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\u201cIt\u2019s not if they die, but when\u201d is a hardcore axiom for anything tied to computers, and that certainly holds true for a router, basically the distribution box that sends live internet to a variety of computers, and allows those computers to swap data. When that sucker goes bad, things get a bit chaotic, hence the long delay it getting things uploaded to both the website and related media channels.<\/p>\n
The good news is that during the down time, I finished the visual podcast for The Mask<\/a><\/strong> (1961), which features two distinct sets of abstract images tied to the 2012 and 2015 pre-screening intros at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.<\/p>\n The router\u2019s slow and very annoying demise also made getting 1 GB files up on YouTube tough, but after multiple trials and much, much<\/em> wasted time, it’s up there. That sucker is finally done, as is a comparative review of KINO\u2019s Blu-ray and DVD editions. Expect them to be live this weekend, plus HD extracts and a making-of blog at Big Head Amusements.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll also post several Arrow and Twilight Time Blu-ray reviews, but for now, here\u2019s a podcast interview with Tom Roston, author of I Lost It at the Video Store: A Filmmaker\u2019s Oral History of a Vanished Era<\/strong> (The Critical Press), conducted while he was attending Hot Docs 2016 for PBS\u2019s POV website. iTunes,<\/a> Libsyn,<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> editions of my conversation with Roston are now live.<\/p>\n Also posted is a review of Roston’s book<\/a>, which will be followed next week by a book review of Noel Mellor’s nostalgia piece,\u00a0Adventures in VHS<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n