Thursday, December 11, 2025

Bookcases of the Damned (part four of five): Keeping it in the closest


I can never resist a Criterion Closet video when I see them - some completely random cinematic creative getting to rave about the films that mean the most to them is something that will always grab my attention.

But I also think that closest looks so damn good, that I've gone and made my own mini version of the thing.

I'm definitely on Team Physical Media and still have hundreds and hundreds of DVDs. They used to live in bookcases out in the open, but now I've claimed some closet space for them, and have them lining the walls of that space. They also used to be in alphabetical order, but now they're all shoved in there randomly.

For the past couple of years I've been largely working from home, and have had DVDs playing in the background whole I work with distinct triple features in the background. The ones up in the cupboard are the films I've had playing this year, cinematic brilliance in the air as I do the job.

Down on the floor are all the movies I still have to watch, and the TV shows that I'm going to go through next year. That's a lot of hours. They might not be on a bookcase, and just piled up in the corner, but they probably deserve one. 

I'll never get to the Criterion closet, I barely see any Criterion DVDs or Blu Rays around these parts, but I can be happy with my own little version of it.

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