Re-Connected August 14th, 2025: Announcements and... the HISTORY OF FILM with Jim Tudor!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello there, and welcome back. What is this?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Plance is connected? Disconnected?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Its connected?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected, disconnected.

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I'm starting to feel disconnected.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
The number that has been disconnected?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
What's going on? Everybody? And welcome back to another another
wonderful Thursday here with one of my favorites. It's been
a while, mister Jim Tudor, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Thank you. It's great to be back on this show.
It has been a while. I think last time I
was on the show was November. I did something for
the awards in the meantime, But that also feels like
a long time ago at this point.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, yes it does. And what's crazy, it's only been
like six months. That's uh, that's it's a.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Lot many announcements since then.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, speaking of that, I expected a semi small week
and we have like a hundred things to cover against.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, dang, I know, I you know, I listened to
the show. I listened to last week's show. In fact,
I just got through the whole thing, because you know,
I listened in chunks and on the on the podcast replay,
and and uh, I know you broke the record there
with announcements last week.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, we were at almost one hundred and twenty this regulations.
I think you've been studying.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
This is a big achievements. But I figured, you know,
I was thinking here, I mean, you and doctor Dotson
hold the record for most announcements in last week's show.
Let's break it. Let's break the record.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's pretty close. I expected half that and we somehow
almost got there again. So it's it's gonna be a
wild time. I got lots of cover tonight. But first,
Josephine here as usual, wants to know, Jim, have you
seen Silence of the Seawell's The Brute, The Day of
the Jackal, Peter Ibbotson, or any of those?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, no, no, no, and no. But that's you know,
some nice deep cuts there, and I am familiar. I've
got a tremendously long to see list to watch list,
and I'm working my way through it, just like all
of us. Are Are they good? Are those good films?

(02:40):
Or did they scar you?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Day of the Jackal is good. I think that's the
only one of those I've seen and I definitely recommend it.
Got it good. I think that was an arrow release,
but like an older era release, like six or seven
years ago, something.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Like sure, sure, no, I don't have it. I haven't
seen it. I don't know, and it's not here. But
you know, I'll keep an eye out.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
On that note for things that are here. You are
here and tonight after the announcements, considering we're having so
many announcements to night, we figured, let's let's just capture
a very big topic and we're gonna be talking about
just just the history of film.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
No. Yeah, I can encapsulate that as best as I can.
In fact, I'm a professor of film studies. At this point,
I used to work in the movie business. I worked
in various art departments, set dressing and all this. I
was also freelance video editor. I am a film critic.
I am still currently president of the Saint Louis Film

(03:35):
Critics Association. I review films, although from my website zek
film and also screen Anarchy, but I've inadvertently back burned
my review output for those sites. I still am behind
the scenes posting other people's reviews at zeek Film. You
can go there and find reviews of newer films. Not

(03:57):
a lot of physical media lately on that site. All
that to say, I am boning up to teach a
class I've have been wanting to teach for many, many,
many years, which is just history of film at Webster
University here in Saint Louis. They finally tap me to
do that, and I've been preparing all summer for it

(04:20):
and the format. I can talk more about that later
whenever you'd like me to, about how the class will
play out and why it's important that everything be so truncated.
It's a lot the history of cinema beginning to end
the entire world in sixteen weeks. Three hours a week,

(04:41):
that's what I've got.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Forty eight hours is not a lot to cover the
whole entire history of film, No, so.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I have to be very selective, make some brutal cuts.
I'll be even more brutal tonight.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
On that note, one of the things that we're going
to really highlight is why it's important to things like
silent film and know why that's important to appreciate during
these things. So tonight it's not gonna be like a
classic Top five. We're gonna be having more of a discussion.
All have lots of questions because I'm also an idiot,
and asking certain things will lead to a little bit
more of understanding. But for most of us, I'm assuming

(05:18):
most people in the chat did not go to film
school or study film in school, because that's honestly, especially
for when most of us were going to school, it
wasn't offered at most universities if you went to school,
So we all, at least for me, I guess maybe
this is just a selfish thing. I want to learn
about how these are structured and built and what you're
going to be teaching. And you seem to always have

(05:39):
some interesting things on the docket. We hear about some
of those in the in the discord. Some of the
pictures you post. You've got quite a cultured life. Lot
lots of music.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
This year too, Yeah, lots of music.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
You're bigger ones this year that you've gone to. Cerebrity
that don't follow you on Facebook can find out.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
I went to herb Albert here last week. Herbalbert the
TI a lot of brass everybody. Uh, this was a
ninety year old music legend playing the trumpet and doing
his thing. And my gosh, what a treat, What a treat?
Sold out show that guy. That guy's ninety years old
and he's still got it. You know, he has the energy,

(06:20):
you know of a forty five year old. I'll say,
lots of fun. My wife and I it's like, you know,
we she doesn't like to watch all the movies with
me anymore, and she's got her k dramas that she
prefers to watch on her phone with her ear plugs
on and check out of the world at the end
of the day and just do that. So she does that.
I do my thing. But where we where our interests

(06:43):
meet is going to live music these days. And you know,
we were broke for the longest time, and uh now
we're not as broke when you were broke for twenty
years and then all of a sudden somebody gets a
decent job. It's still like several years of kind of
building your way back up, and I feel like we're

(07:04):
just now maybe getting to that point of building our
way back up to you know, ordinary people life. But
you know, teaching doesn't pay anything. But anyway, we go
to the concerts. Divo, uh, Divo was one in the
early summer. What else did we go see Halsey? My

(07:24):
daughter wanted to go see Halsey, so we went and
saw that I was not familiar. I will say that
I'm fifty one years old and I don't know anything
anymore about what's new and what's cool. No longer make
a point of keeping up with new music. But when
something catches my ear, I'm I'm appreciative. And we went

(07:46):
and we had a good time there. Halsey AJR. That
was from my youngest son. He is now thirteen fourteen.
This is my second AJAR show with him. I tell
you what, man, those guys really put on a great show.
AJR is a ton of fun.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
They really I would like seeing them live.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
They are so much far your kids into that.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
No, they're nine and ten. They don't. Uh well zone
my oldest is super into Kendrick Lamar, which is odd,
but uh yeah, no, aj are yet.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay, Well, anyway, if it happens and you you know,
and they want to go to a show and you're
able to do it, do it. It's it's a good show,
you know. It's not some you know thing you suffer
through as a parent. It's not that. Anyway, What do
we do Outlaw Music Festival. Every summer we've been doing that.
It's kind of turned into a tradition. Willie Nelson and

(08:42):
this year Bob Dylan and several others we did that.
What's this say, hello flickering waves? Yes, anyway, you know
we've got coming up, Sparks, going to go to Columbia
for that. We went to Columbus or not Columbia, Columbus, Ohio,

(09:03):
my mistake, Columbus, Ohio. I'm in Saint Louis. We drove
to Columbus, Ohio for Nick Cave and Bad Seeds at
the beginning of this at the beginning of summer, which
was that was a bucketless show, Nick Cave and Beds.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's the drive to get there.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
So let's I know, and we're doing it again. We've
got friends there, so we got a place to stay.
We're doing it again for Sparks, uh in a couple
about a month and then and then hopefully Paul McCartney,
which is the holy grail of unseen concerts for me.
Every time Sir Paul announces his new tours, I try

(09:45):
to get tickets and the things sells out too fast
and then all the tickets are over on the the
secondhand sites for four times as much money, and I
just haven't at least Mega Death Farewell tour Ragnar saying
Megadeth to announced a farewell to our We saw Megadeth
last summer and uh that was a fantastic show.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
None of us are into Megadeth, but we wound up
going that just does and we're blown away by I'm
bit serious here. Their their musical acumen, they are they
Those guys could really really uh play some complex stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
That was a very classic. Those guys know their instrument sentence.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
You know, those Mega Death fellas, you know, Yeah, they can,
they can really bring down the house. I recommend it.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Speaking of things recommend as Jim mentioned Screen Art, Screen Anarchy,
and zeke Film, both linked in the description, make sure
you've got those bookmarked. Great sites.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Not a lot of me there lately, not a lot, however.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You've made some some decent choices on people to associate with.
Still some good reading. Uh, specifically zeke Film. I think
it's one of the better curated sites. I'm happy to
keep up with that.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
No ad, no ads, no no interruptions.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's always a good thing.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, cost me money, but I don't care another thing.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
That cost you money. Physical media. What have you been
picking up lately?

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Uh, well, let's see.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
You know it's gonna be a good stack when there's
grunting involved.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, things. Screeners As a as a critic, I'm fortunate
every now and then to get screeners. I don't get
as many as I used to, but Criterion sent these
are ones that I'm we're reviewing for screen Anarchy. Hopefully
I can get them posted. The Burmese Harp and Flies
on the Plane by Criterion new four K upgrades of

(11:51):
these older discs that they did there. I'm trying to
work with the glare here. These just showed up yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Very nice.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, yeah, so that's I forgot. Has knie Chikawa films
from the from the nineteen fifties and I have not
seen either one. So really cool to have that opportunity
from Cult epics. Uh. This is called His Motorbiker Island

(12:22):
and this was sent to me also to review. Is
this one you had something to do with.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
A little bit behind the scenes. Yeah, and friend of
the Channel Sam Smith is the one that did the art.
It's a really really interesting movie. I think people will
enjoy this one.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, I hope so, I mean it looks very interesting
in other Japanese. Another one I believe this is Japanese.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yes, it is directed by Obyashi, the guy that did House.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
There you go, yeah, that's right, that's right. Okay, So yeah,
I'm looking forward to this. Niko has always been very
very good to me, much appreciated. Here's one I found used.
This is the Robodoc. And I bring this up because
for me, I know it's not a new release.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
But how is it that I happened to have that
right next to me?

Speaker 3 (13:08):
You have that crazy ability every week, Ryan, you just
pull stuff out. It's like a cartoon. You justa and
you get what you need. It's it's it's, oh, you know,
you need a giant mallet? Here it is, don't you know?
I want to ask, what's with this cover? This slip
cover of Robodoc? Does anyone know if this is special?

(13:30):
I purchased this literally at the used shop, by local
used shop that we're fortunate to have. I bought this
for fifteen dollars and I was happy to finally find
it used. And then the week later it was on
you know, Hamilton Books and all that for much cheaper.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Is there anything special I have here with this cover?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Or is this just I don't think so? My mine
is the steel book. I think this is the more
common release of it. I think this is the one
that came out first. Maybe I know they did a
Kickstarter for it. Perhaps it was associated with that, and
on the.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Back it looks like there might be a few more
extra features or something, but I don't that can't be
the case. I don't know. Anyway, it's it's fun, it's
I'm happy to have it. Maybe I could have saved
some money if I waited a week, but then I
wouldn't have this mysterious uh slipcover. Maybe somebody in the

(14:26):
chat who can uh know what the deal is? Here
for anybody listening to this later, it's the it's a slip.
It's a cardboard slip cover with Peter Weller's face and
is half the face and robocops face is half the
case and he's holding the gun. That's the cover.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Classic.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, yeah, I guess, I guess. I'm a dance four
K been waiting for that for many years. Got it today. Nice,
I got visitors from Ourcana galaxy. Finally, this is the
new the new slip cover from Deaf Crocodile. Finally was

(15:03):
able to jump on that a movie from the nineties
that I really liked, The City of Lost Children.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Just for the record, I had next to me visitors
from Arcana Galaxy.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, still talking about that.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
I was moving on, Ryan, I'm sorry it was at
the bottom of a tech Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, you're a little late that time. You have City
Lost Children just sitting there, maybe.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Just one second.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
This was exclusive, I believe, old to the Sony Picture
Classics box set. But at my local, you know, secondhand shop,
they broke up one of those sets and I was
able to get just this by itself without.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Shut up the shop. I believe that's Nickel Flicks. Probably, yes,
it is.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
It's it's Nickel Flicks in Saint Louis. My son works there.
Before he ever worked there, I've been shopping there and
this is where where I get, you know, i'd say
probably seventy percent of my stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Great deals. Dave friend of the show.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, yeah, Dave's a good guy. I don't remember why
or where I bought this, but I figured this show
is the ideal place to uh show off. I bought
a film called not Arkansas Women's Prison Massacre, which I
believe is another movie. This is Sharkansaw. Well, I don't
know the deal here. I don't know why I ended

(16:24):
up with this.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well. Uh, if you can see it, I think it's
on the cover. Look at who directed that. You will
make doctor Dudson very happy. If not, it's probably on
the back.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Tracy Lords, Dominique Swain. These are actors.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I believe that's a.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, so that's a that's a Dotson thing,
all right, I find I don't but who directed the
Arkansas Women's Prison massacre?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Uh, that's I'm not gonna say it, but I made
a Clinton.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh well, good times there going back aways. You know.
The last Vinegar Syndrome sale, I bought only a few things,
uh and they are by woke titles. I bought uh
Spirit of forty five, I believe is labor movement documentary.
And then you can't kill mem Uh you know, like

(17:16):
I said, I these uh, the these these these woke
uh leftist uh progressive titles in the Vinegar Syndrome site
were mysteriously cheap. Uh.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
How dare you yeah? This show?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah? Man, I don't know. I don't know, but I
felt like, you know what, I'm going to be the
weirdo who supports that stuff because I don't know there
there were. The price was right, I'll tell you that.
And they still have the slip covers. And this one
Spirit of forty five is directed by Ken Loach, who

(17:53):
is kind of a blind spot for me, you know, uh,
British realist director that you know. I there's a deep
dive coming up at some point, not tonight. Okay, finally,
let's see what else we have here. I bought today
this W. C. Fields comedy folly set. This is the
kind of stuff I'm always excited to find, these weird

(18:17):
DVDs that I didn't quite know existed, but I can
get them again for two dollars at nicol Flick's. And
I do teach history of film comedy, and cracking the W. C.
Fields comedy was particularly challenging to me because this one
hundred plus year old, you know, millieu of comedy sometimes

(18:41):
you know, doesn't translate right away, and I had a
hard time picking up what it is about W. C.
Fields that made him so popular. And then it clicked
a while ago, and I'm you know, it's happy to
find this is not one of his movies. It's just
him doing comedy bits on shows and stuff. And finally,

(19:05):
as movie, I don't know, I don't like.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, we don't talk about that you yet.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
This is in a violent nature. And again I found
it at nickel Flick's. I have no interest in this.
I literally only bought it so I could come on
here and see, uh yeah, but that's fun right there
there there goes. Yeah. Have I watched it? No, I've

(19:36):
owned this for about a month. It's it's been sitting
in the stack point of view horror slasher something or other.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yes, point of view, it's it's above and behind, it's.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
And you hate this film with the burning passion of
a thousand suns.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean, I've played the Friday of the Thirteenth video game.
I don't need to watch it in a movie.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
So I don't need to take that down. And finally
I bought this. This is Edison from Keno. This is
a box set that came out with like in the
early two thousands of Thomas Edison stuff, and I never
bought it. You know, Thomas, you know, everybody's like, you
know Thomas Edison, He's history's greatest villain. And yeah, there's

(20:20):
there's a lot to that. But you know what, I
teach history of film, and I need to, you know,
he like it or not, Thomas Edison matters. So I
bought this. And here's the thing. It's a classic case
of do I buy the one from two thousand and
five or do I buy this re release that they

(20:41):
did that was done I think redone in twenty eighteen
or something. Same discs, looks like the same content, The
cover was just almost exactly the same. I went with
the newer one just because it was newer and it
doesn't come with a freaking booklet of course.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
The booklets.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, I didn't know this. I didn't know this. So anyway,
that's just a little uh rap for any uh you know,
I guess you know, you guys are the only uh
you know, sympathetic ears for this sort of thing in
the world. Understand my frustration.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Anybody else is like a Thomas Edison booklet? Who cares?

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, I need the booklet. I'm like, man, you know,
there's one hundred and forty films. Some of them are
like two seconds long camera teslae. One hundred and forty
things on these discs. Between these four discs, there's no
list of what's where in here. It's literally just discs,

(21:48):
you know, and you don't know till you put them in.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
I missed the days of like the Flapper DVD cases
that had the chapters listed on the side for compilations
like that, so you knew exactly where they would be. Yeah,
that should be a given that that's in every copy
of that. Not a book that I get, But come on,
give us a list.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
I know, even just a paper list would it would
have been nice, It would be nice. But oh well,
at least I was able to get them.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I've got something paper based that's been picked tonight, so
I'm gonna do a couple plastic. Well, we'll do some
discs first and first is a Underworld Beauty. This is
one of the Radiance titles. I bought that nice.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
I bought that last week.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
For those of you that are paying attention online, there's
a couple of Radiance titles that keep showing up on
Amazon with coupon coats and this thing I think was
less than fifteen dollars. And yeah, this is like one
of the better reviewed recent Radiance releases. I don't get it,
did I everybody's mocking me because I said flapper. Yes,

(22:52):
I meant snapper. I'm sorry everybody. I'm talking to Jim.
We were talking about WC. Fields. I have flappers on them.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, that's it's the flapper era of DVDs. And look,
I say, he's not wrong. There's there's flaps in this
in this Edison disc. I'm holding it up and the
discs are on trays that flap around inside. Nice anyway,
So you bought you bought that that Sajian Suzuki film.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Is it nice? Yeah? I believe that.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
And yeah, I don't get I. I don't love to
patronize Amazon because it's Amazon, but and they're evil and all.
But when they're obviously taking a loss on something that little,
you know that, that makes it okay, right.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
That's why I'm okay with it.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
This was not from Amazon, but I was able to
pick up classy cinema Billy Madison on four K from
Keno Larber. I gotta be honest. If I had watched
Happy Gilmore two before purchasing this, I probably would have
been kind of sour on Adam Sandler to purchase this.
But it's a classic. This is what I probably got
to show my kids in a couple of years now.

(23:55):
To go very anti Amazon for the rest of this one,
I I wanted this on physical media, so this is
a boot leg.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
WHOA. I won't tell anyone.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
For those that have never heard of this, because these
did not play super widely, which is hilarious for things
that played on MTV. I really wanted to find out
where I could watch my Super Psycho Sweet sixteen the trilogy,
and the first one was released on Blu Ray, I
think immediately, and I think the second one got a
DVD release, but now the third one never got released,

(24:29):
and so I picked up a boot of all three.
Glad to have those because I wanted to watch them again.
But now for the really fun stuff one is especially
when doing a magazine nowadays, I'm really trying to beef
up my older like zine pickups and people that are
doing it now. I just want to support other people
doing it. I've got here four issues of Cinema Schism

(24:51):
and this is a paper back that you can pick
up on I think it's on Etsy, and there is
there's some wild stuff in here.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
An Etsy is it like made of yarn or written out.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I mean it's like construction paper cover stapled together and
each one has a fun topic like this one is
the Films of Sarah Jacobson. If you got the AGFA
release of the Films of Sarah Jacobson, this is like
the perfect thing. There's exclusive interviews in here, there's like
actual analytical essays. There's a lot of great stuff in here,

(25:24):
and I am super into it. I'm very eager to
check out all of those. But then this is maybe
the thing that I was most excited for. I had
this on an eBay watch list for maybe a year,
and whenever you get something like that that you've been
waiting on for the longest time, it's always just like
a oh, finally. And this thing released ages ago. I

(25:46):
never picked it up on release, and I don't really
know why. But Blue Underground, which is a company that
still going strong with some great stuff. Years ago they
put out the Mondo Khane Collection, and this is a
collection of multiple like Mondo documentaries and films like they've
got the recent release of Goodbye Uncle Tom that Blue

(26:08):
Undergrand did on four K is a part of this,
but there's other stuff in here that will likely never
even make it to Blu Ray. So this is a
DVD box set, and I got this thing for less
than I think it was thirty two dollars.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
That's amazing because that was very pricey. I remember when
it came out. When did that come out, like two
thousand and two or something.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, it had to be somewhere around there.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, I remember when that k I've been doing this
since it started, you guys, dds. Yeah, so, yeah, I
remember when that came out. I didn't know anything about
it or what it was Mondo Panny. I didn't even
know how to pronounce it. I went and read about it,
trying to decide if that was something I needed or not.
Decided against it at the time. I've seen it two

(26:55):
other times in my life, used and passed on it
both those times too. It was never that cheap, though
if it were, I might have been tempted, because, yeah,
at this point, and the way I collect now it's
a little different from the way I collect it then.
Now it's like throwing dynamite in the river. I'll just
find it, you know, if I can. If it's just

(27:17):
you know, and I foresee a reason for having it,
you know, like down the road and maybe I'll be
uh teaching a class on weird ass movies. We don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, So anyway, Yeah, this is a box set that
is like capturing a full zeitgeist in a box set.
I mean, the stuff we've got in here. We've got
Mando Khane, Women of the World, Mondo Khane, two Africa Audio,
Africa Audio Director's Cut, Goodbye Uncle Tom Audio Zeo Tom,
and then the Godfathers of Mondo.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, and to be perfectly clear, I mean this probably
still isn't quite my bag, but this is interesting historically,
and the release itself is even interesting historic. Yeah, in
the medium of physical media that we're talking about and
collecting here, that's a fine. That's cool.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, uh it is. This is one of those releases
kind of like the Black Emanuel set from seven that
is one of those How in the hell did they, like,
were they able to gather all these people to put
in one release together. It's one of those things that's
kind of a miracle and probably shouldn't exist, but when
you find it, it's it's a fine for sure.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah. Yeah, no, it's cool. It's cool.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Uh, go ahead, not that.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
I just it reminded me of Black Emmanuel. I started
watching that a few months back when my whole family
was out of town for a week, and I was like,
now I can knock out some of this weird ass
stuff that you know, maybe might be weird to have
kids walk in on. So yeah, I started the set.
Didn't get very far.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
But that's a hard one to binge watch.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's I'm still glad I have it.
I don't hate it, but you know, it's one of
those things that, yeah, it was time to you know,
I'll move on to some other weird thing that that week.
But there were they had a used copy of it
for a while sitting there at the front desk at
nickel Flick's, you know, right by where the register is,
and you know, kids would walk up and notice, oh hey,

(29:23):
it turns, you know and be like, don't don't turn it,
you know, and someone would would yell don't don't turn it,
and they'd turn it, and then they'd be like boobies,
you know, oh more boobies. Oh, you know, the kids
don't care as much as the thing. You know, they
don't care. That doesn't fun. Yeah, yeah, you know, getting

(29:45):
a glimpse of that sort of thing was a much
bigger deal to us at that age. I don't know.
These kids are just kind of like.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
They're much more accessible nowadays.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
I don't know. Whatever.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Whatever, Yeah, speaking of excessive what have you been ingesting lately?
What have you been watching?

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Only stuff? For my class, Ryan History of Film, Webster University,
starting a week from tonight or a week from today,
actually during the day it's my first day class. I
have a textbook. I don't have it up here. It's
I went through and I made a letterbox list of

(30:25):
every movie prominently featured in the book that I've been
assigned to work from. It turns out it is not
a good book. It is very you know, a white
male centric, you know, movie director, classic canon, that kind
of thing, because it is from two thousand and eight.
But that's the book that I was given. Now, if

(30:48):
I continue to teach this, I'm going to switch to
a different book. But I went through and I made
a list of every film in that book. It's on
my letterbox. It's a list that runs almost twelve hundred films.
Of those I had seen fifty eight percent when we started.
I realized, Okay, this is going to be my summer.

(31:09):
Literally June first, I started this process of of just
binging just as many of these movies as I could do,
just to have them because I was going to be
assigning chunks of the book. You know, I'll tell the students,
you can take any two movies that you find a
good point of comparison that are of interest to you.

(31:31):
So naturally, I want to have seen as many of
these as I can. I watched and watched and watched
and watched I don't know how many, like one hundred
and thirty movies on this list, and a lot of
times it is work because you know, I'm watching movies
I don't really feel like watching, right, and you know,

(31:53):
sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's work. But anyway, I got this.
My goal was before the end of some sixty I
wanted to get sixty five percent. I got there nice,
fifty eight percent to sixty five percent on a on
a nearly twelve hundred movie list. It's so good, like

(32:14):
a big jump, but it is, you know, it's an accomplishment.
Then today I went to the library and got more.
These are these are the ones that I'll be doing anger. Yeah,
Kenneth anger. This is Robert Flaherty's Louisiana story. Uh let
me reef install in the blue light we got. Yeah,

(32:37):
this stuff's like, you know, deep cuts that I have
not seen. Darling Lily by h oh, what's his name?
It's it's Julie Andrews. Uh Pink Panther anyway, Blake Edwards
and then uh yeah, great expectations and and uh the
forty seven Ronan, which I was shocked to find, is

(32:59):
not like a decent version out there of Uh this
is you know by uh Kinsey Michigucchi. And I figured
it was maybe in the Criterion Eclipse set from years
and years ago, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Is it in the Eureka Masters of Cinema box?

Speaker 3 (33:18):
I didn't go that far.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
That one's hard to find.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, yeah, even if I could, you know, I don't
know that I could watch it because I still I've
been I've been spending all my money on actual discs
and not a multi global uh free range player. Yeah,
I got I catch crap for that every single time.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Pleasy of read you locked discs and no region free play.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah. Well, anyway, I don't know. Maybe it makes my
quest easier, Maybe not maybe I'd just be spending more money.
That's always been the fear, the only Yeah, this Blu ray,
I gotta I got a Flicker Alley from the library.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Nice. Yeah, And I had a blu ray that that's
pretty rare.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
I admit I've been using this process of of watching
movies on this textbook letterbox list I created as an
excuse to collect not from the library, but the library
ones are the ones that I cannot find to purchase,
or at least for a reasonable price. But I have

(34:25):
also bought a lot over the summer that I'm able
to buy criterions and flicker alleys. And there's even a
severeign in there. Mike Lee's All or Nothing was on
the list.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, nice. Anyway, That's what I've been ingesting. Just yesterday
I watched Thomas Edison Studios camera tests and kinetoscopes all
day until my head fell off.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Had that go fascinating or boring or what?

Speaker 3 (35:03):
It's fascinating, then it gets really boring, it gets really tedious,
then it gets fascinating again, and then my head fell off,
so I don't know. And then oh, last night, as
a critic guy, I went to the early screening of
Spike Lee's Highest to Lowest remake of a Cure CURSAUA
is High and Low a great film that people lawed

(35:28):
to no end by Chris Saw And now I'll be
honest here, Ryan, I have been. It's probably even twenty
years since I watched High and Low. I remember my
impressions of it being very very positive, very good. That said,
the storyline, the plot points, all of that I don't recall.
I remember what Tashi Mthuni was like in the movie.

(35:50):
All that said, High and Low is great. Highest to
Lowest I had high expectations for because I figured we
live in you know, eat the Rift post Parasite time,
don't we This movie could really speak to that in
that incendiary Spike Lee way.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
This feels like it's leading up to disappointment.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
You may feel differently, Your mileage may vary. I demand
the release of the real Spike Lee because whoever made
this movie under the name Spike Lee is not Spike Lee.
The real Spike Lee, I believe has been kidnapped, is
being held for ransom. I don't know what happened. This

(36:35):
is a very very old man tempoed movie, like he
made an old man movie. That just kind of moves
in an old man tenor. It's it's kind of hushed.
And even in the scenes where it's a chase and
Denzel Washington is running after somebody or there's a there's
a foot chase and it's supposed to be tense, it's mediocre.

(37:01):
There are a few good scenes at the very end
of the movie that I won't spoil, but on the whole,
this was a tremendous disappointment. Again, your mile aagel very.
We don't see eye to eye on a lot of movies.
You and I. I don't think uh. I didn't like uh whatever?

(37:24):
That monkey movie was the Singing Monkey? What was that?

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
You did you love singing? It was the real guy,
the British guy.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
I have not seen it yet. That was genuinely No,
that was my guest that loved it.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
I have not seen me Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Ryan.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
I thought I saw I saw one scene from it,
and the scene was interesting. I have not seen the
movie yet.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
I came on here and ranted about how stupid I
thought that was because I saw it a few months
ahead of time, and then it finally got around to
coming out and people start coming on this show week
after week talking about how they Robbie Williams thank you
about how it changed their life. Yeah, better Man, that's
the movie. Decent ner, better Man. And I was like,
I don't. I didn't. It's it's stupid anyway. I guess

(38:16):
it was just me. Everybody else thought it was the
Bee's knees. I also didn't like Life at Shuck. I
know you did like that, so I understood it. I
got it. I got it. I just didn't go for it.
That said, I don't know if you go go see
the Highest to Lowest. I love a good Spike Lee movie. Man.

(38:36):
I love the Black Klansmen. Uh yeah, you know that
thing he was on Fire that was so good. And
then and then this one. I don't know, it's it's
it feels out of touch. I was supposed to have
a review on zeke film of Highest to Lowest, and
instead here I am doing this.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Well, thank you for taking the review.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Everyone you just heard the release of Spike Lee in
the real Spike Lee, please stand up, not not who Yeah,
please please go free, because you know whoever's whoever's holding
a prisoner that shouldn't be. You know, the replacement fake
Spike shouldn't be making movies.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, and reservoirs bringing up Old Boy. Yeah, we don't
need to talk about Spike Lee.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
That one. Also another Spike Lee remake that you know.
I'll say that that one at least that might be
better than this. I don't go. Yeah, I didn't hate that.
At the time, I hadn't seen the original Old Boy,
and I when I saw Spike Lee's I hadn't seen
the original Old Boy yet. Yeah, so to me it

(39:44):
was my first exposure to the story period. Maybe that
had something to do with it. I didn't like it,
So don't hear me say that. I mean, I didn't
love it. I didn't hate it. It was just like, okay,
that was interesting, but yeah, it became like the worst
movie ever.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yikes. I have continued my streak of watching multiple films
in a theater every weekend for the last like three months,
which is very unlike me and so happy to cover
some of these. But first, it was my youngest birthday
this last week, and his choice for a party was
to have his friends over and our family, and he

(40:24):
asked everybody to sit down and watch the Plankton movie
on Netflix and Normally I would just let this go
and be something that I don't talk about, but SpongeBob
is big for a lot of people, and I had
not heard anybody talk about this movie. This movie is atrocious,
like literally the worst thing ever associated with SpongeBob. They
shoehorn in some songs to make it a musical SpongeBob movie,

(40:48):
and the music is god awful, like grating on your
soul when you're listening to it. The three D animation
style that they're going with nowadays on SpongeBob stuff, it
looks real bad, like they've taking all of the soul
out of it. Yeah, this movie is just real bad.
It's a Netflix movie. Don't recommend anybody watching it. The
story itself is not interesting. It's something that you've heard

(41:11):
many many times over. And that's I mean, honestly is
kind of a SpongeBob apologist. Some of the stuff that
they did in episodes was genuinely unique, fun storylines. This
is all of that just removed to make the most basic,
entry level I don't even know who they're appealing to
sort of film. And it's really bad, really bad.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
That's too bad because I know there are people looking
forward to it. I assume this is what is the
quote unquote new SpongeBob movie.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
It is, but there's also another one coming out this fall.
Oh and this one went Netflix and the next one
is going theatrical, so maybe this was just the bad one.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Okay, So let me ask you this, how did the
kids take this movie in? Did they sit for it
or did they disperse quickly after ten minutes?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I think about one out of every three maybe sat
through most of it?

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Oh boy? Yeah, and then you just had like bored
kids climbing the walls.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Literally, you're making a lot of loud noises. Yes, gosh. Okay, well,
well let's get into some different ones. So after that
over the weekend, I went and watched My Mother's Wedding.
This is a Scarlett Johansson as a British woman film
that is directed by the individual that you will hear
a lot about this. This is Kristin Scott Thomas's film,

(42:31):
and essentially this is just the most white woman movie
you could ever imagine. Scarlett Johanson has a really weird
British accent and throughout the story not much happens. The
wedding in the title is very early in the film.
There's not a lot of drama. It's a weird movie.
But what's awkward is I because it's directed by one

(42:55):
of the main people starring in the film. It's very personal.
You can tell because she was telling her actual story
for her background. She wanted to get everything in there
to make it like make sense for her mind of
what was important. And so there's like twenty five different
storylines really thrust in here, and it is it's a

(43:17):
little too much. I think if they would have focused
the story a little better on a couple of storylines,
they could have probably had a better plot. But instead
they went for eighteen plots and we got like one
and a half good ones.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
But you say it's the most white lady movie ever,
I mean it's pretty up there. They hit their their
time in history to release this.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
It's true. And I think I was one of two
males in the screening and I did not hear any
male voices responding to any scene in the film.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
So no no laughter, no gafaws, not even staring, nothing, just.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
No very little, very ch So what's that called? That
is my mother's wedding?

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
I don't think and Adam is mentioning steel Magnolia's. Honestly,
I think it might be more white than steel Magnolias.
The next one, and this one is unique and may
not even be playing in your town anymore as of
literally tonight, and so if it is, please try to
see this in the theater. But if not, I think
it'll be on shutter. Eventually, film came out called Strange Harvest.

(44:22):
This was playing at festivals last year. This is essentially
a true crime mockumentary, not a comedy in any way.
It's the type of mockumentary where it's literally doing a
documentary style. They're not trying to make you laugh. And
there are scenes interspersed in this documentary that are done
in found footage style, And so if you don't jive
with the idea of true crime or with found footage,

(44:43):
this might not super sit well with you. However, I
loved this thing. I really don't love true crime as
a genre itself, but because this is essentially a send
up of true crime, but done instead of making you laugh,
they're genuinely trying to make you afraid. It was done
very well. It's about a serial killer lasting from nineteen
ninety three all the way up through twenty eleven, and

(45:05):
the way they show that time just completely passing through
some old stories and through interviews and stuff like that,
I think works surprisingly well. And there's some genuinely shocking
scenes in this that really got under my skin a
little bit. I think one of the things that perhaps
took me out is when you're trying to send up
a genre as explicitly as this was trying to do,

(45:27):
you've got to really stick to that genre to make
it like a proper satire. And with true crime, like
if you're watching a Netflix documentary, they're not throwing in
like super bloody crime scene photos and this does. They
show things in this and talk about things in this
that would never be in that. However, this works very

(45:49):
very well. At the very end of this, there's something
after the credits that I really hope that sticks and
if you watch it, you'll understand what I'm getting at.
But I think it's very very good. It's going to
be underseen by most people. I think it's pretty well made.
There's a couple technical issues, like somebody dying in two
thousand and nine is wearing an Apple Watch, when Apple
watches didn't exist. But stuff like that, most people aren't

(46:12):
gonna notice. That's more. Yeah, there's definitely some of those,
but that is strange harvest. I hope people check it out.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
There's something after the credits that you hope sticks. That's
a weird thing to say.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I don't want to spoil anything, but I mean it's
just like it with a lot of horror nowadays, it's
essentially saying, if this is successful, we might have an
idea for a sequel.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Oh okay, God, okay, okay. I'm like, is there like
like a phone number where it's like, now, paullus if
you know where this real killer is and then you
know that it's not that.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
The thing is, I think most people aren't watching a
movie like this and staying through the whole credits. I
usually stay through everything just in case.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
I always do. I say the credits are part of
the movie. They are, and you know it's it's a
time where you kind of gather your bearings and you
sit and collect your thoughts. If you're with people, you
kind of turn and start to talk about the film.
For me, I like to see where things were shot.

(47:14):
I like to see music credits and those are always
at the very end of the credits. Plus, you know,
having been in the business, I every now and then
see a name of somebody I know. All that said,
I'd still stay for the credits no matter what, because again,
it's part of the movie and it's a shift back

(47:36):
into reality. Plus usually there's some good music or you know,
music is playing in the seven point one surround sound
or whatever. I mean, that's where else are you going
to get that? You know?

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yeah, And just like John saying, I mean, a lot
of people literally work their ass off just to kind
of get this spot being mentioned, and it might be
the literal last name mentioned, and they just of our
eyes just as much as the other person.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
I've been. I've been in credit roles. I had a
pretty good spot in a Gune girl credit role. But
you gotta stay. You gotta stay all the way to
the Missouri end, you know, which is a chunk of
the credits at the end. But you know, it's like, yeah,
it's I've got myself in the habit of doing this
in high school, I think though, just because it felt

(48:25):
like the thing to do.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Anyway, last thing I'll mention before we get to announcements,
everybody knew it had to come up tonight. I saw
weapons in the theater gym. I don't think you've seen
it yet, right.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
I have not seen weapons, So is it knives?

Speaker 2 (48:38):
It's I mean clubs.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
It's clubs that they're hitting people there.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
There's a lot of weapons. I will say that, but
it's not what you're thinking.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
Very plural, I will say that's boring guns.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
I truly loved this movie. I will say to that,
I think this movie is really best served in a
nice theater with a really wonderful crowd. There's a scene specifically,
and I don't think this is spoiling anything, so I'm
not gonna say anything crazy, but for everybody that's that's
in the chat if you've seen it, there's a scene

(49:12):
with a car door opening that I have never in
a like hushed, quiet theater owed a response like I
did to that specific scene. It is best served with
a crowd that is into films like this, that is
on board. It's Zach Kraiger film. If you saw Barbarian,
you know that you're gonna have a wide range of emotions.

(49:34):
And honestly, he is a very promising figure for the
for the near Future Barbarian's good.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
That was a good movie.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Yeah, they say it's like that in terms of people
walking through caverns and tunnels and doorways. That did you
guys say that on here?

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Or was that I think it was mentioned last week?

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Yeah maybe yeah, I'm probably quoting something anyway that that's
what I hear about the film. Uh, you know, not
not the kind of detail that gets me to run
out to the theater. But I know I need to
watch Weapons. We'll get to it.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
I'm sure you will. It's a blast. Everybody should watch.
It's kind of crazy that the uh you know, to
bring it back to physical media right before the announcements
the the four K Steel Book is already sold out
and this film hasn't even been in theaters for a
full week yet. I know steel books are all the
rage this year, but the fact that.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
If you use them properly, you could beat someone with
a steel book, you know this is true? Is a weapon?
It's weapons.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Yeah, It's it's wild that it's selling so well. I
love to see it. Zach Kreiger deserves it. The same
thing happened this year with another super original horror movie
with sinners. Yes, I love to see stuff like that happening.
But on that note, we're about to say the word
steel book probably eighty times. You ready.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Bring it on?

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Were not with stel Books. Let's go with the Radiance
first first November seventeenth in the UK, November eighteenth in
the US on Blu Ray. From Radiance, we're getting Wicked Games,
three films by Robert Hosain from nineteen fifty five to
sixty one. Uh, this is covering, uh some some films
that I know nothing about. Do you know this director
other than Raffife?

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Raffife? No, that's that's it. Did he also do to copy?
I can't know. I don't think he did.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
I don't think he did.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
That's a different one that I lump in with Raffifi
because they have a similar the character dropping down like
in Mission Impossible. That's those two movies. This one, this?
This is how many films is this?

Speaker 2 (51:51):
I think it's three Wicked.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
Games by Robert has said, three films by Robert has
Sain Radiance. If I can play, I will be buying this.
I love these Radiance sets. I'm way behind on watching them.
There was a point Ryan where early on with Radiance,
I decided I wanted to be Radiance complete. That has

(52:14):
fallen off.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
I would imagine, so they released a lot.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Yeah I didn't. I didn't, you know. Honestly, I thought, well,
there's no way they're going to maintain this this output.
They boy, have they? And then some I've given up
on trying to be Radiance complete. That's the first time
I've spoken that out loud. But I have to. I
have to just let that one go. That said this,

(52:41):
this looks.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Like there's a US release coming, so you can play
it all right. For those who love extras, this is
gonna be a great one. You got a new commentary
for all of the films by Tim Lucas, which is
one of many people's favorites. There's newly created making a
featurette with Lucas Balbo the Historian. There is a newly

(53:02):
created feature by Howard S. Berger about Hossain and his work.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
He's a good guy.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
He's a fun guy too. We got some archival extras
on here. Visual essay by Sam Degan. So Sam Degan,
Howards Berger, Tim Lucas all in one package should make
a lot of people happy. But if that's not enough,
even Alex Cox, the filmmaker is on this brand new
uh C Courtney Joiner is a part of this, and
then new writing by Walt Shaw. Like that's a lot
of incredible names in one release.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Yeah, Alex Cox can come on here and just kind
of m his his commentaries. I'm I'm glad to get him,
but you know, he uh, he is, he gives it.
He does a very deliberate delivery. He you know, old
old British man, and he'll he'll speak every once in
a while. And then of that of the chunks where

(53:51):
he talks, there's nuggets of gold in there every now
and then makes it worth it, which is from straining,
because you know, otherwise you could just be like, well
I'll skip it. But there's nuggets of gold and Malex
Cox commentaries plenty of other reasons to buy this too.

(54:13):
Wicked Games, Wicked Games.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Next up is the ogre of Athens from Radiance. This
is coming on the same dates November seventeenth in the
UK November eighteenth and the US. Uh This is a
film Nicos Candauos belie. It says, despite his best effort,

(54:36):
shy and modest bank clerk Thomas struggles to fit in
with the pace of modern life. On New Year's Eve,
a comedy of errors ensues and Thomas is mistaken for
the Ogre, a notorious criminal mastermind who rules the streets
of Athens. Suddenly men respect him and a woman is
interested in him. It's all he's ever wanted. However, everything
comes with the price, and Thomas is soon out of
his depth when his unwitting white lie unravels. This one

(54:59):
who got a new introduction from Jonathan Frazen, a new
interview with the critic Christina Newland, new interview with Greek
film expert Demetrius Papinachlau. That was probably butchered, But.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
No, I think you got that right on.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
I'm not used to that new booklet with writing on this,
including an extract from Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. Yeah, lots of
lots of cool stuff about this too. Not enough Greek
film getting good releases.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
About that, And it's not Mondo Macabro.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Tony Tony's Greek. So thanks Tony, I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Yeah, I could come on here and tell you how
to say it. Yeah, Ogre of Athens. I guess I'll
buy this one too if I can play.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
It us release. You're you're on board and well, you know.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
What, Ryan, Sometimes I will, like once a year, if
I'm able to do it, I will buy a bunch
of Radiance titles from their sale. I think I did
this for the last two years. I'll buy it directly
from them and have it shipped overseas. If they're titles
that are over there that aren't released over here but
are not region locked, and those exist, yep, those exist.

(56:08):
I don't know why, but I don't question. I just
buy it right.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
For those that don't know, I know it's not a
great site to recommend, but blu ray dot com if
you go on there, usually if you look up a
site or a title that is we're released in another territory.
Most of the bigger titles like something like this will
list of its region locked or region free, and a
lot of them secretly are region free. They just they
have to advertise them at least as region locked. Sadly.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Yeah, it's uh, it's it's you know, I gotta be careful,
and you know, maybe I'll get that region free player, right.
I was kind of secretly hoping last Christmas might have
been at but instead I got a surprise CD player.
I don't.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
I did. Maybe she misheard you.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
It's nice. I don't know. I was like, well, that's
uh yeah. They it plays circles, shiny discs that are
that size, that one close, yes, and yet and yet
so far.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Next, probably the Radiance Typle. I'm most excited about. November seventeenth.
Only in the UK, not in the US, we are
getting Cinema and State nine films by Nagisa Oshima. These
range from nineteen sixty one to nineteen seventy two. This
says it is the start of an ongoing series. The
first volume of A Radical Japan explores the films of

(57:30):
new wave icon Negisa Oshima, one of the most vital,
challenging and admired bodies of work in cinema history. This
box set presents Blu Ray premieres of Oshima's finest features
across seven different discs. This is incredible to be able
to get this in one box set first of all,
and not in all the like nine different releases.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Yeah, some of these some of these are out. Yeah,
the Radiance are not Radiance Eclipse.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Yes, but they're just saying in HD this is the
first ones. So these are UK releases. We got four
k Restorations of Death by Hanging Diarish Diary of a
Shindjuku thief Boy, the man who left his will on
film and the Ceremony, and then HD digital transfers of
the Catch and Dear Summer Sister. That one is exclusive

(58:20):
to this edition, which when they write that, generally that
would mean that they're not going to be putting that
in the standard release or it won't get another release.
So not sure, but this is great. And I see
people talking about Eclipse being only DVD in the chat reminder,
we just got an update from Criterion Eclipse is coming
back and Blu ray we've got. Is it fair to

(58:42):
say that Radiance picked up or Eclipse left off partially?
But also Eclipse isn't gone now, so right.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
That's fantastic news last week, by the way, about Eclipse
being resurrected as a Blu ray line. And I would
imagine that with these Ushimat titles surfacing in the format
that we may be getting those stateside as well. I've

(59:08):
met at clip since's probably just I dis guess it.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
This box just like the last one that we talked about,
or the first one, rather, this one's got some really
great people on board for commentaries. We got Sam Deegan,
Tony Rains and Jasper sharp on here, and then introductions
and appreciations of the films by Luke vent Hout, Jennifer Coates,
Rie Sukanaga, and then the filmmaker Yang Yang He again,
lots of great people associated with this. I've only heard

(59:35):
nothing but beautiful things about these films. And then for
some more that was just the intro. Literally, we've got
interviews with a lot of people. We've got diaries, Oshima
short film about street children and soul. There's a documentary
from nineteen ninety five. And these aren't even included in
a list of nine films. These are just additional films.
So this is on Ashima box set. That will be very,

(59:57):
very fulfilling if you are appreciative of this filmmaker.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff. I'll tell you it's a
lot of good stuff in one place and I'll say
something else. No disrespect to the familiar names that we
get release after release on Bonus features, but it's nice
to see some new names.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
I agree. It's all about what I'm trying to help
promote too. Yeah, really appreciate seeing that myself and yeah,
I agreed with Wave in the chat. Radiance uses Fidelity
Emotion for every release, which means they're encoding is going
to beat out criterions ten out of ten times, and
you can count on that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
After several years of listening to you every week. Do this, Ryan,
I think I can just say I want Fidelity in
Motion to encode by Life.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Well, I will contact David and see what we can do.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
You've got the connections.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Funny enough, and I think I've mentioned this on before,
so I won't feel like too much of a failure.
This is a failure. Well, yes, this is a feeling
on my part. I interviewed David Mackenzie from Fidelity Emotion
that was supposed to be on the Channel literally months
and months ago, but the recording it was so rough
that night that the edit alone is one of the

(01:01:14):
most intimidating things in my life at the moment, and
so I have not gotten finished with it. It is
an open project. In my final cut pro you'll see
it eventually. Just I'm sorry, you know, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
Glad you've mentioned that. I know it's a sidebar here,
but I'm glad you mentioned that because I know you
said that you talked to Fidelity Emotion a while ago,
and I thought, oh, I definitely want to hear that,
And then I figured it just got lost in the
podcast queue of just other podcasts and things piling up,
and it got past me, and I was gonna go

(01:01:46):
digging for it, and every now and then I'd think
of it and be like, I gotta go find that
old interview with Fidellit Emotion and disconnected. I guess it
just doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
It'll be there eventually, David, I'm sorry, it's still gonna happen.
We talked about this last week as well, so we
won't go too deep into this, but just remember that
Radiance is launching this new sort of sub label called Transmission.
The first title is a four K release of Night
of the Juggler, also being released on the US by
Qute Laber. However, if you are somebody that wants the

(01:02:18):
better release of this film, because this is a film
that people have wanted for literally decades, the Radiance release
kind of blows the Kino one not only out of
the water, but like out of the continent to another continent.
This looks like an immaculate, incredible release of the film.
So check it out. And honestly, for what you're getting,
it's pretty fairly.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Priced to blow it over to our continent too. Yeah, okay,
I know people are excited about this. I don't know
anything about this movie other than what it says here.
And James Brolin, isn't it that's that's always a selling
point for these seventies movies for some reason. But Night
of the Juggler it's like, oh, look out, look out,

(01:03:00):
he might drop one. Oh he's juggling. He's juggling. He's
still juggling. He's juggling. Oh no, no, now, pins, it's
not balls, it's pins. He's juggling. He's chuggling. Oh, it's
the Night of the Juggler? Is that the movie? What
are we excited about? Is that? What? What is it
that this movie delivers that people are excited about.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
I don't know, but now I want to see that movie. Please.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
This is a very uh, this is a very grindhouse
film that people have wanted for a long time because
of how it portrays all of that scene. And yeah,
and Brolin is pretty hot this week with weapons.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
I actually ugler.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
That is radiance for the month. And excited about that
he dropped the pin get in next up October thirteenth.
Kind of worldwide. This one's weird. I can't really say
this is a UK release because it seems to be everywhere.
But there is a ultimate collector's edition last year's Knows
Feratu that is coming in a four K steel book.
This is a different steel book than what was released

(01:04:07):
earlier this year, which that original steel book sold out
very quickly. This one has a rigid slipcase with spot gloss.
It's got a forty page book of production notes, the
double side of poster r cards and character cards. However,
this package is eighty ish dollars everywhere for a film
that if you loved this film, you've already got one
of the releases of it, and a silent Mannibal saying

(01:04:29):
is it all gone? It's not. You can still get
it on Brother Belile as of this morning, so if
you don't, this.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Is on my top ten list. It was low on
the top ten list of last year, but it was
on my top ten of twenty twenty four films. I
like this movie quite a bit. I was on board.
I haven't seen it since I do not own it yet.
I figure it's one of those movies that if I
wait long enough, it'll the four k'll be under ten dollars. Yeah,

(01:04:55):
it will be, but not this four K.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
No, this is crazy pants. Definitely don't recommend people buying
this super expensive version unless this is like one of
your favorite movies from the last decade.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
It's all right, is it okay? So it's a steal
book inside of another steel book or what.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
A steelbook in a rigid slipcase.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
That evil rigid slipcase. Yes, very evil, very evil, very
Verry Pagan.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Next up, I'm very excited that they're doing this. October fourteenth,
Shutter is releasing The Last Drive In with Joe Bob
Briggs as a Blu Ray double feature featuring two Joe
Lynch films. Joe Lynch been on the channel before. Hi Joe,
You're great. This includes Suitable Flesh and Mayhem, And these

(01:05:44):
are two films that they've shown on the Last Drive
In previously in the past. And the big thing is
this shows both films, the intros by Joe Bob Briggs
and all of like the inner cut notes that they cover.
It might be a little weird. I'm very curious to
see how they do this because these were own on
the Last Drive in like five years apart. One of
these was in season one and one of these was

(01:06:05):
in I think season five or six something like that.
I like that they're doing this, and I understand that
they can only do it for the films that Shutter
has like full rights for, but just the fact that
they're doing it all is rather cool. You don't normally
get horror hosted segments on physical media. Yeah, this is
really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
I was taken aback by this announcement. I did see
this announcement earlier this week. I've been interested in watching
these since hearing your interview, you know, with Joe Lynch,
and he did The Browns when Suitable Flesh was out
there a year or so ago. So you know, I
haven't seen the movie yet, but you know, looking at this,

(01:06:46):
I thought, oh, it's a Joe Bob thing, and I've
never seen Last Drive In or any of his show
or any of that. I haven't seen it. I thought, oh,
these are new movies. In fact, these are very recent
Joe Lynch. I mean, it's it's a Joe Lynch double feature,
is what it is. But it's not called that. It's

(01:07:07):
Joe Bob thing. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Yeah, it's it's certainly being marketed as the Joe Bob
and not the the two films, because the Joe Bob
thing is what you're really buying.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
This is a director's double feature. But that director's taken
a back seat here, I guess willingly.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Very willingly, he works with Joebob quite a bit. And
then the other big thing, This is shockingly cheap, first
of all, for two fairly newer movies. It's this thing
is only like twenty bucks. And then you're getting all
of the additional Joe Bob stuff as a part of it.
That I mean, I would have to be extremely cynical
to say that that's expensive for what you're getting this.

(01:07:45):
This isn't a pretty awesome get I think, especially for
the cost.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Cool. Yes, I'll get it if I can, if I
see it, maybe nic.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Nickol Flick will get it a nearby DVD store. Now,
one that nicol Flix probably will not get. This is
the you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Never know, you never know. It's whatever people bring in
and people get some brands, some weird stuff. You'd be amazed.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Yeah, it'll probably come in used at some point. This thing,
this thing has been pretty much the Talk of the
Week until we got five more Talks of the Week,
which has been a weird week. Synaps out of semi nowhere.
We got teases last week that they were about to
drop The Deadly Spawn on four K. This has been
announced previously, but here it is in all of its
beautiful carnage of glory. This is available to order now

(01:08:41):
on four K. This is a title that is from
nineteen eighty three that has been released previously in a
really terrible looking blu ray And for those that don't know,
this is a decent movie. I won't say it's a
masterpiece or anything like that, but the synopsis that Synapse
That's a Fun Time Twister came up with is a
pair of camper stumbles upon the remnants of a meteorite

(01:09:03):
and discover some fanged wormlike creatures have hitched a ride
to Earth after the camper appetizer, the deadly alien spawn
that take refuge in the basement of an isolated house
and prepare for the main course. With the people in
the neighborhood now becoming the entrees of an intergalactic monster buffet,
a group of teenagers led by a small boy, decide
to take the matter into their own hands. This is

(01:09:23):
limited to only five thousand copies. They've already sold more
than half of those. This is a two disc set
featuring the film and extras on both a four K
disc and a Blu ray disc. This comes in a
rigid slipcase with new artwork from West Bondscoder, fifty six
page perfect bound book with vintage articles from Fangoria, new
essay by Michael Gingold, and then excerpts from the producer

(01:09:44):
ted A Bohas's book on the making of the film,
and a scrapbook of rare photographs. New four K restoration
from the uncut sixteen millimeter o cn By Synapse presented
with two different aspect ratios. We've got Dolby Vision on
the four K disc. We've got, for the first time ever,
the audio options feature the original producers mix as well
as the twenty first century Fox Corporation theatrical mix. You've

(01:10:09):
got three commentaries with the one with the producer, one
with the director, one with the cast and crew, all
kinds of other extras on here. There is so much
archival stuff there was too much to include in here. Yeah,
you can get this at Diabolic on orbits on Synaps directly.
The shipping cost from Synaps is a little high for
anybody looking into that. So the already semi high price

(01:10:31):
of sixty five dollars, Yeah, that's that's pricey. I get it.
If you're looking to get it, I would check one
of the other two because then you could fold it
into some other titles. Maybe that you were after the
Deadly Spaun you after this one.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Oh, I don't know, this is I'm not familiar too
much other than just seeing this on video store shelves
and wondering, as you know, back in the day, what
the what and LinkedIn that's a lot of teeth. If
the quality of a film can be measured by how
many teeth the monster has, this would be the greatest

(01:11:04):
film ever made. I mean, honestly, is this like a
practical effects showcase? Is that what we're talking about here?

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
It is kind of thing. Is are we what kind
of movie? What's the real selling point here?

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
It's a very goofy, practical effect silly like drive house movie,
and it's it's very good. It's really great effects work.
I think a lot of people will be happy with it.
That honestly, that you would think with pictures like this
it would be super over selling it. They do. They
do a very good job making it like this. Yeah,
this is probably one. Before you spend sixty five dollars

(01:11:41):
on it, you should probably seek out a watch of it.
And I think it was on two B. I'm not
sure if it still is, but to be fair, I
think it's one of the better underseen films from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
I'm sure it'll crack my history of film syllabus at
some point. I mean, look at all those teeth.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Yeah, a lot. It's a lot of teeth.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
That has so many teeth, that is so so many teeth.
That thing's gotta be like the dental bills alone after
the I mean, I wonder it's so pissed off it's
it's dental bills are are very problematic. Three headed phallus

(01:12:19):
person eater, the deadly Spawn. It's very deadly, deadlier than
Todd McFarlane's Spawn by a mile.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
Quite phelic though, you are correct. Yeah, all right, let's
keep it moving. Next, Terror Vision. We announced some stuff
this last week, the first being nineteen eighty one's Student
Bodies on four K. This is a parody of Slasher
horror films, and it is worded like that on purpose,

(01:12:50):
because this is first and foremost a parody. This is
absolutely made as a comedy, not really as a horror film.
There's a lot of stuff in this that is doing
a send up of things that would not happen in
horror films until a handful of years later. But the
people that made this saw it coming and they took
it head on. This thing is coming with a perfect

(01:13:12):
bound book with writing from Gene Hobson, Alexander Heller, Nicholas
Clint Kelly, Stephanie Crawford and Brad Henderson, and as a
postcard and a ten x seventeen poster in a hard
box release with a slipcover. This is a new art
by Ghoulish Gary Pullan on the main, not the poster art,
but this hard box art here with the skeletons that

(01:13:34):
is new. And then of course the classic theatrical art
here that many people have seen as that one. Then
on the disc itself we got a making of with
Kristin Raider, Matthew Goldsby, Colin Chamber, Sarah Eckhart, Jennifer Rose,
Gene Hobson, Kristen Nelson, Fred Berner and Susan Vogel Thing trailer.
We also got the CD of the score, and then

(01:13:54):
thanks to Brian who's in the chat. Thanks Brian, we've
got a LaserDisc rip of Student Bodies just to be
able to archive that in case you remember that version
you want to see it. It's not a different cut
or anything, just wanted to include it. This is a
region free disc of course, since it is four K.
And if you love Student Bodies and that's not enough
for you, oh my goodness, We've got two other options here.

(01:14:15):
Well now there's only one other option, but first is
the Collector's Bundle. This includes a Student Body's T shirt,
It's got a Student Bodies bumper sticker and a button set.
Or you can go all in on the megabundle. It
includes all of that, also includes horse head bookends from
the film. It's got a Student Body's toe bag, a
crossword puzzle enamel pin, a Student Body's on LP by

(01:14:39):
our friends at Forever Midnight, and then incredibly Small Chicken.
You know for Mickey, if you've seen the movie and
it's one of your favorites, this is a hell of
a package and for anybody to be crazy enough to
release Horsehead Bookends. You know, they're all in on the film,
and I hope people are excited about this because it
is an incredible release. The photos of the restoration are
up on terr visions way site. They look incredible. Hope

(01:15:02):
you check it out. Jim, have you seen Student Bodies?

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
I own Student Bodies previous release. A. I believe it's
a Blu Ray. I again again at the local TV,
the Blu Ray shop. Dick'll fix I'm there. Uh. This
is back towards the end of spring. So I was
still teaching history of comedy, history of comedy film, which

(01:15:27):
was a very reward endeavor. And I saw this and
I was like, this is this is actually a comedy, right,
And somebody in the store who knew the the movies, Yeah,
it's really funny. You should get you should you should
check that out. So I bought it, and now this
I had not watched it. By the way, I meant
to watch it immediately, and the way things went at

(01:15:50):
that time, it fell off my to do list and
I still have not seen Student Bodies. The version I
have has the girl with the megaphone, uh, crouched over
the chair dead. That's the cover. Yeah, I totally would
have bought this whole thing that we're looking at here,

(01:16:12):
uh from from Terror Visions, had I not just bought it,
maybe down the line, I don't need horsehead bookends, which
what are they even doing? Is this is? Is this
something you get it like Michael's craft store and then
they just throw some blood on it or something out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
We are making these in house. We actually have a
carpenter that Terror vision.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
Get an a miner saw you you're doing this and wow, man,
you don't need to do that. I mean, that's that's
that's a cool and all. But man, you know, it's like,
I think we'd be happy with just You've been talking
up the the trauma uh of terror terror visions behind
the scenes lately, and this just makes me feel bad

(01:16:56):
looking at all this cool stuff. They feel like they
need to include it still, I guess. I mean, what
are those No? No, no, those three are those buttons?
You said they are buttons? What do they say?

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
It says no? I said no, and for the last time,
I said no.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Okay, that's obviously the film. Yeah that, but it works
for so many occasions of real life. Yes, as a parent,
it's true. It could work or you know, any number
of things. Okay, Terri, way to go. This is this
is impressive. This is very impressive. I'm still waiting on

(01:17:36):
my stuff from January, by the way, but I'll give
them a pass since I know things have been terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Well and those are shipping now. But by the way,
we probably should mention that they they did just discover
that the four K disc and suddenly in the dark
that everybody got the replicator had screwed it up and
they were fixing the Blu ray disc. And now it
turns out when they manufactured the four K it dumped
the color, like all of the contrast is out of
it for some reason. So there's likely going to need

(01:18:03):
to be a replacement four K disc as well. Nobody
knows why. In our master copy, all of our screenshots
and everything that we Q seed many many times, it
looks incredible, it looks vibrant, and we are trying to
figure out what happened. But this has been plaguing multiple
manufacturers right now. Severn just got hit with some of
these things. A twenty four just had their replacement. We've

(01:18:24):
got a couple others that are behind the scenes dealing
with some stuff coming up. It's kind of crazy, so yeah,
this has not been great. However, this is the launch
of the thirteen weeks of Halloween, so this is just
the first week television announcing more tomorrow and this wasn't
even it for last week. Next up, we also got
Death by Dialogue. This is the next City Lights title.

(01:18:44):
This is from nineteen eighty eight, and this is the
slipcover art and the inner art on this one. This
is a cult classic of nineteen eighties who delivers a
meta slasher twist with campy charm atmosphere, tension of blood,
soak mayhem. We got multiple new interviews on this one
with Ken Sago, this is the guy from Nightmare and
Elm Street four and five. He was also in Death
by Dialogue but had to keep it a secret because

(01:19:06):
this was a non union filming. We got an interview
with Laura Albert, interview with John Gonzalez, interview with Dana
Drew Evanson, new subtitles and you can pick this up now.
Pretty pretty decent first week in my opinion, and we
got some stuff coming tomorrow that people are gonna love.
Check it out. Every single Friday, Tervision announcing things for
the next twelve weeks and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
When does it all comes out at the same time,
But you're announcing it over this this trickling. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
The big thing is that you can combine your orders,
so if you want them all in one big order,
you can. But some of them will be out before
the end of this thirteen weeks, so if you only
buy one thing, you might be able to get it.
Like one of the things that we're announcing tomorrow is
in Hand, so it's it's all ready to go right
this moment.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
The movie in hand is the I've heard teen eighty
six video rental staple in Hand.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
To be fair, I wasn't there a film from like
eighty three called The Hand. That's yes, that Tom haiggs
first first film something.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, And so I guess we'll
look for that tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
That's a screen factory title, all right, of.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
Course, Oliver Stone. My mistake. One thing about death by
Dialogue that that sounds like, you know, Quentin Tarantino's Forte
right there, kind of yeah, dialogue, you know, it's death
by doubt that But that's said, I can think of
some other directors that, you know, death by Dialogue might
be a more apt. Uh accusation.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
I was hoping that the comment was here. It must
have been on Facebook. Somebody commented they should have renamed
Christopher Nolan's tenant death by dialogue.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
There you go. That's that's the joke I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
All right, all right? The next one pissed off a
hell of a lot of people. Uh, Mash, the comedy
that changed television got announced. This is coming on Blu
Ray on September sixteenth, and it's not the TV show Mash.
This is a documentary. Join the men and women who
made Mash as they celebrate one of the most beloved
and duringly popular, often quoted, and influential comedies ever created.
You can preorder this now. Pissed off a lot of

(01:21:15):
people because they thought the show was coming, but alas,
you can get a doc on it if you want.
All right, Next, there is a fundraiser currently going where
Fred Olin Ray trying to direct jack O two. He's
calling this blood Moon Rising and Jacko one of those
classic make Flix titles that has the incredible commentary associated

(01:21:38):
with that. Check it out if you're into it. And
one of the cool things is that original release sold
out very quickly and If you back this, you can
get a copy of Jacko with it, So worry about
it being sold out. This thing is going to be
made here in the next year and a half. I
believe he said he's looking to raise fifty thousand dollars.
It's fred Olin Ray. He's already got quite a bit

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into this. He's got some actors participation possibly already lined up.
Got some other names that you'll recognize, like William Griffey
is associated with producing it, same with a couple other
smaller names you'll probably recognize from the physical media world.
Check it out on I think it's a Kickstarter now, Indiegogo, Indigogo,

(01:22:21):
Jacko to Blood Moon Rising.

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
They want to make this movie for fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
Fifty thousand dollars, although he'll probably put a little bit
of his own in there. I think tonight is actually
the last night to pick up this documentary and that
a slasher trash. This is from creator VC, the same
ones that did the In the Search of Darkness documentaries
that people either love or hate or love to hate.
Those things were very like surface level documentaries. This supposedly

(01:22:48):
is promising to go much deeper on slashers specifically, and
these are expensive if you are into these documentaries, I
get it, totally nothing wrong with that, but like, the
first level that gets you the Blu Ray for this,
I think is eighty dollars and it's thankfully you get
more than just the Blu Ray, but that is a
lot of money just to get the physical media aspect

(01:23:10):
of this. I really wish they did like a thirty
dollars tier where all I get is the is the
Blu Ray. I'd be fine with that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
It's a documentary about about slasher or what the slasher movies.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Yes, slasher movies as a genre. This thing is genre.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
Yes, yeah, okay, yeah, I don't know. I mean, ID
of like slasher movies as much as the next guy.
But let's asking a lot, isn't it. I mean, you know,
it is a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
I'm really curious to see how much this makes them,
because it's got to make them quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
I like that one of the things that they're boasting
here is a slasher movie checklist. You just know that's
gonna have the most scrutiny of anything ever. You know,
people are gonna be looking at tackling.

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
What they left off the hand in or whatever you
know they are or what you know, some something that
is a ah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Then they they included that with the last couple of
documentaries that they did, and people are genuinely like posting
it on social media and they're retweeting it, so it's
working on a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Wow, Okay, well, hey they're onto something, and aren't they
onto something?

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
I'm not. Next model. Next up is Tenacious D. This
is Tenacious D the Complete Masterworks Volume three, coming on
October third on Blu Ray DVD in the US. MVD
is the one putting this out. As far as I
can tell. Uh, this is showcasing the band's London's O

(01:24:44):
two Arena concert from their twenty twenty three Spicy Meatball Tour. Uh,
it does show that performance. It's also got uh the
band's animated film Post Apocalypto, with music from the D
and illustrations by Jack Black. There's music videos on here
and lots of stuff that I did not expect, including
like the covers they posted on YouTube. So the Tenacious

(01:25:06):
D version of Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show
is included on this disc, which, honestly, I think that's
pretty cool. That that's included. But just like we were
talking about with that released a few minutes ago, this
thing is insanely cheap for what you're getting. You're getting
a full band performance and a full animated film and
all these music videos. And it's like twenty one dollars
to pre order right now, and that's that's pre order price.

(01:25:28):
That's not even on sale price.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
You only get cheaper. That's until it goes out of print,
and that'll be really expensive. But that that's interesting. I'll
have to say. I like the idea of Tenacious STE
more than I actually enjoy a lot of what Tious does.
Especially you know, I hope people are all you know,
pick a Destiny is gotten. It's you know, cult status.

(01:25:51):
But I thought that wasn't very good. I'd probably enjoy
a Tenacious D concert. But I guess they're done, aren't they.
They had awkward falling.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Out well, Kyle Gass got sort of canceled. I think
I don't know what's going on with.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
That eye jet Black on stage when he made a
joke about the Trump assassination attempt. Yeah, that he shouldn't
have made, and that did the band in. Is that it?

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
I don't know, I've not followed that closely since then. Yeah,
I saw that video and that was enough for me
at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Yeah, it's too bad, because you know, this has been
a fun thing that they've been doing on and off
over the years.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Yeah, that's true. Carrying on, Keno, continuing with their Dan
Curtis items that they're putting out this October and November.
This November, they're putting out Gothic tales from Dan Curtis
from nineteen seventy three to seventy four, which will include
the Picture of Dorian Gray from seventy three and the
Turn of the Screw from seventy four. Lynn Grett in

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Redgrave in Turn of the Screw, Nigel Davenport in the
Picture of Dorian Gray, so some names associated with this. Yeah,
I'm pretty stoked for these Dan Curtis things.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
Are you. I I I guess I'm a little behind
the to go the curve on the Dan Curtis phenomenon
of forty years ago or whatever, But I mean these
look good. This looks fun. This looks like something that
you know, i'd pick up if the price was right
and if I was in the mood and all. Here's

(01:27:31):
what catches my eye. Ryan, I'm looking at this cover
and it's Gothic Dan Curtis's Gothic Tales. Great illustration, really cool,
that sells it. But it's Dan Curtis. Apostrophe s like
the c U R T I S apostrophe s. That

(01:27:52):
is that grammatically correct? I don't think it is. I've
I've been up the ilk where, you know, like you know,
if I'm writing about you know, say George Lucas, it's
George Lucas's thing, I'll just put s apostrophe. I think
that covers it, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
Uh, you are correct, but also you are also wrong.
I looked it up and this is one of those
instances where they both work.

Speaker 3 (01:28:15):
I know, I know they're both acceptable.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Well it's it's only acceptable when it's a proper noun.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Dang it, dang it, Okay, all right over.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
So I went and looked it up and actually there
was an argument in my comments on Facebook. But yes,
supposedly these these are both correct when it is a
proper noun. I I was ready for people to flame keno,
but I went and looked it up and yeah, this
this does work.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
I love this comment.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
I had met when Yeah, let's just keep it going.
You know, it's how how many s is it? Apostrophes?
It's just the more, the better, the more appropriate copper. Now, Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
Adam's comment would work if it was about his sister
Dan Curtis's sists. And honestly, I agree with this bean.
It does look kind of stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
It looks stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
It does look stupid, and that is truly what matters.
But like you mentioned, okay, like you mentioned, if it
goes on a good price and it's Keno, this will
eventually be on sale for like ten bucks. This will
be a great pickup to add if you're looking for
something to get to free shipping.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Not till they change that, uh.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Next October twenty first on Blu Ray in the US,
Dark Force through Keno is putting out The X from
nineteen ninety six. We talked about this just a few
weeks ago, but now we got some cover art and
some actual release information. This thing is going to have
a new interview with the actress Yancey Butler, a new
interview with actor Nick Mancuso. I've never seen this movie,

(01:29:54):
but this is from an era that I tend to
like stuff from it. Have you seen the X?

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
No, I have not seen the X. And I'm with
you on this. What is the year on this?

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Ninety ninety six? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
Is this a thriller? Is this a it's a little
late for the erotic thriller?

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
Well, let's throw out there one more thing that you
would appreciate. This is written by Larry Cohen.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
Okay, I do appreciate that. I'm I'm not the biggest
Larry Cohen completest. I've seen some of his movies, not all,
you know, one of these years, but good, good for him.
Mark Lester, who what did he do again? What's this?

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Class of eighty four? And Bobby Joe in The Outlaw
and a mendo Oh but.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
Bobby john The Outlaw is good? I mean I should Okay,
let's Bobby join the Outlaw? Okay, I mean, good grief.
You know. It's it's it's when when you're in the
mood for that kind of you know, seventies gritty, you know,
and you got your wonder woman in there, sexy, it's
it's it's a good movie. I'll say that I'm a

(01:31:01):
sucker for it. That said, never heard of this?

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
I think I had only heard of this through Dark Force,
so I'm curious to check it out. I love Simmoners
for the tagline hears lifetime with boobies.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
Hey, that does sound like a selling point.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
Imprint started some of their announcements, which, by the way,
during this show, they've already announced three more titles and
I am not kidding. October twenty ninth, they are releasing
a blu ray of Last Exit to Brooklyn from nineteen
eighty nine. This is about a gang of young hoodlums,
a down and out call girl, an alcoholic father, and
a low level union official attempting to survive the harsh
underbelly of lower class nineteen fifties Brooklyn, starring Stephen Lang,

(01:31:44):
Jennifer Jason Lee, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, and Jerry Orbach.
This is a two disc hard box release from Imprint.
We've got new special features that are gonna be confirmed later,
and then the second disc in here is a feature
documentary called the Director Juliu Dell in Fiction. They're gonna
have more special features with that one and some interviews
and all that stuff. But yeah, Last Exit to Brooklyn.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Haven't seen it. This has always looked like a movie
that's probly needs to be in the queue. I would agree,
yeah yeah, and that looks like a pretty handsome edition too.
I'll say that. What I mean, why do we need
two discs? Oh special features, gits its own desk and

(01:32:28):
a documentary?

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
It is a feature linked up?

Speaker 3 (01:32:31):
Yeah, Last Exit to Brooklyn? Is it four K or
just a Blu ray?

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
I can't remember just a Blu ray on this one.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
Okay, that's fine. I mean, you know, not everything has
to okay, Anah? Moving on?

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
What we nexed up is directed by a box set
with one John Houston. This is also coming on October
twenty ninth on Blue in Australia from Imprint. This covers
a handful of films Healer, we got wise Blood, We've
got Under the Volcano, and we've got The Dead from
nineteen eighty seven. I think that that's the one that
most people seem to be excited about.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
We've got No Okay, I've seen all three. No, I
haven't seen Wiseblood yet. Honestly, I feel like I have,
but I haven't. Under Volcano's good. Dead is very good.
I know Will was excited about it last week when
you yeah, you announced this last week and now here
we are. And last week when you guys did this,

(01:33:23):
it was like, oh, you know you said to him,
I can't do this now. I have to see this
for Jim Tutor and he goes, oh, screw it now.
He didn't say that, but that was an I could
hear that. He was like, nah, let's do it. So
for that. I don't know who's next week for you,
but whatever they're announcing right now, while we're doing this,

(01:33:44):
I say, we keep it going.

Speaker 2 (01:33:47):
You want to go see it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
I probably do that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
What's the Yeah? No, but this John Houston said The
Dead back when I was a film student taken you know,
I took a film studies class about literature in the
film where is this? James Joyce The Dead? I think
we we it's very much a It is John Houston's
last movie, and it is very much a old man,

(01:34:17):
very measured, very deliberate film. Be ready for it. It's good.
I was probably too young when I was exposed to it.
But I'm glad to see that it's finally coming out
here because it has been very elusive. The Dead, Yeah
and Wise Blood and Under Volcano are on Criterion, but

(01:34:40):
only as DVD's This is a good late John Houston gathering.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
That is true.

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
It makes sense. It makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
So this one we got new extras on all three films,
new commentaries, new visual essays, we got a bunch of interviews.
It's really good looking stuff. But now, as Jim alluded to,
let's share what's coming out in October as far as
Horde instead. First up, Twins of Evil on four K
in a limited edition hard box from Imprint. This. This

(01:35:12):
looks like a fun release for this movie. Good movie.
I enjoy this one. And then a little known movie, Carrie,
coming in a lenticular hard case release.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
It's my daughter's favorite movie. It's a great movie mine.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
One that you very very wittingly approved and did a
really wonderful send up of in our chelf Zach Rewine
Awards this year.

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
That's right. I did the car Carrie parody and my daughter,
who's a fan of Carrie, filmed it. She's the nice,
very very good I for framing and everything. I didn't
have to advise her at all. She was a good
shooter and she knows her Carrie. That said, we're due
for an upgrade, and maybe it's this man, this looks great.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
How it's like a fancy one.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
What does it have?

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
Uh, it's got a bunch of art cards. And I
don't have the website up, but I can do that
in just to second.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
Maybe next week when you announce it again, I will
be yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
Again, that is true, Carrie. Let's see I think I
can Uh. Oh wow, I don't see it on the site.
All I see is Twins of Evil and the next one.
Let's go to the next one because the next one
is very exciting as well. Four K release of Invasion
of the Body Snatchers. It is the Donald Sutherland one. Yes,
this has been released on four K previously, just like

(01:36:31):
Carrie has so on these probably not a lot of
new features on carry or this one, I'm guessing, but
they still look like pretty good releases. On Twins of
Evil though, is the first time in anywhere on four K.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
I believe you gotta get Twins of Evil and Carrie,
those are and for me, although adventurely the Body Snatchers
if anybody doesn't have that on four K, man, this
is solid. This is a great seminal seminal movie nineteen seventy.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
So incredible movie. Absolutely love everything about this. But now
we can go back to what came out last week. Hey,
so next October twenty nine, they're also doing Frankie and Johnny.
This is the first time on Blu Ray anywhere in
the world from nineteen ninety one Gary Marshall directing Al
Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. This one to get a new
audio commentary by Scott Harrison, and that is it. I've

(01:37:20):
never seen Frankie and Johnny. Is this is this a
gym film?

Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
No, it's not. I have not seen it. I didn't
care in nineteen ninety one when I was a junior
in high school and this was new and then and
then it fell off the radar until tonight. So nobody
all this cares about it. I'm sure it's someone's favorite. Yes,
somebody's favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Thanks for the plug's.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
Did I okay? Anyway? That said, it's a song, you know,
it's Frankie and johnnywhere you know that. By the way,
there's a great cartoon that I show every semester in
History of Animation from Upa called Rudy Too Too by
John Hoopley, and it is great. It's one of the
top ten best cartoons ever made. And it's the story

(01:38:06):
of the Frankie and Johnny court case and killing, which
is you know of legend that happened here in Saint Louis,
that happened here, that was that was a Saint Louis crime. Uh.
And every semester I show that and I tell them
that happened right here in Saint Louis, you guys, And

(01:38:27):
and we still got it. We still got it. Amazing,
We're still we're still ripe with crime. That's I don't
think this movie has anything to do with that. I
mean it's a Gary Marshall film for crime out. Yeah, yeah,
Gary Marshalls in a Gary Marshall movie.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
Well the cover like that, you're not thinking crime?

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
No, I don't think so. I don't think it's that.
I don't think it's that Frankie and Johnny.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Next up is After Glow, starring Nick Nolty and Laura
Flynn Boyle. Of all People. This one's from nineteen ninety
seven and says when two young, married couples are not young.
When two married couples, an older one with the painful
past and a younger one with an uncertain future, find
their lives intertwining, infidelity threatens to tear them all apart. Uh,

(01:39:11):
this one who got a new audio commentary from Adrian Martin. Uh,
and a whole bunch of archival interviews on here, including
one with Nick Nolty.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
I'd watch this.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
Yeah, Julie Christie is great. I totally watch great.

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
Yeah, it's this. This sounds like it's in in in
my uh you know, overcook Drama, Wheelhouse. I can dig
this sort of thing every now and then. And you know,
Laura Flynn Boyle interesting case there, Alan Rudolph and then
you got Robert Altman's name thrown in the mix here

(01:39:46):
almost tangentially. But I'll take it anything Altman. You know,
got to watch it. Watch Altman movies. This is not one,
but I'll still watch it. Don't know when after Glow
after Glow. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Not not one that I'm dying to watch next, but
I'm sure somebody is. K Pax starring the one and
only K Kevin Spacey, also coming up Blu Ray, first
time on Blu Ray anywhere in the world. Uh. This
has no new extras because.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
You know, I hate this movie. I've always had that
checks out. Yeah, I hated it before. Uh, we're supposed
to hate Kevin Spacey. He was. He was the stuff
for a while there, he was in everything. But I
felt like Jeff Bridges, I mean, look look at look
at these pictures that you guys. It's like, if you

(01:40:39):
can't see this, you know, it's it's the K Pax poster.
It's it's it's this ridiculous a light. Kevin Spacey's staring
off like I'm so enlightened. I'm such a serene being,
and Jeff Bridges is over here like, pumph, Jem, Why

(01:41:03):
am I in this movie? Who is this jerk? What
is this K Pax?

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
I don't remember liking this at all.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
To radio station, not a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
Kpax playing a hitch. Anyways, That's enough, Kevin Spacey. Next
up is Lulu on the Bridge, starring Harvey Kititel and
Mira Sorvino, also coming on the same date, October twenty ninth,
from Imprint, also starring Jeniger, Sean Vanessa Redgrave, Mandy Patinkin,
uh David Byrne and Lou Reed also got some cameos

(01:41:35):
in this. No new extras on this one either, sadly,
but this one, I feel like this is a gim movie.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
You've seen this one, absolutely, I have not seen it,
and my gosh, do I need to this sounds okay?
Backing up here, Jenniger Sean's in it. It's got Vanessa
Redgrave who is always welcome, Harvey Kait Tell and Willem
Defoo's interesting presence, Mira Sorvino at her hot streak. And

(01:42:01):
this was in the middle of it, let's see, not
familiar too much with the director, but cameos from David
Byrne and Lou Reid. We're gonna go see Lou reading concert.
I forgot to mention that at the beginning of the show,
Lou or not Lo. What did I just say, We're

(01:42:22):
gonna go see David Byrne? Did I say, Lou Reid,
I would go see that. We're gonna go see David Byrne,
and I can't remember what city that's in. We're gonna
drive for it, but man, we're doing it. That's just
my daughter and I not my wife. We're we're driving.
We're driving to see David Byrne. And if you read
were to come back and do shows, that also would

(01:42:46):
be on the docket. But for now, Lou Lou on
the Bridge on Imprint Blu Ray will have to Suffice.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
I can't wait. That's in October. Next is The Quiet
American with Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser. This is from
two thousand and two. Caine was nominated for an Oscar
for this was amongst some other awards. Again, no new
extras on this, but there is a bunch of archival extras,
including an audio comment chair with the director and some

(01:43:16):
of the actors, including Kanan Fraser. But yeah, this looks
like a pretty decent release if you were into The
Quiet American.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
It's a Phillip noise movie. Might be good, it might
not be Is it a nice time at the movies?
A nice time at the movies with Michael Michae Okaine. Yeah,
and you know Brendan Fraser, for gosh sakes, you know,
he usually good and everything. So that's all that said.

(01:43:45):
I haven't seen this.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
Oh neither have I.

Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
Well, you know, I don't know one of these years
Quiet American.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
Last up from Imprint is Half Nelson from two thousand
and six, which I don't remember much of it. I
remember liking this one. This one says an inner city
junior high school teacher with the drug habit forms an
unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers
his secret. This is starring a fairly young Ryan Gosling.
This one. He is also going to have no new extras,
but we do have an audio commentary by Ryan Fleck

(01:44:15):
and Anna Boden on this one, some interviews and all
that stuff. Yeah, I don't remember much about this one.
Have you seen this one?

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
No? I didn't. I have to say I had a
low threshold for this kind of I don't know, quirky,
like forced quirkiness that this poster radiates. Back then, I thought,
I don't know who these people are. I don't know

(01:44:44):
what they think they're doing. You know, half Nelson. That
doesn't sound like a movie title. I don't know who
this dork is. I don't know. So, yeah, my attitude
was bad. My understanding is it's fine. I don't know that.
I'll buy a Blu ray of it. But that's not
That has nothing to do with my bad attitude.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
Back then, I get that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:10):
That this movie makes you want to punch this Ryan
Gosling in the face, But just because of how it
looks on the poster, that's that's on me. That's not
his fault. That's on me. I should not have felt
that way. I feel badly.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
One thing that made me feel bad this week, which
I forgot I was going to share before we went
into the announcements. This will only take a short amount
of time. But we've talked about artwork a lot on
the show because it's a selling point for physical media.
It's something that people are into sometimes. And Germany has
some really great artwork sometimes, but I Germany yet a
lot of stuff that they produce, like on media books,

(01:45:48):
is some some really interesting artwork. I just found a
steel book that went up this week that might be
some of the most appalling art on any release I've
ever seen, and it is of a pretty beloved director's work.
Check out this steel book release of Casino. Let's let's
zoom in here on our faces of course that's de Niro,

(01:46:11):
Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci and uh I, I I
don't know where to begin here. The the smoothing over
and uh A, I I am assuming it's well, it
could be just really bad filtering and photoshop.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
This is Madame Tussou's Wax Museum Casino exhibit.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
Like like in the sun after eight hours?

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
Yes, yeah, yeah, this I kind of get what they're
going for with the rest of this, like that that
that prismatic light glow in the background, but even that
just looks kind of like unintentionally psychedelic. Yeah. I don't
know if I hate this quite as much as you do,
but yeah, when you get right in there on the

(01:47:01):
faces it is there is that u creepiness that shouldn't be,
that's not partic and her her look at her, Sharon
Stone is wearing these danglys that look like marshmallows, mellow marshmallow, marshmallow.
There's another one marshmallow marshmallow and it's been out six hours,

(01:47:24):
so that's you know, toasty. Yeah, not not stoked on
that out work, but I figured out that could Germany.
This is degenerate artwork which.

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
I had to share with everybody. You could feel the
terribleness that I felt. Let's get back to the show God.
November ten, BBC is releasing Blake's Seven The Collection Series
two on Blu Ray in the UK. This is from
nineteen seventy nine. These are brand new restorations of all
thirteen episodes from the best available sources. Lots of new

(01:47:54):
audio commentaries on this, lots of archival extras as well
brand new feature length documentary looking back on the making
of the series. I had never seen this one, and
I love a lot of British stuff, but this is
not one that has ever been on my radar. I
don't know if this is associated to something else, but uh,
do you know this one?

Speaker 3 (01:48:11):
Blake seven. I know a little bit of Blake seven.
I was never a fan of these British low budget
TV shows like Doctor Who and Everything and Doctor Who.
I have friends that are, you know, swore by old
school Doctor Who. Oh look Blake's post three poster v
pos vs Posres seven. Yeah, that's what That's not what

(01:48:32):
this is. This is just original Blake seven. I This
used to be on television and local PBS station would
run this on the weekends and I always made fun
of it because again I was a jerky, you know
kid that thought I was above all this. And you know,
fact of the matter is they they made a TV

(01:48:52):
show Blake seven, that that a lot of people enjoyed.
It's a science fiction thing. It's space. There's seven of them.
They go to the planets, they get into fights. It's
not great. I just remember one of the actors was
very over animated in his action stuff, and the other

(01:49:16):
one was kind of bored. So like some they would
like like the door would open or they would beam
in or something. And right when they got there the
two guys together, one would be like, you buy this gun,
you know, gun pose, you know, the stance the thing,
and the guy next to him, also holding a laser gun,

(01:49:37):
would just be like, you know, like take his gun.
Space wouldn't change, his body wouldn't move. He would just
be like swing his arm gun, you know. And that
that was the diverse acting styles I recall of the
classic Blake seven now that said again, I was a
seventh grade snot nose, you know, watching this on PBS

(01:50:02):
and making fun of it, and I'm glad it's now
on on Blu Ray because it probably should be.

Speaker 4 (01:50:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:50:11):
It's one of those one of those things that does
have a legit audience.

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
It does still a lot a lot of these older
British British shows have like die hard fans that have
been dying for this, So that's great. I'm glad it's
getting out there.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
Well, speaking of weapons, the movie you were talking about,
I remember there was one scene in here where one
of the Blake's seven members. I think it was a woman.
She got sat down and they're going to make her fight,
you know, and they're like, there's a table full of weapons,
every kind of weapon. You know, you got your you
got your clubs and your maces and your you know this,
and your that. And she's just like, I'll have a glove,

(01:50:48):
a single glove. And they're like a glove, surely you
need an actual no, just a glove. And she puts
a glove on, like I think it was a fingerless
glove and then proceeds, you know, with our hands, you know.
And that was that was That was another great Blake
seven moment that we can look forward to on Blu Ray.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
Uh. Speaking of things we're looking forward to in Blue Ray,
I don't want to be too long on this next group,
so I'm gonna ask you this question, Jim, are you
much into anime? Uh? No, I should be.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
Maybe I feel like I need to be because I
teach history of animation. But of me is such a deep,
deep pool that at fifty one years old, I've yet
to really truly dip my toe into. I've seen all
the big uh, you know, Akira and Miyazaki films and
all those, but you know it's it's vast. So the

(01:51:45):
week we talk about history of Japanese animation, I bring
in a anime expert that I know and he covers
it nice. But let's do it. Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
We got a lot to cover, So I wanted to
ask that before we go into Disco Tech, because there
is a lot and I'm gonna really hit hard the
big ones that I know people are into. So let's
go to the first one. Shin Chan is coming to
sd BLU Ray from Disco Tech. This is coming on
October twenty eighth. Some of these are October twenty eighth.
Some don't have a release date, but we'll go through those.
This is the complete Fundamation adapted version, all seventy eight episodes.

(01:52:21):
There is some fixes on here that they talked about.
This is gonna be two discs SDM Blu Ray. This
supposedly is great. I'm into this one. I will check
it out eventually. Job next, well, Loop in the Castle
of Cagliostro's returning to Blu Ray with an all new dub.
This is coming on It does not say just soon

(01:52:43):
on this one. This will be coming from Disco Tech
and crunchy Roll. It'll be an exclusive there. Check it
out loop in the third new dub heard of It,
I've heard of it. Next is Common Rider Amazon from
nineteen seventy four. This is all twenty four episodes on
two discs coming on Blu Ray and on October twenty eighth.
This will have some interviews on here and a new

(01:53:03):
essay by Tokasatsu expert Mike Dent. There will even be
a vintage commercial for Common Writer Amazon.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
I like that the creature put on a tie. He
got dressed up for this.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
He's a proper creature.

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
Hey, maybe he's just dining out and that's a napkin.
I don't know. We'll have to buy the Blu Ray
to find out.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
Next from Discothech One that made a lot of people happy,
October twenty eighth. Also is MegaMan the Complete Series. This
is the nineties run of Mega Man, All twenty s
episode twenty seven episodes of the US TV series in
SD on Blu Ray. Newly fixed episode one so that
if you had the DVD version, this one is now correct.
It's got the speed fixed. They've got a bunch of

(01:53:44):
bonus material on here, plus an all new commentary with
the guy who did the Mega Man voice, Ian James,
coming on October twenty eighth. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (01:53:54):
Then for those that like your Hentai and HD October
twenty eighth, they are doing the Rats the sequels of
The Overfiend. Although you like them in HD, this is
SD on Blu Ray and this is the full collection.
So this is gonna have uh the part two, Part three,
Part four, Part five, and then some other side stories

(01:54:18):
that they got on here. This is not full HD,
but you will be able to have it on Blu Ray,
which is better than having it on DVD. Glad they
can fit all of these. This will probably still just
be a single disc release. I believe they even say
that in one of these things. Let me see because
this is a two picture and that's just the cover art. Yeah,

(01:54:38):
check this out. They they just a reminder they did
put out the first one on its own after getting
a very extensive restoration that just came out last false.
Now you can have all of them in just two releases.

Speaker 3 (01:54:51):
Is nice work there, Ryan, That's one of the better
ones I've done, I think on standard edition Blu Ray.

Speaker 2 (01:55:03):
Sequels of the Overfiend. Next up, one that made a
lot of people in the discord very very happy. Golden
Boy is coming to Blu Ray on October twenty eighth
as well. This one is all six Oba episodes on
one Blu Ray disc in Japanese and English upscale from
the original master's new commentary with Doug Smith the voice
of Kintaro. Some of the graphic design was done by

(01:55:24):
Doug as well, and uh Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
Doug Smith is more popular as the voice talent on
this than the actual Japanese voice. What is accurate? And
I have this on DVD again. It's a Nickel Flick's
two dollars acquisition that I just bought because I saw
it and I was like, I don't know if this
is well, it's cheap, so I have it. You know

(01:55:50):
this captile thinking that I'm one of these days gonna
bone up on certain anime that I need to know about.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
Hey, maybe this one.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Supposed to be pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
Next up is coming soon on Blu Ray. This is
Sergeant Frog the movies, five original feature films in HD
in Japanese with subtitles. Other extras are gonna be on
here as well. But I know nothing about these, so
that's artwork, not final correct, because thank goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:56:19):
Sergeant Frog. Yeah, I was gonna say this, this looks
like a hodgepodge. Somebody spilled a salad or something.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
I mean, I mean, it's five feature films that that
would make sense.

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
Okay, all right, well anyway, yeah, there you go, guys.
Thirty three D and fifty eight episodes.

Speaker 2 (01:56:39):
I'm recognizing now that I spelled the name wrong because
I'm not used to this one. This is the complete
Zega Paine Collection coming to Blu Ray, coming soon, no
release date yet. We got twenty six episodes of the
Quantum Entangled mecha action in HD. Includes the twenty sixteen
feature film Zega Paine ADP, never before released in English.
Bunch of extras that are going to get their own

(01:57:00):
extra disc from Disco Tech as well, so check it out. Then.
Zegapaine Sta is also coming soon to Blu Ray, brand
new feature film from twenty twenty four in Japanese with
English subs. This will being part included as part of
that Zegapaine collection set. So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
It's now a good time to have a waffle.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
Sure, why not?

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
I don't know about this stuff. I'll be over here.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
Crunch away Digimon the movies. We've got the English dubs
and the Japanese language of Didimon Adventure two, Revenge of
diaber Ahman, Did Youmon, Tamer's Battle of Adventurers, and Didimon
Tamer's Runaway Locomon. We got bonus features on here as well.
I know people have been waiting on that one, so
glad Disco Tech is helping. But probably the biggest one

(01:57:52):
for most people this week is in twenty twenty six,
they're putting out the complete Monster from two thousand and
four and two thousand and five. This is all seventy
four episodes in HD in Japanese with English subs. They've
also got it dubbed in English, coming brand new next year.
I know a lot of people are saying that this

(01:58:12):
is their favorite Mango of all time. Check that out.
Big deal, big deal, I'm sure, and I've never seen it,
so good luck. Good In the chat, even waves saying
highly recommend Monster, give it a watch if you haven't.
One of the greatest animes of all time.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Thanks, I'll write that down.

Speaker 2 (01:58:36):
Next is Project Arms or Project aar aar Ms coming
in to SD on Blu Ray soon from Disco Tech.
Fifty two episodes in SD in Japanese with subs, plus
the classic VIZ dubbed version. Other extras coming soon as well.
Oh man, I don't know how to say this one,
but I'm gonna try Higarashi Kai or Ka. I don't

(01:58:59):
know if it's an actor. I'm assuming that's a word
to Higarashi Kai and will soon be released on Blu Ray. Disc.
Sequels to the all time creepy classic Higarashi When They
Cry return to home video, dramatically fixed subtitles, fixed video
for Kai. Previous releases were not optimal. Ray looks about

(01:59:19):
the same as the previous release, and yes, Higarashi Kai
and Higarashi Ray will be separate releases, so you can
only get one or the other. I got it, Thanks
Sole Mandible.

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
Yeah, it's uh boy. Discothech's really landed on thick here.
This is some On one hand, it's a very impressive
pile of stuff they've produced, but on the other hand,
it's a lot of SD dumped.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
The Blu ray h a few, but I do you
I I appreciate that for.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
Space shelf space reasons, if nothing else, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
Shelf space, and then the discs are far more durable
DVDs will will always be an inferior for for scratching
and for deteriorating too.

Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
And I know, I know it was people with a surfacer.
I could take take my discs too, and you know,
get them buffed. In fact, I do that with the uh,
the movies I rent from the from the library, the
public library. I as a service of them. When when
I get one of these that looks like it's been
like drove over with you now n with sampaper, I

(02:00:26):
just take it up to up to the shop and
say can we uh. And I don't want to bother
the librarians with this, but you know we got to
clean up these discs. It's a public service.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
Yeah. Uh. Next one from Disco Tech again no release date,
but Zone of the Enders the complete collection is coming soon.
This is going to include the prequel O ba Idolo
and the TV series Dolores One both included. It's in Japanese.
Also includes the classic adv films dubbed version. There will
be some extras, but we don't know what they are yet.

Speaker 4 (02:00:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
Next, this is coming as part of their Neon Nights line.
We got Bangkok Dangerous from nineteen ninety nine. This is
one that I'm excited about. This is the original nineteen
ninety nine Thai action film that the American remake had
Nicholas Cage. Of course, this is going to have the
original five point one audio and the trailer. I actually
really like a lot of the Neon Knights titles. People

(02:01:17):
should check those out if you're looking to dip a
toe in.

Speaker 3 (02:01:22):
Who is it?

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
Of course? Next one from Neon Knights is Sars Wars
Bancock Zombie Crisis from two thousand and four. This is
an insane action fantasy comedy horror film. Very early Discothech
live action release was on DVD. Now coming to Blu
Ray for the first time. Includes newly fixed subtitles and
a five point one audio track. Include deleted scenes, trailers,

(02:01:44):
music video, and a featurette. Don't have a release date
on that, but stoked that it's on the way.

Speaker 3 (02:01:50):
The SARS disease that was real, I assume, so I'm
having another waffle.

Speaker 2 (02:02:03):
Next up. No release date yet, but shin Aim for
the Ace from nineteen seventy eight is coming out. This
is the twenty four episode remake of the original series.
This one is from nineteen seventy eight. Like I said,
subtitled for the first time ever, and it's going to
be on two discs if you're into it. That looks
like a great release. And then next coming soon on
Blu Ray is kakater One from nineteen seventy three to

(02:02:25):
nineteen seventy four, all forty six episodes sd on Blu Ray,
originally broadcast in seventy three and seventy four. This will
be in Japanese with English subtitles. And then common Writer
Stronger is coming to Blu Ray. This is from nineteen
seventy five, all thirty nine episodes coming on three different discs.
Extras will include a new essay by Mike Dent, an

(02:02:46):
art gallery, and then a belt commercial, a belt commercial,
a belt commercial in case you need one.

Speaker 3 (02:02:53):
Fixed, like for your pants. Is it that kind of belt?

Speaker 2 (02:02:59):
I'm assuming that, or for your car or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:03):
You know, a belt might make a good weapon.

Speaker 2 (02:03:06):
That's true. I will check. I will check with the
Blake seven the next most upsetting release. We are finally
past Disco Tech. October sixth. In the UK, screen Bound
is putting out Gorgo on four K from nineteen sixty one.
This is the same one that Vinegar syndrome put out.
But the reason everybody's pissed is if you zoom in here,

(02:03:27):
this artwork looks like the most AI artwork that has
ever AI artworked since you know, Yeah, literally, if you
know what Gorgo looks like, it's not exactly like that,
because it's not really anything like that at all. This
is really bad. I can't zoom in any for just barely.

(02:03:49):
But what's really bad is if you zoom in that
is a clock tower there. The two sides of the
clock tower, the arms of the clock or the hands
of the clock are not even pointing in the direction.

Speaker 3 (02:04:00):
Yeah, it doesn't they they don't know what time it is.
How does anybody you know what time it is during
this rampage?

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:04:09):
Anyway, Gorgo, that's not Gorgo.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
I mean, look at the ears on some of the
other ones.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
What are we dealing with here that they that you know,
should should be talking to its agent about having been
having its likeness you served.

Speaker 2 (02:04:26):
This is very obviously AI and I really hope people
uh say something to screen bound because this sort of
behavior should be pretty.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
That's that's that needs a different cover.

Speaker 2 (02:04:40):
Well, yea man.

Speaker 3 (02:04:41):
Also it comes with a comic book and postcards. I mean,
that's a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:04:45):
Well, I didn't want to point it out because the
paper stuff is is it's kind of it's it's bonus
and and they're using that to inflate the price and stuff.
But also some of the postcards are AI generated as well.

Speaker 3 (02:04:59):
Yeah, I don't even know anymore. Ryan, It's it's a
lot of it's a lot of hooey.

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
It is a lot of hooey. It's a mess. I'm
not even all about the packaging. And honestly, Vinegar Syndrome
Marty did a great job at the disc on this
and a lot of this stuff is poured it over
from the VS release. So if you really want it,
check out the Vinegar Syndrome release of Gorgo. It's it's
a great one has incredible artist by the Kaiju artist. Yeah,
check out that one if you're into it.

Speaker 3 (02:05:23):
Do you remember a few years ago or was it
last year, when Vinegar Syndrome was they said, hey, we
have all this stuff that we said was out of print,
but but you know, these these limited editions that we
said were gone, but really we've found a whole bunch
in the warehouse. Now we're gonna sell them on this sale,
so be ready. There was a day where uh, Gorgo,

(02:05:45):
their limited edition went up and I was there. I
was on it. It's like got it, got it, I mean,
and it was sold out like within like less than
a minute. It was kind of like the great uh
uh you know uh or Joe Leoni Feeding Frenzy of
yesterday or whatever.

Speaker 5 (02:06:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:06:05):
Yeah, so anyway I was that was that was one
of my good gifts that got the vinegar syndrome Gorgo,
So I won't be needing whatever this is. Thank you
very much.

Speaker 2 (02:06:14):
Brendan is saying the VS releases out of print, it's
not out of print. You can buy it on their
site right now. You won't have the slipcover.

Speaker 3 (02:06:19):
But no, it's not the one I'm talking about. That.
The one I'm talking about is the fancy pants version
that's out of print. Yeah, but you could still get
the thing.

Speaker 2 (02:06:29):
Yes. Matthias says, thanks for doing this. Love waking up
and there's a new show to get me to the day,
doing my best. Glad you're here with us. Uh. Jay
Weber says, I mean, what is VS supposed to do
if they find extra stuff that was announced that sold out?
Burn it?

Speaker 3 (02:06:44):
No, No, that's not the point. It's just that back
then there was a lot that they dropped during that sale,
and it I get that, you know, hey we found
a few things here and there, but it's like, hey,
we got a thousand copies of rat or whatever you
know it was. It was a it was a little sketchy,

(02:07:04):
that's all.

Speaker 2 (02:07:06):
I understand, and we we belabored that as soon as
it was announced.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
I remember, we don't need to re relitigate.

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
Next up, Keto in twenty twenty six is releasing Ten
to Midnight on four K, the Bronson film. I'm sure
you've seen this one, Jim.

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
I've not seen this. This was one that I was
a kid when this one was on out My friends
in the grade school were you know, talking to like
in fifth grade or when it's like, hey, hey, we
watched this movie ten to Midnight, you know, and then
they'd start describing scenes that I'm not sure were in
this movie. Pretty dirty, weird stuff. How over the line

(02:07:49):
is this?

Speaker 2 (02:07:50):
Because I've like, it's a pretty dark movie.

Speaker 3 (02:07:53):
Okay, okay, but it's worth I've never I've never seen it,
you know, I know Bronson complete us by a mile.
I don't I don't seek out Charles Bronson for the
sake of Charles Bronson. We have a guy at Zeke
Film who does that, so I kind of leave it
to him. He got all the the Bronson Keno Larber

(02:08:16):
Bronson's back when they supplied us with screeners. He did
those and he did a great job reviewing those.

Speaker 2 (02:08:24):
Although it is classic nineteen eighty three Wilford Brimley. If
you want to really pre diabetes commercial.

Speaker 3 (02:08:30):
Wilfrid Yeah, yeah, that's that's a selling point.

Speaker 2 (02:08:34):
Moving right along, Barnes and Noble has launched their semi
annual Aero Video fifty percent off sale. This is running
until September fourteenth, and just like that, of course, Amazon
is price matching most not all of the titles, but
most of them.

Speaker 3 (02:08:48):
It depends on the Barnes and Noble, Noble go to
Barnes and Noble.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
Depends on on Barnes and Noble, but they frequently are
getting some of these titles in stock before the sale,
and you can actually find like some end caps and
stuff in person, but also the sale works online. So
my recommendation always is to start with the price leader,
and Amazon is matching them, so go with them. If
you can. I know some people have to shop on

(02:09:12):
Amazon because they have a card for Amazon or whatever.
But if you have a choice, go with Barnes and Noble.
It is the best choice.

Speaker 3 (02:09:19):
You can get a card for Barnes and Noble as well.
In fact, they have several different plastic card programs that
I can't keep separate in my mind.

Speaker 2 (02:09:29):
You can use a lot. Yeah, are you getting anything
from the aero sale?

Speaker 3 (02:09:38):
I will. Yeah, I'm gonna get I haven't decided entirely yet,
but uh, I have to look at it. Added. I
think the the what is it? The Japanese films, the
V films?

Speaker 2 (02:09:54):
The what is that called V cinema?

Speaker 3 (02:09:59):
That would be one that I need to get. Uh,
there's plenty more that you know. I'm a sucker for
the limited cases, the the uh, the four K hard
case editions with the books, those those are those, those
those are nice. I gotta like a nice row of

(02:10:20):
those over there. So whatever is relatively new in that
realm that I don't already have that calls my name, yep,
I'll be spending some money.

Speaker 2 (02:10:32):
It's a good choice.

Speaker 3 (02:10:33):
Uh are you are you doing it? Are you going
to any cards today?

Speaker 2 (02:10:37):
I am probably God, what is uh the other one
that I needed that I was looking at earlier today,
I've got it open in another browser. Let me go
just find it's. Well, it's it's a box set that
I was curious that.

Speaker 3 (02:10:53):
Oh no, I closed the Cinema.

Speaker 2 (02:10:55):
It's not that one, and it's not the J Horrrizing,
which is the other one that people are are getting
con used with, the V Cinema one because.

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
I don't have J Horror rising, and maybe I should.

Speaker 2 (02:11:06):
I recommend the V Cinema one over the J Horror.
I think that it's a better buck set for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:11:11):
Okay, all right, that's what I'll do.

Speaker 2 (02:11:13):
I'll start Texas Chainsaw Maskers. Those are the ones that
are releasing around.

Speaker 3 (02:11:16):
Oh yeah, no, I won't be getting those.

Speaker 2 (02:11:18):
I definitely want the two thousand and three one. I
saw that when it came out, and it's says Jessica
and her Beules.

Speaker 3 (02:11:26):
I know, it's fine. It's fine. It's just I don't
and I have it already on a different format. It's
it's fine. Daniel Pearl shot both those movies, so that's
what's interesting. The cinematographer shot both, and they couldn't be
more visually different to his credit YEP.

Speaker 2 (02:11:44):
Next up, Scream Team releasing. This is an indie distributor
that handles a lot of indie horror. They are putting
out on Blu Ray and you can get this right now.
Twenty twenty four's Coffin Tooth. This is really exciting for
people that are into like Halloween Whore. This says when
Parker's Nightmare ends, the all two real terror begins. Random

(02:12:05):
people are terrorized by a sinister being on Halloween Eve.
One by one, they fall victim to the malevolent Coffin Tooth,
who stocks them at every turn. The bodies begin to
pile up from the gruesome beginning to the bloody end.
There's a couple of names you might recognize in this.
We've got Anna Cleary from Mutilator two in Late check
Out Angel, Nicole Bradford from Wolf Hollow and the Barn
Part three. We've got Camille Keaton from The One and

(02:12:27):
Only I Spit on Your Grave and a special appearance
by Lloyd Kaufman of Trouma Fame. This one is going
to have a director's and writer's commentary on here. It
is pressed discs, so you don't got to worry about that.
There's a signed version if you want that as well.

Speaker 3 (02:12:45):
Just looking at the cover here, I don't know anything
about this movie coffin tooth or what you know, but
that image looks like ass Get it, oh boy, get that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
Eighty eight Films announced a shit Tunnel releases this week.
We're going to go through a bunch of them now
October thirteenth. They're releasing on Blue ray on Blu Ray
over in the UK. Uncle Sam. This is the same
Uncle Sam that was previously released on four K here
in the US by Blue Underground, which looks way better
than it should. But yeah, if you're into their Slasher

(02:13:21):
Classics collection, it is a part of that which might
be a reason for you to check this out.

Speaker 3 (02:13:26):
This is a Larry Cohen joint I have not yep,
I have not ever seen, and.

Speaker 2 (02:13:32):
Another Larry Cohen is on sale right now. The stuff
from Arrow just came in unfortuately that.

Speaker 3 (02:13:36):
I have seen. That's a lot of fun. Love this
this though I have not seen, and I'm wondering maybe,
while while it's here as a topic, if I were
able to snag this for under eighteen dollars on four
K Blue Underground at my local shop. Should I I've

(02:13:57):
never seen this film, and I don't know if it's
worth that.

Speaker 2 (02:14:02):
When I that it's worth a watch and it looks
shockingly good on four K, is it a need to own?
Probably not?

Speaker 3 (02:14:10):
Probably not? Okay, that's what I figured.

Speaker 2 (02:14:12):
I was.

Speaker 3 (02:14:13):
I was like, you know that this is yeah, maybe
maybe not kind of thing. I was on the fence.
I'd remained on the fence. I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (02:14:23):
A weird thing is when you look at this cover,
you're thinking, like, nineteen eighty five, this came out nineteen
ninety six.

Speaker 3 (02:14:29):
I know, I know that was another thing about it.
I looked up and I was taken aback by the
release date. Yeah, eighteen ninety six. For this thing, it's
it's very much channeling even then, I guess channeling VHS
nostalgia of a decade earlier.

Speaker 2 (02:14:47):
Yep. Well, and it's directed by Bill Lustick, who runs
Blue Underground, so right, that runs through his being.

Speaker 3 (02:14:53):
I guess it would, and that's that's that's a selling
point too. But you know, this not being four K
from eighty eight films, I don't understand why, why, why
why are we getting this?

Speaker 2 (02:15:07):
Yeah, it's the I believe this is the first UK
release of this on blue ray, so I guess that
next up one that's been released on blue ray in
the US and the UK before, We've got The Town
That Dreaded Sundown from seventy six. This is another one
that's coming as part of the Slasher Classics collection on
October twentieth. Great movie. I actually really enjoy this one,

(02:15:28):
and I really like the Quote remake, which is actually
sort of a sequel. I suggest checking this out, but
I think most people watching and listening to this probably
already have this movie. Fun movie, and if you haven't
seen it, truly check out the sequel. It's it's underrated.
It's from like twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. Pretty good. Okay,

(02:15:50):
have you seen this one? Probably not? No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
It looks I mean again that that's a compelling image
of a pillowcase killer or whatever, hoodie and a pillowcase.
I don't know. Yeah, The Town That Dreaded Sundown. This
is a movie that comes up every now and then
when the discussion of the Slasher Classics is being.

Speaker 2 (02:16:11):
Had, hence the collection.

Speaker 3 (02:16:14):
Yeah, a conversation that I'm personally burned out on.

Speaker 2 (02:16:18):
Yeah, it's it's pretty good. This is one of the
better ones, and considering when it came out, it's one
of the earlier ones too.

Speaker 3 (02:16:25):
Watch I have to watch this asap.

Speaker 2 (02:16:28):
And that's directed by somebody from or I was saying
Tony has directed you to say, but from somebody from Australia,
so it means something, right what never mind the guy
saying you need to watch as soon as possible. Move on,
here we go. H October twentieth, they're also releasing No
Orchids for Miss Blandish from nineteen forty eight. This, I believe,

(02:16:52):
was previously released by Indicator, which is sort of weird
that they're doing it in the UK because Indicator fairly recently,
like five years ago, just did this as well. Very
Keno also released.

Speaker 3 (02:17:04):
I got a review copy back then I reviewed this film.
I'd remember nothing. I remember joking calling it no Orchids
for Miss Bland. You know, not that that's the greatest
line of all time or anything, but I was desperate
to amuse myself because uh, yeah, give roses instead. Yeah no,

(02:17:26):
it's it's I just I don't, yeah, I can't. My
review is out there on Zeke Film. It's probably very negative.

Speaker 2 (02:17:38):
I would assume so, and attached with it is the
film Who seventy four starring Elliot Gold is contractually obligated
in every film from the nineteen seventies. Yes, this was
also previously released by both Keno and Indicator, I believe.

Speaker 3 (02:17:53):
And yeah, we reviewed this. I didn't personally review Who
because it has the exclamation or not the it has
a question mark in the title who. I did not
review this one, but somebody else did at Zeke Film
and he is a little more favorable about Who than
I was about Miss Blandish.

Speaker 2 (02:18:13):
Good to know. So that's October twenty seventh on Blu
ray and DVD if you were super into a DVD
copy of that. Next up October thirteenth, they're releasing Bad Channels.
This is a full Moon title coming on eighty eight
Films in the UK. This has a much better looking
cover than the US release of Bad Channels. But yeah,

(02:18:34):
some extras on this. We've got audio commentary with Ted
Nicolau and then Dave Wayne and Maddy boot Rights is
doing the commentary on there as well. Yeah, not much
to say about this one. I know that a lot
of people are into this room. We be talking about
some more Full Moon in a little bit all right?
This one though October twenty seventh in the UK, October

(02:18:58):
fourteenth in the US. We're getting a four K and
blu ray release from eighty eight of SS Experiments Love
Camp from nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 3 (02:19:10):
Yeah, you said, Nazis are all the rage s.

Speaker 2 (02:19:13):
S Experiment Love Camp. Yeah, probably the most infamous entry
into the Nazi exploitation genre. Sergio Garone's that they say that.

Speaker 3 (02:19:24):
Not every one of these though.

Speaker 2 (02:19:25):
Yeah, they're all pretty destroyed.

Speaker 3 (02:19:27):
Stoppo's last Orgy the most notorious of all. You know,
every one of them is the most notorious. Yeah, so
you can we're gonna read this copy or what? Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:19:40):
Yeah, let's read it. Probably the most infamous entry into
the Nazi exploitation genre. This is a harrowing and deliberately
triggering experience which, even by today's standards, is as powerful
as it was when it originally released in nineteen seventy six.
From its provocative, tabloid baiting original poster of a naked
woman dingling, crucified and wait, this is their actual copy

(02:20:00):
of a naked woman dangling, crucified and naked? Wow?

Speaker 3 (02:20:08):
Can you be more naked than naked.

Speaker 2 (02:20:09):
The answer is yes, I guess the movie pushed the
boundaries as far as it could. Set during the tail
end of World War Two, we followed the deranged experiments
performed on innocent prisoners of war by the utterly sadistic
and evil Colonel Van Kleiben in his attempt to create
the perfect aryan race shocking and endlessly exploitative. The movie

(02:20:29):
continues to discuss audiences all over the globe nearly fifty
years after its initial release. This is not cut in
the U in the UK at all. The BBFC clearedles
one hundred percent. I know a lot of people were
questioning that. As far as I know, there's not even
that much like super scathing in this film. It's just
Nazi and that alone is what's questionable about this new

(02:20:53):
four K remaster from the original Negatives. We've got a
Dolby Vision HDR on top of the we got an
audio commentary by Eugenio Ercolani and Nani Cobretti. We've got
an interview with the director Sergio Garoni. We've got an
interview with the music historian Pierre Paolo de Sancti's interview
with the editor interview with the cinematographer cool.

Speaker 3 (02:21:18):
Can I just take a minute to make a point here,
please again with my library stack of classic films from
the history of cinema, very very unavailable. These are DVDs.
This stuff is not available on any other format. The

(02:21:39):
films of Kenneth Anger. Can't get it. This is Robert Flaherty,
one of his great travel documentaries of yours. It's called
Lousanna Story. Can't get it? You know, you know, Frederick
Frederick Freakin Weisman documentary High School. This stuff is not
that attainable very easily. You have to go through Weisman's

(02:22:01):
website to get it. And again even then probably just
a DVD. We don't know, and uh, you know all
it goes on forty seven running it. This stuff relegated
to DVD. I have to go to the library. And
yet ss Love Camp Experiment four kg. And are what
our priorities as fun as sort of thing is?

Speaker 2 (02:22:24):
I mean?

Speaker 3 (02:22:24):
And I think everything ought to be available at a
good as good a format as possible, But our dark
priorities in physical media land a little whacked.

Speaker 2 (02:22:38):
Yes, The only thing I will push back on is
for the classics. Obviously, licensing is a major problem for
most of them, and then element issues are problem. The
fact that we got the OCN for this and it's
been preserved for the last fifty years is fucking weird
when some like actual modern classics haven't even been.

Speaker 3 (02:22:59):
I understand, and what sells it all? I'm just saying.
I'm just saying you guys, and I'll probably buy this
at some point because this, you know, who can resist,
you know, not to lunacy. It looks like they're opening
the arc of the Covenant and and all these poor
prisoners are being zapped by the by the lightning of

(02:23:19):
God himself and then and then we'll get zapped for
watching it. You know, That's that's what we get. But
but you know, I'm just saying, I don't know. Sometimes
sometimes I'm just like, I don't know. I feel like
the whole thing is is is too much of a cesspool.

Speaker 2 (02:23:40):
Uh, you know, to put to put a button on
this title, because that's a lot of Nazis.

Speaker 4 (02:23:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:23:47):
Sim Similar texted me and said, when I'm talking about
the name Colonel von Kleiben, I have to say it
my Arnie voice, so I will say, uh, that's what
I got. Let's go to our next one. We've got
The Barbarians coming on Blu Ray in October twenty seventh
over in the UK from eighty eight. Nothing new as

(02:24:07):
far as extras, these are all things that have been
on the Blu ray released by Keno and elsewhere, I believe,
or maybe not. Maybe they're new because it looks like
Troy Howard and Eugenia or Kolani's on this. I'm not
sure if that's on the old one. I will have
to check it out, because this is a movie I've
been meaning to see. Have you seen The Barbarians?

Speaker 3 (02:24:22):
Yes, I think I've seen this, and I've seen a
few other. These guys are fun. Yeah, the Barbarian brothers.
It's sad what's happened to them in real life. But
you know, but man, back in the day, they were,
you know, good as far as your you know, Stallone
Schwarzenegger kind of derivative talent. That you see these this,

(02:24:49):
you know, I think you got you got yourself an
enjoyable time at the movies here.

Speaker 2 (02:24:55):
It is true, although just like Sibner just said to me,
this is not the Barbarian Really least we asked for.
Come on, Disney, give us Barbarian.

Speaker 3 (02:25:02):
Oh, well that's different.

Speaker 2 (02:25:06):
Jay Weber wants to know what happened in real life
to them. Well, I know one of them is now
sadly passed away.

Speaker 3 (02:25:12):
Yeah, and apparently the circumstance. I'm hazy on it to
tell you the truth, but I remember reading about it
back when I was supposed to have reviewed one of
their movies. I don't know if I got I may
have reviewed this one on Keno. Did this come out
on Keno?

Speaker 2 (02:25:26):
It did?

Speaker 3 (02:25:26):
Yeah, Okay, that was it. I think I reviewed this
one on Keno, and yeah. I remember reading about them
and just feeling like, uhh yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:25:35):
Next up from them is coming from their Nikatsu Roman
porno line on October thirteenth, and that is Playful White
Fingers from nineteen seventy two. If that doesn't get you
into the theater, then I don't know what does. This
one is going to have an audio some very scandalous
Japanese theaters. We've got a commentary by Amberte and Jasper Sharp,

(02:25:59):
exclusive new and of You with Tou Murukawa, new film
introduction by Kai Chiba, and then uh Scrap Cars and
the Death of Affect booklet essay by dimitri Iani. I
gotta be honest, nobody else is putting out any of
these Nikatu Roman porno titles, and I'm always looked that
they keep doing it.

Speaker 3 (02:26:17):
Yeah, I'm actually glad that this sort of thing gets
its day. You know, I had my rant a few
minutes ago. But yeah, as they say, sin cells, we
know that. Yeah, but this is uh playful white fingers.
It's it's not the playful that I'm wondering about. It's

(02:26:40):
the white. Why is it like a dead person, like
a corpse. It's it's devoid of blood. We don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:26:50):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:26:52):
And is this stuff this is nikatu? Is this adjacent
to the pink I mean obviously we have the pink
slipcase here. Yes, I reviewed a few of these pink
films that came out from on DVD from what Redemption
DVD last year. They look horrible. Yeah, and I gather

(02:27:17):
that those films are shot poorly, and then the DVD
on top of that is poor. I think we talked
about this in another episode of this last year. Is
this the same kind of thing or are these shot
batter or is this different from the pink the regular
pink films I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (02:27:35):
Of it is a completely different movement of films, specifically
by one production company, Nakatsu, and it was around similar times,
but the pink film was for the most part a
little more exploitative. But essentially you could probably fold stuff
like this kind of tangentially into into the pink movement.

Speaker 3 (02:27:57):
Okay, that's that's good. Yeah, that's just for my own case.
A little higher production value is appreciated, yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (02:28:10):
And the big thing is, thankfully we got Jasper Sharp,
who is the expert on all this on the extras
here talking about it, doing the commentary with Ambertee, who
does some really great work as well. So jump into this,
check it out if you're into that.

Speaker 3 (02:28:23):
And yeah, that's not going to be that's that's just
overseas only anyhow, So I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:28:28):
Get it overseas only and Blu ray only, and it'll
probably be pretty cheap on release. So if you're into
it and you've got a region free player unlike Jim,
you could check it out.

Speaker 3 (02:28:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:28:38):
October twenty seventh, over in the UK, they're getting a
Blu ray of Peacock King from nineteen eighty eight, which
I know nothing about, but I looked up some reviews,
and this sounds really good. It says two magically powerful
monks are sent on a quest to fight the King
of Hell and that alone, Like, I am all on board.
This is going to have an HD Blu Ray presentation,
and we've got an audio commentary by Frank Jing and

(02:29:00):
Santo Unbiao on the Peacock King, Tony Rains on Peacock King,
additional footage from the Japanese release, and this is gonna
be one of their deluxe releases. Yeah, I've never seen
this one, but it looks and sounds fantastic.

Speaker 3 (02:29:14):
Peacock King, they have a have a royal hierarchy determined
with martial arts. See it.

Speaker 2 (02:29:26):
See it next. Norman J. Warren's Prey from nineteen seventy
seven is getting a Blu Ray DVD release from them
on October thirteenth. Another odd one that has got a
VS release. I believe this was in the box set
from Indicator of Norman Jay Warren Releases when they did it.
And yet another new UK release, So now you can
check this out multiple iterations. I do really like the

(02:29:48):
cover art on this, and I think this is a
pretty good film.

Speaker 3 (02:29:50):
There's a lot of j there's a lot of J.

Speaker 2 (02:29:52):
Warren. Have you seen much from him?

Speaker 3 (02:29:54):
No? No, but I read about it. I almost bought
a bunch of Norman J. Warren movies at one point
from I think it was Indicator, and you know they
have those sales and everything's all cheap o standard positions
that I almost bought a bunch then once and thought
better of it. So no, I don't they say it
is in the Indicator set here too in the comments.

Speaker 2 (02:30:17):
Yeah, an Indicator. Just like Adam said, I think they're
losing a lot of their licenses and a lot of
that stuff is about to move over to other labels,
so keep an eye out. Although I mean, eighty eight
Films isn't like gusting this up in any way. They're
not adding anything new, so that Indicator release is probably
still the best way to see this other than the
VS release. So yeah, check it out if you're into it.

(02:30:40):
Oh Man, Joe Tomato in the nineties, let's talk about this.
November twenty fifth, we are getting a four K and
blu ray release in the US from eighty eight Films.
I cannot find any evidence that there's a UK release
of this coming, but it's quite likely that this is
getting a UK release as well. This is Eleven Days,
Eleven Nights two from nineteen ninety one, directed by one

(02:31:02):
and only Joe to Moatto. There is a first one.
This is not one of those just randomly named sequels.
But yeah, Joe to Moatto known for being a master
of softcore. I guess, and as you can tell by
this the cover here, this film is going to get
into it. This one. We got a booklet with notes
from Calamadell and Rachel Nisbitt, new four K remaster from

(02:31:24):
the original Negatives. We've got Dolby Vision HDR on this,
as well, audio commentary from Eugenio Orclani and Nanni Coobretti.
We've got an interview with the dubbing director Mark Thompson Ashworth,
interview with the composer Piero Montonari, interview with the music
historian pier Paulo de Sanctes. We've got the Italian opening
and closing credits on this. But yeah, Jo Tomato in

(02:31:48):
four K, how do you feel.

Speaker 3 (02:31:53):
Two?

Speaker 2 (02:31:54):
It is two?

Speaker 3 (02:31:56):
I've not seen one, so I guess I'd be lost here.
Although that said, there there's two reasons I find this
cover strangely compelling. I don't know. I mean that's I
I you know this is uh uh looks.

Speaker 2 (02:32:15):
Goodato uh not not not exactly not well, I guess
you could say.

Speaker 3 (02:32:22):
Well, yeah, I mean you know that you say softcore.
But let's be honest here, there are there is any
kind of core really in the filmography of this man.
Am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:32:34):
Yeah? I've not seen this one, so I don't know
if this is a core film.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
Uh, it's a core Joe Tomato film. Maybe maybe not Anyway,
here it is on four K, eleven days, eleven nights two.

Speaker 2 (02:32:49):
That being said, I would not be surprised if this
is like the opening of a wellspring of Joe Tomato
softcore titles coming in four K. I feel like his
stuff has been right for XPLO on physical media.

Speaker 3 (02:33:04):
Way to phrase it, all right, there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:33:07):
Next up October seventh on Blu Ray in the US
from Mill Creek. The thing that they do best Ultraman,
and even then sometimes they screw that up. Ultraman ARC,
the complete series and movie from twenty twenty four to
twenty twenty five is coming. You can pre order this now. Ultraman.
I don't think I've ever seen more than about twelve
minutes of Ultraman.

Speaker 3 (02:33:26):
I started watching the very first ultra Q or whatever
that was the TV show they were trying to do
a Kaiju TV series in black and white in the
sixties or whatever. I started with that on these these
Blu rays that the Milk Creek was doing. They did
a good job on those early ones. I know that

(02:33:49):
it was kind of surprising because Milk Creek and all. Yeah,
I never moved I own the other two subsequent ones.
I bought them all at the same time. Never moved on. No,
I never got past ultra Q, so I've never actually
seen Ultraman show up. He doesn't show up in ultra Q.
But uh, yeah, okay, Aaron says, Yeah, it's ultra Q's delightful,

(02:34:10):
but the rest isn't my thing. But I own a
lot of the sets. Same here, so yeah, I'm not
gonna get this.

Speaker 2 (02:34:18):
Next up, then we've got Real Vault, who is a
company that many people don't know about. They are putting
out on August twenty six, so very soon. A Blu
Ray here in the US appointed Heels from nineteen twenty nine.
This is a supposedly new two K restoration of the film.
This is likely going to be on a BDR. And
essentially what Real Vault does is gets films in the

(02:34:40):
public domain and they find access to some sort of
elements and then restore those elements, even though these are
not like the original elements.

Speaker 3 (02:34:50):
Of course, Yeah it's God of Flicks, but not as.

Speaker 2 (02:34:55):
Yeah, classic flicks without the gusto.

Speaker 3 (02:35:00):
Me. Here's these extras.

Speaker 2 (02:35:02):
Yeah, there's there's a lot to talk about here because
on the extras we got an audio commentary by Richard Barrios.
We've got five rare colorized Betty Boop cartoons. But if
that's not enough, they have forty four classic black and
white Betty Boop cartoons included as well. That's forty nine
Betty book cartoons one disc.

Speaker 3 (02:35:21):
And yeah, I don't understand why they separate them, just
because the colorized seventies ones or whatever those are different.
But then I'm sorry that many car Betty Boop cartoons
just getting dumped on. Here is a weird kind of
red flag that we don't see very often when they

(02:35:44):
announce a title like this. You know, All Pointed Heels
is a film from nineteen twenty nine that are very
early paramount talkie that gets my interest and I look
into it, and I'm like, I don't know what this
company is. I don't know what the doing, and they're
just filling the disc with stuff. I guess it's a

(02:36:10):
Warner Night at the Movies approach, where you know, hey,
we got some nineteen twenties cartoons to put on here
with it. But you would see if you went and
saw this back then in the theater, you'd see you'd
get your cartoon, and you'd get your paramount cartoon, which
would be a Flisher Studios, which is the studio of

(02:36:30):
Baby Booth. So I guess there's a logic to it.
But that said, it's all one disc, right, all.

Speaker 2 (02:36:39):
One disc like on a BDR. That is, that is
approaching a lot of the limits of what you should
put on a disc.

Speaker 3 (02:36:47):
Yeah, I don't I boy guys, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:36:51):
I'm not necessarily mad about the accessibility for what's on here. However,
if you're don't, don't like look into this thing as
a bastion of quality. Yeah, it's public domain. You can
probably see this on like archive dot org and a
bunch of other places online. That being said, it's cool
that there's gonna be an official pressed or not pressed,

(02:37:12):
but an official like manufactured release of this for everybody.
The Betty Boob cartoons are cool, but again putting forty
nine as a sort of an afterthought thing to supplement. Yeah,
a PDFILM is questionable.

Speaker 3 (02:37:26):
These cartoons run between six and ten minutes, and I
mean you do the math.

Speaker 2 (02:37:34):
Yeah, that's a lot of minutes for what.

Speaker 3 (02:37:37):
I'll get this if it's cheap enough and all that
you know down the line, I'll pick this up just
to watch pointed heels.

Speaker 2 (02:37:46):
And you can't pre order on Amazon already. And if
that's not enough and you want more from real vaults.
They're also putting out King kung Fu from nineteen seventy six.
This is the unforgettable story of a Chinese gorilla who
knew karate oh Boys as a lifelong house pet Alfunku,
a Chinese karate master. The gorilla uses kung Fu to
attack and defeat the master during a lesson. Embarrassed, the

(02:38:09):
master gives him to the United States. Is a friendly
gesture where he is displayed in Wichita, Kansas as a
publicity stunt. The gorilla King Kung Fu is set free
and the police captain J. W. Duke, who bears a
striking resemblance to a Western star. Lol and his first officer, Pilgrim,
get involved in an extensive chase to recover him, along

(02:38:30):
with love interest Ray Fay, Oh my God, and the
rest of the town. The comedy in suspense continue until
the girl and the gorilla end up on the tallest
building in Wichita, the Holiday Inn. Full of cliche spoofs
and a cast of memorable characters the whole family will love.
This is supposedly a new four K restoration of this film,
which also questionable for a public domain company. This is

(02:38:54):
also going to include a making of King Kung Fu
short film by Nathan Light but you can check this out.
This is going to be available on Amazon and not
sure about much else but August twenty sixth also coming
to Blue.

Speaker 3 (02:39:07):
Just because you can export the file the film file
as a four K doesn't mean.

Speaker 2 (02:39:18):
Well, it's not a four K uhg. They're claiming it's
a restoration, And I would love to hear what a
new four K restoration of this film means because this
is probably like a very like third or fourth generation print,
and when they say four K restoration, it was probably
scanned in four K on like a black magic scanner

(02:39:39):
and is not going to be what you think of
when you hear the words four K restoration.

Speaker 3 (02:39:44):
Well we'll see, won't we. I mean, this is uh,
I don't know what this is.

Speaker 2 (02:39:50):
You know, it sounds enjoyable, it sounds fun.

Speaker 3 (02:39:52):
Yeah, it's something this company can get a hold of
and put out there and here it is and take
it or dulled. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:39:59):
Yeah, but that's enough of That's enough about Wichita, because
it's Wichita. Next up, Dread Presents on November eleventh, is
releasing a blu ray of The Jester Chapter two, which
I don't remember hearing about the Gester chapter one. However,
I've seen the trailer for this multiple times in the
theater over the last couple of weeks, which is weird

(02:40:20):
because they are They're like kind of trying to really
hype this thing up. This is coming soon. But I
think you'll be able to see this in some theaters.

Speaker 3 (02:40:28):
I do not know. I've never seen the trailer for
Jester chapter two, or even I didn't know about Chester
chapter one, so I guess I'm out of it.

Speaker 2 (02:40:39):
Same. Next up, The Ginger dead Man versus Evil Bong,
a very full moon type of title from twenty thirteen
is getting another Blu ray release. No word on anything
else or craziness coming on this, but not my type
of full moon film. I gotta be honest.

Speaker 3 (02:40:59):
Do you ever have one of stoop Waffles?

Speaker 4 (02:41:02):
I have?

Speaker 2 (02:41:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:41:03):
Yeah, yeah, this is pretty good stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:41:05):
I'm just.

Speaker 3 (02:41:07):
Kind of these announcements like this make me think about
having a you know, shift. I don't know, I have
so not like negative interest in evil Bong or whatever
the crap.

Speaker 2 (02:41:21):
I don't even just you know, Uh, what's funny is
we still have like thirty things to cover.

Speaker 3 (02:41:29):
Let's do it. Let's do it all right, Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:41:33):
Dred is also releasing Ed Kemper from twenty twenty five,
uh November. He is also from Wichita, Kansas.

Speaker 3 (02:41:42):
I'm murdering any death. It's always murder and death and killing.
And yes, yeah, Ed a real story of an American psycho.

Speaker 2 (02:41:51):
Next next, The Devil's Rejects from two thousand and five
getting a four K steel book from the lions Gate.
This is an Amazon exclusive. You've got all kinds of
extras on here, and people are probably pretty excited about
this because it includes thirty del Can't Speak thirty days
in hell, the making of The Devil's Rejects, which is

(02:42:11):
a really great document.

Speaker 3 (02:42:12):
Is it's good, it's it's it's very thorough.

Speaker 2 (02:42:16):
I love this movie. The hard part with this release
for most people is that this appears to only be
the theatrical release of the film, and most people prefer
the unrated cut of this film. That being said, I
love this movie. I'm glad it's getting a good, proper
four K release. The Steel Book is take it or
leave it. Not not stupendous in my eyes, but if

(02:42:38):
this is the only way we're going to get it,
so be it. Yeah, love this good movie.

Speaker 3 (02:42:43):
I'll sign off on it. It's hard, it's it's rough,
it's rough, rough, sludden, you know. But I think people
know that it seems like something that would already have
six other Steel Book releases.

Speaker 2 (02:42:53):
And it's Scott at least one or two, I think.
But I believe this is the first four K release
of the film yet.

Speaker 3 (02:42:58):
Oh okay, that's that's something, all right, all right?

Speaker 2 (02:43:03):
Uh more, Dan Curtis and this one, if you notice, oh,
go up, go up. Yeah, Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:43:11):
Look at that punctuation. Dan, see U r T I
as apostrophe nothing, I I am vindicated. Thank you. Well.

Speaker 2 (02:43:23):
Isn't that worse though, that they're going with both styles
on two different releases. I think I bet they update
one of those before release.

Speaker 3 (02:43:31):
Oh no, I think it stays like this. Because they
had a debate in the office. There was there was
this very very debate. They they came to a head.
They realized, well, there is no one answer for this
maybe and and it's like, okay, fine, let's do one
one way and one the other way, and we'll see

(02:43:53):
which one sells better. Here we are Dan Curtis is
Dan Curtis Dead of Night.

Speaker 2 (02:43:59):
Around the table. They said, I don't want to make
you mad, and I don't want to make you mad.
We'll make all of the consumers mad and make it differently.

Speaker 3 (02:44:05):
Right, no one wins. Are you happy?

Speaker 2 (02:44:09):
Chino Larber, oh Man, this is hilarious. October twenty eighth.
This is coming on Blu Ray. This is Dead of
Night from nineteen seventy seven. This is an anthology that
is from Dan Curtis as well. This is going to
include a new audio commentary by Tim Lucas on one
of these. This is going to include some introductions. We've

(02:44:30):
got a darkness at Blazed in HD upreds of the
nineteen sixty nine TV pilot, some other extras on here
that are archival. This is really cool, and this is
why I'm glad that these are coming in some sort
of like curated package. This is pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (02:44:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's great. It's you know, I don't know,
it might not exactly be my own thing, but whatever,
you know, I approve of the punctuation on the title
on the cover, and that's really what matters.

Speaker 2 (02:44:58):
That's the only thing. So good. Yeah, thanks Jim. Twenty
twenty one's Mortal Kombat is getting a four K sealbook
re release on October seventh. You can preorder it now.
Not much to say about that when this has happened
before next though. Studio Canal in the UK on October
thirteenth putting out a blu ray of one Potato, Two
Potato from nineteen sixty four with Barbara Barry and Bernie
Hamilton Brandy four K restoration in the film, new interview

(02:45:21):
with Barbara Barry in this and then we've got a
new interview with Larry Pierce. Have you seen this one?

Speaker 3 (02:45:27):
No? I did just pick up the keno though. Nice
it's one Potato two Potato nineteen sixty four film. It's
new to me. I'll say that it is one of
those films that I was unfamiliar with, but I'm happy

(02:45:48):
to learn about.

Speaker 2 (02:45:50):
Can I just say, I think it's incredible that in
twenty twenty five we are getting Blu ray releases with
new interviews with a director from nineteen sixty four and
the star of that film from nineteen sixty four. I'm
glad that is amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:46:05):
It is amazing. I'm glad they were able to make
that happen.

Speaker 2 (02:46:10):
Generally would be surprising to have even one of those,
and we got both like that is truly incredible. Lionsgate Limited,
everybody's favorite US centric site that most people in the
world cannot order from, announced a few titles September sixteenth.
They're putting out a four K steel book of Daybreakers
from two thousand and eight. So this is the Vampire

(02:46:32):
movie starring Samuel and Ethan Hawk in a fifteenth anniversary
Dolby Vision steel book release. We've got some new special
features building the world of Daybreakers art and craft, the
actors of Daybreakers, a gag reel art department and lighting
test costume here and makeup test, first subsider test, makeup,
special effects tape, stunt department on the Sudden Daybreakers, plus

(02:46:53):
some legacy special features if you recently got the Era
or not Aero. Sorry, Umbrella the aid released that just
started arriving to people the day this guy went up
for pre order. You do have some exclusive special features
from Umbrella. I believe they have an exclusive commentary but Daybreakers,
Did you ever check this one out?

Speaker 3 (02:47:12):
No? I'm trying to remember if I remember this, but
I don't remember it, so I guess.

Speaker 2 (02:47:16):
I remember loving the first half and then it kind
of falls apart. It's got some like unique vampire story
lines that we don't normally get in vampire films, but
then it just gets a lot of muddling around the
halfway point. But it's fine. I love Ethan Hawks. I'll
watch anything with him.

Speaker 3 (02:47:35):
At Willem Defoe man.

Speaker 2 (02:47:37):
Yeah, he's all right. I guess I'm just kidding for
everybody that's about to attack me in the chat. That
was a joke. He's incredible. We all know that.

Speaker 3 (02:47:44):
No, he meant it. Get him.

Speaker 2 (02:47:47):
Next. They are also doing a four K steal book,
a side exclusive, of course only of Meatballs from nineteen
seventy nine the Bill Murray Meatballs. This is going to
include Ivan Wrightman head counselor or as an exclusive feature,
including the sound of Summer establishing shot with Jason Rightman,
casting camp, the original nineteen seventy eight Meatballs casting sessions,

(02:48:09):
and then some archival special features as well. This includes
a Blu ray disc of the film. And I know
most people are probably upset that this isn't Meatballs three,
But did you ever see Meatballs?

Speaker 3 (02:48:20):
Gim Yes, I saw it as an adult, which is
weird because this, again is another one of those movies
that as a kid, the other kids would talk about
in hush tones, like I saw this movie Meatballs, and
I just kind of grew up thinking this was a
kin to Porky's, you know, like, and it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:48:41):
This is quite a bit more tame.

Speaker 3 (02:48:42):
Yeah, this is a PG rated you know, it's it's
it's Shenanigan's. It's not even that great of a comedy.
Bill Murray is in it. I don't know. I think
I'm good with my old DV. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (02:49:03):
I don't know. Uh, this is one I've not seen
in a long time. I remember thinking it's okay, And
even then I was younger and into sillier things than
I am now, So I imagine it's probably a lot
worse than I remember it. Even Yeah, it's been a
long time. I probably don't need this for a thirty
five dollars four K steel book for me.

Speaker 3 (02:49:25):
Yeah. I knew the gags because again, the kids would
tell this happens in this movie, and that happens in
this way. They put the fat kids cants up the flagpole,
and I remember, you know, feeling bad for the fat
kid in my mind, like I hadn't seen the movie,
but you know, just hearing that, I thought, oh, well
that's really that's that sounds just mean. That just sounds

(02:49:48):
that sounds mean. So I don't know, Yeah, it's meatballs,
you know the why we would you call a movie
a hot dog the movie or whatever? Back then it's
like some food is funny.

Speaker 2 (02:50:02):
That's true, Hamburger the movie.

Speaker 3 (02:50:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, food. It's like this is what is
what is that?

Speaker 2 (02:50:07):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:50:08):
Just food? Call it food and that's like shorthand for
this is a kookie comedy.

Speaker 2 (02:50:16):
Well, the probably the biggest case of whiplash that we're
gonna have this week let's go from Daybreakers and Meatballs
to Requiem for a Dream getting a four K Lenticular
gift box.

Speaker 3 (02:50:28):
Okay, this this feels like a weird Oh you were right,
that was That was the worst case of whiplash, not
not just of the night, but of the whole ever disconnected.

Speaker 2 (02:50:42):
I can't believe the people that only listen to this
in podcast form later are not gonna be able to
see you literally falling on the floor. That was incredible, Jim.
That is committing to the bit. Well done.

Speaker 3 (02:50:54):
Well, you know the awards, the carry spoof. When I
need all in always I need to beat myself up
on will Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:51:05):
I can't imagine giving anybody a gift box of ruscum
for a dream.

Speaker 3 (02:51:12):
For a dream gift box.

Speaker 2 (02:51:14):
Yeah, that's a it's an odd choice here. Uh. That
being said, if you love this movie, this is truly
a beautiful set of this. I I do have the
four kse deal Book, and as far as I can tell,
that is the exact same thing here. So I don't
did they add does anybody else know? Did they add
HDR or anything different on here? I think these are
all the same.

Speaker 3 (02:51:34):
Well, it doesn't say it. I mean wouldn't wouldn't that
be it?

Speaker 2 (02:51:38):
Well, you would think that they would advertise that more,
but sometimes that it's it's not even like, hey, look
what we added, because they don't want to shame them
for it, they forget. Yeah. So I've already got the
previous four K for this. I don't need this, uh.
But that being said, if I if I love this
movie more, this would be a This would be one
to get because it looks like a really nice release.
I gotta admit.

Speaker 3 (02:51:58):
Okay, let's just say this. This is a good movie.
This is important. It's it's it actually connects back to
the old you know, drug scare movies. Yea, in its
own weird and artful, over the top Darren aronofsky Way.

(02:52:18):
But yeah, it's the kind of movie that most of
us think, well, I'll watch that once.

Speaker 2 (02:52:23):
Yep. Yeah, yeah, this is probably uh one of the
movies that is high on the list of literally I
don't need to own that because I only need to
see it once. For a lot of people, I'm glad
to have seen it. And if you are literally trying
to scare somebody away from drugs, this is a great
movie for that, yeah for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:52:41):
And and meatballs? Is that for meatballs? You know if
you're trying to scare somebody off of that, you know,
off of pasta, and you know that these two it's
like the Barbenheimer of Tonight, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (02:52:54):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:52:54):
Meatballs and Requiem for a Dream.

Speaker 2 (02:52:57):
Hell of a double feature.

Speaker 3 (02:52:58):
You got to watch them back to back? Are you well?
Not doing it right?

Speaker 2 (02:53:02):
I don't know how, but this sort of logically makes
sense to go with that. Our next one is Eddington,
A twenty four releasing Eddington on a shop exclusive four
K and a wide Blu Ray release. This is gonna
have a bonus feature of Maiden Eddington and making of
doc that's thirty three minutes, and then of course A
twenty four putting in their collectible postcards in here. It's

(02:53:24):
gonna have Dolby Vision on the four K. But I
don't know, I feel like they could have done so
much better for extras on this Did you did you
get a chance to see this one in the theater?

Speaker 3 (02:53:33):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (02:53:33):
I did?

Speaker 2 (02:53:35):
How do you feel good?

Speaker 3 (02:53:37):
It's really good? It's a smart movie.

Speaker 4 (02:53:41):
This is.

Speaker 3 (02:53:43):
This is a movie. I think people people are just
sleeping on and they shouldn't be. To our local Alamo
Drafthouse's credit that it's sticking around, and I thought, you know,
I made a point of going out and seeing it
two weeks ago. Today, I guess it was a Thursday

(02:54:03):
two weeks ago, and it's I thought it was going
away that day because all you hear about is what
a flop it is? This is a movie that it
it doesn't what do you say? How do you how
do you discuss this? It's it's a it's challenging. Thank

(02:54:24):
you yeah about the COVID times and it's basically just
you know, holding a mirror up to the insanity of America,
you know, twenty twenty post twenty twenty. I don't know, man,
what do you think?

Speaker 2 (02:54:39):
I thought it did a really great job of capturing
the zeitgeist. And I think that in a few years
a lot of people are going to realize that they
just weren't prepared to see that yet. I think it.

Speaker 3 (02:54:51):
Is one of those things. I saw the trailer and thought, boy,
who's gonna go see that?

Speaker 2 (02:54:55):
You know, we don't.

Speaker 3 (02:54:57):
That is like, we do not want to see COVID
nineteen these that is like. But once you get over
that mental hurdle and you're actually in the theater watching this.
I think this is something solid, yes, silent, manimal, something solid.

(02:55:17):
It's and I wish the four K would be more
widely available because it is a visually interesting movie. I
don't know that every little thread in this thing works,
There's a lot crammed into it, but man, on the
whole it lands.

Speaker 2 (02:55:36):
I also think that so far, and this kind of
ties in with the phrase that you used earlier post
parasite World, I think this is one of the only
films that I've seen really touch on I mean just
to be I guess, really obvious about what it is,
but like the data center aspect of the future of
the world, because man, we are about to be depleting

(02:56:00):
a lot of resources, and the incendiary way that that
is being done in many small communities is truly shown
here in ways that I've not seen captured other than
on local news. Which is a terrifying sentence to say
out loud that I've never said before.

Speaker 3 (02:56:17):
Right now, yeah, no, Well you know your what you're
you're you're you're right on though, and and credit to you.
It's it's uh the solid gold magic carp in the movie.
The name alone begs for pages and pages of intellectual

(02:56:38):
unpacking that we on a high minded show like this
simply just on it. But you know, yeah that that
is something that you know, the movie begins and ends
with and really that's about it. But that's what that
movie's about.

Speaker 2 (02:56:54):
Yeah, I mean, it's exploitation of classes and that's going
to continue as is that they see fit h So.

Speaker 3 (02:57:03):
Yeah, due check it out, folks. You know, this is
a a lot of my local Saint Louis film critic
Cohorts just came out of this and said, I didn't
get to see it at the screening with them, but
I saw them at other screens where they're complaining about
this for like after the fact, like that directors are
no talent. I'm done with him. I'm done with it,

(02:57:30):
you know all of that, and and I yeah, most
over hype director, Yeah, yes, ha, don done you know,
And I was like, come on, you guys. I was like,
you're making me want to see it, and and sure
enough I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:57:44):
So I don't know, it's good and an incredible cast,
really great performances. Uh you know, we got waves saying
this is Joaquin Phoenix's best performance since The Master. I
don't know, that I can argue that I think he
does some really incredible stuff in this that is stretching
kind of further than he didn't Joker even.

Speaker 3 (02:58:01):
Yeah, agreed, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:58:04):
Moving along another pretty decent one from this year, September ninth,
we are getting a four K steel book, but then
a standard Blu ray and DVD in the US from
Disney and Pixar of L e O. Disney continuing their
trend of no standard four ks in the US. This
will likely get a standard four K over in the
UK because they like them more. I don't know why.

(02:58:24):
Extras on this one they're gonna have inside the communiverse.
This is about the world and characters of L.

Speaker 4 (02:58:28):
E O.

Speaker 2 (02:58:29):
Out of this World, an astro q and a astronomic
art class with Ooh and gloried on extraterrestrial Easter eggs
and fun facts, galactic gag reel, deleted scenes, check out
the scenes that did make the final cuts. And this
will be on a four K. We'll have Dolby atmost,
as they are doing pretty well with that L e O.
Did you did you get?

Speaker 3 (02:58:49):
You did? As much I saw it? Yeah, I did
not care for LEO as much. I was disappointed with it.
I've been a big Pixar stand for I don't know
how long, and I've always said that the only bad
movie they made was Cars two. I don't know that
this is bad, but it's it's I felt like I

(02:59:12):
could see the cards on the bulletin board in the
Pixar story breaking room, going Okay, well, here's where the
heartbreak happens, and here's where the action scene happens. And also,
just as a history of animation professor who makes a
point of seeing all these animated mainstream movies, I'm getting
kind of burned out on them, and maybe my attitude's

(02:59:34):
little fried. I watched K Pop Demon Hunters and was
so bored.

Speaker 2 (02:59:39):
Which, by the way, as the number one song in
the country right now is from.

Speaker 3 (02:59:43):
The Go Figure. I mean the songs are catchy. I
just you know, it eludes me. The whole K Pop
Demon Hunter's phenomenon eludes me because I didn't find the
movie very Uh. I found it remote. This movie's different.
This one is the other direction put wishing emotions at
you and almost in a rote way I found I

(03:00:06):
didn't it's loud, it's it's you know what I feel
like I'm watching an anim mainstream animated movie. I could
close my eyes and just know that it's an animated
mainstream movie. That's not good for me. I like to,
you know, especially when they're trafficking in more complex themes,

(03:00:32):
which most animated movies do.

Speaker 2 (03:00:35):
Noodles wants to know if you watched the remastered Grave
of the Fireflies.

Speaker 3 (03:00:39):
No, I'm not. I would I I I actually had
tickets and had to not go. I have a subscription
to Alamo Draft House, so I could. I it's the
AMC A list for me I did have. I did

(03:01:01):
reserve tickets to that, and then I couldn't make it
at the last minute for some reason. I regret.

Speaker 2 (03:01:06):
How does the Alamo do their subscription because we had one,
but we don't have an Alimo anymore. So I'd love
to hear about that one.

Speaker 3 (03:01:12):
Well, it's the same thing, isn't it. I mean it's
it's about forty I think it's a few bucks more
than what AMC would charge for a two seat subscription.
It's forty three a month.

Speaker 2 (03:01:23):
Oh that's not that bad.

Speaker 3 (03:01:25):
But they don't have the thing AMC does where you
could just go to IMAX and three D and all
that is the same. They do up charge you if
you go to their quote unquote big show premium, their
giant screen. It's a nice auditorium. It's really big. It's

(03:01:45):
really good. That one is they service charge you every
time you reserve a ticket. It's like a few bucks
service charge on top of your subscription. So I don't
know if does that. No they don't.

Speaker 2 (03:02:01):
Okay, well, Alaba, how many films do you get with Alamo?

Speaker 3 (03:02:04):
It's unlimited? Just well wan a day, one a day.
It's one of you know you wanted to it could
be one a day. I don't use it nearly to
that degree, but uh, you know it's it's it's worth it.
Still some months they make money on me and some
months I get my money's worth.

Speaker 2 (03:02:24):
And that that sounds like a great deal that you
could literally go to one, you know, if you're able
to go multiple days a week. But I love the
flexibility of I can do four a week, but I
can do all four in one day.

Speaker 3 (03:02:36):
Yeah, no, that's that Alma won't let you do that,
but yeah, the all in one day thing that you
can do. Say, there's a lot more flexibility with a MC,
but our a MC theaters here the behavior in the
auditoriums and all. This is pretty untenable these days. It's
really bad phones and talking and people wandering around, and

(03:02:58):
it's just you don't get that. They show that thing
at the beginning this there's a quiet zone. Everyone will
be thrown out if you talk, you know, And and
it works. And for me, I will take the servers
shuffling around, ye, and the lights under the desks that

(03:03:20):
you get at Alamo over the crowd behaving badly at
an AMC or the other local chains that we have
here in Saint Louis.

Speaker 2 (03:03:32):
Sounds worth it. Yeah. If I can go multiple times
a week, that would be perfect for me.

Speaker 3 (03:03:36):
Yeah, it's not the same, but for me, it's worth it.

Speaker 2 (03:03:39):
Yeah, I get that. One of the more exciting things
to come out of physical media this week is we
finally got the first pre order for New Wave Video
out of Australia. This is a friend of the show,
John Matthews, who is the host one of the two
hosts of Imprint Cast. Tony who was here in the
chat earlier is probably still are but it's probably working

(03:04:01):
at the moment. Hi. Tony John and his wife run
the new label new Wave Video and they are starting
with a frickin bang. First up is Rubber's Lover from
nineteen ninety six. This says a cyberpunk nightmare drenched in
industrial horror and psychedelic visions unfolds. In this underground classic,
rogue scientists conduct sadistic experiments pushing the boundaries of sensory

(03:04:23):
overload and drug induced psychic abilities, leading to madness and destruction.
From the visionary mind of Schouzen Fakui, who did nine
six four Pinocchio, which we've talked about a couple times
on the show, Rubbers Lovers transports viewers into a world
of tech, sensory overload and mind melting paranoia. This brutal
fusion of body horror and high concept sci fi is

(03:04:44):
shot in stark black and white, creating a raw and
visceral look that fans of the cyberpunk genre won't want
to miss. This director approved special edition will have a
new four K restoration by New Wave Video themselves from
the original sixteen millimeter camera and sound Negatives. We've got
new Rubber Visions and an interview with the director Fakoui.
New posey punk Jasper Sharp, who we talked about earlier,

(03:05:07):
is speaking on Rubbers Lover. There's a new visual essay
by Suzanne Blin. We've got a theatrical trailer booklet with
new essays by Michelle Kisner and Stanley Luck, new artwork
by Lucas Peverrell and interdesigned by grind Dead Productions with
the original tach Cal art on the other side. This
comes with a slipcover with UV spot gloss and it's
a limited edition of twelve hundred units. Now, the crazy

(03:05:29):
thing is what we're always talking about with Umbrella and
Imprint is the prices being sort of ridiculous. I got
to give a huge shout out to John for being
super great with the pricing on these so new a
video is putting out two titles. We're talking about the
other one in just a moment, but both of these
titles you can get shipped to the US from Australia

(03:05:51):
for like less than seventy dollars US. That is very
very impressive out of the gate. To be able to
do that is incredible. They're also offering a bundle with
a T shirt for Rubbers Lover, and if you get
the two films and the T shirt, it's less than
one hundred dollars ship. It is shocking how low they're
doing that. I mean, that is less than one of

(03:06:13):
the Imprint four k's, which I understand improt is putting
a lot of work into those, but for a brand
new label, that is very very cool that they can
do that.

Speaker 3 (03:06:25):
I'm not familiar with the movie, but.

Speaker 2 (03:06:29):
It's very Tetsuo coded.

Speaker 3 (03:06:31):
I was going to just say, is this like the
Tetsuo Iron Man kind of esthetic? Is there that kind
of sonic bombardment that you get with those films?

Speaker 2 (03:06:46):
Yeah, it's the same thing. Black and white, very industrial,
very cyberpunk, very of the era, a handfully years after Tetsuo.
So definitely was inspired by.

Speaker 3 (03:06:57):
That cyberpunk industrial, psychedelic underground. Okay, okay, sadistic what else
is going on here? Psychic destruction, madness?

Speaker 2 (03:07:08):
Wi y Yeah? Body Horror is four K. No, it's
a four K restoration Okay, yeah, it got it of course.
One of the first things everybody's asking you, just like,
wave here in the chat. Any chance they shift these
to orbit diabolic brother Belile, Yes, they will be eventually.
They were trying to get a distributor to be able
to carry them. It's their first title, so some of

(03:07:29):
that stuff was not ready to go, but they are
working on that. Just spoke to John today. Big congrats
to John. This is amazing. Yeah. If there's John right there,
he says, shows and worked on Tetsuo. Actually he was
one of the crew. Okay, Yeah, Rubber's lover definitely was
prepped for that. John. I got to give another big

(03:07:50):
shout out to John. The fact that you're starting a
label and he and his wife were willing to travel
the nine hour flight to go interview the director in
person for these is some really ballsy like investment in
your company type of capital. Love that you did this,
Love that people are able to support you. John, You're incredible.
Glad that glad that you hear putting in the lord's

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work into this as they say.

Speaker 3 (03:08:13):
Yep, I'll buy it. Where's I bought that other one too,
that you interviewed that guy who started the label with
the films from Columbia.

Speaker 2 (03:08:23):
Oh yeah, Petroglyph.

Speaker 3 (03:08:25):
Yeah, I bought the Petroglyph films. I bought that just
because of that that interview. I was like, what this
guy's doing. I mean, we gotta we gotta jump behind that,
don't way?

Speaker 2 (03:08:37):
I agree? Yeah, I can't wait to see if he's
able to do something else. But New Wave starting strong
with also a si On Sono title, This is Strange
Circus from two thousand and five, also coming in mid
October on Blu Ray from New Wave Video and John
saying they want to make sure each release is special,
worth the trips of Japan, and you're killing it.

Speaker 3 (03:08:59):
Thanks for course, okay, trip to Japan.

Speaker 2 (03:09:04):
Yeah, exactly, And he even mentioned yesterday they're already hard
at work on spines three and four, so this is
not one and done. They've definitely got a lot of
stuff that they're working on. I even talk to somebody today.
They're working on the third release for John. So I
can't wait to see what comes from that Strange Circus.
If you've not heard of Sheian Sono's stuff, this has

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step into a world where reality and illusion intertwined, and
this haunting and surreal tale of identity, trauma and hidden truths.
When a mysterious writer named Tyko begins crafting a disturbing
novel about a younger girl named Mitsuko who is subjected
to unimaginable abuse by her father, a story that blurs
the lines between author and character, the boundaries between truth
and fiction begin to dissolve. As these two elements collide,

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A dark and suspenseful mystery unfolds, culminating in a shocking
climax that lingers in the mind long after the curtains fall.
This one has a new interview with Sono. There is
a new interview with the actor Ishida new Ero Guru,
Legacy visual essay by Suzanne Berlin again, Legacy one hour
making of doc from two thousand and five. There's a

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book of a new writing by Michelle Kissner and nikodem
carall Act. There's also new design by grind Dead Productions
again and the original theatrical art limited to one thousand units.
And yeah, this is again a big deal. She on
Sono stuff not getting many releases nowadays, and a strange
circus is one that needed a proper release, and this
looks to be it. So thank you to New Wave

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again indeed good stuff. Check them out. Their website is there.
It is Newave Video dot myshopify dot com to purchase
these as I said that they are likely going to
be getting US distribution and probably elsewhere eventually, but as
of right now you can pick them up. And I'm

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sure these are selling very well for them. I don't
see them going out of print tomorrow or anything, but
just keep an eye on it because if you're wanting these,
you want to make sure that you get them.

Speaker 3 (03:11:02):
Okay, see you next up. Canceled.

Speaker 2 (03:11:06):
Yeah, there were some accusations against shown a couple of
years ago, but I'm not sure that that was ever solved.
I don't know. Uh. Freaky Tails from just this year
is getting released by lions Gates over in the UK.
This has no set release date for it yet, but
it's the same Lionsgate Limited release that came out here

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that was locked to the lions Gate Limited site. It's
in that VHS packaging with the stickers, so if you
want all that same extras and everything, you'll be able
to pick this up other sites of being able to
carry this. So I would probably bet Orbit's gonna get this.
I think brother Belile already had this up for pre order. Yeah,
check it out if you wanted this special four K
release of Freaky Tails. Otherwise the wide release was just

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a Blu.

Speaker 3 (03:11:49):
Ray Freaky Tails. I didn't watch that movie.

Speaker 2 (03:11:57):
I haven't gotten to see it yet either.

Speaker 4 (03:11:58):
I need to.

Speaker 3 (03:11:59):
Yeah, they want to me too, and I just didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:12:03):
October twenty seventh, Over in the UK, Kurzone is releasing
Central Station from nineteen ninety eight. This is getting a
four K and blu ray release. This is the same
director of I'm Still Here in the Motorcycle Diaries. This
was nominated for two Academy Awards. We don't know about
features yet, but you can pre order this now. I
have a feeling you've probably seen this one.

Speaker 3 (03:12:22):
I had not actually seen this one. This got passed
me again, a nineteen ninety eight movie. We I'm trying
to remember the State of Art House exhibition in Saint
Louis at that time. It was a little little it's lacking. Yeah, yeah,
it was lacking. You had to go out of your

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way anyway. No, this was I recall this being out
at all. Yeah, this was. Yeah. I could see it
coming from Criterion exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:12:53):
Yeah, I agree with there, and I would almost be
surprised if this wasn't the Criterion in the next year.

Speaker 3 (03:12:58):
Yeah, well see tomorrow. Ann Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:13:05):
Next up from CURZONEA, they're putting out a four K
in blu ray of The Crimson Rivers from two thousand. Now.
This film has been previously released here in the US,
but not on four K. This was put out by
Keno lber Uh. Not even that long ago if I
remember right. This was let me see twenty twenty three, Yeah,

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February twenty first, twenty twenty three is one that came
out here in the US on Blue. This is one
that I don't see going Criterion. I've got new interviews
on this one with a couple of individuals from the film.
We get a commentary and then behind the scenes doc.
I love the cover art on this one, and it's
a This is a pretty good movie, if you.

Speaker 3 (03:13:47):
Say so, I've not seen that. I don't know Skuy
Jon right.

Speaker 2 (03:13:50):
Now, Geen Rena and vinceent casseoll Uh I said we're
gonna talk about Full Moon more Man one oh one
films in the UK over on October sixth, They're releasing
a Blu ray box set as part of their black
label collection of the doll Man toy box. This is
the Dollman and Demonic Toys collection. Now, this is going

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to include Dollman from ninety one, Demonic Toys from ninety two,
and Dollmann versus Demonic Toys from ninety three. For the
first time, this limited edition five disc set is going
to get silly here now because it also.

Speaker 3 (03:14:26):
Includes It's Now It's going to get silly.

Speaker 2 (03:14:29):
It just wait. Five full length feature spinoff films, two
Demonic Toy sequels, and the Baby Oopsie trilogy.

Speaker 3 (03:14:39):
All right, stay, I just can't get into whatever I is.
Ya talk amongst yourselves. I don't have to say here.

Speaker 2 (03:14:53):
New interviews with Charles Mann and Richard Band and then
the director Billy Butler talking about Demonic Toys as well.
Lots of stuff here. It has never been my thing
on the Full Moon side. This is where I definitely
checked out on some of these movies.

Speaker 3 (03:15:06):
Understandable for me, I get that. I'm the same way.
Uh yeah, full Moon.

Speaker 2 (03:15:14):
It's I love a lot of Full Moon stuff. Is
not this stuff? Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 (03:15:20):
The you gotta go way back. It seems like, you know,
the older in their catalog, it gets the more kind
of furk up my ears. But even like the Demonic
Toys and the what else is there? What's the other
big thing?

Speaker 2 (03:15:38):
Puppet Master?

Speaker 3 (03:15:38):
Yeah, Puppetmaster. I don't get excited about those. I watched
them back when they were VHS video store movies, and
I didn't get excited about them then, so I guess
that ship of.

Speaker 2 (03:15:50):
Sale and then of course within arms reach, I still have.

Speaker 3 (03:15:54):
Okay, what's what's he gonna have here? What is he
pulling out of nowhere?

Speaker 2 (03:15:58):
The subspecies in Blu Rays hit.

Speaker 3 (03:16:01):
Well, look at that, Look at that coffin.

Speaker 2 (03:16:04):
That's another one of their franchises, often full of Blu rays.
All right, next up Fright Night. This has been out
of print in the US for a while, even though
it got a reprint once. But it's coming on October
sixth in this four K S deal book in the
UK from Sony. Nothing different. It's going to be the
exact same disk, I imagine. Don't expect anything special. I

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think there was an issue with the I think the
atmost was screwed up on the US release. It's probably
gonna be the exact same in the UK. Don't like
rebuy this, just hoping for that. It's Sony. They're not
putting a lot of time into fixing that said.

Speaker 3 (03:16:38):
It's like, hey, you like Fright Night on four K,
Well here it is again.

Speaker 2 (03:16:42):
Yep. At least it's a different territory and the UK
still has not had this on four K. So there
we go. Next Up. Second Site delayed their Pusher Trilogy release.
It was coming out on August twenty fifth, Now it's
coming on September fifteenth. They said it is an unexpected
production delay that cause that.

Speaker 3 (03:17:01):
I think it's a ploy to get you to talk
about it twice.

Speaker 2 (03:17:04):
Quite possibly, and uh maybe three times with the pickup
knows that's right.

Speaker 3 (03:17:09):
I've never seen these.

Speaker 2 (03:17:12):
I have yet to see them either, but uh, I mean,
refor it's pretty decent.

Speaker 3 (03:17:17):
What do you think, guys? Should we should we go
for this? The Pusher Trilogy?

Speaker 2 (03:17:22):
Should we push it?

Speaker 3 (03:17:23):
Is it good? Is it not good? We don't know.
Nobody's nobody's they're saying Push Pusher is great. Okay, all right,
Well that's good.

Speaker 2 (03:17:34):
Really good. These are fun recommend and it's a good label.

Speaker 3 (03:17:37):
Yeah, I mean it's second side. I mean, is this
gonna be very limited and be very expensive in like,
you know, three months?

Speaker 2 (03:17:46):
Their second side is really hard to gauge lately. Some
of the titles are around forever and some of them
around for twelve minutes, and I don't know how to
gauge what their releases are gonna do.

Speaker 3 (03:17:57):
I think this is the twelve minutes we'll see.

Speaker 2 (03:18:00):
I think this one will be around forever. October twenty eighth,
Paramount releasing Smurfs from twenty twenty five, starring Rihanna as Smurfet.
You got some extras on this, nothing huge, pretty much
the exact sort of things that you would expect. But
if Blu rays not enough, they're also selling it on DVD,
And if.

Speaker 3 (03:18:20):
That's not enough, we can just stream it. Just stream
in the middle of the night for free on.

Speaker 2 (03:18:26):
Two B Paramount Plus.

Speaker 3 (03:18:28):
Yeah, yeah, no, I die when I say I'm sick
of these these mainstream animated movies. Is the exact kind
of thing.

Speaker 2 (03:18:34):
It's like, no, no, no, agree, I agree. Next up
October sixth in the UK, Studio Canal releasing The Hellbenders
as part of their Classics line. This is from nineteen
sixty seven, directed by Sergio Corbucci, who did Djingo Now
the odd Thing. This was already released in the UK
or in the US on four K by Keno Lber

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and Spaghetti. Westerns don't typically sell super well in the
UK unless they're directed by Sergio Leoni, of course. Uh
but these I I don't see this getting a four
K release in the UK, so this is likely the
best they're gonna get.

Speaker 3 (03:19:08):
It's a pretty good movie. It's a pretty good movie.
I've seen it. It's I Have the keynot Blu Ray.
And it's a little long in the tooth for what
it is. But Joseph Cotton, uh, you know later later
era Joseph Cotton. It it works in this milieu. And
of course anything Sergio Carbucci guys is worth a look.

Speaker 2 (03:19:33):
I kind of think I might like Korbucci more than Leoni.

Speaker 3 (03:19:36):
That's fair, that's that's not that's not sacrilege. That's just
you know, there's at least three good Sergios in the
Spaghetti western world, and uh, it's okay to prefer any
one of them.

Speaker 2 (03:19:52):
Good good call there.

Speaker 4 (03:19:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:19:54):
Next up, another film making another rep screening round right
now is shin Godzilla from twenty sixteen, and this four
K restoration is playing theaters and I'm hopefully seeing this
on Sunday. I'm dying to see this.

Speaker 3 (03:20:06):
Yeah, Alamo has it and I could do it, I
think after I've never seen this. I remember missing it
when it came out, and then I bought the Blu Ray.
It's been sitting on my shelf. I've never seen this.

Speaker 2 (03:20:25):
Yeah, I mean neither. Well, let's go see it, Ryan,
I'm into it yet. Four K Steelbook widely available. This
is on Walmart and it's on Groove. It'll be on
Amazon probably tonight. You can check this out. We're gonna
be talking about Shin Gotts a little more in just
a minute, so I'll bypass this one. But I gonna
be honest with the steel book. Pretty decent design. I
love the look of it.

Speaker 3 (03:20:45):
It's got a long tail. It does a real long tail.

Speaker 2 (03:20:53):
Next up, Arrow today finally revealed their Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles trilogy four K by set that people have been
dying to hear about. We are getting this, and it
looks like it's going to be mid December when this
is released. They did not advertise a release date, but
everywhere else is seeing about December fifteenth, sixteenth. This is

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going to include all three of the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtle films on four K or there is a Blu
ray box set as well. This original art is the
wide release art, and they also have a site exclusive
art with this very comic book style art also available
on four K and Blu ray. As far as what

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we are getting all three.

Speaker 3 (03:21:37):
Sorry, sorry, go on, it was funny.

Speaker 2 (03:21:45):
All three films in four K. New four K restoration
of the first film from the original thirty five millimeter
negatives by Arrow themselves, and then new four K restorations
of two and three from the original thirty five millimeter
interpositives by Arrow. We've got Dolby at most round sound
for TM and T, original lostless stereo for two and three.

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New director's commentaries for all three films. New cast and
crew interviews for all three films, Perfect Band Collector's Book
with new writing on the film by Simon Ward, John Tranni,
and John Walsh. Reversible sleeves, and more to be announced. Yeah,
are you a TM and T guy or did that
bypass you?

Speaker 3 (03:22:26):
I was a tmn T guy in every way, not
over the top. I remember being in the comic book shop.
I was a comic book guys as a kidid seeing
like the original tenage being Ninja Turtles number one on
the shelf and just be like, what's that and not

(03:22:46):
buying it? Yeah, right, okay, the tick number one. I
did not make that mistake on I do own that,
but that's not nearly as as valuable as the teenage
Beans I caught up with them pretty soon after. And uh,
and then the cartoon, which is so much fun and
so very different to me, it was like the differences

(03:23:08):
in Batman, where you can have this really dark Batman,
a dark Knight returns or whatever, and Frank Miller and
the comics and then over here Adam West, you know,
doing doing the thing. So so yeah, it was it was.
I love the Turtles operated in both these kind of
you know, uh, sensibilities. I was excited when the first

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movie was released, and then I won't say let down
by it, because I enjoyed it, but it's a it's
it's it's small. I was excited that that it was
uh Jim Henson Studios doing the teenage Muni Ninja turtle suits.

Speaker 2 (03:23:55):
Back then I was.

Speaker 3 (03:23:55):
I was into that. And then uh, I will say
one of the first dates I ever went on was
to that film True Story. When I was fifteen. This
movie came out. I was very excited to see it.
We went and saw it on a on a very
awkward date.

Speaker 2 (03:24:17):
I would imagine. So I, first off, I love that
they are doing the original sewer art as the wide release,
and why did it stop sharing the picture?

Speaker 3 (03:24:29):
I just noticed that the well you made a big
screen here on for my for my recollections.

Speaker 2 (03:24:36):
I didn't click everything. It just disappeared.

Speaker 3 (03:24:40):
The AI is is caught up with you.

Speaker 2 (03:24:44):
Over. I love that this is the wide release and
not the comic one, because I probably would have wanted
the why this art over the comic book one. Love
this as a kid. But the big thing for me
is you already mentioned him. Jim Henson is a god
in my house. And yeah, yeah, I feel like I
got to have and.

Speaker 3 (03:25:00):
It's one of my own, you know, creative heroes, always
has been.

Speaker 2 (03:25:04):
I mean, there's a Muppet tattoo to my arm. I
gotta have something to all right, And to him, you're
only because I'm six or five and you're not. But
that's easy. Yeah. Love love that this is getting the
package like this, People should be pretty happy. The only
thing that I know people are going to be upset
about is so many people only want the first one

(03:25:26):
and this is, as far as I can tell, only
going to be released as a box set. Now that
being said, Arrow in like a year and a half
very well could release individual ones and really piss people
off then, But I don't know. This is probably uh,
what they're gonna be doing for a while. It's just
all three because otherwise the third one would not sell.

Speaker 3 (03:25:47):
Yeah. Well, I remember having a nerd fit about the
second one. I thought the second one was terrible. I
don't know, it was like that was the one where,
you know, parent groups had had gotten up in a
hissy fit about the Turtles using like martial arts weapons.
So they're like, Okay, for the second movie, they won't.

Speaker 2 (03:26:09):
Oh you said, Martin, nevermind, go ahead, Sorry, they.

Speaker 3 (03:26:11):
Won't use weapons weapons. They won't use their swords and
nunchucks and all that in the second movie. Instead they'll
use common household items, Like isn't that worse for kids
to see? You know, it's like, oh, well, we have
a mop, you know, we could beat a guy. You know,
it's like all the things they do in the second movie,

(03:26:31):
it's like common, just findable stuff. And it just felt
very lame. And then the vanilla ice cameo didn't help anything, right,
But then the third one I was actually thought was
a little better. But then I saw it again a
few years ago and it's terrible. So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:26:54):
Yeah, I don't know that I said this in the
beginning but this is getting a UK, US and Canada release.
I know there was speculation for most that this would
only be a UK release, and I'm glad that it's
everywhere because people can can widely get this. Now that
being said, Ero did announce this on a Thursday, apart
from their normal announcements. I have a feeling this is

(03:27:15):
just to gauge what they can get for pre orders,
because this is not going to be an easy one
to gauge what this would sell as far as like
a limited print run, so they're probably gonna wait like
a month and then decide how many they're gonna make
of this. So I think you can probably hold out
for a few weeks if you're wanting to get this.
The actual details for this won't fully be revealed until
September twenty sixth, so you've got a long time and

(03:27:39):
there's no way it's sold out on pre order the
day they announce it, So just hold off. Don't feel
like you're pressured to put this out tomorrow or anything.

Speaker 3 (03:27:49):
I don't know if I'll I don't know how to
feel about this because I think I own the three
movies on Blu Ray.

Speaker 2 (03:27:58):
Yeah, they're really bad. Blue rays, though this is like
one of this is one of the worst blue ray
sets ever.

Speaker 3 (03:28:04):
I did watch them on that Blu ray and was
not impressed, and I was trying to remember. I was like,
I don't think them the first one, it's like there's
some dark it's a dark lit movie, and it felt
all the shoddier watching it that way.

Speaker 2 (03:28:22):
I do recall these sorely needed a proper four K restoration,
so I really spoke to see what they looked like.

Speaker 3 (03:28:28):
Oh, probably, And I see how I regret not getting
the Conan the Barbarian two pack back when that was around,
and I felt the same kind of way. I was like,
you know, you know, it's good, it's I have good
memories and all, but I'm not sure I need it,
you know. And then I let it go, and then
I kind of wish I would have got it well.

Speaker 2 (03:28:48):
And the other thing to point out here is I
know that we talked about pricing earlier for Australia and
all that. The big thing here is a four K
release of a trilogy from Arrow of like one of
the biggest sellers of the nineties. This is sixty five
dollars in the US. That is really, really.

Speaker 3 (03:29:07):
Costive back and then it'll be half that when it's
on sale.

Speaker 2 (03:29:11):
It last, Yes, if it lasts to a sale, well
well it'll probably be fifty bucks.

Speaker 3 (03:29:16):
If it makes it. Yeah, all right, people can finally
shut up about this because here official.

Speaker 2 (03:29:25):
Yes, and I'd tried telling everybody that it was gonna
be a trilogy. Next up, second site gave us two
more updates. One Possession is still happening. They did announce
this two years and two weeks ago, and they said
we should have release date news within the next month
and aiming for a release later this year, so we
should get a final announcement for this here soon, which

(03:29:47):
is nice. And then the other one that they've already
announced previously, dead Man's Shoes, is still getting a release
from them. They said, we have been exploring options with
regards to materials and we're working on bonus material scheduling,
hoping to have a release to produce a four K
release early in twenty twenty six, so hopefully that actually
happens from them.

Speaker 3 (03:30:08):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (03:30:10):
It's a British film from two thousand and four which
sounds really good and is very highly regarded.

Speaker 3 (03:30:16):
Is it now, Yes, it's so highly regarded that I'm
not familiar. Okay, well I'll tell you what the other
one possession. I'll be right there for that.

Speaker 2 (03:30:33):
Yeah, me too. Coming back to the censored picture that
Ronnie is laughing at.

Speaker 3 (03:30:38):
Yeah, black pasties.

Speaker 2 (03:30:40):
You know, I had people question why I had to
do this. I have been chastised by Facebook like five
times already, with multiple times being threatened at my page removed,
So that's why I had to do this, sadly.

Speaker 3 (03:30:56):
Okay, well they're prudes and silly yet Facebook. But this guy, well,
I mean, you know, if it's highly regarded, then I
guess we need to check it out.

Speaker 2 (03:31:09):
It won't wait, it's supposed to be great.

Speaker 3 (03:31:12):
Bitch again.

Speaker 2 (03:31:13):
We just talked about Shin Godzilla. If you're not a
steel Book person, which I know many people are not, Thankfully, Toho,
through their Godzilla store, is releasing this exclusive four disc version.
The big thing that this one has that the other
steel Book release does not is this is going to
have Shin Godzilla orthochromatic version, where it is a black

(03:31:35):
and white, black and white feature of the film. All
of the extras and all this stuff are subtitled in English,
so if you want these you can get them big
shout out. If you want this feature and you have
never done this before, and you go to their site,
there are ways that you can stack free shipping and
getting a fifteen percent discount. So if it's something that

(03:31:56):
you're keen to get this, I think right now, the
shipped price is like sixty seven bucks and you can
literally get this down to like fifty dollars, which is
a pretty substantial discount if you're going after, especially one
film that's already kind of expensive. So the big thing
is you want to put in a code for the
fifteen percent, and that is Kaiju fifteen. Kaiju fifteen will

(03:32:18):
get you fifteen percent off, and then you can text
the word Godzilla to eight six six threeh eight eleven
oh nine to get SMS alert, so they'll they'll text
you when it's in stock and they'll give you a
free shipping code and that'll take it from sixty seven
dollars to fifty dollars. Again Kaiju fifteen for fifteen percent off,
and then text the word Godzilla to eight six six

(03:32:40):
threeh eight eleven oh nine.

Speaker 3 (03:32:43):
I feel like Demi Moore in the substance hearing all that.
It's like Okay, then go to an alley and find
a door. Knock on the door, put in this code,
bit a password, and then you know you can achieve
the substance. No weight you have to do. I don't
know that. That's a lot, Ryan, I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:33:03):
Old, and I seventeen bucks, though.

Speaker 3 (03:33:08):
Shouldn't Godzilla plus one minus color? It may be worth
it for that for twenty bucks. Off, I'm doing it,
he says, Yeah, I'm I had to go and go
and jumping through some hoops. Give me more hoops to
jump through. I want to put in some codes and
call some numbers and talk to a stranger and get

(03:33:29):
things in the mail. I don't know, all right, cool,
I just.

Speaker 2 (03:33:32):
Try to be helpful everybody. I promise, I know, I
know it's good.

Speaker 3 (03:33:35):
And maybe you should repeat all that because I'm not
sure I got it.

Speaker 2 (03:33:39):
I don't think. So here we go UH one on
one Films and are soon putting out the film Derelict
from twenty twenty four. This is directed by Jonathan Zorin,
who does a lot of editing for some of these
boutique companies, and Kat Ellinger was a co writer on
this film who does audio commentaries for a lot of
these releases. This is a British film and it's about

(03:34:01):
grief and crime. And there's a making of doc on
here that's one hundred and seven minutes long. There's a
short film that was also edited by Jonathan Zorin. There's
a visual essay by George Daniel Lee. There is a
music video by Mike Hoskins, some deleted scenes trailers. This
is coming out on September twenty second in the UK.
There is not a pre order available for this, but

(03:34:23):
it should be up very soon.

Speaker 3 (03:34:26):
This sounds like the kind of thing where you could
I mean you talk to these people on your show, right,
I mean they come in and talk about this right.

Speaker 2 (03:34:34):
Oh yeah, I was messaging Jonathan today, Yeah he'd probably
come on here.

Speaker 3 (03:34:37):
And yeah yeah, I was like, you could you could
just probably talk to them about this movie for you know,
we find out all about it.

Speaker 2 (03:34:45):
Well, let's bring it in, come on in.

Speaker 3 (03:34:47):
No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, where are you are?

Speaker 2 (03:34:51):
Already three and a half hour long show? It gets
another half hour longer. Another new one from this year
over in the UK, Clown in a Cornfield, getting a
standard four K release. This is coming on September fifteenth,
did you see this one?

Speaker 3 (03:35:04):
No, I don't care that. The whole scary clown thing
is lost on me. I never thought clowns are scary.

Speaker 2 (03:35:10):
I don't think the clowns are meant to be scary.

Speaker 3 (03:35:12):
This just looks nonsensic. All the people are terrified of clowns.
I used to do. I used to do promo videos
for local haunted house attractions, like high end haunted houses,
and you know, sections of it are painted up with
the neon and the you know black lights and stuff
does the cloud and it's clowns. That section is the clouds.

(03:35:34):
That was everyone's scariest section. They were like this clouds
and I'm just like, seriously, I mean, I don't know,
I never I never got it. I never got it.
So no, I see this stuff. It's just kind of like,
I don't know, is this a good movie?

Speaker 2 (03:35:51):
Ryan is all right? I didn't hate it. The only
thing that really sucked to me is this film is
definitely digging hard for like boomers are really dumb, and
so are gen Z people, and the Millennials are everything,
and it's it's the age warfare does not work.

Speaker 3 (03:36:08):
Now I'm a gen X. I'm in a sweet spot
is that or am I also dumb for being.

Speaker 2 (03:36:16):
It feels like somebody who's borderline between gen X and
millennials writing a story that where they hate everyone else.

Speaker 3 (03:36:24):
Wow, that sounds like a crap metaphor.

Speaker 2 (03:36:29):
Kind of yeah, and in a way the movie is
very corny.

Speaker 3 (03:36:33):
Hang out all right?

Speaker 2 (03:36:35):
Next up, well go USA here in the US is
putting out an Amazon exclusive release of Hidden Face from
twenty twenty four on Blu ray and DVD. This says
star cellist Soujon disappears from her conductor fiance Sunyan's house,
leaving nothing but a Dear John video and an empty
house while a hurting Sunyan attempts to fill her seat

(03:36:57):
in the orchestra. Miju appears as her replacement, but soon
winds up taking her place in the bedroom as well
in this twisted erotic thriller. I don't love that they're
doing Amazon exclusives for some of these releases, but this
does sound very good, and it's got some people from Parasite,
from A Better Tomorrow and even from Gonjium Hunted Asylum,

(03:37:18):
which are all great movies, and yeah, this sounds good.
It's got it. Behind the scenes featurette trailers, and I'm
probably gonna have to see this.

Speaker 3 (03:37:27):
My wife was really into k dramas to the degree
where she's studying the Korean language and has been for years.
I think we can watch this. We should want to
see it. Yeah it's Korean.

Speaker 2 (03:37:43):
It is quite Korean. Yes, and.

Speaker 3 (03:37:47):
Yeah, quite Korean and twisted erotic thriller. Well that's more
in my wheelhouse. So here we go.

Speaker 2 (03:37:56):
I'm in here, we well go? All right? Next up? Oh,
coming soon from Filmmasters. We do not have dates for these.
They just put these up on their website saying hey,
they are coming here soon. These are both coming as
part of their limited edition line. We get Kansas City
Confidential from fifty two or rather, and then also The

(03:38:18):
Red House from nineteen forty seven. For those that don't remember,
they're limited edition titles. They are blue case releases coming
with a slip cover with a full color inserted booklet,
and there's an essay in that booklet. They will also
have an audio commentary. These are limited in number and
are pressed blu rays. Kansas City Confidential will have a
commentary by Jason A nine and then The Red House

(03:38:40):
will have a commentary by Karen Burrows Hansbury. No release date,
like I said, but good releases. I've heard Kansas City
Confidential is sort of a masterpiece. I need to see
that one.

Speaker 3 (03:38:52):
I don't know IF's the masterpiece. It's it's cool though
that it's making its way here. To me, this is
like feels at home with the filmmasters. This is a movie,
the right movie on the right label. And I love
these limited edition filmmaster editions that they that they do.

(03:39:12):
What was the other one?

Speaker 2 (03:39:13):
The other one is the Red House.

Speaker 3 (03:39:16):
Say, I'm less familiar with this, but you know what,
I'd give them both the chance. And you know, these
things have been coming up weirdly cheap on Amazon sometimes.
That's how I've been getting a lot of them. Truth
be told. So yeah, it's it's a win.

Speaker 2 (03:39:34):
Win and the Red House Edward g Robinson and Rory Calhoun.

Speaker 3 (03:39:38):
I was gonna say, it looks like the floatinghead of
Edward g Robinson.

Speaker 2 (03:39:43):
Also from Filmmasters coming soon. We don't have releases of
release dates on these, but these are coming from their
archive collection. Sherlock Holmes's Fatal Hour. This is from nineteen
thirty one. Nice Judge from nineteen forty nine, the archive collection.
I believe the these ones are BDRs sadly, and these
are two K or four K scans of the films.

(03:40:06):
They have many scan films that they've been restored, and
they are the best looking releases to date. They won't
have any special features, but they just want to preserve
them and get them out for everybody. These are generally
pretty cheap and very accessible, easy to get.

Speaker 3 (03:40:20):
Yeah, yeah, nice.

Speaker 2 (03:40:22):
Thirty one and forty nine good stuff from film Masters
right on.

Speaker 3 (03:40:26):
Happy to see it.

Speaker 2 (03:40:28):
Only a few more titles left to cover. G Kids
putting out Arcane League of Legend Season two in a
collector's edition four K box set on December eleventh. This
is going to have a lot of extra stuff into it.
If you are into the Arcane League of Legend stuff,
check out the g kids website because this looks like
a pretty damn good package of this. But I know

(03:40:48):
nothing about Arcane League of Legends either.

Speaker 3 (03:40:53):
That sounds like my oldest son's department.

Speaker 2 (03:40:56):
It probably is. October seventh, we are getting a four
K from Warner Brothers of Lights Out from twenty sixteen.
Kind of a surprising four K upgrade, decent little horror
movie made pretty cheap produced by James Wan. I love
that he got this giant marketing push on the top
of this release when he probably had very little to
do with this. Yeah, decent movie. It's it's worth a

(03:41:20):
watch for sure.

Speaker 3 (03:41:21):
I haven't watched it yet. I do own a copy,
not of this, but of an earlier version. The lights
switch with no panel on it taped, so you can't
do anything that that that that's a little too close
to home.

Speaker 2 (03:41:36):
It's pretty sinisterial already.

Speaker 3 (03:41:37):
Yeah, I I've got light switches in the house. I
mean we have panels over him. But you know that
the tape is the tape is real.

Speaker 2 (03:41:45):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (03:41:46):
Sometimes you gotta you gotta make sure they don't turn
these lights off.

Speaker 2 (03:41:50):
I believe this is the last thing tonight. Brother Lawle
come on, I can go post some more announcements.

Speaker 3 (03:41:58):
All right.

Speaker 2 (03:41:59):
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(03:42:22):
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I don't get anything out of this. You can spend
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(03:42:43):
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for anybody that's ever bought vinyl online, shipping vinyl to
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(03:43:03):
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But there's one item in there that comes out in September.
If you've got multiple items open, he will combine some
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(03:43:27):
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I think it's a nice way to pick up some
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(03:43:47):
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Speaker 3 (03:44:04):
I love to order stuff from Brother Belile and Atomic
also is really good. And I will say this these
you're right about the packaging out of Brother Belile. Man
that is that is so it's like, holy crap, how
much bubble Wrap, you know, but I'm ordering the quator

(03:44:28):
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wait to send quator Mass until Blood Orange came out,
which was a few weeks later, so that that did happen,
but I'm fine with that. It's it's really cool to

(03:44:48):
have a ten percent off code from a vendor like this.
Thanks brother Belile. Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:44:56):
This is posted everywhere. If you see this, share it
with everybody else wants to shot there. People are gonna
appreciate that last thing that we always do before we
get into the discussion with Jim that we are now
almost four hours another show. What's coming out next week?
In case you forgot Happy Gilmore four k from Keno,
Drag Me to Hell four k, Steal Look from Screen
Coneheads four k from Keno, Harvey four k from the Studio,

(03:45:19):
Even Blaxploitation Classics Volume two four K from Shout Factory
Xanadu four k. I know that's one of the most
anticipated for many of this month. Gung Ho from Keno
as well, Shoe Shine four k from Keino Are from
Keno from Criterion, Repossessed from Keno, Shinobi Volume two from
Radiance right a Wild stud and The Golden Triangle getting

(03:45:40):
re releases that are wide read releases from Dark Force,
A Confusion Confusion a double feature coming from Criterion, Sense
and Sensibility four K from Sony themselves, The Boys Season
four Sarah Ban for Dead Lovers is from Indicator, Martial
Law from Eureka Through and Through from Radiance Bring Her

(03:46:01):
Back four K, and Blu Ray from A twenty four
The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse from Keno Cult. Here's one
of those limited editions from filmmasters, The Class of seventy
four getting its release next week. Perpetrator from Aero Video.
Patterns getting one of those archives releases from filmmasters. Have
you seen Patterns before?

Speaker 3 (03:46:18):
Jim Floy?

Speaker 4 (03:46:21):
Is that the.

Speaker 3 (03:46:23):
Live television? Where is that Patterns? Is it on here?

Speaker 2 (03:46:31):
Yes? It's the Top Center Road.

Speaker 3 (03:46:33):
Oh okay, okay, okay, Van Heflin You know right?

Speaker 2 (03:46:37):
Written by Rod Serling.

Speaker 3 (03:46:39):
Yeah, Ever television, wasn't it? That was one of those
live TV in the nineteen fifties, in the early days
of television. I could be way off here and is
also in the Criterion ten television box set that they
did on DVD years ago.

Speaker 2 (03:46:58):
I'm not sure about that.

Speaker 3 (03:46:59):
One. Okay, I could have the wrong pattern.

Speaker 2 (03:47:01):
Maybe maybe Aaron might know on that one.

Speaker 3 (03:47:05):
Well, see, I have that set, but I used it
for a class I taught fifteen years ago, a long time.
But yeah, anyway, that's a say I'm hazy on it.
Got it good stuff though, I'm sure it's it's a
good story. Rod Serling, you know anything with this?

Speaker 2 (03:47:23):
Yeah? Yeah. Out of the Clouds from Indicator, Invincible Swordsman.
This is an Amazon exclusive from Wellgo Usa, The Rainbow
Jacket from Indicator, The House of Sand from Sony Pictures Classics,
Tales from the Void. This is a screen box exclusive
release that's coming out widely. Some standards coming out. Other
than that, that is it for next week.

Speaker 3 (03:47:44):
Yeah, I got Shanoby two Volume two pre ordered. Shoeshine,
I'll be picking up one way or the other. And uh, Harvey,
I've never seen that's that's a blind spot. And then
of course bl Exploitation Volume two is a musket.

Speaker 2 (03:48:05):
Yeah, I've got that on the way. I believe very
eager to get that one because uh man, they're doing
good work with these box sets. Yeah all right, well
only four hours into it, Jim, are you ready to
teach a class.

Speaker 3 (03:48:19):
No, I'm tired.

Speaker 2 (03:48:21):
Do I have to we can call it night?

Speaker 3 (03:48:24):
Yeah, I don't. Let's let's let's make this quick, all right.
I teach you it. I teach history of film. I
don't think anybody wants a film history lecture twelve twenty
in the morning. I could be wrong, ma'am. Yeah, I
got my syllabus here. And here's the deal. At my

(03:48:45):
school in the film it's a film school, it's a
it's a media communications school. We do a lot of
things and and you can do you know, you you know.
When I was a student there in the nineties, there
was two classes, History of Film, and then there was
one called Modern World Cinema. History of Film took you
up to Citizen Kan in nineteen forty one. All right,

(03:49:08):
everything eighteen ninety five, the birth of cinema, all the
way to Citizen k nineteen forty one, then the second
class ninety forty one, all the way to where we
were the early nineties. Now we've got a whole another
third of time, you know, the nineteen nineties to now,
that's another three four decades. So in the meantime, they've

(03:49:30):
condensed everything, they've squished it down mercilessly from two classes
over two semesters that each one is twice a week
to now one class in one semester that is once
a week. That's a seventy five percent cutting of stuff
from when I did it to what I'm doing now.

(03:49:53):
So I missed the salad days. I've been wanting to
teach a history of film class very badly, very well.
No I've been one. Let me just teach a history
of film plus very well, quite quite intensely. So anyway
that to say, I finally got my wish, but it's
it's compromised. I've decided to go with for the formative

(03:50:17):
and early stuff to spotlight Alice g Bleche if you're familiar.
Keino put out some of these blu rays of spotlighting
the early work of this woman who is, by most
historical accounts, if not all, the first female filmmaker ever.

(03:50:42):
And you know she got the bright idea to make
narrative storytelling films and made some very bizarre ones. So
I thought I would, rather than spotlight the usual suspects,
you know, Thomas Edison and whomever you know, let's give
Alice gee a a. I mean, her husband's name was

(03:51:02):
Bleche and she divorced him. So a lot of times
you see referred to as Alice Key, because I think
that's probably how she wanted to be known. But anyway,
this was This has been a deep dive for me lately.
I don't know if you're familiar with this or familiar
with this, This is okay, Yeah, it's it's just you know,

(03:51:24):
learning about early cinema. You know, we see glimpses of
this sort of thing and say, uh, you know the
movie Babylon a few years ago. Love to see that
one about early cinema and you see female directors. There
were a lot more female directors in the early years
of cinema than we knew. So I think it's important

(03:51:44):
for students to know this stuff. And it's not just
a woke thing, you know, it's like, hey, let's let's
talk about I think this is this is important, So
I'll be doing it that way. In the meantime. You
know some you know covering the uh you know, the
the the formative and early materials, and it's been a

(03:52:10):
challenge calling through it all.

Speaker 2 (03:52:14):
There is a lot when you're calling a class the
history of film.

Speaker 3 (03:52:20):
Yeah, and so I can only like it's a survey,
is what it has to be. And every week I
can you know, I've I've chosen, like you know, for
the nineteen twenties to focus on Charlie Chaplin and show
the film The gold Rush, partially because I've already lectured
on Chaplain in the past and I have that ready

(03:52:40):
to go. Chaplain, you know, very very important, very formative.
And then and then you know, we go to Metropolis
and then the week after that, you know, Metropolis with
the early German stuff, And now are you a fan
of this German expressionist nineteen twenties kind of yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:52:59):
I mean it's got some very unique imagery. That's one
of the big things that draws me in. And I
mean Chaplain. I well, we're going to talk about it soon.
Def Crocodile was releasing a film that was inspired by
Chaplain and we just did a visual essay that I
compared to some Chaplain stuff. Okay, Yeah, it's it's a
really unique time, I hope people. Yeah, I don't know,

(03:53:22):
there's a lot of the and we're gonna get into
like why watching silent films is important all that stuff,
But I think it's really important too for many of
these to find out what inspired the film that you
like and how those building blocks got to where you
are and what you appreciate.

Speaker 3 (03:53:36):
And that's absolutely it. And I don't think we're saying
anything new or groundbreaking here, but you know, to say
it to a room full of nineteen year olds is
an entirely different matter. And to put to some of
this early, early, early stuff. You know, I'm talking about
kinetops before they were in projecting films, before it was
considered quote unquote cinema, which eighteen ninety five with Lumeier

(03:54:00):
brothers projecting films for an audience that are gathered together
in one room is the birth of cinema. Now, we
had motion pictures before that, but you had to look
through a thing in a booth, you know, the kinetoscopes,
and they tended to be very brief actualities they call them.
And you can look at that stuff and see this

(03:54:21):
is TikTok in eighteen the eighteen nineties, right. I mean,
I just had one go by on the Edison box
set that I'm talking about four hours ago, boxing cats,
you know, boxing cats. This is I mean, it's it's
so we've looped around in some weird ways, you know.

(03:54:45):
So to say that, you know, the early formative silent
films are you know, telling about us in the here
and now is an understatement more so than they have
been in past decades. This is, you know, this is
really hope. I hope it's not lost on the students,

(03:55:11):
and I hope it's not lost on anyone here that
I think. What it signals is that we in twenty
twenty five are kind of at the cusp of something.
I hope that doesn't mean the cinema as we know
it is fading away, but it still matters because like
all history, we look back and we learn and we

(03:55:34):
see where we've been and what to do and what
not to do, and where people have failed and all
of that, and our favorite art form here is very
telling of it.

Speaker 2 (03:55:46):
I don't know, silent film in twenty twenty five, showing
a group of young, able minded individual silent film, How
is that going over right now?

Speaker 3 (03:55:59):
Well, have done it with this group yet, with this material.
Yet It'll go over just fine though, because I mean,
if they don't like it, that's their problem. But usually
for me, I'm able to tap dance, and so you know,
I mean, one of my colleagues at Webster University said

(03:56:22):
that this is you know, I sometimes I feel more
like a stand up comedian than a lecturer. And I'm
sure like people like you know, doctor Will and others
can relate to this.

Speaker 2 (03:56:31):
You know.

Speaker 3 (03:56:32):
It's like we're up there, you know, hamming it up
and do it our thing and making it interesting. Yeah.
My Darren up here in the comments saying that the
experimental filmmaker by a Darren Yeah great, you know, Great
Diminishes in the Afternoon is a great silent you know,

(03:56:54):
experimental film. Anyway back to yeah, you know chaplain works. Well, course,
I gotta butter them up properly, you know, that's my job.
I have to lay the groundwork because otherwise they don't understand.
And I'll be honest with you, you know, sometimes my
attention span isn't the greatest for these early films. But

(03:57:17):
I find that when I get into the groove of
silent movie and it's a good one, it's more absorb
It absorbs me in, It pulls me in more so
than a lot of sound movies do. Yeah, and then
I want more. I'll go on a silent movie tear.

Speaker 2 (03:57:39):
What are what are some of those ones that I
have done that.

Speaker 3 (03:57:40):
For you, well, just recently one that I just returned
from the library.

Speaker 4 (03:57:46):
But it was.

Speaker 3 (03:57:48):
An Able Gainst French silent four hour movie called The
Wheel in English it was a flicker? Was it flicker?
Alley put this out. It was definitely a Lobster Films
black Hawk restoration thing from several years ago, and it
was only on it's so far only on DVD, but

(03:58:10):
it was just spectacular at four hours. You know. Able
Dance was somebody back in the twenties that took big
swings and did big things, and you know, to see
this stuff surviving and coming back around. He made that
Napoleon film that I have still not seen because it's
on you know, they said it's like three screens together

(03:58:31):
kind of an early version of my understanding is of
of cinerama, right, three screens mushed together in a giant,
you know, long, long, long ass silent movie. Right. So anyway,
that was one, you know, watching Diabogance film, and then

(03:58:53):
I went to watch more Able Dance.

Speaker 2 (03:58:58):
As Sibnar just pointed out that as long as this
stream tonight, yeah, yeah, almost impactful.

Speaker 3 (03:59:04):
I feel badly getting into this kind of thing at
this point in the night.

Speaker 2 (03:59:07):
Honestly, I'm going to do it all right, all right,
all right, if you're not and you need to go
to bed, I understand.

Speaker 3 (03:59:13):
Yeah, I'm kinda tired, my we at week. I'll say this,
I'm excited about one other aspect of my class that
I'm that I'm in that I'm going to foist onto
these poor kids. And that's to talk about Cecil b
to Mill. Okay, Cecil b to Mill is a filmmaker

(03:59:35):
that was a household name. You know, a handful of
directors that people back in the fifties, you know, if
they knew who a director was, it was going to
be Hitchcock, and then it was going to be Cecil
b to Mill. And he his influence and importance is actually,
i would say more so in the nineteen twenties and

(03:59:56):
even earlier than that, where de Mill would pioneer certain
visual techniques and expressionistic lighting, a lot of which he
abandoned to you know, go more commercial with his biblical
epics and things. He made ten commandments twice, once in
the twenties and once in the fifties. The fifties one
is the one that's famous very well.

Speaker 2 (04:00:18):
I think flick ra Ally also did that.

Speaker 3 (04:00:20):
Yeah, they did the I think they did the twenties one.

Speaker 2 (04:00:24):
Yeah, and it's.

Speaker 3 (04:00:27):
That's a more interesting movie now the second half of
its modern day and these are very moralizing. It gets
to the like, you know, this kind of weird would
someone say as a hypocritical conundrum of the mill where
he loved to moralize and lecture people on you know,

(04:00:52):
what is what is the right thing to do? You know,
and he would make these biblical epics all through his career.
Nineteen thirty, I have Sign of the Cross. You're familiar.
This is the one that brought at Colbert in a
milk bath. It's about the persecuted Christians, you know, you know,
post resurrection, post Crucifixion, right, all of that. It's like

(04:01:16):
the early Church and they're being hunted down and put it.
There's scenes in this movie that it's a moralizing biblical
epics Sign of the Cross, and I'm going to show
it to them because it is also extremely pre code.
It is a sleezy movie. It if ever there was

(04:01:37):
a movie. Yeah, Sign of the Cross is incredible. Earliest
films to have a lot of nudity, I would say
a lot, but it's eye opening. Yeah. You know, you
got women tied up in the uh gladiatorial arena on posts,
you know, getting attacked by wild animals and things that
they're they're like naked, you know, and it's like all

(04:01:59):
of the flew past the censors because it was biblical,
you know. And it's, uh, we're still in the pre
code era. But that's free code is a little bit
of a misnomer because the code existed, the Hayes Code,
if you're familiar, which was a you know, the the

(04:02:23):
the industry self regulating okay, and uh, they were trying
to keep the Catholic censors off their back and everything,
the Catholic Catholic League and all that and various other
you know, moral judgmental factions in society. It's it's I've

(04:02:47):
got a whole talk about this. I'm making it very
short because I'm I'm very aware of the hour. But uh, anyway,
all that to say, yeah, Sign of the Cross. I
pulled that one out and my colleagues went, oh, wow, okay,
this is already better than anything we did our version

(04:03:08):
of this. Keno Larber puts Sign of the Cross out
on blue ray A while ago. I don't know if
you can still get it. I remember that being a
pretty good release though, and I wish there would be
more good treatment of these kind of cecil B to
Mill films, because I feel like the cecil b de

(04:03:32):
mill quote unquote hypocrisy of moralizing and being sleazy is
of the here and now it's mega. It's it's you know,
we're going to give a pass to this, but we're
going to you know, preach that.

Speaker 4 (04:03:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:03:57):
It's yeah, yeah, Sign of the Cross. Somebody says you
found it, yeah. Twelve ninety twelve forty.

Speaker 2 (04:04:02):
Nine from on Amazon right now.

Speaker 3 (04:04:07):
In Cloud Up, Colbert swimming naked in the milk bath.
You don't see everything per se, but danged if you don't.
Almost and they say the funny story there, you know,
they claimed this was real asses milk. She was swimming
around in you know, she's playing one of these you know,

(04:04:29):
royal subjects and you know she's a big star that
they set over days of filming. It was one of
those famous stories that the milk went bad and it's stunk,
and she still had to get in there and swim
around and pretend like it was luxury. You know, that's
that's disgusting. We should we should keep this movie in

(04:04:53):
our radar just because of that poor Claude movie seventy nine. Yeah,
David Delvell's commentary on that disc is amazing, And yeah,
that guy can do do a knock it out of
the park with a commentary when he's in the zone.

Speaker 2 (04:05:11):
Yeah, David Devell is great.

Speaker 3 (04:05:13):
Yeah, yeah he is. So there you go. Actresses don't
swim milk nowadays. But what else can we say? That's
the first four weeks I'm showing, you know, I'm doing
a spotlight of the Alice gi Blechet stuff. And then
to cover silent comedy again. Chaplain's the gold Rush, which
is one of the most important. Some say it was

(04:05:34):
the Star Wars of its day because of the way
that it was a mass entertainment that in fact did
a lot of visual effects stuff, did a lot of
cutting edge stuff, and was a massive hit. I'd like
Star Wars in nineteen seventy seven, though, Chaplain was pretty

(04:05:57):
much a pre sold.

Speaker 2 (04:05:58):
Thing, right, So with the course like this, are you
going into it assuming that they've seen anything even any
like Cannon like I.

Speaker 3 (04:06:10):
Used to see it even or anything I used to
I don't assume that anymore. I don't think they've seen anything.
I just I assume nobody's seen anything. I mean, uh,
one thing I learned the hard way four or five
years ago when they first let me make my own
class from the ground up, which was the History of
Film Comedy. And uh, I thought, well, there's two ways

(04:06:31):
of going about this. These are probably TCM kids, right.
I know a lot of people that grew up watching TCM.
I didn't, but I know a bunch that. You know,
it's like they grew up watching that. I figured these
kids might know that, so they're not. I would say

(04:06:51):
maybe ninety six percent of my students. And again this
is the media studies slash film school, with the film
studies departments and all this. Ninety six percent of them
coming knowing almost nothing, almost nothing. When I did the
fistric Film Comedy, they didn't know who carry Grant wash. Yeah,

(04:07:16):
they didn't know. I had to explain who Clark Gable was,
you know, I mean, this is this is uh yeah,
just assume they haven't seen anything. And that's I mean,
to us, it's kind of what you know. But they

(04:07:38):
may have seen some kubricks And again that's because these
are film people. Every time I show like Doctor Strangelove,
I get like one or two in the room who
have seen it before, but they've only seen it once
and they don't like it. But you know, it's kubrick.
You gotta watch it.

Speaker 2 (04:07:56):
You gotta let it percolate and watch it probably two
or three times.

Speaker 3 (04:08:01):
Maybe, I don't know, if you you know, you just
need to let it percolate, even if you've only seen
it once. You know, and it you know, if you're
doing it right, if you're paying attention and you weren't
on your phone while the movie was playing or watching
it on your phone, even you know, if you're doing
it right, it should percolate. If it's good, you know,
if it's it should it should jesting right, you know

(04:08:22):
that's what you need. Okay, Next movies, Uh, I'm going
to talk about westerns. In week five. I'm going to
talk about Stage Coach. I'm going to talk about Citizen
Kane the following week. I'm going to talk about Chris
Sowen rascham On the week after that, and then to
focus on Alfred Hitchcock the week after that. And the
film is Rear Window. That gets us to the first

(04:08:43):
half of the semester. I don't know if you care
to hear what else I got. Of course, all right,
if you insist, then we come back French new Wave
The four hundred Blows by Friends Truffau. I'm excited to
talk about the rise of New Hollywood in the nineteen sixties,
the late nineteen sixties and show them Easy Writer. This

(04:09:07):
is a movie I guarantee they haven't seen, and I
don't know that any film history people were showing this
to anymore, like Cecil b to Mill. I think Easy
Writer has kind of falling between the cracks in some ways.
It's still referred to as seminal. Here's one that I
could ask about for anybody who has an opinion new

(04:09:30):
German cinema. I want to show the Marriage of Maria
Braun because I like it more and you know, by
Reyner Verner Fosspender, but A Gear of the Wrath of
God by Werner Herzog is a half hour shorter and
I don't have that much time. I agree that Easy
Writer is essential film. That that's why I'm putting it on.

(04:09:53):
But again in academia, I don't hear about it, you know,
I don't hear about it being shown to students very
much anymore, right, So I'm looking to correct that. So yeah,
I mean, if anybody has an opinion about a Gear
the Wrath of God, what should I show the students
as their one taste of the new German cinema movement,

(04:10:15):
which I think is so fascinated that it's a gearra.
There's one vote for that.

Speaker 2 (04:10:23):
I love I love.

Speaker 3 (04:10:26):
Randerverter Fossbender's melodrama. Though. Have you seen any of those films?

Speaker 2 (04:10:33):
No, I've seen A Gear a few years ago, but
I need to watch it again. I don't have much
to compare it to. It's obviously it's fairly unique for
what it is. It's been a.

Speaker 3 (04:10:44):
Long time since I've watched it, probably at least fifteen years. Yeah,
and I've seen Maria Marriage to Marie Brown a lot
more recently because Criterion sent me a box set to review.

Speaker 2 (04:10:55):
Yeah. See, I've not seen that one for sure.

Speaker 3 (04:10:57):
Yeah, great, great blu ray box set of the trilogy
by Fossbender. But yeah, it's a good movie because you know,
Germany post World War two had what's called the economic Miracle,
and these people were suppressing their Nazi past and refusing
to look at it, and these filmmakers and the New

(04:11:18):
German cinema movement were deliberately holding a mirror up to
the society and saying, look, we have to confront this,
we have to deal with it, and they don't want to.
These movies were not big hits in Germany at all.
They played in international film festivals because the rest of
the world, of course, thought, oh, well that's we adore this,
you know, we love that you're doing that. But eventually,

(04:11:41):
you know, oh, Fox and his Friends interesting Daniel Kramer,
who would know? They're recommending that one? My gosh, yeah,
that's a good But how long is Fox and his Friends?
I don't know off the top of my head. I've
only got three hours a week, and I have to
lecture for one of the hours. So if that movie's

(04:12:03):
too long, if it's any longer than two hours, I
pretty much can't do it sometimes, which is I hate
to say, but yeahs off.

Speaker 2 (04:12:17):
The table, Fox and his Friends is two hours four minutes.

Speaker 3 (04:12:21):
Oh gosh, okay, I could I could actually make that work.
I could make that work. I'll check it out, Thank you, Daniel,
thank you, I will. I'll take that into consideration. Then
vendors Adam asked about for New German Cinema. I did
a talk on New German cinema many years ago, and
my film of choice and then was Wings of Desire.
I love Wings of Desire. I think it's a little

(04:12:43):
long for my time frame here, but and also Wings
of Desires a little late in the New German cinema movement.
Yeah eighty six, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:12:58):
But I do love it.

Speaker 3 (04:12:59):
I'm I'm not sure how well it would do holding
people's attention. They another a colleague of mindset. He showed
it in his one of his film history classes. He
showed Wings of Desire, and they thought by the time
you get to Nick cave in the club, they thought
that he was some sort of spoof of that sort

(04:13:20):
of thing. And it's like, no, you guys, it's like
that's Nick early Nick cave do an early Nick cave Man.
I don't know. Yeah, So Alice in the Cities is
another recommendation. I will take that into account as well.
Thank you. I'm going to show them. I'm gonna switch
the following week after New German Cinema, we're going to

(04:13:42):
talk about Spielberg and the Block, the Rise of the
American blockbuster, and I'm just going to show et this
will be interesting. Have they seen et?

Speaker 2 (04:13:51):
It's a great question. Probably not.

Speaker 3 (04:13:53):
It could go either way. I'm guessing a bunch at
least probably have it.

Speaker 2 (04:13:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:13:59):
I felt been putting it on there, and then I
realized they don't watch this, have they? I don't know.
The following week, I had Children of Men on the
syllabus as an example of post nine to eleven cinema,
which I thought I could lecture on, and I decided

(04:14:21):
to change that over to Stay because I'd just be
glazing over the late eighties and early nineties and I
don't feel like I had enough queer representation in here
at all. So I went with Pedro Almodovar and Women
on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Smart. I hope
that's a good choice. I love that movie. And you know,

(04:14:46):
I'll have representation for like the Oscar Micheu early you know,
you know, quote unquote race films and whatnot in the
earlier weeks and things like that, and any kind of
queer representation and female representation that we can muster, because
this is of course very white, male centric. Cannon established

(04:15:09):
and only in recent decades, maybe only last decade and
a half in earnest, has there been any kind of
pushback against what that cannon ought to look like.

Speaker 2 (04:15:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:15:23):
Yeah, And this is coming from the guy who says, hey,
let's bring back cecil b to Mill.

Speaker 2 (04:15:31):
You know, great choice from the establishment.

Speaker 3 (04:15:34):
Thank you, thank you, film nuts. So I'm trying to
walk the line here. I'm trying to show them a
picture of here's what. You know, there was this cecilby
de mill presence in that people bought into and went
for in in filmdom, and we're someplace different now, just

(04:16:01):
just a little bit. Yeah, so you know, but it's
like trying to just take them on this journey, uh
a journey. Yeah, there you go. Then the last movie,
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, because we're going to talk the
dream place, right, It's the dream. That's what it all

(04:16:21):
comes down to. It's the dream factory.

Speaker 2 (04:16:24):
Interesting, I was going to ask what was going to
be the most modern. That's uh, that's the most Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:16:30):
I want to get out before the book ends. The
textbook we're using ends in two thousand and eight, so
I figure that'll be a cut off. That's probably around
the time they're born. So uh, we'll get out We'll
get out there. Yeah, I'm excited to show Mulholland drive
and talk about Lynch and and really get into that.

(04:16:52):
Grabbing clips off those Blu rays and DVDs will be
a bitch though, because of no chapter stops. But uh,
that's all We're going to be.

Speaker 2 (04:17:02):
Doing great, I mean, yeah, it's a really interesting idea
just to I don't know, transport into the mind of
how do you capture this for somebody that has little
to no knowledge of the canon, little to no knowledge
of why it's canon, or even what the canon is
at the heart of it, and why you know, why

(04:17:24):
chaplain is essential, why German expressionism is essential, why why
some of these are things that can literally shape the
taste and potentially your future career if you're literally going
to film school for film.

Speaker 3 (04:17:36):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's a matter of for me walking
that line between here's what was canon and and it's
an exclusionary canon big time, right, But let's look at
what was good about this stuff that was the canon
for so long. We'll do some of that, but we're
also going to spotlight other things too that were that

(04:17:57):
were excluded and paint the try is best as I
can with an hour a week to paint that full picture.
And you know, that's what I think that that's that's
what we need to keep alive, you know, and the
and the physical media signe too. You know, as far
as you know, preserving history and all this goes. We

(04:18:18):
preserve a lot you know, s s, experiment, love camp whatever.
I mean, it's important that we that we preserve this
sort of you know, wacky Drek and not level in
it because.

Speaker 2 (04:18:32):
You know we're.

Speaker 3 (04:18:35):
Into the Nazi torture aspect or what I hope that's
not the appeal, you know, but yet you know these
movies existed, Yeah, and they're out there, and the same goes.
You know, versus will be to Millon the Sign of
the Cross and all this other early to mill stuff

(04:18:55):
that I'm having a real art time finding.

Speaker 2 (04:18:58):
Well. And that's that's why people like Daniel Kramer, who
was just in here and hopefully still listening, are so
important to this because there are contextual documentaries and commentaries
and visual essays and writing on many of these directors
that have been overlooked throughout the years or not seen
as part of the canon that are now finally being rediscovered. Thankful,

(04:19:21):
thankfully to archivists and people that are historians now giving
proper due to people that worked for years with literally
no recognition. And I mean, like Daniel's documentary on Silvio
is incredible and it's shipping now from Imprint, by the way,
everybody should check that out. But that sort of thing

(04:19:43):
is literally like film school for a lot of these things.
It's literally like a course. And people like Daniel have
inspired me specifically to do so much of what I'm
doing with trying to capture some of this and get
it out there. I don't see it's not even truly
possible to capture everything, it feels like, and so some

(04:20:04):
of these people having small niches are are the only
way that we're able to shine a spotlight on certain
subjects here. And it's incredibly important.

Speaker 3 (04:20:13):
I agree. And and yeah, film not over here, says
John Waters and Russ Meyer. I covered John Waters in
the comedy history class last week. That was that was
part of that and that one that was that was
a lot of fun. That was that was very eye
opening too.

Speaker 2 (04:20:28):
What would you have them watch? Did you get to
show them any watch?

Speaker 3 (04:20:31):
We watched clips. We watched clips of Pink Flamingos and
not the clip of Pink Filamingos. But I did explain it,
and then what else did it was in there? I think, gosh,
was it? I mean, you know, one of the earlier
in one of the laters of cry Baby, and then

(04:20:55):
and then the russ Meyer. I did not he did
not make the cut into comedy class. And as it
turns out, I'm glad because it's not all funny, right,
but he'll be I'll try I work him in as
best I can. Like I said, I got to do
a survey here, and I'd love to to hell with that,

(04:21:17):
showed Dematto. Oh good lord, Yeah, that's a different class.
That might be what Aaron Abashan, who's my boss's boss
does over there. He he He would actually probably be
able to pontificate to students about this at the risk

(04:21:38):
of losing his job.

Speaker 2 (04:21:41):
Doctor will cover some of that.

Speaker 4 (04:21:43):
I know.

Speaker 3 (04:21:44):
I'm glad that they Yeah, I got skittish showing blazing saddles.
I was like, is this gonna be all good? It
was fine, It was fine. I had my comedy history
class buttered up and ready to watch Woody Allen's any Hall.
And we got right up to the point where it's
time to watch the movie and this freaking blu ray
is defective.

Speaker 2 (04:22:03):
Oh that's right. I remember you saying that the discord. Yeah,
that's that's awful.

Speaker 3 (04:22:07):
We had a we had a a great conversation, but
I had I had a room full of college students.
You think, are oh, these are woke, fragile snowflakes or
what have you know? They're ready to go. They're ready
to go. We'll see it's whatdy ollen, Okay, whatever, let's
see it. You know, we get it. He's he's a pig. Fine,
he's also funny. Anyway. I don't know what else we

(04:22:34):
got here. That's that's what I'm doing. It's it's it's
one o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (04:22:40):
It's about to be one o'clock in the morning for
those on the East Coast, it's two in Australia. It's
the afternoon on Friday. I feel like I could do
this for hours. Humans has been fun.

Speaker 3 (04:22:49):
Oh I don't know. Could we I couldn't. I would
love to be able to.

Speaker 2 (04:22:57):
You've done four and a half hours, and that's much
more than I expected.

Speaker 3 (04:23:00):
I'm on my second and third win. That said, I
don't know, maybe when I'm on these things, I need
to go to doctor will route and just just bail
after we do the you know, the format, these these
extra conversations. I feel like this one was it's a lot.
It's a lot, but I think.

Speaker 2 (04:23:18):
We had a lot to cover tonight. But the history
of film is a daunting discussion topic.

Speaker 3 (04:23:23):
Yeah, I was like, good, good, lord, So that's my
history of film at a freaking glance. We could talk
more about it wherever, discord, what have you. It's been
my you know, when I started Zeke Film, however many
years ago, that was to have a platform that I
could make video essays. I've never you know, I haven't

(04:23:45):
really done it. I encourage my students to do it
if they don't want to write a paper, but you know,
getting into the the commentary game and all that is
something down the road maybe yeah, but you know, it's
it's one of those one of those.

Speaker 4 (04:24:02):
You know, the.

Speaker 3 (04:24:05):
Finding a way to channel this desire to educate into
different directions.

Speaker 2 (04:24:12):
Yeah, that's been a weird area for me to dip
into as well. I mean, someone's favorite productions is something
that we started to be entertaining in an educational way
and also educational in an entertaining way, and those are
two very different things, and a lot of people don't
seem to think about that on some of these extras.

(04:24:32):
And I mean some of the stuff that we've covered
in visual essays specifically recently have been either a stretch
or very inspiring, and that spectrum is really fun to
explore in and I really hope it's something that people
are actually checking out on discs, because as usual when

(04:24:55):
you're reading disc reviews, a lot of people do not
even acknowledge that they are extra is, let alone actually
analyze them or even give any sort of feeling other
than it exists usually, So I don't know, it's it's
tough because a lot of this is rather thinkless, and
that includes film education.

Speaker 3 (04:25:13):
Like you, I know, it's it's all under an umbrella shared.
So yeah, kudos to those of you who are you know,
doing this on the physical media side for peanuts, And
it's important. It's important to have this because even if
nobody is acknowledging your work, now it's out there on

(04:25:36):
a disc and it'll carry over. Hopefully it's got an
evergreen quality about it. I like it when they timestamp it.
When somebody says, you know, we're recording this, it's April
twenty twenty one, and this is happening. You know, it's
like okay, you know, don't try to pass everything off
like Disney does, as we just made all this yesterday.

Speaker 2 (04:25:59):
Yep. We had to do that on the commentary recently
because it was very politically relevant.

Speaker 3 (04:26:04):
We shall say good, well, good, you know that's important.
I mean, don't yeah, no, no need to stand the
edges off of how we feel about things. You know,
this is where we are. It's art and it's all political.

Speaker 2 (04:26:18):
Well, and that's true about education. In a time when
all fields of education are being attacked from multiple different angles,
whether that be banning books or removing funding or what
have you. I think education on the arts is even
more so in danger, and so for that, I definitely
want to say thank you, Jim. I mean, you're inspiring

(04:26:39):
a future generation I hope, and I hope we all
are doing that. You're even doing that tonight, So I
appreciate you all. This has been a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (04:26:47):
Well, I love to be here and do this. This
is always so much fun. But I'll be honest with you.
I'm just I'm being I'm disconnected is great now, but
I'm I'm just looking to. My real destination is the
Tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys, and I just want to get
to that and I get to or I mean, I'm being,

(04:27:10):
you know, in all seriousness, it really is a lot
of fun and I very much appreciate being here. Anybody
else wants to add me on, I'll be on. I
don't want to.

Speaker 2 (04:27:20):
If you want to be on Hunter show, he will
ask you tonight. If I guess, let's do it, Let's
do it.

Speaker 3 (04:27:25):
I'm serious, I'm serious, I want to be on. I
love being a guest on other people's shows, and I
I'm no good at at helming my own.

Speaker 2 (04:27:35):
Though, well we might talk about that because I had
this idea and I was going to bring.

Speaker 3 (04:27:40):
It up, so okay, okay, okay, we'll talk about something
else there, but you know, uh but okay, fine, okay, fine,
but but but yeah, anything else, let's be on. I'll do.
I'd love to be the be on the Western Show
and this show, this show again in a year when

(04:28:02):
I come out here and read another syllabus.

Speaker 2 (04:28:05):
The last time you were on everybody said, please get
Jim back soon, and it's been too long. But you've
been You've been a rather busy person this year.

Speaker 3 (04:28:13):
So I've been busy and I don't have that much energy.

Speaker 2 (04:28:18):
Yeah, sext time, let's have it not one hundred announcement
night for you?

Speaker 3 (04:28:23):
Who can control that? I joke and say, let's break
the record, But honestly, you know, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:28:33):
Yeah, Doug wants, so do you teach online classes?

Speaker 3 (04:28:37):
Ummm, no, I'm not. I'm I'm I'm very open to it.
I'm very open to it. It sounds like it's just
something I haven't done yet. Yeah, I'm curious to One
of these days, I'm going to make time and check
out what Aaron and Sine Journeys is doing and how
they're doing it, and then try to weasel my way

(04:29:00):
into that. I don't know, but uh, you know, it's
it's that kind of uh I have. I've done a
few online lectures for retirees as part of an organization
here in Saint Louis called the Oasis, and it's gone national,
but I I don't know that my talks have gone national,
but yeah, I'd love to do it.

Speaker 2 (04:29:24):
Amazing as I stated earlier. Please check out the links
for Jim's writing, which don't get as much as he
probably wants nowadays. Zeke film screen Anarchy linked in the
description below. Check him out. Go watch Gone Girl. Uh
what else do you care about that? Anything else? We

(04:29:46):
want to promote their Jim.

Speaker 3 (04:29:48):
Uh, no, watch watch your watch movies. Go to the library,
get some rent some discs because they need to know
that people are renting discs even if you don't watch them.
Just rent some discs.

Speaker 2 (04:30:02):
Guys, word Education support PBS. We talked about PBS. Yeah,
allow your support.

Speaker 3 (04:30:07):
Yeah, and I don't know, I think we've hit it.
So thank you Ryan, thanks platform.

Speaker 2 (04:30:17):
Thank you Jim. We'll see all next Thursday. Check out
the links of the description for everything. Have a good night,
get some rests. Jim, thanks for four and a half
hours of your life.

Speaker 3 (04:30:25):
You're welcome.

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