BOUTIQUE Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Boutique chronicles the recent burgeoning Blu-ray collectible renaissance and the rising number of specialty distribution labels worldwide, creating an increased demand for long-lost cinema obscurities to classic cinematic landmarks. In addition, these companies endeavor to rescue and restore films, bringing back to the forefront underappreciated artists and overlooked and forgotten works to the masses.
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00:00If you're a film collector, especially in the last five to seven years, there's never
00:08been a better time to collect this form of media.
00:10With the boutique labels, finding these films that were almost lost.
00:14Hutter's Way, Diner, all those movies.
00:18Coca-Cola can.
00:19Dark and Bubbly.
00:20Death by Temptation.
00:21Daughters of the Dust.
00:22Hunch and Hess.
00:23I think they're important films that need to be preserved.
00:28I've been collecting physical media since Laserdisc.
00:30But, you know, kind of bubbling around the cauldron was the RCA Videodisc.
00:34They were vinyl.
00:35To have them around, to actually have a library in my home.
00:38You have movies that I have not heard of.
00:40That might be the only way I can watch it, is if I actually own that, like, Blu-ray release
00:44of something.
00:45These powerhouses behind these labels, they're doing God's work.
00:49Joe and I's favorite projects are the ones which take a crazy amount of work.
00:54Other institutions won't really put the resources or time and effort to actually make them come
00:59to life.
01:00Vinegar Syndrome.
01:01Severin.
01:02Arrow.
01:03Eureka.
01:04Second Sight.
01:05Agfa.
01:06All these companies are born of passionate people.
01:07I mean, real passion.
01:09These are these people who love the smell of film.
01:15These are movies that nobody really watched, relegated to punchlines.
01:18A couple weeks later, he sent me a note saying, do you have more films of the sort that you're
01:24interested in working on?
01:25I said, yes.
01:31No one could get the rights.
01:36Actually worse than I expected.
01:38There was shit all over the celluloid.
01:41These companies put all of this love and time and attention and money into restoring these
01:47films, tracking down the prints.
01:49We aspire to make the best version of the film that's ever been on the market.
01:54I feel so lucky that my films have been restored, that they've been chosen to be restored.
01:59It's a historical project, but also a labor of love, rescuing these films that have been
02:04lost to time.
02:07And I think the people who buy these films and watch them are participating in that too.
02:14Always have collecting because it's like kind of being a historian.
02:19Yeah.