The Video File
Joshua ZyberThe Video File is a curated journey, one title at a time, through a huge movie collection that took decades to amass on media formats including Blu-ray, 4K, DVD, Laserdisc, and possibly others. (Streaming gets some viewing time as well.)
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Cat People (1942) | I Like the Dark, It's Friendly
Ever since the phrase “auteur theory” was coined in the early 1960s, audiences and film connoisseurs who care to notice such things have typically considered a director to be the main artistic guiding force behind any movie. That thought of...
Memento (2000) | Forth and Back
While Christopher Nolan may not have invented the ingenious “backwards” gimmick, he did perfect it in Memento.
Memorably, even Seinfeld beat Nolan to the punch in a famous episode three years earlier.
Perhaps the most innovative prior exa...
Bad Influence (1990) | From the Video File Archives
Released not long after the back-to-back humiliations of Rob Lowe’s Oscar telecast musical fiasco and his sex scandal, the studio tried to promote Bad Influence as a comeback vehicle for the troubled actor. Unfortunately, the fallout from h...
Body Heat (1981) | From the Video File Archives
In the span of barely over one year from May 1980 to August 1981, Lawrence Kasdan saw his first two produced screenplays, for The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, become huge, iconic hits, and his own directorial debut, the...
Film After 11 Podcast | Batman Begins (2005)
We’re all done with that alphabetical marathon on the Film After 11 podcast and, at the moment at least, not beholden to any specific theme. If you think of one, please let me know. In the meantime, this week’s episode is timed to correspon...
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Writer/editor of The Video File Blog. Host of the "Film at 11" podcast. Formerly a writer at High-Def Digest, Home Theater magazine and others. Obsessive collector of movies on physical media, from Laserdisc to DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K.
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