Walking through this year's Toronto International Film Festival, there was a peculiar star bringing in the crowds. A draw that built a line blocks down the street, four days straight, seeing fans occasionally waiting three or more hours for an interaction that lasted three minutes or less.

It wasn't Timothée Chalamet, Jacob Elordi or Scarlett Johansson. It was a dusty white van full of old DVDs.

"I promise you there will be friends made in this line today," Peter Becker, president of the video distribution and restoration company Criterion Collection, said over the excited chatter of the crowd.

"We've had film clubs formed. We've had people get engaged… although they knew each other before they arrived. Thank goodness."

To be fair, the Criterion Mobile Closet has more than DVDs. It als

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