Roku channels “B-Movie TV” and “The B-Zone”.
The 1989 horror film Clownhouse is now deliberately out of print because the director Victor Salva was convicted of sexually assaulting the 12 year old actor during the production of the film.
Not a movie but Stephen King has deliberately pulled his book RAGE (written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) because it depicts a school shooting and at least one school shooter in the 90s mentioned it being an inspiration for him.
I mentioned in a thread about Bruce Willis that Moonlighting has never been available on a streaming service. And I just checked Amazon Canada where a DVD set of the first two seasons is for sale for $312.63.
The American version of “Tales of the Unexpected”, particularly the first episode “The Final Chapter”.
For a lot of Euro arthouse stuff you need a region-free player or be willing to pay a lot for out-of-print editions. Anchor Bay put out Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover on DVD ages ago but withdrew it quickly. The Criterion Channel has some movies that they haven’t yet put on disc. I’m pretty sure Paul Schrader’s Light Sleeper (my favorite film of his) is on the channel, but has yet to appear on a North American disc.
I’d also love to find the movie Patagonia as it’s one of the few Welsh-language films out there, but no luck so far.
Not completely unobtainable, but never been released on anything other than VHS or Laserdisc. I have digital copies of these, but would love to have them in higher quality. These are all Chinese movies featuring Joey Wong Jyo Yin / Wang Tsu Hsien, best known for the original A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy.
*Lake Sprite / It Will Be Cold by the Lakeside/It will be * - This was Joey’s debut in 1981 at the age of 14, though she’s as beautiful as when she made her next movie in 1984/85 at 17 or 18. It’s a Taiwanese production and I’m not sure if they’re originally speaking Mandarin or Taiwanese as it seems dubbed.
Sources list this movie as made in 1983/84, because it was released in Hong Kong after 1987 following the success of A Chinese Ghost Story. Someone confirmed on Usenet that it was definitely shown in Taiwan in 1981.
Woman From Hong Kong - A 1991 TV movie from Tokyo Broadcasting Company (TBS). This will probably never see an official re-release because while Joey was very popular in Japan in the mid-90’s, she retired for the second time shortly after and has never been seen in a celebrity work since.
I found a digital copy from VHS of Woman From Hong Kong a couple of years ago and with that, to my knowledge, completed my collection of all of Joey’s filmography.
Wanted to watch the movie Fatherland which I hadn’t seen since it aired on HBO in 1994. Since it was an HBO movie I assumed it would be on HBO Max but it’s not. Looks like the only streaming option is an upload someone made to YouTube.
I remember that. Fine film
Actually, the book was better. I’ve noticed that the HBO adaptations of such novels are true to the book until around the final third of the film.
I will have to read it then
I recommend Engima and Archangel too, also by Robert Harris.
I am looking for Stephen King’s Golden Years. a miniseries. I tried JustWatch, but they gave me the synopsis to some British comedy series, while showing the title card from the King series.
Does this qualify?
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Stephen-King-s-Golden-Years/1115332
Claims the whole thing (236 minutes) for $4.99 in SD.
Alternately
Unfortunate, I don’t live anywhere near South Dakota. Will they ship it to Oregon?
Something interesting that dovetails back to the topic of this thread. While the book was a best seller in its day it apparently is not available on Kindle because I just checked.
Is the 2004 pilot for Dark Shadows available anywhere? I know it has been shown at conventions, and there is a bad copy available for viewing on You Tube, but I am looking for a better print to view.
I saw it recently on DVD in a pack with Langoliers and some other things that I don’t remember.
Now that this has reached 138 posts, I’d like to expand the topic a bit.
Stage shows. So many are no longer in production - and are never likely to be in production again. That’s understandable, but it leaves one in the position of just reading the cast script. Which is like trying to enjoy a meal by reading the recipes.
Especially frustrating when a playwright’s or actor’s memoirs mention the flash of writing inspiration, staging, or acting, that resulted in a particularly memorable scene. We’re left with the disappointment of never seeing that again.
There’s an episode of American Playhouse I’d love to have called The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket. Saw it once and have been wanting to see it again.
Used to have that on VHS.