Against the Grain | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A glimpse at how genre film focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring and releasing so | dG1fd014NHRFd1ZjbjA

Transcript

00:00 When I first, you know, became aware of lost film,

00:04 it was more so the realization like artwork in general can just degrade and become lost.

00:12 You know, a lost film by definition would basically, or at least my definition,

00:18 would basically be a film that is otherwise not survived.

00:21 You know, it's a film that for whatever reason, we don't have.

00:28 Going through film and discovering lost elements, it's invigorating.

00:33 It seems like genre films are more vulnerable to being lost because there are fewer prints made of them.

00:42 A lot of times these are independently produced films as opposed to studio films.

00:47 One of the problems with genre films, they were done at the smaller labs.

00:53 And when those labs closed, a lot of negatives disappeared.

00:57 Get me out!

00:58 I come!

01:00 I think that these independent producers weren't thinking about the life of these films

01:05 after their initial exploitation, which is where they're going to make the majority of their money.

01:10 If you want a good smoke, try one of these.

01:13 I mean, they just had a low opinion of the movies.

01:16 They just saw them as a commercial product,

01:18 and they didn't really see them as something that was deserving of being preserved.

01:22 Our mentor Dave Freeman would often say that a film was like a sack of flour.

01:27 Every time you shook it, a little bit more would come out.

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