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Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary Set to Launch ‘The Video Archives Podcast’
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLongtime friends and filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary will launch their first podcast next month on which they’ll revisit some of their favorite old B-movies and discover new ones.Set to premiere July 19, “The Video Archives Podcast” will feature the duo rewatching and discussing movies pulled from the actual collection of VHS tapes that they used to recommend to customers when they worked at the original location of the iconic Video Archives movie rental store in Manhattan Beach, Calif., almost 40 years ago. It’s being produced with SiriusXM podcast subsidiary Stitcher.Tarantino and Avary, who would go on to collaborate on the Oscar-winning screenplay for “Pulp Fiction,” met at the Video Archives in 1983 — where they shared their love of lesser-known films and their encyclopedic knowledge of movies made them local celebrities.
