Vinyl

Alan blows a lot of time on this film lamenting that he wishes he'd spent his life being a family man rather than being some guy on his own buying a lot of records. I don't want to judge too harshly, but it seems to me that a possible reason the guy has lucked out is he is both whiny and domineering judging from the way he conducts interviews, he doesn't seem to like other people in his life talking much or getting too much attention, again going by his interviewing style and how the film is edited.

The collectors interviewed all seem charming, relatively happy and very quirky to me and some had cool anecdotes. I would have enjoyed this film far more if that's what comprised the whole film, rather than the 'I'm in a hobby that's for freaks/ help me I think I have OCD/ what have I done with my life' ramblings. Also the scene where Alan tries to scam on a female collector by trying to seduce her with an elevator muzak version of Over the Rainbow is as others have pointed out, very creepy.

Daniel Richler and Don McKellar look like they have great collections, it would be great if they were in the film for more than 30 seconds each.

Watched this and did not get the film I was expecting. Its called Vinyl and it talks about being a film about record collecting but its just as much, if not more, about the film maker himself.

Having just watched another documentary that felt very fake, false and constructed what you get here feels completely honest and thats what makes it interesting and involving. I think many of us are collectors of one thing or another and will certainly relate to some of the people in the film.

Very well edited too, while you might want to see and hear more about the records in this film, that is not what the film is ultimately about.

i wish the show had had real audiophiles instead of who they interviewed. i've been at it as long as any of the people shown. i'm a collector and love to play them but the folks interviewed showed no real sense of quality in the way they kept their records or cleaned them and the stereo gear shown is total junk..i invite the shows producers to interview myself so people could see a more sane quality way to enjoy vinyl in the way 99% of the world never knew existed on this medium. my own personal collection is at least 15,000 records 5000 45's and 2000 reel to reels and a sound system that displays their total quality.

Finally caught the documentary about insaneo record collectors, which since I am an insaneo record collector myself is of interest. There's lots of hilarious stuff, like the guy who is trying to get every record ever made in 'the world' but never thought of, like, Asia; or how about cinema-theorist-for-hire Geoff Pevere admitting that he threw 2000 records in a dumpster because he couldn't stand the thought of anyone else owning them. There's also lots of confrontational stuff where Zwieg, quite reasonably, tries to get these people to face up to what idiots they are being. A couple of them get very far out. But whatever's going along up top, way back in the distance somewhere you can hear this droning 80s infomercial music which I guess is supposed to be the movie's soundtrack. In a movie at least tangentially about music, is this some kind of bizarre attempt at irony? Docked a notch for that lazy sh*t.

Pretty damned near brilliant. Director Zweig interviews, nay - psycho-analyzes, and CROSS-EXAMINES - record collectors in an effort to understand the roots of his own obsessiveness, loneliness and feelings of self-loathing. Among the collectors he's interviews are Harvey Pekar, Guy Madden and Bruce La Bruce, though nobody is identified in the film. Make no mistake, some of the collectors put under his microscope are quite sick, more hoarders than collectors, allowing their obsessions to paint their lives into a frighteningly cluttered corner. Though - as a collector myself - it could be rather painful to watch at times, and though the directors soul-searching occasionally wanders a bit too far, this is really a MUST SEE for any collector!