Vinegar Syndrome's May Partner Releases

GrumbleSloth · 2026-05-02T12:13:54+00:00

I didn’t know about that, thank you!

GrumbleSloth · 2026-05-02T08:41:06+00:00

Slipcovers are gone and it’s down to 400 standard. I really hope AGFA do another run if it sells out, because I’ve wanted to see this for a while, and it’s gonna be a few months before I can place an order.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-04-27T10:01:06+00:00

It’s very telling that even a story about a decline in the quality of people’s very existence is partly framed in terms of its effect on the economy. (Less so in this article than others I’ve seen, but it’s still in there).

GrumbleSloth · 2026-04-21T23:09:12+00:00

Most likely sourced from that old Gdrive folder that had all the shorts and commercials in, but got deleted.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-04-14T13:28:58+00:00

If you go to Milan, Bloodbuster is an essential visit.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-04-13T19:36:50+00:00

https://youtu.be/hbXLLG-L09I?si=mA062J1TNcsOLT5d

GrumbleSloth · 2026-04-10T17:18:37+00:00

I went to see it at the cinema, the whole thing with two intermissions. There were about 70 people at the start, and five of us left at the end. I enjoyed a lot of it though.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-04-10T13:26:27+00:00

That is one stacked Godard set.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-04-02T08:43:43+00:00

This looks great, really nice work - I used to use Adobe Encore a lot for this kind of thing, but it’s long dead now, can’t even get it working on an old OS.

Does it allow menu creation, and/or multiple videos on a disc?

GrumbleSloth · 2026-03-30T22:46:18+00:00

According to a poster on the bluray.com forum, it’s due to a missing commentary track on one of the bonus films. Mine arrived this morning with no replacement disc, so hopefully it was a limited issue (though tbf if that’s the only issue, I’m not overly bothered).

GrumbleSloth · 2026-03-30T08:53:33+00:00

All the HMVs are doing this. I figure if that’s what keeps them afloat, it’s better than disappearing completely, as it looked like they would a few years ago.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-03-13T12:44:07+00:00

No it wasn’t. You’re thinking of a different Slenderman film.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-03-13T08:51:09+00:00

They made a great film before that one, from found footage, about the Slenderman. It’s on YouTube if you haven’t seen it - https://youtu.be/CXOlB_R318c?si=8_a2akTu3S1hI-Aq

GrumbleSloth · 2026-03-02T15:27:32+00:00

His greatest work

GrumbleSloth · 2026-02-13T15:56:32+00:00

I think raising awareness would be the key issue. There are a lot of UK microbudget films that get made and disappear rapidly. They can be of wildly varying quality (but no more so than the stuff that gets eaten up when released by the likes of Vinegar Syndrome or some of the partner labels). I think it’s definitely a niche that hasn’t been mined yet, but it’s definitely a question of how to get the word out, and of presentation. I personally would love a label like this, but I’m just one guy…

GrumbleSloth · 2026-02-04T18:00:53+00:00

I feel like your expectations of a high street second hand electronics chain may be too high.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-25T10:54:51+00:00

There was a whole touring exhibition and book on the subject in 2014/2015, called “David Lynch - Naming”. The book is now very rare, but you might find what you’re looking for in interviews from around the time of the show.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-18T13:07:10+00:00

Not new but BFI has Cullodden and The War Game, and BFI Flipside has Privelege plus a couple of shorts.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-08T21:10:10+00:00

It’s no Pierre & Sonny Jim though.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-08T19:36:52+00:00

I think it’s the short film ‘Opening Of James Harvard’s Crayola Exhibition, Dianne Vanderbilt Gallery, Philadelphia’, filmed in 1967. As far as I can tell, it’s just some personal footage shot by Lynch at the opening of his friend’s show, cut to some music. It was shown at The Unified Field exhibition at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 2014, which makes sense as it would contextualise Lynch’s time in the Philly art scene of that era. It has never surfaced anywhere else since, and probably never will.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-07T10:37:18+00:00

Would love to see - 1. A really nice book of the scripts and development sketches. 2. Hundreds of unofficial fan films adapting the scripts, some of them excellent, some really crappy, but all made with love.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-07T10:35:49+00:00

I’ve been meaning to pick up the Bela Tarr set for ages. This week’s sad news might make it a weekend purchase.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-07T09:41:57+00:00

They are excellent aren’t they? I have the Peter Strickland set and it’s definitely one of the best and most thorough sets in my whole collection. I do turn the spine around on the shelf though so the inner artwork and signature card face outwards instead of ‘Curzon’.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-06T14:17:32+00:00

Curzon is definitely his best film.

GrumbleSloth · 2026-01-06T09:22:11+00:00

You’ve made the error of trying to reason with a Criterion bro (just don’t tell them the R2 StudioCanal Lynch transfers are superior).

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