It’s been fun writing Movies You Missed. But, with Burlington’s Waterfront Video due to close its doors for the last time on Tuesday evening, I no longer have a reliable source for movies that never reached our theaters because they were too indie, arty, foreign, misguided, insane and/or weird.
True, many of those movies will still pop up on the-streaming-service-whose-name-we-don’t-speak and its companion discs-through-the-mail service, not to mention iTunes and other services I don’t know about. (Full disclosure: I’ve been streaming from Netflix for the past couple of months. It’s great for catching up on “Friday Night Lights” and “Fringe,” but no substitute for an excellent video store.)
I’ll continue to use this weekly space to preview the weekend’s new movies (in theaters and on DVD) and, perhaps, to write short reviews of MYMs that pop up on whatever service I’m using. (For instance, did you know you can stream local director Liz Canner’s Orgasm Inc.?)
But for now, back to Waterfront Video, where you can still rent movies for one more weekend. I asked buyer/curator Seth Jarvis and manager Chris LaPointe to name some of their all-time most memorable movies that never reached (or didn’t stay in) Vermont theaters.
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