For those who’ve received a love for the golden age of video shops and VHS motion pictures, you may simply wish to look out for a brand new podcast from Quentin Tarantino and his Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary. The Video Archives Podcast will launch by way of SiriusXM’s Stitcher platform on July nineteenth and discover the pair reminiscing about their days working at Video Archives in Manhattan Seaside, California as they watch cult VHS motion pictures.
Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary each labored at Video Archives again within the day, and when the shop closed in 1995, Tarantino purchased its total library. In a joint assertion, Tarantino and Avary stated:
We by no means imagined that 30 years after we labored collectively behind the counter at Video Archives, we might be collectively once more doing the very same factor we did again then: speaking passionately about motion pictures on VHS. Watching motion pictures was what initially introduced us collectively and made us mates, and it’s our love of films that also brings us collectively as we speak. So we surrounded ourselves with the unique Video Archives assortment, the place we each labored earlier than we grew to become celebrated filmmakers, and time-traveled ourselves again to the golden age of VHS. We love to debate motion pictures, and we wish to welcome you into the Video Archives Podcast to hold with us and Archives’ new worker Gala, and uncover the hidden VHS gems on our cabinets.
Every episode of the podcast will discover Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, and Avary’s daughter Gala watching one film from the Video Archives’ VHS assortment and discussing it. A number of the motion pictures they’ll be overlaying embody Moonraker, Darkish Star, Demonoid: Messenger of Demise, and Piranha, but when it doesn’t have a VHS launch, they received’t be watching it. “We’re watching the videocassettes,” Tarantino stated. “We’re not watching the Blu-rays. And in the event that they don’t have a videocassette, they’ll’t be counted as a film. It needs to be from the gathering.“
As video shops are relatively scarce nowadays, it’s been a hell of a very long time since I’ve been in a single. However I nonetheless fondly keep in mind strolling up and down the aisles after I was younger, attempting in useless to determine what one film I may lease that week. Now I spend an hour scrolling by means of streaming providers earlier than simply watching Goodfellas for the hundredth time.
