Hey, hey, everybody out there, what's going on. I'm a I'm
a little slow getting used to this. Tonight it is my son's birthday and
we literally like just ran in the door to get here on time. Yeah,
we just got back, getting fat and happy, feeling extra fat in
the shirt. Tonight at Red Robin gave my kid the choice of everywhere to
eat, and he couldn't make up his mind till the last minute, so
we were later getting out than we expected, which wasn't great. But I'm
here. I'm glad to see you. I'm I'm glad to be with you.
We got kind of a lot to cover this week, not a ton,
but there are some really big ones, like Columbia Classics Volume three was
officially announced this week, and we we kind of had some leaks that this
was coming earlier, but this one we found out that it was going to
have a lot more I don't really just want to say special features, because
there's a lot of stuff on this one that we did not see coming at
all. So excited for that, Excited that you all are here with me,
and uh, yeah, I feel like I had something else talk about,
but I don't. I guess I could give an update. The patreon
is going super strong. We not this weekend, but probably next weekend,
so I guess that would be let me know if there's fourteenth, probably the
twenty first of August or maybe the twenty eighth of August. I haven't decided
yet. One of those is gonna be the Patreon watch along for this month,
and we are going to be watching another full movie together, And if
you want in on that and you're not on the Patreon, make sure you
get in there before it goes down. Just to highlight again right now,
because it's before the twentieth of the month. If you sign up before the
twentieth of the month, you will be eligible for that month's giveaway if you
sign up at the VIP level, and we've got a lot of people eligible.
We've had a lot of really great packages going out so far each month
since gosh, I think I've sent out five or six packages since we started
the patreon, and each one has been pretty damn killer, if I do
say so myself. So if you want in on that level, link is
in the description below. Let's say hi to everybody. What's going on?
That's my comment, Jeff, what's going on? My friend. Glad you're
here, Sardis Okay, you got the video? Good. I hope it
worked out. I realized right after I sent it I didn't include how to
turn on notifications. If you still want that, let me know. When
you go to the discord the server for disconnected, there's a settings button and
it says manage notifications and you can turn them on in there. Zach,
my friend, what's going on? H Lissa? Thank you for that.
Minis just turned six today and we went to Red Robin and they are very
boisterous with the way they sing happy Birthday, and man, my kid is
hilarious because he was he was stoked because of course it's Red Robin. There's
nine hundred and twelve other people eating and five other birthdays before his, so
everybody was clapping and singing, and he was singing to everybody else. But
then when they came to sing happy birthday to him, he did not love
it. He he got really shy and put his face in my armpit and
he sure ate his ice cream real quick. That's for sure. What's going
on? Terry and Mitchell's here? My friend John? What's up? Cam?
Hey? Hey, Swift is here? Happy Thursday to you, my
friend Fanatical Dragon. I will take this moment to shout out Fanatical Dragon and
I had a really wonderful conversation which turned into this really exclusive face reveal of
the Fanatical Dragon that was placed on the channel I believe last Friday, and
we talked about premium editions, primarily things like one clicks and those crazy steal
books specifically from Asia. For the most part, they're huge. There not
really so many here, I do hilariously, there is some talk with another
label about those types of releases, and that interview is going to be going
up on Monday, so pay attention to that. Thank you, Cam.
I'll let them know I appreciate that. Chuck E Cheese, man, that
was the greatest. Yeah, we took. I think we took my oldest
to Chuck E cheese right before the pandemic hit is his birthdays in February,
and that was an interesting one. Yeah, Fanatical definitely gonna do a part
two eventually, and especially when people like Swift and sartists are all stoked on
it. Yeah, I'm glad, so glad you hear everybody that being said.
I wanted to throw out it has been a very busy week for me.
I like I think most people knew. My sister was here last week
from Arizona, and then this week I had to go into the office for
some big fancy pants like leadership conference basically of all of the the big wigs
from my region that I'm in charge of. And we we had to do
a lot more than I expected. And I had planned on getting a video
out tomorrow with me and my sister, but the editing just did not get
done in time, unfortunately, So we're gonna be rolling those out here soon.
Me and my sister did record a lot together, like four videos,
and I think you guys are gonna love those, So look for those out
in the next coming probably four weeks or so. I don't want to put
them all that at once, but I don't want to, you know,
put them out for the next month and a half or something like that.
So yeah, be able to look out for those. My sister is amazing
and I was so stoked that she was able to visit. So I'm glad
man. Seems like all kinds of people were stoked on that side of collecting
Dragon. I'm very happy that you guys really responded to that. Yeah,
that side of collecting it gets crazy. Lisa washed it as well. It's
good to know. I don't like being a fancy Pants. I just want
to sit at home and in like basketball shorts and be able to never do
my hair. I mean, I can't say I don't do my hair because
I don't have to do much. Anyways, let's get into some announcements.
Huh. I don't want to go, oh that's artist. I think fancy
Pants was above Hope film. I think it was too, Yes, so
this is gonna be the big the big elephant in the room. So I'm
gonna talk about this real quick. By Fur brought up the Shasco Volume two.
It did leak because of Amazon, of course, and it appears Arrow
is probably announcing that tomorrow. Unfortunately, because there is no press release out,
I have not posted it about it yet. So we will talk all
about that set for next Thursday, probably as long as it gets announced tomorrow.
But it appears Shastco Volume two genuinely looks really great. So yeah,
next next Thursday night, we're gonna have that conversation. Make sure that it
gets officially announced. I don't want to step on Arrows toes like Amazon did
and the other the other announcement account that'll pretty much all of you probably follow
he he leaks all the things. But I really try not to do that
because the labels really don't like that, and most of them have told me
that they really hate that. All right, let's get into some of these
announcements again as usual. If you have any questions, post them in there.
As soon as I see them, I will try to get to them.
I do have a couple random things that I wanted to highlight as pickups
later. Yeah, nothing huge tonight, but I did want to highlight those
patrons. I have been really light on the pickups video yesterday or not yesterday
the last couple weeks because of my sister and then this conference. But I
will have one coming up in the next couple of days that will be going
up for you all to see, and that will include all of this as
well. And looking around like I set something else else out for myself,
but I don't see anything, so let's get into it. Let me share
my screen here first. One up is kind of a big one for me.
This is quite a fun movie. We got Ski Patrol coming to MVD.
Rewind This is coming on November twenty second, and this is its first
time on Blu Ray ever, which is great. This is from nineteen ninety
and one of those really silly comedies and I'm stoked that mdy rewind is once
again coming back for the titles that have never been released anywhere, and I'm
grateful for that. Like I do understand the collectors that want things that have
been out of print and all of that fun stuff, but these brand new
titles are really where it gets exciting because it means new licenses. It not
always, but it potentially means new deals are still coming with some of the
studios. And a film like this that if you haven't seen Ski Patrol,
just to let you in on the secret, like this is one a lot
of people love. This one is great and it's genuinely really funny. So
in case you don't know all the details, this is nineteen ninety. Like
I said, the Least on the Snowy Peaks Lodge, a popular ski resort,
is up for renewal and its owner Pops has no worries about signing a
new lease, despite his Ski Patrol and out of control group of skiers led
by Jerry and iceman. The resort has an impeccable safety record. However,
a devious land developer played by Martin Mule has other plans in mind for the
resort and hires the talents of a young blonde named Lance to undermine the ski
patrol's efforts to keep the slopes safe. And there is all kinds of random
faces that make not necessarily cameos, but like really short appearances in this.
It's a very fun movie, very like mad cap like police Academy type of
film, and it looks like a great release. By the way, they
did say this is not gonna have a bunch of special features as you see
here, literally nothing but the original trailer and the VHS trailer. So because
of that, they are going to cost less than most of their releases,
and these are already MVD rewind is generally pretty cheap already, and so if
they're gonna be charging less, I would not be surprised if this comes out
at like seventeen bucks or eighteen bucks MSRP, which means you can probably find
this for like thirteen or fourteen dollars fairly quickly, So be on the lookout
for this one. This will be cheap, and I would highly recommend this
even if you have never seen this. Let's see what's going on in comments,
quite rab what's going on? My friend Hilton wants to know if I
shelled out for the Air four four four four titles. Let me let me
tease that because I did just sort of mention something. I happen to have
my two Air four four four Did I say the right number fours releases here
on hand? Because that interview coming out on Monday was with Air four four
four four, and I think I'm the I was only the the third interview
they've done, and uh, they seem to really enjoy it. The interview
was really fun, goes really through the minutia of things, and this is
a company that has not been very public so far, so I think that
this is one that you guys are going to be very interested in on Monday.
This is a really exciting company and one to support which to go for
a long answer there for you, Hilton, Yes, I definitely did.
I've been waiting for Centipede Horr specifically for a long long time, so that
one the moment that got announced, I was going to be on the pre
order train. But yes, it is going to look really, really great,
And uh yeah, I would just say if you are interested in any
of the air four four four four titles so far, please come on on
Monday and listen to that interview I did with them. They are incredible people
and and really going to surprise you with some of the things that they say
and talk about the fact that we really knew nothing about them previously. It
answers a lot of potential questions. And I don't want to sell this like
this amazing thing, but the interview might actually be a little inspiring to a
lot of you because they are kindly what was that word? They are kind
of just like a lot of us and have been really big collectors and they
wanted to start a label and they did, so we go into that quite
deeply. So make sure you check that out on Monday. I think you're
gonna love it. Dustin's here. What's going on? Dustin and Eric,
one of my longest YouTube friends, Hello, completely agree Jeff. Jeff says
that companies need to do more of that. If there are less extras,
cut the price a little. The only time I really like I understand keeping
the price the same is if full license costs a lot. For example,
like Fright Night. We're getting a massive, really loaded release from the studio
trying to open a drink, sorry, which I'm super grateful about. But
because Fright Night is such a big title. If it had been light but
it was still gonna be like a thirty dollars title, I kind of would
have understood it. I mean, it's fright Night. It's that wasn't cheap
to license, I'm sure, but thankfully the studio is putting it out themselves
so they don't have to pay for licensing video. Man in what is going
on? He says, working day and night now on a tom Cruise movie.
Very nice. Never time for relaxing with YouTube. Nice to have you
on the background. Well, thanks for letting me in and spending some of
that time with you. Land in my biggest commercial a week ago, so
there will be a lot of work for four weeks. Beautiful. I hope
to hear what the commercials for hopefully soon. Let me know if you can
share what is for going to film festival this month with the latest movie,
biggest underground festival in Europe. Dang, very nice. Congratulations man, you
got a busy month ahead of you. That's fantastic. John, Yes,
John and I we talked about this earlier, KAT three forever. I really
hope more of those titles come out. And just to highlight by for he
says, forty five people watching, I hope there's at least forty five likes
below. Go ahead and click that button, see if we can get some
more people interested. Dead Sea Life. There you are. What's going on,
my friend? Glad you have joined us. We are honestly still on
the first announcement, so you've not missed much, so glad you are here.
Next one is the next MVD title. They announced that Panther from nineteen
ninety five is making once again it's Blu ray debut. So one of these.
On the left here you're gonna see cover A. This is the slip
cover, and then on the inside they will have cover B here. This
is coming November twenty second as well. This is not MBD rewind though.
This is the MBD Marquee collection and again, like I said, making its
Blu Ray debut for the first time ever, which is great. Ken my
friend, Hello video man, It says, my latest movie is called Pandemonic.
That's a great title. A ninety minute movie that's been in the works
for thirty years. Jeez started filming an eighty seven on eight millimeter, then
on video in the nineties. That is gosh, that's got to be intense.
That's really awesome though interesting, So you must have finished on digital.
Then I assume that that's great to see multiple formats. I would love to
see that. So this one is kind of a big deal for those that
don't know. This is written by Melvin Ban Can't Speak. Written by legendary
filmmaker and author Melvin Van Peebles, who did Sweet Sweedback's Badass Song on his
own novel and then directed by Mario Van Peebles. Panther features an all star
cast including Kadeem Hardisan, Bokeem Woodbine, Jodahn Baker, Chris Tucker, James
le Gross, m Emmett Walsh, Robert Colp, James Russo, Bobby Brown,
and Tyron Turner. But this this is again another light on features title.
But this is what a lot of people know about and kind of a
bigger title, especially having Van Peebles attached to it. So I am I
am stoked about this. I really hope that people check this one. Out.
I believe I saw this shortly, probably about four or five years after
this came out, and have not seen it since then because it's not been
the easiest film to see, So can't wait to see this again. MVD
Marquee Collection has already been a little bit cheaper, but again, they're gonna
be pricing this even less because they understand that. So yes, I do
really hope that other companies take that action and really start paying attention that if
they are putting out a title with less features, they can potentially charge less.
That would be nice, and I assume consumers would probably notice. Bay
Man says, just finished it in twenty twenty. We'll just have two screenings
before it has gone what two screenings for it's gone forever forever? I want
to copy toom Savini, Christina Lidberg, ailed Gail is acting in it.
Very nice, mister Howard, how are you been a while? My friend?
Let's check out the next one. This is from Cohen Media, which
is a partner label of Keno Lorber, and we are getting a Knife in
the Head from nineteen seventy eight, which is getting a brand new four K
restoration. Kind of surprised on that one. I'm glad we're getting it.
But yeah. So from nineteen seventy eight, Bruno Ganz gives a tour force
performance as Hoffman. What I mean, how often has the name Hoffman been
used in crime films? Hilarious? Anyways, he plays as Hoffman, an
innocent bystander who survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid
on a group of revolutionaries. I mean, I'm already sold on this,
but let's keep going. In order to justify the shooting, the police claim
he is a dangerous radical who attacked a policeman. The leftist revolutionaries, in
turn claim him as a hero and victim of police brutality. As Hoffman struggled
to recover from the trauma, trauma to his brain and memory loss, he
must try to piece together what really happened that fateful night. Featuring a stunning
first solo scorer by Irmin Schmidt, co founder of the legendary krat rock band
Can and This is gonna have an interview with the director and an interview with
the exec producer. I gotta be honest, John, I agree with you.
Judas in The Black Messiah is similar and quite underseen However, I've still
not seen it and I really need to. I do think I have it
here and I really need to put it in and I love Daniel Khaluia,
So yeah, I definitely need to see that one. Ken says, starting
to get overwhelmed by the pre order list, so much stuff coming out.
We still got November December announcements, and it's getting heavy, like this is
the time of year, primarily September through It's usually September through November, but
sometimes we'll get some December heavy hitters like it appears Shoscope is probably going to
be a December release again. And we're not even talking sale titles yet for
those you know those labels that have their November sale like severn In, Vinegar
Syndrome. And there's some big stuff coming this year that has already been announced
and also some that has not been announced yet. So this is a lot.
Video Manage says, I loved Pantheron as a child. Remember the release
of it on VHS in Norway had restricted all over the cover. Wow?
Yeah interesting, So yeah, I would check this one out personally. This
one sounds great. I don't think i've ever seen this one. BFI.
They started putting out some announcements and some of these look magnificent. A lot
of these, A lot of these, I guess there's only like four or
five, so a lot of these might be in misnomer. A few of
these are titles that people have really been wanting for a long time. So
with BFI, these are UK releases and I can only hope that we're getting
some of these in the States, but we shall see. Coming on October
twenty fourth in four K from BFI is Watership Down from nineteen seventy eight.
If you have never seen Watership Down, this is a depressing, depressing film,
but it's one that everybody should see. A Dragon says November twenty first
for Shoscope. Interesting. Interesting, Yeah, this one is an apocalyptic vision
pushes a group of rabbits to abandon their warren in search of a new home
in this landmark British animation. I think most people have seen this, so
I won't go too much into detail. However, check this out. Newly
restored in four K by BFI and silver salt restoration using the original thirty five
millimeter neg and stereo audio tracks. This landmark animation is presented in UHD for
the very first time, and it looks like a solid, solid looking release.
We get the film on four K on disc one. It's got Dolby
Vision and HDR ten. This two has an HD presentation of the feature plus
the extras. Most of these do not look to be brand new. Most
of these are going to be reused legacy features. We got the Super eight
version of the film, conversation with the filmmakers from two thousand and five,
short featurette about the film's aesthetic, some other small things. We got newly
created optional English subs for the deaf and partial hearing, and then there is
a double sided poster featuring the original UK quad and the twenty twenty two re
release artwork which I actually really like this new artwork. It looks really good.
And then a set of four postcards that you can see at the bottom
here featuring iconic scenes, and then a perfect bound book featuring new rite on
the film by Jay Stewart and Catherine Lester, and other extras to be confirmed,
which means we may still be getting some new extras, which is really
cool. Terry's asking, wouldn't this would this be BFI's first four K.
I don't think so did I didn't. Didn't BFI release one of the Let's
see who did they? They put out one from some huge filmmaker, right,
dang it? Why can I not think of it right now? Oh,
it's a good gosh, what is the name? Uh? Let me
google? And by the time I googled, somebody else is probably gonna be
posting it in the comments. There we go the seventh Seal and then yes,
get Carter was just released. The seventh Seal is the one I was
thinking of. That was the very first release, and then obviously that that
is one. I think that Bergermann was their first one, right, I
think that one was their first. But yes, BFI is really getting into
it and this looks great. Let's see so much going on in the comments.
Ken says, I'm an impulse buyer, can't hold out for sales.
Totally get that feeling. There is a lot I would like, but knowing
I can't swing it does make it easier and it's I mean, that's that's
hard though too. Just can't do it. Yeah, And that's the thing.
When you can't get everything, it really makes you appreciate the ones that
you can get in and really understand that you know, if you're only able
to get a few this month, perhaps those few, you're really going to
dive in and appreciate all of the special features, all of you know,
the book that comes with it, and really just get every single penny's worth
out of it. That's highly recommend doing that to make sure that you're not
just to spend money to spend money. Coming on October tenth from BFI is
The Ballad of tam Lynn. This is from nineteen seventy and this is one
I believe Imprint put this out Previously loosely based on the traditional Scottish folk ballad.
This nineteen seventy one rarity star silver screen icon Ava Gardner as mysterious and
wealthy older woman who uses witchcraft to exercise control over a group of younger hippies
and thrill seekers. This is played by Ian McShane, Juanna Lumley and Bruce
Robinson. Features music by folk rock legends Pentangle and spectacular cinematography by Billy Williams.
This is part folkore and part blow up style swinging sixties critique. This
unique cult film is being made available for the first time on Blu Ray in
the UK and they are working on some other features on this, but we
do have a new interview with the lead singer of the British folk jazz band
that is featured in the film. And you got the old interview with Roddy
McDowell on here, and a new booklet with new writing on the film by
William Fowler. Hoping they get some other ones in here. This is a
as far as I remember, a pretty dang good film. The Ball of
Tamlin is uni very stylish, and hoping that it is one that more people
are checking out now that this is coming out. I would have liked to
see this one on four K, but I get it this is probably not
gonna sell a ton for BFI. And for those that don't know, this
is actually a part of the BFI flip side line that they do. They've
done some actually some really good films on that flip sideline. Take a look
for that. This is coming in October and now this might be the one
that people are most excited for from BFI, especially if you already had watershiped
down. This is a film by Peter Greenaway that is called The Draftsman's Contract.
This is coming on November twenty first, and from BFI, So this
is coming in the UK. This is getting a brand new four K remaster.
This is from nineteen eighty two and it is in an apparently idyllic seventeenth
century Wiltshare. An ambitious draftsman is commissioned by the wife of an aristocrat to
produce twelve drawings of her husband's estate and negotiates terms to include sexual favors from
his employer. But when a corpse is dragged from the moat, the droughtsman's
drawing may reveal more than he realized. Really really glad that they did our
new remaster on this, as far as I remember, this really needed it,
and this will have some pretty great features. We get a limited addition
two disc set. We get The Greenaway Alphabet, which is from twenty seventeen,
an intimate portrait of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenway, directed by his wife
excuse me. Together with his daughter, Pip Greenaway formulates an alphabet that represents
his personality and thoughts about art and life. And then we get experimental short
film, also by Peter Greenway. That one's from nineteen seventy three, audio
commentary by the director, introduction by the director and interview, some behind the
scenes stuff, some deleted steins, lots and lots on there, and then
it still says other extras to be confirmed, so we might get even more,
which could be a lot. Wow, lots of comments. Let's take
a look at these. Ken is guessing indicator is I think they hinted that
they're coming out early next year with their first four K and ken is guessing
that it will be the Horror of Dracula or Body Double, Body Double.
Well, m I hope not. I mean, I get why it would
make sense because it was their first title. But we'll see. Mitchell says
there's a lot of talent and tam Lynn might want that one. It's a
good title. Yeah, still really hoping for a four K restoration one of
Greenoy's other films, Yes, Disconnected. You should check out video Talk channel
on YouTube. Maybe do a video with them. He's a lot of fun
cool. I will check that out. Yeah, if you get a chance,
video man and email me a link. Email is in the description below,
so I can see that pronounce draftsman's made that mistake back? Oh oh
got it. I've always heard it pronounced the other way man. My apologies
good to know. Haven't seen this greenway any company selling DFI in the US.
Diabolic usually does, and Eric already answered that thank you. Four K
Horror of Dracula would be great. That's one of the longer Japanese cut on
the last real Yes it is. Yeah. DFI usually is available from Diabolic,
and I believe this is actually already available for pre order on Diabolic if
I remember right. Speaking of Bergmann, we just talked about Bergman a minute
ago. Coming on November twenty first, they are putting out still BFI,
their Bergman Volume four collection. For more than fifty years, Bergmann produced ground
breaking works of cinema, of course, making him one of the world's most
acclaimed, during and influential filmmakers. And in this collection we are going to
have cries and whispers scenes from a marriage autumn, Sonata Pharaoh document. I
believe is how you say this one? It might be farroh from the Life
of the Marionettes Fanny and Alexander. They are also including the Fannie and Alexander
TV series and after the rehearsal, this one will be limited to five thousand
copies and they are going to be working on extras for this one. I
will say these Bergmann collections seem to have sold really well for BFI so so
far they've done four of these, and I gotta be honest, they look
really great in the hand of the art on these is always spectacular. I
understand it's not the giant cinema box set from Criterion, but these are a
lot less unwieldy, and I think some people may enjoy these primarily for that
shape they actually fit on a normal shelf. But yes, obviously super influential.
This is a lot of stuff in one box set. Again, I
do believe this is already available for pre order on Diabolic and then also of
course you can get this, I believe, direct from BFI. I think
they ship here. BFI does great, great work. They are if you
don't know, BFI stands for the British Film Institute and they put a lot,
a lot of love and care in their releases, primarily because it is
essentially what like the original mission of Criterion was, which is restoring and archiving
the important films primarily from their area. Because they're BFI for a reason,
so they do great, great work on their releases. Yeah, check that
out if you're into Bergmann and I totally forgot this was announced as well,
but this is probably the one that so many people are excited about because we
are getting from BFI ghost stories from Christmas. This is listed as volume one,
broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve. The BBC's A Ghost Story
for Christmas series was a mixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the nineteen seventies and
spawned a long tradition of chilling tales which terrified mule Tie viewers for decades to
come. This much requested release gives four landmarks of the series their Blu Ray
debut ever ever, ever, not just in the UK ever, having been
newly remastered by the BFI from the original film materials. These are all based
on classic short stories by acclaimed writer M. R. James. His atmospheric
stories sorry, his atmospheric settings and creeping unease are eerily realized in the seminal
dramas that unleash evil spirits that will haunt and unnerve. I do have some
of these on DVD and they are good enough to upgrade. This is one
I will definitely definitely be paying attention to because they are a great line and
in this first volume, which hopefully this I'm pretty sure this is gonna sell
well and they'll be able to put out a volume two. We are getting
Whistle and I'll Come to You from nineteen sixty eight, The Stalls of Barchester
from nineteen seventy one, A Warning to the Curious from seventy two, and
then The Lost Hearts from seventy three. This is going to have a handful
of things on here. We've got some extras like Ramsey Campbell on m R
James from two thousand and one, a conversation about Whistle and I'll Come to
You from twenty twelve, reading of Oh, Whistle and I'll come to You,
My Lad from two thousand and one it's audio only, and then some
other audio ratings on here. Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee, the
Stalls of Barchester and A Warning to the Curious from two thousand which is sixty
minutes total, and other extras. There's all kinds of stuff coming in here.
They are really putting love and attention into this, and I'm glad these
seem to be some of the titles that people have really been asking about because
the old DVD set they had of these I believe was very very popular,
so it must have done very well from them to be putting this sort of
attention on these still in twenty twenty two and on Blu Ray so glad on
that Ken says we got two great spaghetti Western media books coming from Germany next
month, the Dirty Outlaws and Arizona Cult. Very nice, diabolic will probably
get them an orbit, probably will too eventually. Okay, I think this
is the last title from BFI for the month. This is coming on December
fifth. This is nil by Mouth. And what is interesting about this one
is this is written and directed by Gary Oldman. Gary Oldman revealed himself as
a filmmaker of uncompromising talent with Nil by Mouth, his debut and so far
only directorial feature, set on a council estate in New Cross, Southeast London,
the area where Oldman himself actually grew up a dysfunctional family encounter is domestic
Violence, Drunkenness, drug addiction and petty Crime, featuring career best performances from
Kathy Burke, Ray Winstone and Charlie Creed Miles, all superbly supported by Leila
Morse and Jamie Foreman. Nil by Mouth was awarded Best British Film and Best
Original Screenplay at the ninety seven BAFTA Awards. This intensely powerful and emotional landmark
of British cinema has been remastered in four K for its twenty fifth anniversary by
BFI and this is the first time on Blu Ray anywhere in the world.
Again, I will stress that is so great that we are still getting titles
like this that have never been on Blu Ray before. These brands. Titles
are so important to keep these labels going and to keep people interested in cinema
and keep getting new art. Like I understand the re releases, but these
are the titles that get me excited. What's going on? Dave, so
glad to see it Tonight we are getting on this newly recorded audio commentary by
Gary Oldman and the producer, interviews with the cast and crew, a perfect
bound book featuring new and archive writing on the film and also rare production materials
from Oldman's personal archive, new subtitles, a trailer, and then new other
extras are possibly coming as well. This is one I am supremely excited to
check out. I don't think I've seen this one, but I adore Gary
Oldman. I mean, the dude is a chameleon and has been an incredible
actor his entire career. So I definitely need to see this one by Candlelight.
So on October eleventh, we are getting by Candlelight from nineteen thirty three
from Keno Lober. We are getting a new audio commentary by Troy Howarth on
this one. And for those that don't know, this is directed by James
Whale, who did Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, A Visible Man,
stuff like that. And I don't think I've seen this one, and I'm
kind of surprised about that. I can't remember anything about this, but this
one is certainly on my radar. Will I will need to keep my eyes
on because Whale is a great director, especially I mean nineteen thirty three,
they did not have a ton to work with. Another classic they are putting
out on October eleventh at Keno, we are getting Murder at the Vanities from
nineteen thirty four. This one has a new audio commentary by Anthony Slide and
we are getting subtitles on this and that is it. This one has Kitty
Carlyle and Jack Oakie, Victor McLachlan, and Carl Brisson. They are starring
in Murder at the Vanities and artfully audacious pre Code musical comedy and murder mystery.
There is so much in that that sentence alone makes me excited. Anything
pre Code is always exciting, primarily because there was just stuff that in the
next few years they weren't gonna be able to get away with. So I'm
glad that we have stuff like this still coming. And I mean nineteen thirty
four, we're talking that's almost ninety years old. Ninety years awesome. So
glad we're still getting this coming from Scorpion, which is a partner label of
Kino. We are getting a Golden Girl from nineteen seventy nine. Now this
is getting a brand new four K restoration which was done by Studio Canal,
a new interview with Susan Anton which is really surprising, new interview with Nicholas
cost, new interview with the composer Bill Contie. We're getting the career highlights,
and then a new audio commentary by Nathaniel Thompson and Howard s. Berger.
Now the odd thing here, this is showing a runtime of one hundred
and five minutes. Unfortunately, I believe that means that this is the cut
version. They probably are not. They're probably actually not able to find the
original elements for the actual longer cut. And I believe the longer cut is
if I can remember right, it's like fourteen minutes longer or something like that,
So it's not inconsequential, it's actually substantially longer. So I do believe
that they are probably lost at this point, because I'm sure that licensing those
would not It wasn't gonna be that much more difficult. But it's from nineteen
seventy nine, so a lot can happen in forty three years. Let's see,
do you man in? I love Imprint, but they are the most
expensive company out there. I completely get that they cost me seventy dollars for
a single release. I mean yikes. Importing from the US, I mean
we can get them here usually for about thirty I don't believe one title would
be forty to ship to you. Obviously, buying direct would be something that
you'd prefer. But I mean Orbit and Diabolic bullship ship internationally. So if
you could, I mean try to group some together, if you really want
some imprint, I think that might be the best way to do it.
And now, for those that don't know, Diabolic actually announced that they are
doing pre orders on Imprint titles now. For a long while they were not
doing any pre orders on Imprint because they did not know how many they were
gonna get. But now they are actively getting like an ample supply of them,
so they're not worried about selling out. So they I mean, Imprint
has gotten very very popular, very quickly, which is surprising, Like people
just talk about Imprint like they've been around for a long time. They are
a partner label, I guess, or it might even just be like a
line from a Via Vision, which is a big label in Australia. But
Imprint itself really only released their first title, I believe in May. I
think it was May of twenty twenty. I think it's May of twenty twenty.
It might have been May of twenty nineteen, but I believe it was
twenty twenty, and they are gosh, I'm trying to see from here.
I think they're already up to like one hundred and fifty or one hundred and
sixty spines, which is crazy in that short period of time. I think
we've talked about this before, but they just impressed the hell out of me.
Let's get back to Golden Girl. For those that haven't seen it,
this is actually a really, really good film. This says gorgeous Susan Anton,
who is in Cannonball Run two stars as an untried female sprinter who enters
the Olympics claiming that she will win an unprecedented three gold medals. But when
one man played by James Coburn, falls in love with her, he unravels
the bizarre history of her training and the tough moneymen who stand to make millions
if she survives. Directed by Joseph Sargent, this is one that has Jessica
Walter, Michael Lerner, Robert Caleb, a whole bunch of names in this
one, and tennis great John Newcombe. Golden Girl is a winning sports story
with unique sci fi twist, and they, I mean they really made this
a really unique film. Definitely, I would check it out. Twenty five
or thirty for the title, then twenty percent in tacks to get them into
the country. On top of the shipping it comes to twenty from the USA
or thirty from Australia. Geez, okay, yeah I get that. Yeah,
So twenty percent tax. You're already looking at thirty plus twenty shipping,
so fifty and then twenty percent tax, so fifty six dollars if you get
it from Diabolic. I mean, yikes, that's that's a lot. I
mean, obviously that's for one title. So if you can spread the shipping
out on a handful, it's a little less per title. I mean you
could probably bring it down to like forty per but that's still a lot.
And that's not even talking the box sets, and Imprint does a lot of
those. I mean, I've got one right next to me still, this
is the Jim Sheridan set that they just put out, and spending some time
with this one, and I mean this thing is like eighty eighty five,
so shipping on that would probably be twenty twenty five and then your tax on
top of that. So yeah, you're you're looking at probably one hundred and
forty one hundred and fifty for that one. All in, I get it.
It's expensive and importing stuff is just genuinely not cheap. It's a lot.
Next up coming soon from Keena Lover, we are getting Twilight from nineteen
ninety eight. Yeah, Twilight, that name is not super unique. This
one has a hell of a cast. We got Paul Newman, Gene Hackman,
Susan Sarandon, James Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Stocker Channing, Gian Carlo
Esposito, Leave Schreiber, Jason Clark, and m Emmett Walsh. That is
a wild mix of a cast on this one. This is coming soon.
We don't have a date on it yet. I think I saw this one
back in the day, but then again, I don't have a lot of
memory of it, which makes me think maybe I didn't, because I would
think with this, with this cast, I feel like I would remember it,
but I don't know. I'm I had just been a little young and
repressed some of those memories because I repressed a lot nineteen ninety eight. Hopefully
we get that one soon because I'm interested in that one. We got word
from Synaps that they are putting out street trash and just before Dawn. This
was perhaps slightly premature. It sounds like it sounds like just before Dawn is
for sure coming in four K from Synapse, but we don't know for sure
that street Trash is coming in four K. It sounds like it is quite
likely and they should be able to do that. But yeah, this is
one that I do believe is coming. It makes perfect sense the fact that
they are more certain about Just Before Dawn. It seems like both of these
will probably come. Synaps did have the original release on Blue of Street Trash,
I believe, the only Blue of Street Trash in the US actually,
And for those that don't know Street Trash, Street Trash, Street Trash is
a beautiful film. Street Trash is a very goofy movie, and I think
we talked about that last week too. Street Trash is fun. It's got
some weird scenes in it, but it is a classic for a reason.
Just Before Down, though, this is the unsung hero of these two announcements.
Just Before Dawn has gotten some love because it had a code red release
and then I believe that even got a re release through Keno. But Just
Before Dawn is genuinely one of the best slashers of all time. It ticks
so many boxes for me that I really really really love in a film.
And Just Before Dawn is creepy. It's realistic, it is. It is
like trashy in a weird way. And for those that haven't seen Just Before
Dawn, it has a really nice ending to the film that really makes you
appreciate the way that they set it up if you really pay attention. It's
not gonna be a surprise or anything like that because it's it's telegraphed multiple times,
so I won't even call it necessarily a twist. But it is a
really wonderful film, and I hope more people could check this out, especially
if it gets a beautiful four K. Let's see what is coming up next.
On Sunday, we got an announcement from Keno that they are putting out
Marathon Man from nineteen seventy six in four K with a brand new Dolby Vision
Master. This is really cool. This is a great movie. Obviously,
we got Dustin huh Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier, Roy Schneider, William Devane,
Fritz Weaver, and it was directed by John Schlessinger who did Midnight Cowboy,
The Falcon and The Snowman. This got a Best Supporting Actor or not for
Olivier, but one that a lot of people have seen and uh, yeah,
this is a great film. I'm glad they're doing this in four K.
Let me check the comments. We're talking about Reese Witherspoon being naked.
Let's see, don't hill the box sets makes me want them? Oh geez,
Eric, thanks for your sacrifice again for that one marathon Man announced three
days after I bought it on Blu Ray. Watched it anyway, Oh boy.
Currently there is a sale going on for Warner Archive back again at the
movie z website, which is somehow the new host of the Warner Archive sales.
In this sale, we are getting four Blu rays or DVDs, this
time for forty nine dollars. Now, they have a lot of stipulations on
this that they don't really announce. They are very specifically priced. Blu Raiser
DVDs are four for forty nine. But the worst thing with this sale is
that when you go to the site, they charge some of the most ridiculous
prices for shipping that I've seen since the last time I shopped at seven.
They charged like three point fifty for the first title, and then for every
title after that they charge another dollar, So if you get the four titles,
you're actually paying like six fifty in shipping. So fifty five dollars is
a lot more than what used to be the four for forty four sale.
Which just hurts a lot more than it used to. So I understand that
prices go up, and I understand that Warner Archive had to shutter their website,
that they were running everything through their storefront is gone, but I just
don't love these movies in sales. And for those that live in Illinois,
it's even worse. If you live in Illinois, they charge sales tax,
so everyone else in the states gets no tax charged. So those in Illinois,
this is a much worse deal than what you used to have. Terry
says. Thanks to the discord and the Marathon Man announcement, I revisited the
first episode of Clerks the animated series, and I mean Clerks the animated series,
unsung in its time, a lot better than it should have been,
and one of those things that really solidified my early love for Kevin Smith.
Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith is great, Like I even love Tusk, and
I don't most people don't. I still have yet to see the follow up
to Tusk. I've not seen Yoga Hosers, but I'm interested in pretty much
everything he does. And I still say Kevin Smith's masterpiece is actually Red State,
and not enough people have seen it. Red state is amazing. Dead
Sea Lives oh Man seven charges a dollar per gram for shipping that is seemingly
not far off oh Man. Brian says, no more sales. I bought
twenty seven DVDs from the Severn sale. Jesus, the crazy thing. It
probably wasn't that expensive either way. What's going on, Brian? I'm glad
you're here, my friend. We're gonna talk about another sale in just a
second, but first let's talk about one that I'm really worried about. We
actually have two announcements from this company. We'll get to the other one in
just a minute. But Dark Force not a company that we've talked about in
quite some time. But Dark Force has announced that they are getting into the
four K game. Like we talked about this a few weeks ago. VCI
Entertainment they announced their first four K children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, and
I didn't you know hearing that announcement, I'm not gonna run to trust VCI.
I don't know which one scares me more. VCI getting into four K
or Dark Force getting into four K. Multiple companies that are less than stellar
on their reputation wise for their quality output, Dark Force is less than stellar
for multiple reasons, primarily for their primarily for their treatment of customers, especially
online. But Darkforce just does not do great work a lot of the time,
so I would be very hesitant to jump into pre order for any Dark
Force four K. We'll talk about their probably their bigger title that's coming to
four K just a moment, though, let's see. Eric says, I
guess I didn't see Twilight after all, was because infusing it with Nobody's fool.
However, Twilight is included in the after Dark box set nice from Imprint,
of which I watched the first four. I have not got through the
first four yet, but that box set for those that don't. The after
Dark box Set from Imprint is potentially like one of the releases of the year.
I would highly recommend it if you can find it. Still. It
is great. Red State is amazing, says Dragon. Yes, somebody else
such a great swan song from Michael Park was that his last film? Damn
did Red State come out after Tusk? I could have swore Tusks came after
Red State? Oh geez, but yeah, Red State's great. Michael Parks
is fantastic. Sadly, go and Dogma were put out by Sony but are
out of print and pricey. Absolutely, let's see sartists. I just bought
a dozen Russian DVDs from eBay. Was subs nice half for sci fi I
haven't heard of. Tusk was his last, That's what I thought. Yeah,
I think I think Red State was like twenty ten and then Tusk was
like two thousand two. Tusk had to have been like two thousand and fourteen.
Actually, yeah, I think it was twenty fourteen. Those were like
very blurry years for the Kevin Smith krowd. It wasn't the Viewisk Universe films,
so I may be wrong there, but I feel like Tusk was twenty
fourteen. Speaking of the sales, the next one that I wanted to shout
out is the Shout Select Sale. Now, unlike unlike the other Shout Factory
sales, these shouts Lex sale is usually very good, and this year this
is no surprise. This Shout Select sale is surprisingly great. There is some
titles in here that are cheaper than you will ever see them in any other
places. Uh, They've got gosh. The Wizard is like ten bucks.
The Wizard the Collector's Edition of the Wizard for I believe ten bucks some really
great titles in shouts Select. I was considering, let me open this in
another tab. If we if we go really short, Oh man, are
we really almost at an hour already? H man? I may I may
be putting my foot in my mouth there. I was gonna say, if
we go really short, I might browse through the shout Select sale, but
we may still go there. The shout Select sale is really great. If
you are light on shout Select titles and you're you know, hanker in to
spend some money, I would consider the shout Select sale because they do some
good stuff on that line. Out of nowhere. Keina Lrber dropped this random
bomb a few days ago and announced their film Noir The Dark Side of Cinema
Volumes twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, and all of these are
getting brand new two K remasters. So in number twelve we are getting undertow
Outside the Wall and hold Back Tomorrow. Number thirteen we are getting Spy Hunt
the night Runner, and stepped down to Terror number fourteen, Undercover Girl,
One Way Street, Appointment with a Shadow, and then finally on number fifteen,
Man Afraid, the Girl in the Kremlin, and the Tattered Dress.
I mean, there are so many titles in these. I'm shocked that they
dropped all of these at once to announce them. They don't have lease dates
on all of them. I believe number twelve is coming very soon because it's
up for pre order right now. There are so so many titles in here
that I have just literally never seen. But also I think we're getting kind
of to the point where on these we have to question a little bit if
they're technically film noir. I mean, they've put out I think by the
time they're done with this series, if they stop at fifteen, it will
be forty seven titles if I'm remembering right, And that is a lot,
first of all, to come out of nowhere from Qino with fifteen box sets
of film noir, and they are starting to really really dive deep on the
end here and kind of stretch the definition of film noir. Let's see.
Oh yeah, definitely, Hans is reminding Indicator will probably release some of these
in their Universal Noir series, so I will hold off. Yes, they
undoubtedly will. Indicator and Keino have released a lot of the same sort of
titles. Uh, Nathan is here, what's up, my friend. I
hope you're doing well. Nathan Sarta says to the stars, The Hard Way
and the End of Eternity, which I've already watched. Nice. The others
should be in next week Shout Sale and the Warner Brothers Sale. Kick my
Butt says Spaghetti, and then a last comment on Red State, Quiet Rob
says Red State felt like a departure absolutely from what you expected Kevin Smith to
put out back then really good movie and a great ending. Yeah, I
think the ending is what really solidified it for me. Like I enjoyed the
film, but when the ending came and it's actually sort of like a,
oh, what was the actual truth there? Yeah, it really stuck for
me. Yeah, Red State. Red State is so so good, so
good. I hope you get another release for that soon. This one.
So on Monday of this week, I released a video interview with two of
the or the only two gentlemen from Deaf Crocodile, which, if you don't
know, the two gentlemen from Deaf Crocodile are kind of like legends in the
industry. They have some wild stories. This video is long if you haven't
watched it yet, it's literally almost an hour and a half. And the
crazy thing is I could have probably talked to them for another three hours and
still just barely touched the service, especially from Dennis Bartok from Deaf Crocodile,
the stuff that they can talk about, specifically like unused Monty Python animation from
the eighties that they touched, the work that they've done on restoring films through
multiple companies, I mean our us and Deaf Crocodile and Sinalicious, they have
done so much stuff. Most of you have probably already watched this, so
I'm kind of just ap precing to the choir, but the Deaf Crocodile guys,
like there is there is so much coming from these guys that they alluded
to even that I am so so excited for. And I can't stress enough
that if you have not donated to the Solomon King kickstarter, which again most
of you probably already have, but if you have not, they are not
like swimming in Scrooge McDuck money or anything like that. A lot of these
labels, let me minimize us for a second, A lot of these labels
are not necessarily like struggling to get by, but the cost associated with these
things they're surviving from like one release to the next, and they are hoping
that they can get enough support to continue to do these things. But a
release like Solomon King that they had to go above and beyond to restore everything
to I mean the color grating. If you look at the work that they
have done, primarily Craig from Deaf Crocodile, he's the one that does most
of the restoration work. He is changing a film that was a weird deep
yellow color and making it look incredible. And the videos that they have posted
online they are astonishing. I do want to highlight Brian says, I think
they hit their goal fast, which is awesome. They did. Their goal
was fifteen thousand, and they hit that literally like in two or three days,
and it was great and I'm stoked for that. Unfortunately, they highlighted
that their goal being fifteen thousand, they were only actually going to get like
six thousand of that, and the restoration cost them more than fifty thousand dollars,
so they have put a stretch goal on there. They have a script
that you can an actual hard paperback version of this script that you can purchase,
and they are they're just killing it with the work that they do,
and yeah, I really want to just stress that these companies that they really
need you to speak with your wallet when you can. They do so so
much work and we're getting more. I mean, they want to do more
Patushco films. They want to do. There's a one of the coolest things
that they reveal is we're getting a basically like a sister release to the to
the animated film that they put out, and we're getting another one of those
that's also animated coming next year. And they were saying they want or what
were they saying. They were saying that the animation that one might be even
better, which is crazy because Delta Space Mission looks incredible for how old it
is. That release looks fantastic. So yes, keep a deaf crocodile in
your mind. Donate if you can. That kickstarter just needs support. Let's
look at Visual Vengeance, the little line from Wild Eye. Of all places.
I didn't think Wild Eye would be making such a big hit in twenty
twenty two, but they are releasing for this little sister label that they started,
Visual Vengeance Films. They've put out four so far and this is their
fifth announcement. We are getting a film by Todd Sheets called Moonchild from nineteen
ninety four. I believe Todd Sheets is actually from here in Kansas City,
and they're kind of killing it. People are loving these releases. If you
have not read about this one, this title says. In a dystopian future,
political prisoner Jacob Striker, what a great name, is transformed into a
werewolf super soldier by government scientists. He escapes caf tip excuse me. He
escapes captivity and searches for a son who maybe the Messiah, and joins an
army of karate kicking rebellion fighters poised to overthrow the United Nations of America.
Along the way, Jacob is hunted by a group of cyborg and mutant bounty
hunters as he tries to forget the bomb implanted in his stomach that's set to
explode in seventy two hours. I mean, first of all, that sounds
like seven films in one, which alone that has to be just absolutely bonkers.
But this says a mind boggling sprawling shot on video horror sci fi action
Marshall Arts Epic again. Shot on video horror sci fi action Martial Arts Epic
from shot on video fan favorite Todd Sheets, who also did Zombie, Bloodbath
and Goblin. That is one of the most ambitious and offbeat low budget movies
of the VHS area. So this is going to be on Blu Ray for
the first time ever, a new director supervised SD master from the original tapes,
which means keep in mind this will not look like amazingly clear it was
shot on video, so this is still only going to be in standard definition.
This is going to have a bonus audio CD of the movie soundtrack,
two new director commentary tracks, which is very intriguing to me. Includes the
original alternate VHS cut of Moonchild Wolf Moon Rising, a making of documentary,
four page liner notes, and then a limited edition slipcase by the Dude Designs
for the first pressing. But then also, just like they've been doing,
we got this little bonus set that they're putting out. We got the VHS
stickers, we got the little booklet, we got the slip case which looks
great, and here is a close up of the art on that slip cover.
And they are doing fairly well. Visual a Vengeance is doing just fantastic.
Let's see video manageers. I don't understand because they are shot on video,
why do they restore or right do they? I assume you say mean
restore it. I love shot on video, but to put in time to
fix it as weird, I mean it could look a lot better, That's
the big thing. And then again to include these on Blu Ray. If
you watched the Let's see Saturn's Core, that's who it was. If you
watch the interview I did with Saturn's Core, they ross went really into detail
on why these are being put out on Blue rays. And one of the
main reasons, and a film like this actually shows how they are taking advantage
of it as well, is that they are able to put a lot more
on the disc, so they are able to put on multiple commentaries on these
Saturn's Core, they put on bonus films. I do understand the frustration with
buying an HD disc for a film that is in only standard definition. But
at the same time, these movies are great, and they are some of
these are you know, this is the best they're gonna look primarily, So
yeah, if you're into it, take a look, because Visual Vengeance is
kind of killing it this year. And I also realized while looking at that
I may have been wrong. I thought this was the fifth title announced,
but on there they've got a little spine that says VV zero seven. I
know John is super into these, am am. I not thinking of a
couple of titles. Did they already announced two others that I just completely forgot
about anyways, the next one from Dark Force. So this is that bigger
title I alluded to. We are getting Dead Pit on four K, the
film that Dark Force has put out, Oh gosh, I think on three
different releases. God, maybe it's even four. So this will be this
will be released number four or five that they've done of Dead Pit. And
they did say that this is going to have one of their crazy slip covers
on it, but again, it's Dark Force, and I don't know that
I trust that, And this film is probably not going to look amazing in
four K. Like, if they're doing great, I'm totally fine with that.
If they are somehow able to make these look amazing, I will.
I will definitely support them in one way or another. Eventually, Dead Pit
is I don't love Dead Pit, but I own it still. It's a
classic. I just want somebody to release this finally and give me the exact
same style of slipcover that the VHS had where you press a button in the
eyes lip green. I need that in my life. Dead Pit is an
interesting film. I don't love it. If somebody disagrees, by all means,
have your opinion, I just don't love Dead Pit. Let's see video,
man, and you're totally fine. I mean the film could be one
gig without losing an equality at all. I worked with the video for ten
years. There's nothing more to gain from it. Sorry, bad english Man.
There's no apologies here. I fully support it. You're doing the best
that you can. I'm all about it. If I gave the wrong word,
by all means, correct me, I understand it. There's probably no
quality to gain from it. However, tape does deteriorate, and what they
can do is restore pieces that have deteriorated, and I do hope that they're
able to preserve them, because all of these deserve to be archived properly to
the best possible quality and SD. I get it, the tape is not
going to be NHD or anything like that, but I mean they could look
better after some restoration. We don't know what that tape actually looks like by
now, and yes, it could be on a DVD that is cheaper,
but DVD is also a lot more susceptible to damage, so that's also another
reason. And they're not so much cheaper that the cost of consumers would be
cheaper by five or six bucks necessarily, especially if they're still putting the amount
of love into it that they're doing on Blu Ray. Anyways, that's a
whole other conversation. Yesterday, Scorpion Releasing and Keno announced that they're putting out
Island of the Blue Dolphins. I have never seen this one. I don't
know anything about this. This is getting a brand new two K master and
no bonus features. It looks like this is coming on October eighteenth. Based
on Scott Odell's beloved children's classic, Island of the Blue Dolphins is the heartwarming
adventures of a nineteenth century Native American girl who becomes stranded on a remote island
off the California coast. I mean it sounds interesting. I mean, nineteen
sixty four, there were quite a few of these, so I could see
that being decent at least. Yeah, I might check this out eventually.
We shall see. Scorpion does good work. Speaking of good work. We
got Bert Lancaster and Catherine Hepburn, who did They did alright in their time.
We are getting the rain Maker from Keino on October twenty fifth. This
is getting a six K scan of the thirty five millimeter VistaVision original camera negative.
This isn't the one we talked about last week, is it? I
think this is a brand new announcement. I know we had the talk about
a six K scan last week. Things are scanned higher than they're put out
all the time. This is uh, this is nothing new. This is
getting a new audio commentary by Julie Krugo, and that shouldn't be surprising.
Skiss six K scans even higher than that have existed, and they're still only
put out by you know, on a ten eightp blu ray And that's okay.
They look even better because they are done to the best of their abilities,
and we're still not going to see a six K disc or anything like
that. Yeah, obviously, Bert Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn, they do good
work. Strongly suggested uh one that I wanted to highlight because we don't talk
about independent horror enough on here. Don't Fuck in the Woods Part two is
coming out December thirteenth, and this is done by company called Concept Media and
they put out the original Don't Fuck in the Woods. And this movie is
coming out through Wild Eye, which they are the ones that do visual vengeance,
like we just talked about. This is gonna have a slipcover, folded
poster, and a bunch of bonus features including Let's See blueper Real, deleted
scenes, behind the scenes, image gallery, original producer trailer, and then
a bonus feature length documentary called what Happens in the Woods The story of Don't
Fuck in the Woods Behind the scenes Making of featurette. The first one is
a cheesy, funny, modern horror and they're decent. I certainly want to
check this one out. I've not seen the sequel yet because it hasn't been
released yet, but the original was fun. I've got the original here on
Blu Ray. The original even got I think it got a steel book release
if I'm remembering right, which was really odd for indie horror like this.
But yeah, check it out. Wild Eye. Some of their stuff has
been decent. Most of their like their DVD titles that are modern uh modern
like cheesy horror. They're not great, but they're normally vary cheap. Thankfully,
Dead Sea Life says, I didn't see the first Don't Fuck in the
Woods. I won't know what's going on. I will say it is a
very difficult scene to follow, and uh, it's fun. If you're into
any sort of indie horr, it's worth it. I'm actually gonna be talking
about indie horr in just a minute, but not right now, because right
now, let's talk about November fifteenth. We are getting a catalog Quentin Tarantino
in four K from Lionsgate by way of Reservoir Dogs. Now we don't have
a lot of information on this one yet. I really hope that they did
this right because the release that they did of in Glorious Bastard's it wasn't the
best four K. It wasn't like an absolute failure of a four K like
we've seen for like Terminator two or Pirates of the Caribbean or anything, but
it just wasn't great. It wasn't anything that really stuck out as a fantastic
release of a fantastic film that it deserved. Now, Reservoir Dogs, this
is an important film and I really want to see them do this right.
So I'm kind of worried about this. This is this is a great film,
and obviously most people on here probably love Tarantino. I love Tarantino.
This one is special because it's one of the first couple Tarantino that I saw,
and I love this cast. Like Tim Roth has always been one of
my favorites. I think that he is captivating in every single role that he
does, and Reservoir Dogs is just it's one of those movies that's got it.
Obviously that's a very like film brow way to talk about it, but
this film just has something and it's amazing. I really hope they do this
one right. More details come on that one. We'll talk about that later.
Again, I'm sure another sort of indie horror. We are getting Tiny
Cinema on October eleventh from Epic Pictures, and this will probably come through their
dreadline. Don't know for sure that this is coming from Dread, but it'll
come either from Epic or Dread. And Tiny Cinema is about a mysterious Stranger
tells the twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers whose lives will change in incredible and
bizarre ways forever as reality unravels. Each person must battle incredible challenges from a
multiverse, seeking answers on the essential questions of life, death, love,
and the fate of our future. Now, I don't want to dismiss this
because of this, but I also kind of shudder at any indie film right
now that is about a multiverse in any sense of the word, because it
just feels like the cool thing to talk about right now. Obviously, the
MCU has been talking about a multiverse for far too long at this point,
and one of the best movies of all time that just came out this year,
Everything Everywhere, All at Once, was a multiverse film, So I
hope this is decent. Epic Pictures is one that I've liked previously, one
that I think could do better, and one that I'm hoping soon we actually
get some behind the scenes information on Epic and Dread Pictures, specifically that we
can have a guest on to talk about with us. But yeah, I
don't know that this is one I'm super excited about. Kawie Rob says it's
Reservoir Dogs thirtieth anniversary. If they dropped the ball on this one, it
will ruin the holidays for me, completely agree. Can I do a show
about four K releases that are so bad they are better off on blue Finances
are tight for some dropping cash on a bad four K is not a good
thing. Yes, that is actually something that I have a running list of
that I've been planning for some time, so I'm hoping that I can get
that out soon. I've been trying to get like, not an exhaustive list,
but a decently long list that we can talk about and completely agree.
John DCTV did the multiverse years before Marvel, starting with the Flash. Yes,
yes they really did, and it's it's just too much at this point.
I don't want it to saturate. And I don't know, it may
just be me being a commergent curmudgeon about it, but it's too much.
We don't need more multiverses, which by definition is impossible because there's an infinite
number of them. All right, let's get into what I think is the
most exciting thing to talk about this week, and that is Columbia Classics Volume
three. So this release, this release looks so good that I had to
make multiple posts about this just to house all of the details, because this
looks incredible and loaded, especially when you compare it to the first two releases,
which must have done very well for them, because this looks insane to
say the least, the amount of things that they're adding to these films.
I'm not going to go into deep detail on each of the films. We're
going to talk about what they are, but a couple of reminders here Columbia
Classics. This is put out by Sony and Colombia because Sony owns Columbia,
and Sony does probably well, not probably, they still do by far the
best four K restorations of catalog titles from any of the studios. The only
ones that I would say could compete with with Sony are actually the boutiques,
which by definition they should be doing at least as good as these studios,
if not better on some of these, because they're doing up to date restorations
on a lot of their four ks. Now, the hard part is a
lot of these studios they do their own restorations because they've been housing the elements
for so long, So the studios kind of have a step ahead. But
other places like Universal, they've tried with a lot of their four k's,
but they've they've bungled a couple of them. They don't look amazing. The
biggest offender, obviously Disney. Disney four k's are not great. They are
notoriously bad on the sound front. It is so bad that people have coined
the term at mouse because instead of Dolby atmos at why'd I say atmos instead
of Dolby atmos. Uh. The Disney four K releases are usually just a
static sound and they call it Dobe atmo Dolby atmost, even though it's not
moving from channel to channel, which is the whole point of Dolby atmost.
So it's frustrating, especially because they're they're the biggest, They're like one of
the biggest companies in the world at this point. They have the catalog of
some of the most beloved films of all time, and they either don't do
anything with it or they screw up the release so bad that they completely ruin
it, like the first Pirates of the Caribbean that came out and everybody just
said, what is this crab? So all that to say, this is
exciting because the first two Columbia Classic sets are filled with six films that are
gorgeous in four K, and while this is potentially the least exciting slate of
titles from the three sets, and I get that. I've heard a lot
of people complaining about the list of titles. These are going to look incredible
in four K. We've got two or three titles in black and white,
and one of my favorites from the nineties I loved As Good as It Gets.
But this set is going to look amazing, and it's filled to the
brim with extras. So let's get into it. I can stop with my
tirade before we go into details here, So the first that we are getting
well first, an overview of Columbia Classics Volume three. This must own set
includes films that have resonated and endured with stars and stories that have reverberated through
cinema history. The films included in this are It Happened One Night, From
Here to Eternity, to Sir with Love, The Last Picture Show, Annie,
and As Good What Does It Gets? Each film presented in four K
resolution with Dolby Vision HDR, and four of the films have all new Dolby
atmost mixes. The six films and the Columbia Classics collection of Volume three are
only available on four K Blu ray disc within this limited edition collector set now
to break in here that is likely going to be true potentially forever. There
are still films released from the first two sets that have only been released on
four K in those Columbia Classic sets, so it is quite possible that this
is the only place you are going to be able to get these titles.
So if one of these is one of your all time favorite films and you
really want it on four K, the best it's ever going to look,
this is when to get it, because you're potentially not ever going to be
able to get this on four K. Outside of it, they have released
oh gosh, I think standalone four k's of two or three of the titles
from the first twelve that they put out and these sets, but that's it,
and gosh it might only be two huh. Anyways, this is again
going through this. Included with the collection is a gorgeous hardbound, eighty page
book featuring in depth sections about the making of each film within the set via
six all new, incisive essays from renowned writers, including a special exclusive essay
from award winning writer director James L. Brooks on his own nineteen ninety seven
classic As Good As it gets. The set also includes a variety of rare
related features and TV episodes expanding the worlds of several of the include films,
some of which haven't been available in decades, from a nineteen thirty two cinematic
incarnation of Annie to a nearly five hour nineteen seventy nine TV series adaptation of
From Here to Eternity and more. These supplemental editions round out this must oone
gift set, perfect for the holidays. We are going to dive into this
now and go through what each bonus is so for It Happened One Night.
Obviously, this is Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. This is a classic black
and white film. We get a four K Dolby vision like they said,
and then new from this You can't run away from It. A nineteen fifty
six remake of It Happened One Night starring June Allison and Jack Lemon, which
has also been remastered again in HD brand new. There's also an audio commentary
featuring Frank Capra Junior and Frank Capra Junior remembers It Happened One Night in a
featurette. They also have a featurette about Screwball comedy, and then the original
live radio broadcast. Next one is From Here to Eternity. This one is
one of the ones with the Dolby ATMOS audio. Let Me See was the
first one? No, the first one was the original mono, So this
one has strength and sacrifice the making of From Here to Eternity. We get
a eternal history revisited, brand new featurette, and then from nineteen eighty a
new From Here to Eternity TV pilot starring William Devane and Barbara Hershey, presented
in standard definition, and some other making ofs and other excerpt featurettes that we
got on there. The next couple, we got to Sir with Love.
This one has the Dolby Vision HDR presentation, the original mono audio five point
one audio, and then a new tribute to Sydney Poudier. From nineteen seventy
four, we get a new to Serve with Love pilot with Harry Rhoades starring
in this rare TV adaptation of the nineteen sixty seven classic, presented in high
depth. We got an audio commentary featuring Judy Geeson and film historians Julie Kergo
and Nick Redman. We got a whole bunch of other stuff, audio commentary
featuring the novelist, and then new to Serve with Love two, the nineteen
ninety two TV movie sequel to the nineteen sixty seven classic starring Sidney Padier and
directed by Peter Bogdanovich himself, presented in HD. I mean, a full
on TV movie sequel is included as a bonus feature. There's so much in
here. We got acting featurettes to Potter with Love featurette, all brand new,
and then a whole bunch of archival extras. And that's just the third
title. We're only halfway through it. This is such a great great box
set. This next one, we got the Last Picture Show. This has
the mono audio audio commentary featuring Peter Bogdanovic, a tribute to Peter Bogdanovic,
and then a look back documentary and a discussion with Peter Bogdanovic. And then
we have Annie with a whole bunch of people. This is the classic Annie
that everybody pretty much saw growing up. At this point, this gets a
Dolby at most restoration, brand new Dolby Vision HDR four K from the OCN
and all that. But then these extras. We got a new Little Orphan
Annie from nineteen thirty two, featuring Mitzi Green as Annie, newly restored and
presented an HD fantastic We get a cast audio commentary featuring all new reflections from
Carol Burnett and ranking Tim Curry himself, Tim Curry and Rosanne Sorrentino. I
mean the fact that we're still getting a new commentary with Carol Burnett and Tim
Curry, astonishing that in twenty twenty two we're able to put those those voices
on this set that we can listen to again. Tim Curry just it has
been a very sad last gosh, I don't remember how long it's been since
the stroke, but he is out there working his ass off still. Obviously
he's stuck in a wheelchair, but he is doing everything he can to keep
his legacy alive and happy. There's a new conversation with Eileen Quinn behind the
music, with Charles Strauss looking back behind the scenes, and then a couple
other featurettes and a sing along with Annie, a whole bunch on there,
and then musical performance by play It's a hard knock life. Just so much
in here, this is ridiculous. And then finally, for me, this
is probably the most exciting of the six just because this hasn't had a great
release yet. In fact, I think Imprint put this out maybe, but
this four K is gonna blow it away. If they did, I can't
even remember. But this cast, this film, it is. It is
great, and it got the fact that it's a twenty five year anniversary.
This is crazy. Helen Hunt, Greg Kanear, Jack Nicholson, and Cuba
Gooding Junior star in the James L. Brooks hit comedy As Good as It
Gets. And this one we are getting Dolby Atmos audio which is great audio
commentary featuring the director, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kanear, the
editor, producer and composer Hans zimmer Is even included. We got new deleted
scenes, some intros, the original ending that was they called kiss her Man.
There are new behind the scenes footage in this new the making of featurette,
some sound bites, and then an exclusive bonus disc called From Here to
Eternity, which includes the nearly five hour nineteen seventy nine TV mini series starring
Natalie Wood, William Devane and Peter Boyle presented in h So much this release
is just crazy. I mean a full mini series, TV movie sequels,
full other films. This is the way that studios should be releasing their films,
and I really wish that Columbia could do this like twice a year.
Yes, As Good as It Gets was released on Blue by Twilight Time.
I didn't love that release. The imprint one was decent, but obviously this
is gonna be the way to watch it. As Good as It Gets is
a wonderful comedy. I just love James L. Brooks, the very last
one. We got some details on Dress to Kill. This is coming in
four K from Keno on October twenty fifth, making it a perfect holiday pick
up for Halloween. This of course stars Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, and
Nancy Allen. This is the slipcover and then the inner RT is this classic
look. We get brand new HDR Dolby vision Master from a sixteen bit four
K scan of the OCN new audio commentary by author Miitlan mcdonnaugh. Maitland McDonough
don't know why I said it the wrong way first, but then we get
a new interview on disc two with Nancy Allen, a new interview with the
associate producer and production manager Fred Caruso, a new interview with Keith Gordon,
and then a whole bunch of archival interviews, featurettes, documentaries. There's even
the forty three minute making of from two thousand and one. If you've never
seen Dressed to Kill, this is a very good DiPalma movie, one that
I don't think. It's a lot of love. Considering what DiPalma has has
morphed into throughout the years, He's had quite a different types of styles,
probably you know, three or four different eras of Di Palma, and Dressed
to Kill is a very good one. What's going on on? Scolder?
This is literally the last announcement. Here's my sister. What's going on?
Courtney? Yeah, Drassic Kill. I'm actually curious if Courtney's seen this one.
Probably not. This is probably one she would like quite a bit.
Michael Caine amazing in this movie. But yeah, I would consider picking that
up if you are into the Palma. That is it for announcements for this
week. And that took a lot longer than I expected. That Columbia Classics.
That took so much time, I'll buy itself. Let's go into the
details of what is releasing on Blu Ray next Tuesday. We are getting on
August sixteenth, the Scream Factory four K is of Child's Play, Child's Play
two, and Child's Play three. The Shouts Select four K of Red Dawn.
The Jurassic World dominion, I believe has settled on coming out in four
K next Tuesday. The release date of that one has been up in the
air a few times, which has been odd. What's Eating Gilbert Grape and
Coneheads are getting their catalog release on Blu Ray What Women Want as well.
Black Phone, This is finally coming out next Tuesday for those that didn't know
because we talked about it on the show, but Scream Factory never announced it
at all. Child's Play four K and Red Dawn four K those are both
coming out on a Best Buy exclusive steel book, which is really odd.
They have not done that as exclusives with best Buy before, and those are
also coming out next Tuesday. Of course, is Black Phone good? Knowing
your taste, you would really like it. I think that it gets a
little anti climactic, and I don't want to give away the twist for a
fairly new film or anything like that. It's not even really a twist.
I don't want to spoil it. Like, the first almost half of the
movie is really good, really great setup, very creepy, great score on
that film. Unfortunately, when the bulk of the movie happens, it's in
a situation that kind of just takes the rug out of the film. I
think The Black Phone ended up being something that it fell flats at the end
for me. And it's still good, it's just not the like the hotness
that everybody was describing it as. And that's the thing it seems like nowadays
with people talking about films, it's either like the greatest thing to come out
this year or it's a completely dogshit film, and The Black Phone sits squarely
in the middle. It's a good, competent movie, but it's probably not
one that I'll want to rewatch every year for the next decade or anything like
that. We are getting the Criterion, We're getting the Safty Brothers film Daddy
Long Legs next Tuesday. I'm guaranteeing a lot of people are gonna be picking
that one up in the November sale. I'm sure the so many people are
clamoring for Johnny Nmonic in Black and White that's finally coming next Tuesday. Electro
Glide in Blue. That is a Keno title that'll be here next Tuesday.
The other Criterion Frown Lamb that is coming out as well. Barb and Star
are Go to Vista del Mar. Really great modern comedy. But once again
the studio releasing the four K like a year after the Blu Ray. Why
why, why why I don't get this one. I so many people bought
the Blu Ray that they were like, yeah, we got Blu Ray sales,
now let's release it on four K. Anyways, Barbin Star is actually
a fun movie for a modern comedy. Let's see the other ones coming out
we are getting. Let's see they went that away and that a way.
This is the Tim Conway film that's coming out from Keno. Denise calls Up
that is coming I believe from Paramounts, and not a whole lot else coming
in terms of boutiques. A couple more big ones coming out before the end
of the month, I believe. Yeah, we got the Dog Soldiers coming,
Pads the Glory, but we'll be talking about those next week. Of
course. On Reconnected, all right, we had been here for an hour
and forty minutes. I'm gonna go through a few things, like I said,
highlight some things, some really cool things. First off, I was
talking about indie horror earlier, and actually, let me try to not do
this by the microphone because I know it'll sound like crap. Get this open
so it doesn't glare too bad for you. If you have never heard of
Gator Blade films, there's a couple indie horror directors that have put out some
films and they're not always great, but they're fun and they keep things going.
But it's always important to support these people. We've talked about Indy Horn
here before. I just got in one that I backed a while ago,
The Cheerleader, The Cheerleader Sleepoverslaughter, which is promising to be full of nudity
and blood and hilarity and just amazing. I mean, there's also a bonus
film in on here called The Housewife Slasher. And yeah, let's see,
they even included a little poster or picture in here. Don't know why I
said poster. Yeah, I mean that's interesting. At least I would keep
an eye on indie horror if you have not been. And then the other
thing, I wanted to talk about the fact that we don't have a lot
of people still talking about the fact that we're getting Fangoria still and we got
a really cool cover featuring The Weekend, which is an incredible musician and has
done some really cool stuff and make up over the last few years and been
telling some really interesting stories. I really dig The Weekend and Fangoria. It
is always on top of cool stuff like this. They're stuff in here about
Nope. You can see in the corner there they talk about Nope, they
talk about Cronenberg, they talk about The Weekend. Just want to remind everybody
they're out there and it's not like over expensive for an entire year. But
the last one really wanted to highlight. Finally got in the latest wave of
Mando Micabro titles Love Brides of the Blood Mummy. I got number forty five
out of twelve hundred on that one, and then Jess Franco's The Other Side
of the Mirror, and then thank you to Jared for also in pairing these
up number forty five, and then their final title in this bundle, The
Horrible Sexy Vampire. Now. Manda Micabro was actually the first label that I
had like a true interview with on this channel earlier this year. I did
speak with Justin d Clue from Gold Ninja Video last year, but that was
about a very different thing. He had an Indiegogo at the time. We
didn't go into as much detail as I've been doing now. Justin Daklue was
great, but I've grown a lot since then as an interviewer. And Manta
Micabre they get like ample attention, but I think that they still go into
the radar for a lot of people and people just plain forget to support them.
And Monta Micabre has had low key like one of the better years from
a boutiques. From a boutique standpoint, they put out some great titles this
year. They've got their first four K coming with Doctor Klagari in November,
and they are releasing just really unique, interesting titles with a lot of bonus
features, and they're limited titles are selling decent, but like their last wave
didn't sell that well for them, which is really odd. So Monda Micabro.
If you have never supported them, please go back and watch my interview
with Jared. They do incredible work and they are somebody that I think if
you are into horror, if you are into like Bonker Cinema, they have
something for pretty much everybody out there, And then last thing, I will
remind everybody what I said at the beginning in in case you weren't here,
then air four four four four. I have my interview coming with them on
Monday, and it is not for me necessarily, but it is a great
pile of information, very young dudes with some inspiring takes on cinema, on
starting a label, and I think that most of you will probably really enjoy
it. Be on a lookout for that. Other than that, I think
I might be done. Is anybody really dying to see the shout select sail
or have any questions anything I can help with before we call it a night.
We have. We've gone a lot longer than I expected already, to
be honest, I really didn't think that I was even gonna get an hour
out of it. But the fact that that Columbia Classics just had so so
much stoked that we are getting that and all that work went into it.
All right, I am probably gonna call it then. Not a lot going
on there. I wanted to once again say thank you to the patrons.
Most of you are in the chat tonight and just want to say thank you.
You are huge supporters of this channel. The discord is very active.
Everybody on this list is amazing. They have done a lot to help give
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And as I always say, from one collector to all of you,
have a good night. We'll see you next Thursday, and I got some
more stuff coming before then. See ya.