There may not be a more polarizing topic in physical media collecting than how you organize your movies. You can see and hear about SO MANY different methods that people have to organize their shelves. They may or may not make any sense to you...and that's what makes it such an interesting thing to talk about!

In this episode, Matt talks about many different ways you can organize movies on your shelf and how these can potentially be combined to give it your own personalized touches. He also weighs in on which methods lean more towards logic and which look more at embracing the chaos. How do you organize your movies?

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Music:

"Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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While not as dramatic as when Hamlet posed it, today's episode center around the question of upgrading movies in your physical media collection. Do you do it? Why would someone want to upgrade a film they already own? What are some of the issues to think about when upgrading?

Matt tackles all of these and a few more in this episode. He also gives a little bit of insight on some of the ways he has upgraded in the past, continuing forward, and how he thinks about debating whether to upgrade something or not.

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Email: cinemaonashelf@gmail.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinemaonashelf/

Substack: https://www.cinemaonashelf.substack.com

Matt's Letterboxd: @Matty236

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Music:

"Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

With the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina currently in their final week, Matt has found a way to fit in a cheeky little on-brand homage to two of his favourite films in the Criterion Collection: one that is directly about a Winter Olympic sport, and another from a legendary director from northern Italy!

First up is Michael Ritchie's New Hollywood sports film Downhill Racer, starring and produced by Robert Redford. It's a stripped down look at what it means for a high level athlete to pursue being the best, and how this kind of achievement does not only happen to decent and likable people. Then he gets to gush about the legendary Italian neo-realist masterpiece L'Avventura from the great Michelangelo Antonioni. It's a deliberately paced examination of the malaise of the upper class, even in the face of a friend and lover that has gone missing, that is regarded as a pillar of world cinema.

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Email: cinemaonashelf@gmail.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinemaonashelf/

Substack: https://www.cinemaonashelf.substack.com

Matt's Letterboxd: @Matty236

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Music:

"Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/