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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being.

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with Scott Tobias and Tasha Robinson. We're breaking format a bit this week to deal with a couple of related issues raised by our recent pairing of Eternal Sunshine in the Spotless Mind and Reminiscence. We like the way those episodes turned out, and we hope you do too, but Eternal Sunshine wasn't our first choice for the pairing. Love it as we do, we originally wanted to compare a reminiscence to Catherine Bigelow's

1995 film Strange Days, another noir-influenced crime throwers set in a then-near-near-future

concerning the intersection between memory and technology. The only problem, that film has

all but disappeared. Which kind of is thinking, we live in a moment when

seemingly every movie is just a click away, and yet it only takes trying to find one movie

that's not available to realize that just isn't the case. In the past 40 years, home video

has gone through eras dominated by, in turn, VHS, DVD, and streaming services, with considerable

overlap between each era and the

emergence of Blu-rays in 4K as a superior disc format, more or less coinciding with the

assent of streaming. But with each addition, there's also been losses. So inspired by

Strange Days, we'll also discuss the current state of film availability and whether or not

we're kidding ourselves if we think

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