codes...years ago I was about to make the plunge into DVD; fortunately the one and only thing I knew was that there were things like region codes and compatability. So I ask the sales clerk at Video Only if any of their machines played international codes. "No" he said "you only need that if you want to see foreign movies."

I gave him the insert-ice-cream-cone-in-forehead look and left.

Got a machine from Scarecrow that has played everything I've put in it -- even mpegs burned to DVD on computer.

It must have been available at one time, because I have a VHS copy at home.

In general, though, I find the dearth of "classic films" available in any format more than a little inconvenient. And given that 95% of the titles on the shelf at most typical chain video stores is absolute crap, and that the small local stores can't afford to keep more than one copy of some titles in-stock, you'd think there'd be a robust sell-through market for old films on DVD, even without "extras".

Maybe, if the studios would pull their collective heads out and finally give up on their long-shattered dreams of world domination, they could actually make money on their catalogues of great films that people might actually want to see, instead of continuing to push shoddy pieces of drek on us.

I mean, which would you rather watch: "Duck Soup" or "Dukes Of Hazard"?

Lots of things are out of print for certain amounts of time due to licensing etc. If a distributor wants to pay for rights to distribute it then they can put it on DVD and sell it. If its nearly old enough to run into Public Domain then noone wants to put up the $ for something that will be ubiquitous in a year or so.

I dont know how the new laws extending copyright are working out because I dont follow them as much as I should. but its 55 years old now, so might already be PD.

Scarecrow is a great video store because they keep copies of out of print items, and yes replacing it if your dog eats it will be costly.

But I know of one video store that actually distributes out of print, and obscure/foriegn film. Facets. They are a Nonprof run by Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975)

Check them out on the web, write them and ask them to distribute it. Or pool some $ and look into it yourself.

My mom's got it..oh she of the $4.99 apiece PayNPak special movies.. Lovin' the Guttenberg, mama!!

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