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Every Arthouse Buff You Know Is Pirating Films
As streaming services delete their own films and DVDs of classics go out of print, some of cinema’s most interesting movies are illegal to watch. Should you do it?
For every Atlantics(2019) or All Quiet on the Western Front(2022) – festival hits that got splashy streaming deals with Netflix – there are films from visionary, award-winning directors, like Hong Sang-soo, Vivian Qu and Xavier Dolan, which never got official US or UK releases. Beyond these platforms, users on reddit regularly point people towards other sites, like archive.org, through which a quick search can uncover a hard to find film uploaded illegally online, if poorly signposted, years ago. Waters‘ early work, so salacious it has routinely been destroyed by the censorship boards asked to grade it, has become arthouse catnip: films that young cinephiles once had to scourge for on shared VHS tapes are now find on digital clouds and drives.
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