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The Important Cinema Club

#337 - The Movies They Don't Want You To See!!! (Bootleg Edition)

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We discuss films that exist only in bootleg form to this day, which includes THE LAST SHARK, ABBY and PORGY AND BESS, as well reminsce about our own experiences watching 'Bootlegs'. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as well as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you want to see the funniest film ever made?

0:03.7

Guaranteed?

0:04.8

Then you need to get down to Toronto, Canada at the Fox Theater on June 13th for the

0:09.8

Important Cinema Club Masterpiece Classics presentation of the rarely screened Hell's a Poppin,

0:16.0

featuring Shamp Howard.

0:17.4

Get your ticket now at foxtheater.ca and don't miss this once in a lifetime experience.

0:25.1

Again, the funniest film you'll ever see, guaranteed.

0:29.1

This guarantee only a fly to screen by the importance and a class at the Fox Theater and it's only the funniest film that ever shown in black and white.

0:37.0

Hello, my name's Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to the Important Cinema Club.

0:44.1

And today, we're talking about, did we pick a title for this episode, like bootleg movies or movies they don't want you to see?

0:51.6

Yeah, I'm still, even at this late stage, even though I suggested this topic, kind of uncertain about the parameters of it, but that's okay. Really, my creative touchstones for this episode are twofold. One of them is, do you remember a film threat used to have a column called The Bootleg Files? I never read film threat with any regularity. Are you talking about the website? The website, which I also never really read with great regularity either.

1:13.4

But like they would have a column in every week it would be a movie like Nothing Lass Forever or Skidoo or one of those movies that, you know, you could only get in bootleg form.

1:22.2

My other creative touchstone is over the years going to conventions or going to indie video stores and seeing

1:29.7

the rack of DVDs that you can buy, you know, burned DVDs of like the Star Wars holiday

1:36.2

special, stuff like that. I used to work in a video store and I would stare at all the cases

1:41.1

that I knew how the person who made them would like what designs they would

1:45.8

pick and stuff like that and go I wonder why this one is not available like why is this the bootleg

1:51.7

and I mean even most of the video stores rest in peace queen video had a bunch of like bootleg

1:56.8

DVDs as well wasn't it great okay this is going to be a nostalgic episode. Wasn't it great when you

2:01.5

moved to Toronto and you went to these video stores that were in downtown Toronto and they had

2:05.2

all the movies who'd ever dreamed of watching? Well, I've said this before, but when I visited my

2:10.5

friend in Toronto for the first time on my own, I made a point of going to suspect video on

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