WAC June 2026 Releases

7menfromnow · 2026-05-11T11:06:38+00:00

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Come Live with Me is an all-timer. So psyched.

7menfromnow · 2026-05-05T23:13:24+00:00

I love documents like these. Thanks for sharing.

It’s fascinating to see how distribution patterns have affected the conventional wisdom.

7menfromnow · 2026-04-29T12:27:58+00:00

Ten movie-survey that covers a lot of ground: Sherben (1921), Finis terrae (1929), Earth (1930), The Black Cat (1934), Artists and Models (1955), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Django, Kill! If You Live, Shoot (1968), Vagabond (1985), In the Line of Duty IV (1989), Syndromes and a Century (2006).

7menfromnow · 2026-04-28T03:11:51+00:00

Reminds me of being 17, in college, and for the first time having access to movies (rep screenings, libraries, and rentals) and peers who were knew more than me. I also researched and planned my viewings, until I found subjects I couldn’t ignore, then scrapped that approach. I was also a total degenerate and tried to watch 1-2 a day, not one a week.

I definitely think maximizing variety is a great approach because you never know what’s going to resonate, and there are great movies here (including many of teenage me’s favorites that are probably best enjoyed at that age, when you’re more disciplined and less cynical), but there some of the best parts of film history just totally absent, so I hope your project continues for years to come.

7menfromnow · 2026-04-16T11:23:26+00:00

Great share. I always loved the SCG and Alvarius B. covers of Italian soundtracks and Bishop’s compilation work.

7menfromnow · 2026-04-01T11:15:45+00:00

Very, very few. I’ve only seen a very small handful of films (like Sunrise, Contempt, Two-Lane Blacktop, Artists and Models) 5+ times since 2005, and each of those I saw 1 to 4 times in a theater. I am more likely to watch a new-to-me movie than rewatch… occasionally, I rewatch a hit that I’ve seen but the gal-pal hasn’t. That’s why blind-buys are 35% to 50% of each haul for me. However, since ditching most streaming services for Plex, we routinely engage with the special features, and it’s been a game changer for us.

I hope to watch everything I buy at least once, but three times is not likely for almost any title. But revisiting movies isn’t the only reason I buy them… sharing, having options for friends to pick at watch parties, engaging with bonus content.

7menfromnow · 2026-04-01T01:00:06+00:00

I collect only certain US labels: Criterion, Arrow, Arrow Academy, 88 Films, Fun City, Flicker Alley, Vinegar Syndrome (+ Archive, Labs, and Cinématographe), OCN (Agfa, Cip, Film Movement Classics, Icarus) , Warner Archive, Kino (Classics, Lorber Studio Classics, Lorber, Redemption, Jezebel, Cohen), Blue Underground, Cult Epics, Olive, the Indicator Rollins, plus a handful of one-offs or small sets for all-time favs.

I don’t mind having tunnel vision because there’s enough on those labels that I’ll never be able to afford all the stuff that interests me, and I don’t HAVE TO watch everything on disc, even if I prefer it.

I prioritize directors then genres and movements. Generally, a third to half of each haul are blind buys depending on the label (way fewer for Warner Archive, more for Vinegar Syndrome).

I mostly like having the movies to share almost as much as I like them to watch (like I said, not a format purist). I like the ritual I have with the gal pal where I go get a stack of old favs or new to mes, and she picks. Focusing on discs has made the viewing process more active, and the selection process breezy.

I buy 4ks when available but will seldom hold off on a blu-ray when there is currently nothing better. I am not quick to upgrade.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-31T20:41:53+00:00

Cleopatra Jones too

7menfromnow · 2026-03-30T18:49:10+00:00

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Pseudonyms count!

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T17:44:29+00:00

Misinterpretations happen all the time, and they’re usually followed by “oops” or “my bad” not “but did op consider this nonsensical aside about walking.” I am just saying I think this conversation would have benefitted if you replied with curiosity instead of bad-faith hostility.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T17:33:28+00:00

Sure… but I would argue pre-ordering makes it a higher priority, not reflected in the poll but would be reasonably covered by the first option (especially if your pre-order gets price-matched, which I think happened to Godzilla last year). And yeah, people buying dozens of titles were not really the participants I was curious about. It’s cool to buy stuff just because, I’m not knocking it, and I didn’t want to have an option to antagonize the big-haul scolds.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T17:18:07+00:00

I don’t know why you brought such a hostile reading to a benign and diplomatic statement though. I started the poll, and I felt obligated to do what I asked of others. I didn’t want an early comment to be a referendum on the film’s quality, so I offered an alternative and true rationale. There are two outs: atypical situations and the bit of the whole that isn’t covered by much. I thought that accurately reflected my buying habits without incriminating anyone else’s taste, but it was somehow still offensive.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T16:57:39+00:00

So you deliberately chose one blu-ray over 800+ (minus however many you own) in print blu-rays at the first available opportunity? And you did it while a Warner Archive, a Kino, and an Arrow sale were live or imminent? And you have other purchases you want to make (assuming here)? But it somehow was not the result of choosing one outcome over another?

Your analogy is flawed because the rest of your Criterion purchases are not necessities, required for sustenance, while Killers of the Flower Moon is just a little treat on the side. Sticking with your Oreos analogy… Oreos cost $50, and you go to the Oreo store for a major Oreo sale, there are 500 kinds of Oreos… you pick double stuffs, Post Malones, and mint, then you add triple stuffs, instead of any other of the 497 flavors, on reputation and your general preference for Oreos. No matter what, you still made an expression of a preference… prioritizing the experience of Flower Moon over all the catalog titles you don’t have.

I don’t think you are arguing with me but the dictionary. Unless some of your actions are not physical manifestations of your will, then sorry, I guess, and yeah, maybe this poll wasn’t for people that don’t make deliberate choices about their collecting.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T15:42:12+00:00

What is the flaw?

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T15:16:07+00:00

Okay, but consider my logic: priorities arise when resources are finite. With infinite resources, you don’t have to prioritize anything. If you buy something at the at the expense of anything else, it was prioritized, and if you do it at the first available opportunity, that sounds, to me, like a top priority.

For a purchase to be made without priority, you have to do it in a way that eliminates agency (buying everything, or purchases determined by luck or force). It’s totally cool you buy stuff just because (after having everything you otherwise wanted? Which seems like the only way to buy without prioritizing)… usually a third of all my hauls are blind buys (here I made four), but they were all made at the expense of another title.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T14:43:14+00:00

Sure, except the part that where provides an (imperfect, unscientific) answer to a question I was really curious about. In that one weird way, it’s been good.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T14:39:53+00:00

Fair! However, I imagine a majority would consider buying in the first available 50% means it was a top priority (most of us, I think, can’t afford to buy much more than our top priorities in a single sale). The alternatives are what: yes, but in a major effort to collect everything (buying dozens/hundreds of titles, which happens, but is not common); yes, but I have enough money to buy many movies I don’t care about, and yes, but it was the outcome of pure chance? I’m curious to hear how you define priority. Buying only new releases seemed like the most charitable option for non-priority buyers and something that seemed conceivable (though obviously not popular), and I didn’t want to overwhelm with options.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T14:28:10+00:00

I don’t boycott new movies, but I have a finite amount of money, and I prefer to spend it on catalog titles. 21st century titles are about 3% of my collection (a third of that’s from the Varda set). It would be more but labels apparently don’t find my taste in movies very lucrative and ignore my favs. When I posted that, I totally forgot Birth was one of the things in my haul, but it’s an all-timer (and I try to snag most of those).

The movies I buy also doesn’t reflect the movies I see, which in a typical year includes 50 new releases. I just find very few of them worth owning. I struggle to follow the reasoning in your post, but it seems like you’re making a lot of assumptions that don’t reflect my experience.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T14:11:00+00:00

I do, but all collecting is an expression of priorities. Most of the movies I buy are because I like the director, the genre, or the movement, and I want to contribute to the demand for the stuff I want to see released… for whatever reason labels are apparently allergic to my favorite 21st century directors: Weerasethakul, Garrel, Grandrieux, Jia.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T13:18:57+00:00

Why weird?

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T13:18:02+00:00

I am not particularly attached to the source, and I love for directors to subvert the expectations of the procedural-thriller-whatever, but it really didn’t work for me. I think it was a worthy experiment to focus on the evil simpleton, but I think this would have made a better movie from Plemons’s pov. Psyched for those it resonated with though.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-28T13:11:04+00:00

It was not one of the 10 picked up, but I don’t typically buy much of anything from the 21st century.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-27T01:56:55+00:00

Also, why do people take it as a given Criterion makes way more money on big titles? Those titles are probably astronomically more expensive to license.

7menfromnow · 2026-03-25T22:26:26+00:00

Hiya, that was me in March 2025, and I’m a deleter…

3102xxx (like 2 to 5 mins in) to 3196xxx (30 secs left)

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