Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
Speaker 2: Hello there, everybody, and welcome back to Reconnected. Another Thursday
Speaker 2: here for all of you, this time brand new first
Speaker 2: time guests that I'm very excited to be here one
Speaker 2: of the most compelling graphic designers for Blu ray covers
Speaker 2: of our time. Mister Sam's myth Welcome.
Speaker 3: Welcome to you. Thank you for having me Sam Smith,
Speaker 3: not the singer Sam Smith.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely different thing. It's good to skew. I'm so
Speaker 2: glad that you're here. Yeah, this is so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me. Super fun Big Blue ray
Speaker 3: Collector as well to Cenophile the whole nine yards love.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I excited to talk about all of this.
Speaker 2: Well, the first thing obviously was Sam being first time here.
Speaker 2: All of the social links and all that stuff from
Speaker 2: the description. Website is there, the shop is there open
Speaker 2: that another tab save it for later. I think most
Speaker 2: of it is sold out at the moment, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be watching for Prince soon because I somehow don't
Speaker 2: have anything from you. But it is so much of
Speaker 2: an honor to have you here because there's so many
Speaker 2: things that you've designed over the years that are just
Speaker 2: some of the most memorable covers and I am so
Speaker 2: eager to get to know you.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks man. That's two kind.
Speaker 2: Also musician and done all kinds of stuff podcasting, It's incredible,
Speaker 2: So make sure you follow everywhere. We got somebody asking
Speaker 2: if you're on Letterbox, which yeah you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can just drop that in the chat too.
Speaker 3: I'm in the chat. So but yeah, Sam's myth pretty
Speaker 3: much everywhere, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, I do. I make some
Speaker 3: YouTube videos every now and then with like film stuff
Speaker 3: sometimes open blu rays and whatnot, or process post process
Speaker 3: videos on my work. So yeah, YouTube is a thing.
Speaker 3: Instagram definitely because visual media and lots of post ter images,
Speaker 3: momographic design stuff is there. And then yeah, Letterbox and yeah,
Speaker 3: so ins incredible.
Speaker 2: Uh you have been doing this for quite some time now.
Speaker 2: How how did you first get into art in general? Yeah?
Speaker 3: R one one three three, that's right. I drumed with
Speaker 3: pin folks.
Speaker 2: That is mind blowing. I adore bin folks.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, okay, cool cool? Yeah, So how did I
Speaker 3: get into Okay, so, obviously as a kid loved art
Speaker 3: ed Imberley drawing books. Ever heard of those?
Speaker 2: I believe?
Speaker 3: So okay, So they're like the step by step drawing books.
Speaker 3: That's what I think of as like first like drawing stuff,
Speaker 3: just loved cartooning, drawing, and then also making movies with
Speaker 3: my dad. So I had a very like artistic childhood
Speaker 3: with my dad. Like my dad's an artist, so he
Speaker 3: does all kinds of medium. But we would make movies
Speaker 3: and stuff. So I was doing like puppet movies, which
Speaker 3: of course I love stop mosh animation as a result,
Speaker 3: but like we would do home movie parrot like not parodies,
Speaker 3: but my own spins on certain things, like we had
Speaker 3: bear Man for Batman and La La Scissor Hands for
Speaker 3: Edward cinzarand so it was like I grew up and
Speaker 3: turned like ten ten years old in nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 3: like absolutely perfect time. Early nineties, you know, late eighties,
Speaker 3: early nineties movies just became the steps with movies as well,
Speaker 3: And so I would do my own posters, like even
Speaker 3: as a kid, I would I would draw the teenage
Speaker 3: the Deturials poster. I would do the Dick Tracy, try
Speaker 3: to draw the Dick Tracy logo and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: so that whole era like Tracy, Batman, Turtles, Tim Burton,
Speaker 3: like early nineties like T two, you know, like that
Speaker 3: that's my era and got me into movies. So I
Speaker 3: always loved movies, always did drawing and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And then like you know, once we got to middle
Speaker 3: school and high school, I'm doing like posters for my school,
Speaker 3: posters for events and all that stuff. So I always
Speaker 3: loved posters, and it was like collecting them from the
Speaker 3: movie theater too, Like I would go up at the
Speaker 3: multiplex and ask for the posters because they always had tons.
Speaker 3: So I have like a good stash of like nineties
Speaker 3: movie posters in my flat file. They're pretty crumpled someone
Speaker 3: were crumpled up, but you know anyway, so I always
Speaker 3: loved them. And then yeah, like studied, did music in
Speaker 3: high school, drumming, just all sorts of the arts, you know.
Speaker 3: I was just like really brought up in the arts,
Speaker 3: so all kinds of things. But really, after college and
Speaker 3: touring for a bit, I had this kind of light
Speaker 3: bulb go off. It was when I call the Mondo
Speaker 3: silk screen screenprints were going around getting really big. Mondo
Speaker 3: is huge, and I was like, well, I want to
Speaker 3: be part of that, but I don't want to, like
Speaker 3: I can't compete with like the Tyler Stouts and the
Speaker 3: Ali Mosses, like I want to do my own thing,
Speaker 3: and how can I do that? Basically went to the Bellcourt,
Speaker 3: which is our local art house theater. We have a
Speaker 3: great nonprofit art house in the country, one of the
Speaker 3: best in the country, and I've known them there except
Speaker 3: in the regular and I get I kind of said
Speaker 3: to them, can I can I do? Try a couple
Speaker 3: of prints for screenings, and I kind of like wanted
Speaker 3: to create a portfolio of work that kind of pulled
Speaker 3: in all my influences basically like Cuban posters, Polish posters,
Speaker 3: check posters, all that stuff that I kind of was
Speaker 3: really into, like kind an academic level, and it was
Speaker 3: like the style was like, oh, I can do this.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't draw like Aaron Horky or someone
Speaker 3: like that, but I can do minim not minimalists, but
Speaker 3: more reduced it kind of things. And that's how I
Speaker 3: kind of started a portfolio, did some Bellcourt prints and
Speaker 3: that quickly led to the House thing, which wasn't far
Speaker 3: after that, where Bellcourt had House as a midnight movie.
Speaker 3: There you go, it's my claim to fame. I peaked
Speaker 3: like twenty years ago. What kind of say. I peaked
Speaker 3: early and yeah, the House poster. I did it as
Speaker 3: a midnight movie poster and Janis was not sure if
Speaker 3: they were going to show the whole thing or even
Speaker 3: do a Criterion. They were just they had this restoration
Speaker 3: and it went well. Next thing, you know, they want
Speaker 3: to use my poster for the nationwide re release of
Speaker 3: House and do it for the Blu Ray. And then
Speaker 3: I started working with Criterion and off to the races
Speaker 3: with key art, theatrical posters, Blu Rays and just movie art.
Speaker 2: That is a huge deal to get a title like
Speaker 2: House that you know, I think because it's so huge now,
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't realize before what year did
Speaker 2: House start with you? Like two thousand and seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven eight.
Speaker 2: So before then House wasn't really known. It had not
Speaker 2: had this revitalization in the US yet, like it was
Speaker 2: sometimes you don't like the Japanese society in New York.
Speaker 2: But that was like the max of its height of
Speaker 2: popularity and since then it's exploded. But to get your
Speaker 2: name associated with that as it's rising to popularity, that's
Speaker 2: got to be like the biggest strike of luck in
Speaker 2: that moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was absolutely just like lightning striking at the
Speaker 3: right time. And even like designing that poster, it was
Speaker 3: done very quickly, like way more quickly than I've designed
Speaker 3: anything else because I just wanted to. But it was
Speaker 3: partly like strategic. You know, people ask me for advice
Speaker 3: and stuff. I always say, well, try to go after
Speaker 3: the clients you want, you know, try to create work
Speaker 3: that your clients are going to see. So okay, here
Speaker 3: Janis Films has this, and I can do a poster
Speaker 3: for Melcurt. They're letting me do it. I don't have
Speaker 3: to sign a license or anything, and they're going to
Speaker 3: see it. So there you go, Like, you know, I
Speaker 3: just I was like, I want to get this poster,
Speaker 3: like I want, I want to do the whole thing.
Speaker 3: And but we we even then we didn't know what
Speaker 3: the phenomenon the movie would because the min that movie
Speaker 3: sold out, then they did minnut movies everywhere else. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was it was lightning striking at the right time,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: I mean to get associated with Criterion and Janis at
Speaker 2: All is something that most people would strive for. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: tons of tons of covers that you've done your current
Speaker 2: that go Yeah, one that is not heralded enough. I
Speaker 2: actually really liked the iconography of this one.
Speaker 3: Carlos, thank you. Yeah, that came from the poster because
Speaker 3: I did the theatrical poster for IFC Films and I
Speaker 3: have seen Criterion. They poured him in and something have
Speaker 3: changed the art little bit. There's actually a fun fact
Speaker 3: about that. In the poster he has a gun, and
Speaker 3: for some reason, Criterion wanted to remove the gun for
Speaker 3: the DVD for the Blue Ray, so I was like,
Speaker 3: I was kind of grudgingly agree. I mean, it's their call,
Speaker 3: but there is no gun in the Criterion version. Just
Speaker 3: a little trivia, but no. Yeah, Criterion is the dream job,
Speaker 3: man like for any designer. So you know, throughout college,
Speaker 3: I studied cinema studies at NYU at Tish, not filmmaking,
Speaker 3: just like cinema studies, which is basically English major type
Speaker 3: of thing. You're reading thought film, you're writing about film,
Speaker 3: you're watching tons of films. And yeah, every time I
Speaker 3: had extra money, I just go down to Kim's Video
Speaker 3: and buy criterions, you know, and stack them up. So
Speaker 3: that was that was my thing.
Speaker 2: Kim's Video mentioned everybody's gotta love that funny enough. In
Speaker 2: the chat Simmn or reading my mind, I was going
Speaker 2: to ask you did the pretty iconic world on a
Speaker 2: wire over there? And then Aero Video announced the title
Speaker 2: that had our very similar Can you speak on that
Speaker 2: at all?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just have to laugh about it. I mean
Speaker 3: it was there like a transitional time at Arrow because
Speaker 3: Fran was lead Frand who does Radiance. He was on
Speaker 3: his way out and I actually worked with Aero prior
Speaker 3: to that, and we had we had a couple of
Speaker 3: great projects together. Oh thank you. Yeah, so did Bound
Speaker 3: the Theater of Blood? And then uh yeah, I just
Speaker 3: saw that it went around on Twitter. People were tagging
Speaker 3: me like before I even know this, and I just like,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be You don't even have to
Speaker 3: be a dick about it. You just have to email
Speaker 3: error and be like, hey, you stole the art And
Speaker 3: then they're like, oh, wow, we really did. Sorry, how
Speaker 3: can we you know that? That's all story is. I
Speaker 3: don't know the designer, I'm not, I don't They clearly
Speaker 3: ripped it off. But you know, it's interesting that a
Speaker 3: lot of times there's similarities and like echoes in graphic design,
Speaker 3: you know, something will look like something else whether it's
Speaker 3: intentional or not is always up for debate. It's usually not.
Speaker 3: But in that case, you kind of can't help but
Speaker 3: think they did that. It's like, why would you do that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: So it was funny and they fran made good on
Speaker 3: it later by you know, hooking me up with some
Speaker 3: Radiance things. I just got my first Radiance copy, my
Speaker 3: first thing I did just steps up.
Speaker 2: I have not been able to get that one in yet,
Speaker 2: but I can't. It's one of my most anticipated from them.
Speaker 2: It looks great. The other one that's a big deal
Speaker 2: right now, of course, is getting in with Ocen. This
Speaker 2: was the one that Celeste Lecabre commented on my announcement
Speaker 2: post for Brimstone and Treacle, which is gorgeous, thank you.
Speaker 2: And then this just came in in the last day
Speaker 2: and a half. And then I've got the other Cinematograph
Speaker 2: on the way in my next shipment as well. How'd
Speaker 2: you get in with them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So basically Criterion, my Criterion era was like a
Speaker 3: while ago. I did several things with them, and then yeah,
Speaker 3: I've toured off and on, so it's like I've kind
Speaker 3: of come in and out of doing key art some
Speaker 3: years have been more busy than others, but just something
Speaker 3: about the last year or two year and a half
Speaker 3: of like what's gone on with physical media. Like I've
Speaker 3: always collected blue rays, but I was really like sleeping
Speaker 3: on it for all the last five or six years,
Speaker 3: like heart like getting criterions on flash sails, but other
Speaker 3: than that really not buying anything. And then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, I just kind of like realized how much
Speaker 3: great stuff is out there. It was like and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, Like it kind of all
Speaker 3: clicked at the same time, you know, just with with Radiance,
Speaker 3: I think Fran had reached out to me, and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, wow, Radiance is really doing amazing stuff.
Speaker 3: And then Wow, I forgot how much great stuff is
Speaker 3: on Vineger, Syndrome and these other labels, and then finding
Speaker 3: YouTube channels and then finding you, and I'm like, now
Speaker 3: I'm just like obsessed with collecting blu rays.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: It's very bad, but I think it was just like
Speaker 3: I want to, you know, for anyone, like it's not
Speaker 3: the same as it was before COVID. You know, you
Speaker 3: as a designer, you just can't get the rates you
Speaker 3: used to get. There's a lot of stuff being done
Speaker 3: in house and whatnot. But I was like, I still
Speaker 3: want to be a part of what these different labels
Speaker 3: are doing, even if I just do a couple of
Speaker 3: things for a few of them, Like I just I
Speaker 3: want to be part of the library, you know, and
Speaker 3: kind of like get get in on what the cool
Speaker 3: stuff are doing. So so yeah, Justin, just Justin just
Speaker 3: said hey, you want to I emailed them. I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: let me know if I can do anything for you guys.
Speaker 3: I still didn't even understand like how Justin like he does.
Speaker 2: Every like does everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's like, hey, do this one for Cinematograph.
Speaker 3: So I just took it. Yeah, So I'm I'm not
Speaker 3: being shoosy. I'm just kind of like whatever anyone wants
Speaker 3: me to work on, give it a go, you know.
Speaker 3: And the cool thing about these boutiques and the budgets
Speaker 3: being lower is like they're like no notes, you know,
Speaker 3: just like do your thing. And that's that's ideal, because like,
Speaker 3: you know, I want to say, Okay, here's my work.
Speaker 3: I make great covers. I hope you think so, and
Speaker 3: so you know, let's we don't have to do like
Speaker 3: twenty versions of a cover, which is what you do
Speaker 3: when you work for a big studio or something like that.
Speaker 2: I've got probably five or six others with your art
Speaker 2: on the front, but one more that I wanted to
Speaker 2: shine a light on because nobody ever talks about the
Speaker 2: smaller companies like Cinema Guild, which you've done work for,
Speaker 2: or the first one that I got that I didn't
Speaker 2: know was you that did the art that made me
Speaker 2: appreciate it so much more, Grasshopper Films, Thank you.
Speaker 3: You love such.
Speaker 2: A beautiful piece of key art.
Speaker 3: Thank you. And well, it's just a I always just
Speaker 3: go back to the film. It's just I love Hama
Speaker 3: Gucci Man like that one in particular, just underappreciated just
Speaker 3: because you know, drive my Car with Sola claims. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's different kind of movie, but yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of that one. And Grasshopper is always Ryan
Speaker 3: and what he's doing Ryan Creboschet uh with Grasshopper is awesome.
Speaker 3: I love doing anything he wants to do with me.
Speaker 3: So I've done a few there and those have been great.
Speaker 2: Tonight, after the announcements, we're gonna talk real deep about
Speaker 2: some more of your stuff. Do more of a like
Speaker 2: interview style segment. But before we get into all the
Speaker 2: physical media stuff, what do you what are you super into?
Speaker 2: What are some of your favorite labels? What kind of
Speaker 2: film do you like to watch?
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a good question. I love all the labels. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's interesting. Like Criterion was like is still and was
Speaker 3: like the canon if you will, of you know, a
Speaker 3: certain library of all time grades. And I always I've
Speaker 3: always like kind of gotten by that that book, and
Speaker 3: I love a lot of those tours that you see
Speaker 3: in Criterion. I particularly love what I and others have
Speaker 3: maybe called cinema of childhood, so particularly children, not just
Speaker 3: children's films, but films about childhood, and also not just
Speaker 3: fantasy films. But oftentimes there is some kind of magical realists,
Speaker 3: like your Spirit of the behive. Miyazaki is like my
Speaker 3: my my guy, so like my Neighbor Toidro is like
Speaker 3: one of my all time films. Those kinds of films.
Speaker 3: I really loved Louis mao. Uh. But favorite directors, I
Speaker 3: mean Kubrick, Kubrick, Miyazaki, Bresson, Tarkovski, Kirostami, those are like
Speaker 3: my that's my like Mount Rushmore kind of so I
Speaker 3: really love the really serious long art house stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Donna's maybe made not as much into horror as most
Speaker 3: like collect you know, the collectors, they all love the horror.
Speaker 3: I'm not as much in the horror. If with horror,
Speaker 3: I really love something artsy. Yeah, the shining uh, next
Speaker 3: of kin House, footprints on Footprints on the Moon. These
Speaker 3: are my favorite kinds of genre films. I think there
Speaker 3: was kat Ellinger y so I she said something on
Speaker 3: some show and it all clay. She the term was
Speaker 3: the fantastique yep, and I was like, that's it. That's
Speaker 3: what I like because I don't like Gore, I don't
Speaker 3: like slash or anything like that. But anything that's the fantastic,
Speaker 3: so not necessarily fantasy but some kind of blend of
Speaker 3: the real world and something else, that's what I like.
Speaker 3: And shot well and great scores, you know, I love
Speaker 3: scores well.
Speaker 2: After Tarkowski gets mentioned, how how does it feel to
Speaker 2: have cover like Solarious associated with you?
Speaker 3: That was like, of probably all emails I've ever gotten,
Speaker 3: that was the most excited moment. I'll never forget where
Speaker 3: I was, you know, like I was like in a
Speaker 3: billiard's hall, so playing ping pong for some reason now
Speaker 3: that we just have a cool ping pong hall. But
Speaker 3: uh yeah, like that was an exciting email ticket for sure.
Speaker 2: I bet. Yeah. So let's get into some some recent
Speaker 2: pickups and watches. Then, what have you been getting? I
Speaker 2: got them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I've been what do you want, watches.
Speaker 2: Pickups, whichever won you want to do first. I'll follow
Speaker 2: your lead.
Speaker 3: Let's go pickups.
Speaker 2: You got it.
Speaker 3: I have a little stack here because I have been,
Speaker 3: like I said, I've been picking stuff up you we
Speaker 3: all want and your show actually may or may not
Speaker 3: have encouraged me to pick up more.
Speaker 2: I apologize and you're welcome. Okay.
Speaker 3: So I have a little stack, and I'll try to
Speaker 3: go fast and I want to hear yours of course.
Speaker 2: I've got him ready, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Got this in the flash sale. This is I wish
Speaker 3: I had the Okay, it was my favorite movie of
Speaker 3: the year for most of last year. Ryuichi Saka moto Oi.
Speaker 3: I love like I said, I love scores, I love
Speaker 3: anything Japan.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: He is incredible and the idea that he he created
Speaker 3: this piece of art to serve as his final work. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's just two hours of gorgeous solo piano in
Speaker 3: black and white cinematography. If you see this in the
Speaker 3: if you have to see this in the theater, it
Speaker 3: is a spiritual experience just to do that and you
Speaker 3: just walk out of the theater just like you just
Speaker 3: absolute meditation, you know.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 3: And those are nice because they're only fifteen in the
Speaker 3: Flatshaw the Jazz Contemporaries. Okay, this was a blind bine.
Speaker 3: I have not watched it yet. I bought this just
Speaker 3: for the trailer. It's a severin standard edition the Seventh Curse,
Speaker 3: which from the Paul Now I said, I don't love
Speaker 3: horror too much, but this is a double. The trailer
Speaker 3: shows both films, and I don't know which one it is,
Speaker 3: but one of them I know I'm going to love
Speaker 3: just because the way it looks into the middle, it's
Speaker 3: probably Seventh Caurse. Okay, so I'm excited to watch it.
Speaker 3: I bought it blind by.
Speaker 2: The movie is wild, okay, yeah, a trip. It's so
Speaker 2: many genres within one. It's you'll love it.
Speaker 3: I love that kind of stuff, like I do you
Speaker 3: love a couple comes to mind, like this film mystics
Speaker 3: in BALI do you know that? And Lady Terminator like
Speaker 3: that kind of a thing. The late great Jim Ridley,
Speaker 3: I just have to shout him out. He was the
Speaker 3: editor of the National scene of the Film Critic here
Speaker 3: and he passed away, and he's like everyone who's in
Speaker 3: part of the national film community just knows him as
Speaker 3: like the god of film writing and just the nicest guy.
Speaker 3: And he loved those kind of movies, and so he
Speaker 3: turned me on to some of those. And so even
Speaker 3: though I say I don't love horror, if it's something
Speaker 3: like this that's just really crazy and beautiful and psychedelic,
Speaker 3: I'm so into that. This was a blind buy as
Speaker 3: well from a sale. I just I look for the sales.
Speaker 3: You know, I know nothing about this.
Speaker 2: These fish I just loved.
Speaker 3: I love discovering more Japanese cinema. There's a lot left
Speaker 3: for me to find, so I'm curious to check it out.
Speaker 3: This one I bought for the cover design because it
Speaker 3: was made by h in my opinion, maybe the best
Speaker 3: one of the best in the game, Adam Mida graphic artists,
Speaker 3: and he did this one Neither the Sea nor Sand. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And also just reading about the film, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this sounds up my alley just like dreamy, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of gothic, weird art house. That's what I love.
Speaker 3: And then the rest these are all just most of
Speaker 3: these are just like standard blu rays. I should qualify
Speaker 3: it by saying, hey, don't judge me. I promise I
Speaker 3: will not, and the chat don't judge me. I am
Speaker 3: like I'm choosing to do this. Ignorance is bliss thing
Speaker 3: when it comes to four K.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have not saved the money.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna try to commit to just never
Speaker 3: crossing over. I don't know, maybe not, maybe I will,
Speaker 3: maybe not. Anyway, I don't. I'm if there are better
Speaker 3: additions out there of some of these, that's fine, and
Speaker 3: there might be. These are just little things I've always
Speaker 3: meant to have and like fill out my collection that
Speaker 3: I love. Attack the Block, God, I.
Speaker 2: Love that movie so good, right, It's perfect.
Speaker 3: So fun and under sne yes DC desay's good luck
Speaker 3: with that. Yeah, I have a movie room with the projector.
Speaker 3: But I feel like, you know, as I get older,
Speaker 3: my vision's gonna get worse. Yep, so who cares if
Speaker 3: I can't see the FOURK.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be blurry anyways, ung Bach I've not seen
Speaker 2: this one. What, Yeah, I'm still behind on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean I figure you've seen everything. But yeah,
Speaker 3: every now and then a great martial arts ballet type movie,
Speaker 3: I really love love them. This I got it is
Speaker 3: one of my wife's top three movies and it is
Speaker 3: a Christmas tradition. So I wanted to make sure that
Speaker 3: I had my wife's favorite Christmas movie on Blu Ray.
Speaker 3: And when she introduced me to it, absolutely fell in
Speaker 3: love with this film. Meet Me in Saint Louis classic,
Speaker 3: just so good. I'm not when it comes to old
Speaker 3: Hollywood musicals, It's not particularly my favorite, but the best
Speaker 3: ones I really love to appreciate, and see, this is
Speaker 3: just one I've always thought was underrated. The Limits of
Speaker 3: Control by Jarmish, really cool film. And then I think
Speaker 3: you were talking about Almodvar recently.
Speaker 2: I was, yeah, and so this.
Speaker 3: That reminded me, Oh, I need to make sure I
Speaker 3: have a couple of his that I don't have. So
Speaker 3: Pain and Glory is an excellent one. And then lastly,
Speaker 3: this one I had to dig around for for a while.
Speaker 3: It was rare out of print.
Speaker 2: Some site was it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Arrow said they had it in print.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: It was just in the store all of a sudden
Speaker 3: again like what, so I bought it. Of course, for months,
Speaker 3: I get notifications we cannot find your animals, like yeah,
Speaker 3: because you never had it in stock, you don't get
Speaker 3: my hopes stup like this. They finally refunded it and
Speaker 3: I found I went to eBay and just tracked it
Speaker 3: down finally. And this is a segue into watches because
Speaker 3: it's a check fairy tale film, which I told you
Speaker 3: I love child. I love fairy tale type things, anything folklore,
Speaker 3: and I love polish check anything from that era in
Speaker 3: the sixties and so forth. Beautying the Beast by Gras
Speaker 3: Girage hurts awesome. I love this type of thing.
Speaker 2: It's an excellent release too.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I love these second Runs. I've gotten a
Speaker 3: few others. I love how the spines look like the
Speaker 3: design system is. I just love it. So yeah, those
Speaker 3: are my pickups.
Speaker 2: Amazing Second Run for those that we don't talk about
Speaker 2: Second Run enough. They are out of the UK, but
Speaker 2: literally everything they've released has been region for and they've
Speaker 2: got a lot of titles that aren't available anywhere else.
Speaker 2: So if you want check them out during an arrow sale.
Speaker 2: The Arrow Store also carries their stuff and during a sale,
Speaker 2: they're like eight pounds looks so cheap, it's crazy once
Speaker 2: you get I think it's like, once you get four
Speaker 2: of them, the shipping becomes worth it. So just get
Speaker 2: through four or five and you can do it very,
Speaker 2: very cheaply. Yes, all right. My recent stuff got in
Speaker 2: the two New Deaf Crocodiles, the I Married a Strange person.
Speaker 2: This is the Bill Plimpton deluxe edition that they just
Speaker 2: put out. And then one that will and I have
Speaker 2: a visual essay on. This is Freckled Max and the Spooks.
Speaker 2: This is an incredible like reimagining of a mini series
Speaker 2: that they cook the episodes and made into a feature
Speaker 2: length film, and it's basically got all of the Universal
Speaker 2: monsters done in a silly way. Probably not fully for kids,
Speaker 2: but like for preteens at least. It's like a fun,
Speaker 2: relatable story. Another one that is a little older, but
Speaker 2: I had same as you. I had a tracked down
Speaker 2: a version to get this because it went out of
Speaker 2: print watershipped down for beautiful movie and I missed out
Speaker 2: on a limited edition. It's one of my favorites, so
Speaker 2: I had to get it. And then The last thing
Speaker 2: is a huge package that came in today, literally today
Speaker 2: from Severn. I got in my skin. This is a
Speaker 2: French extremity film I've not seen, so eager to see.
Speaker 2: This is their first side cut slipcasting. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: it came with the House of Psychotic Women Volume two,
Speaker 2: So eager for this. This has Butterfly Kiss, Morgiano, the
Speaker 2: Savage Eye, and the Glass Ceiling.
Speaker 3: The same director as Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. That was a perfect way to go
Speaker 2: on about that. The big thing that I had bought
Speaker 2: with that package that I was more excited for, is
Speaker 2: going to even be hard to show. This is Jesus
Speaker 2: the Skala Cinema book that is like twenty pounds and
Speaker 2: probably gonna be my favorite thing to go through over
Speaker 2: the next month or so. I'm not watching. Scholar Cinema
Speaker 2: was a theater over in the UK and it was
Speaker 2: basically the theater that a lot of the people that
Speaker 2: we look up to found out about like underground cult
Speaker 2: films of every single type, and they got around the
Speaker 2: British laws by you had to be a member of
Speaker 2: this theater to go see something, so you couldn't just
Speaker 2: get tickets you had to become a member first, and
Speaker 2: now they can show you anything because it's a club,
Speaker 2: and they they shared every type of film that you
Speaker 2: could think of, like Cafe Flesh is one of the
Speaker 2: big ones that they showed many many times over there.
Speaker 2: This book itself, it covers so much more of the
Speaker 2: history than the documentary did. But I will say the
Speaker 2: dock itself incredible. Everybody needs to go check it out.
Speaker 2: It is a beautiful, beautiful film has cut ins from
Speaker 2: a lot of people that you're recognize, famous directors from
Speaker 2: the last twenty years or so. It is a modern
Speaker 2: you know, for somebody that loves film. It is a
Speaker 2: modern masterpiece that everybody should see. Okay.
Speaker 3: And the name of the doc. The name of the doc.
Speaker 2: Scull It sc a l A. There's a subtitle that's
Speaker 2: like twenty of words long. But yes, all you need
Speaker 2: to know is skull It. Okay.
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 2: And then I released it over in the UK as.
Speaker 3: Well, gotcha, Yeah, I remember hearing about this.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, recent watches? Then what did you get
Speaker 2: for those? The Beast one of them.
Speaker 3: Yes, I rewatched it. I'd seen it before, you know,
Speaker 3: back when things weren't as accessible. You know, watching some
Speaker 3: kind of low quality version of it, which is which
Speaker 3: can be cool too, Like I really love watching like
Speaker 3: a bootleg of something and then years years later seeing
Speaker 3: it acid sintenda. That's always fun. But yeah, we watched
Speaker 3: that one. I checked off three huge ones huge. Okay, dude,
Speaker 3: I did my first Petushko film.
Speaker 2: Wow, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Speechless dude?
Speaker 2: Which I.
Speaker 3: Like to go chronologically now I know this this might
Speaker 3: be his first feature, like non animated feature.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: Anyways, but of the four The Deaf Crocodile released, this
Speaker 3: is the earliest. I love growing chronologically. I wanted to
Speaker 3: jump right into Ruslan Ladmilla, but I love going in
Speaker 3: order seeing how director evolves. YadA, YadA, YadA. But dude,
Speaker 3: I was blown away by this. I don't understand all
Speaker 3: of it historically yet. I'm still reading through some supplements
Speaker 3: and like, I want to learn more. I'm really done
Speaker 3: with history. Yeah, but like it's fascinating from a historical perspective.
Speaker 3: But yeah, just god, the use of miniatures and the effects.
Speaker 3: I love anything like that. I love mythology, the fantasy,
Speaker 3: Like just this is what turned me on to Deaf Crocodile.
Speaker 3: So That's how I found out about them, because that
Speaker 3: it looked cool. I just saw the Tony Stella cover
Speaker 3: for Rouslan in the midst.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love Tony. Of course he's like the most insane
Speaker 3: artist of our time for for for a movie movie art.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's how I discovered it, and it was amazing. Secondly,
Speaker 3: finally watched this one that I picked up a few
Speaker 3: months ago. No, I did not the limited edition. If
Speaker 3: anyone's got an extra one wants to hook me up,
Speaker 3: I'll send them like a house print or something. But
Speaker 3: The Keep, now this is interesting because I love I
Speaker 3: love scores, and I love you know, electronic music. Tangerine
Speaker 3: Dream Uh this this the tandering Dream Keep album. Do
Speaker 3: you know how complex all this is? Oh? Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: So someone gave my friend, Jason Shawan, who's another great
Speaker 3: film critic, gave me a burn CD of The Keep,
Speaker 3: like twenty years ago or something, and it's it's become
Speaker 3: like my favorite electronic score ever. Like that album is flawless.
Speaker 3: Everything they that trio did at that time. Also Edgar
Speaker 3: Frose's score for Kamakze eighty nine. If anyone likes this
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, make sure you hear that one too,
Speaker 3: because it's very similar. But as it turns out, a
Speaker 3: lot of the music's not in the movie, right, So
Speaker 3: I got I was like, oh, I can't wait to
Speaker 3: finally watch the keep this masterpiece. I'm going to know
Speaker 3: every every film, every music cue. And I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I forgot, like hardly in it. But I mean then
Speaker 3: you have all the pieces they did make for this
Speaker 3: that have not been released properly, and so it was fascinating.
Speaker 3: But I did love the film, and I have to say, like,
Speaker 3: I thought it was great. Loved the setting, the effects,
Speaker 3: the maybe I guess some of it's a little unfinished
Speaker 3: from what I understand, I don't know again, read the settlements,
Speaker 3: learn how you know. The history of the production I
Speaker 3: know is very fraught and everything. But loved it. And
Speaker 3: then lastly, I'm going back to Deaf Crocodile to check
Speaker 3: off a major thing and I'm I don't know what
Speaker 3: to say except this is the best thing I've seen
Speaker 3: in a very very long time. Wow, very long time.
Speaker 2: This is such an underrated film, dude.
Speaker 3: The fact that on letterbox I'm gonna look again, there
Speaker 3: are like the amount, the low amount of reviews. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just how many people have logged it it. That just
Speaker 3: speaks to how many how much discovery there is here
Speaker 3: for people. Yeah again check fairy Tale. The cinematography Marquantel
Speaker 3: Laza Rova was a little tough for me to get through.
Speaker 3: As much as I loved the cinematography, I appreciate it,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't fully like hitting me in the solar
Speaker 3: plex And this just hit like everything about it as
Speaker 3: like fairy tale cinema. This is probably the best fairy
Speaker 3: tale film I've ever seen, Like it is such an
Speaker 3: underse I appreciate an undiscovered as of yet Jim, and
Speaker 3: that now people can watch so obsessed with this release.
Speaker 3: So everything you know, Death Crocodile specifically leaning into this
Speaker 3: like folklore thing and all the check films. I'm loving
Speaker 3: all that, but this was fantastic. Everyone listening definitely watch it.
Speaker 2: Great, great release. There's there's so many of theirs, especially
Speaker 2: in the last year, that have been released that I
Speaker 2: just I don't hear people talking about, like Adella has
Speaker 2: not had supper yet. Is such an underseen just silly
Speaker 2: film from them? Okay, yes, people need to go check
Speaker 2: it out. It is amazing. The the The Savage Hunts
Speaker 2: of King Stack that they did, the first one that
Speaker 2: they did away from Oceana Vineigar Syndrome. Amazing, amazing movie,
Speaker 2: and pretty much hardly anybody has seen it, so yes,
Speaker 2: please go check some of those undersecene titles out. I
Speaker 2: had a weird week of watches. I'm still trying to
Speaker 2: catch up on some things with my wife that she
Speaker 2: has never seen. And I love that you mentioned the
Speaker 2: sequel earlier. But I showed her for the first time
Speaker 2: The Terminator. She had never seen it, and we got
Speaker 2: done and she laughed and went, I know, we're like
Speaker 2: seven references they're from now. Yeah, totally, And then we
Speaker 2: started the sequel. We've not gotten a chance to finish
Speaker 2: it because I had watched two others for work that
Speaker 2: I'm talking about in a second. But she she's loving
Speaker 2: them and it's so great to see him with somebody
Speaker 2: who has literally never seen it and know what to expect.
Speaker 2: The twist of Arnie not being the bad guy in
Speaker 2: the second movie was huge for her.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, do you like, do you have enoughanity for
Speaker 3: one or the other or just both equally great in
Speaker 3: different ways?
Speaker 2: There, I mean, they're equally great. Different ways because it's
Speaker 2: kind of a tonal thing. The first one is essentially
Speaker 2: a slasher film, and then the second one one might
Speaker 2: be the greatest action movie of all time. So you
Speaker 2: kind of just got to go with what am I
Speaker 2: feeling today? If I want to do something that feels
Speaker 2: a little more Friday the thirteenth in a way, let's
Speaker 2: watch The Terminator if not Judgment T two.
Speaker 3: Like when I was maybe we're around the same age,
Speaker 3: all though you're probably younger than me, but just being
Speaker 3: like eleven twelve years old when T two came out
Speaker 3: here seeing that teaser trailer in the theaters, Yeah, where
Speaker 3: the guy's been being forged and everything, like.
Speaker 2: I just missed it. I think I'm like three or
Speaker 2: four years younger than you. I do too. It would
Speaker 2: have been the perfect time. It is one of those
Speaker 2: things that there's so much that I missed back then.
Speaker 2: But the other thing you brought up Misstic Simbali and
Speaker 2: Lady Terminator and funny enough to let everybody know that
Speaker 2: next Monto Micabro podcast episode that's coming out, we're talking
Speaker 2: about two of their recent films, one being Cafe Flesh
Speaker 2: they say, the second say audience film that they've done
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. They all so did Doctor Caligari.
Speaker 2: But this movie wild. I don't think i'd ever seen
Speaker 2: it before. Cafe Flesh is this weird underground sex film
Speaker 2: that is not erotic pretty much in any single form,
Speaker 2: but man, do they have a lot of it on camera.
Speaker 2: It's a really interesting slice of that life back then.
Speaker 2: It kind of just captures a piece of society that
Speaker 2: was really under talked about and an undervalued at the time.
Speaker 2: And now so many of us gravitate to the cults
Speaker 2: in the underground and the cast aside that films like
Speaker 2: this are just, I don't know, like a weird, warm
Speaker 2: blanket of It's odd, but somehow I feel at home
Speaker 2: while watching it. And then the other one. I loved
Speaker 2: this movie. They also just put out Bohachi Bushido. This
Speaker 2: is a samurai film in a way, done by Taruo Ishie,
Speaker 2: and this is about a gentleman that in the first
Speaker 2: thirty seconds of the film he surrounded and he jumps
Speaker 2: off of a bridge and tries to kill himself essentially,
Speaker 2: and they don't let it happen, and he gets rescued
Speaker 2: and goes to what is basically a brothel and I
Speaker 2: didn't know this was going to turn into basically a
Speaker 2: sex film too. But there's a lot of nudity in
Speaker 2: this movie and a lot of violence, and it's that
Speaker 2: same like Lady Snowblood type of over the top violence,
Speaker 2: which is great. The story itself is very fun. It's
Speaker 2: a beautiful four K disc from Anto micabre Highly recommend
Speaker 2: people check them out. There will be standards on both
Speaker 2: of those. I think both of the limiteds have sold out,
Speaker 2: but four K discs, you'll be able to get them
Speaker 2: pretty much anywhere. Cool, great great stuff. Mono Micabro, Do
Speaker 2: you have anything from them? It sounds like you like some.
Speaker 3: Mom man again, like I'm not. I'm not as I
Speaker 3: don't watch at the rate probably like you or your
Speaker 3: viewers too, Like there's I have so much sel to
Speaker 3: catch up, you know, and I know everyone feels that way,
Speaker 3: but I don't know. I just kind of like take
Speaker 3: my time with like catching getting to things and like
Speaker 3: like the Keep, I should have seen that a long
Speaker 3: time ago, but I was like, I'm on the way,
Speaker 3: and then it kind of pays off because then you
Speaker 3: get a great release of something. So the time comes
Speaker 3: and movies find you when they find you. So I'm
Speaker 3: excited to see more of that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's gonna be a stellar year. I
Speaker 2: mean some of the titles that'rering to talk about tonight.
Speaker 3: First of all, Oh, my god, Stains I have to
Speaker 3: like when I heard that fabulous Stains news. That's one
Speaker 3: of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Man, it's a beautiful movie. Beautify.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, go on.
Speaker 2: I expected it to be a light week and we'd
Speaker 2: have a bunch of time to talk about art and stuff,
Speaker 2: and the announcements just kept pouring in this week. It
Speaker 2: has been crazy.
Speaker 3: Okay, well I'm behind them. I'm excited to see what
Speaker 3: you've got. Let's start bosting through them.
Speaker 2: Let's do it then. First up, just this little indie
Speaker 2: film called Raging Bull. Imprint is putting all of these out.
Speaker 2: These are all coming out on June twenty fifth, and
Speaker 2: these are in Australia. This first one, this is Raging Bull.
Speaker 2: Like I said, the big thing is that this has
Speaker 2: HDR the Criterion release or this one has Dolby Vision.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Criterion one did not sure if
Speaker 2: the Criterion had HDR ten. But yeah, this has an
Speaker 2: upgrade in the Dolby Vision Camp, lots of extras here.
Speaker 2: We've got a two disc set, there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: Blu ray disc and a four K disc sorry, three
Speaker 2: disc set, two disc with just the films, and then
Speaker 2: the third disc with tons of extras. There's so much
Speaker 2: on here literally would not even fit on the listing.
Speaker 2: But Scorsese, I'm sure you got something to say about scortses.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, maybe not as much of a Scorsese
Speaker 3: fanboy as like a lot of the guys are, but
Speaker 3: Raging Bull is probably I think it's his best film.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that's not maybe the most popular opinion,
Speaker 3: but they're definitely people who would back me on that. Like,
Speaker 3: it's definitely up there for a lot of people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that one. Like King of Comedy, After Hours, those are
Speaker 3: the ones that really I'm so done with, Like the
Speaker 3: Leo Leo Scorsese crime movies. I can't do anymore. Man,
Speaker 3: Like the fact that his next seven projects are all
Speaker 3: with Leo, and it's like, dude, don't you want to
Speaker 3: work with anyone else? You don't have that much time left,
Speaker 3: like change any I can't go on about.
Speaker 2: That, but well we can talk about another scor because
Speaker 2: he's also getting New York, New York. I haven't seen
Speaker 2: this one yet, Frands, this is one that has needed
Speaker 2: a decent release for a while. A lot of people
Speaker 2: call this Scorsese's worst film, primarily because De Niro and
Speaker 2: Eliza aren't known for having the greatest of chemistries. But
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've not seen this one. This is
Speaker 2: like one of the handful that I need to get to.
Speaker 2: New commentary by Daniel Kramer, friend of the Channel, some
Speaker 2: new interviews on this. New visual essays, this looks like
Speaker 2: a really solid release. It's got the director's cut and
Speaker 2: the europe And cut, so kind of seems like this
Speaker 2: has pretty much everything you could want.
Speaker 3: That's cool. Yeah, I haven't seen it either, so you
Speaker 3: need to check it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one, especially the art on this looks pretty great.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like early work too. I like early work by filmmakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm way more.
Speaker 3: For example, I'm way more seeing this than his next film.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: It's I just I don't know. There's something about when
Speaker 3: you don't have as much to work with. There is
Speaker 3: just such a creative era, and I think even as
Speaker 3: time goes on, people's worst film, you end up appreciating
Speaker 3: it in a different way.
Speaker 2: So I would agree, completely agree. I mean, look what
Speaker 2: we just said about the keep that's often called is
Speaker 2: his worst film. Yeah. June twenty fifth, we're also getting
Speaker 2: a Blu ray of the Man Who Would Be King.
Speaker 2: This is a film that has gotten a released from
Speaker 2: Keno here in the States prior, but this is going
Speaker 2: to be coming out from Imprint. You've got a making
Speaker 2: of it'll be on this and then they are announcing
Speaker 2: more special features, so this should have more than what
Speaker 2: the Keno does. But this is a Sean Connery and
Speaker 2: Michael Keane and Chris Plumber film from seventy five. I've
Speaker 2: never seen this.
Speaker 3: One no either, not maybe my type of thing unless
Speaker 3: someone really forced me to watch it. But what a
Speaker 3: what a trio of actors.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Then we got The Wind in the Line,
Speaker 2: another Connery film coming on Blu ray. This is from
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five. This has Candice Bergen in it as well.
Speaker 2: This one is going to be getting some new special
Speaker 2: features as well. There's an audio commentary with the director
Speaker 2: on here that was archival, but should be getting some
Speaker 2: new stuff.
Speaker 3: That poster is incredible. The original poster ar for that.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is. It really is this next one. I
Speaker 2: am so excited about this title. Leadbelly from nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: six is coming out. This is the first time on
Speaker 2: physical media ever in the world for this film. This
Speaker 2: has Roger E. Moseley who was in Magnum PI, and
Speaker 2: then this was directed by Gordon Parks, who is pretty astounding.
Speaker 2: This was never on disc anywhere. This is going to
Speaker 2: be limited to fifteen hundred copies. They're doing a bunch
Speaker 2: of new special features for this, but no news on
Speaker 2: the specific extras yet. This will come out later.
Speaker 3: Cool. That's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this looks amazing. I'm always excited about Imprint because
Speaker 2: at least one of the titles is like, you've never
Speaker 2: seen this in HD before? And who else is doing
Speaker 2: that every single month? That's impressive. Cool, And then I
Speaker 2: think this is the last one from them. J W
Speaker 2: Coop from nineteen seventy one is rounding out their slate.
Speaker 2: This one is not gonna get any extras, and it's
Speaker 2: got Cliff Robertson. That's probably the biggest thing about it.
Speaker 2: I've never even heard of this one.
Speaker 3: No, I got nothing. I'm not gonna drag. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna bog you down. If I don't got much to say. No,
Speaker 3: you keep moving, I'll jump in when I got something good.
Speaker 2: You got it? I forgot about this one. The Onion
Speaker 2: Field from nineteen seventy nine is one of the next ones,
Speaker 2: and this is probably the second one. I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to a whole lot casting. This looks great. This one
Speaker 2: has an audio commentary from Harold Becker, that director making
Speaker 2: of But You Got Ted Dance, and Christopher Lloyd, John Savage,
Speaker 2: James Woods. This is just like Peak right at my
Speaker 2: Alley nineteen seventy nine. This should be great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what give me like? Since I'm still catching up
Speaker 3: on your show? Like who are your top? Who's your
Speaker 3: mount Rushmore? Just so I can get your or does
Speaker 3: Roland films three of them or something? Or four favorites?
Speaker 3: Letter boxes give me anything? Uh?
Speaker 2: Letterbox four favorites is an interesting one because it is
Speaker 2: not one that I've changed in a long time. My
Speaker 2: current top four on letterbox is a green Room from
Speaker 2: a handful of years ago. Love that movie Jurassic Park
Speaker 2: is probably what made me love films when I was
Speaker 2: a kid. Nice the Muppets Christmas Carol, which yes, it
Speaker 2: is my Christmas movie, and I've got a animal tattooed
Speaker 2: on my arm.
Speaker 3: Dude, that's amazing. Like I know, I said, my wife
Speaker 3: with me, me and Saint Louis. But we kick off
Speaker 3: Chris Christmas every Thanksgiving weekend with Mupper Christmas Girl nice.
Speaker 2: And then my fourth one is a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't even call it a film, but bo Burnham's Inside
Speaker 2: from a couple of years ago, I think is one
Speaker 2: of the most important pieces of art come out in
Speaker 2: the last five years.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I could go on and on as far as labels.
Speaker 3: A director, you're this year like other directors.
Speaker 2: You love who directors? I am gosh current directors at
Speaker 2: least loving Ari Astor stuff bringing the artistic side to
Speaker 2: some darkness. Love Robert Eggers, like a lot of people
Speaker 2: grew up on Steven Spielberg stuff. So a lot of
Speaker 2: that is still just nice toasty like comfort food watching.
Speaker 2: But just like you, I'm still learning. You say, it
Speaker 2: feels like I've seen everything. I've seen most nothing. I'm
Speaker 2: doing what i can to catch up. I'm very behind.
Speaker 2: Like we were talking about before we went live, I
Speaker 2: grew up in a super small town in the desert
Speaker 2: in California. We only had access to like mainstream stuff.
Speaker 2: So the the you know, scratch the surface. What's just
Speaker 2: under is the stuff that I'm trying to get to
Speaker 2: right now. Everything that wasn't on a blockbuster shelf with
Speaker 2: eighty four copies waiting to beet brended out. Yeah, I've
Speaker 2: seen those. I need to get to the other stuff.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you're doing pretty good so far, Christine.
Speaker 3: Every obscure film I've mentioned, so.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm trying a lot of those are semi
Speaker 2: big names for physical media nerds. That's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: Cool all right, Moving right along. Less of my thing.
Speaker 2: Terrifier three from last year is getting a four K
Speaker 2: steel book over in the UK from Signature Entertainment. Should
Speaker 2: be nothing new here. This has been released on four
Speaker 2: K already, but the art is an interesting addition to
Speaker 2: this one because they really leaned in heavily to the
Speaker 2: Christmas aesthetic. Are you Are you a sucker for like
Speaker 2: steel book packaging or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I own it, zero steel books. I could not care
Speaker 3: less about them. That's just I'm in that cam. I
Speaker 3: don't know why I do have one steel book. Actually
Speaker 3: it's the Daft Punk Electroma. Oh nice I'm talking about Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's a DVD.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was. It's a little bit taller than
Speaker 2: a Blu ray one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like an old It's not even a typical
Speaker 3: steal book, but it is a steel case.
Speaker 2: I've got. I've got a couple of random things that
Speaker 2: are technically steel books. I think they're done by the
Speaker 2: Steel Book Company. I've got the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack.
Speaker 2: They made a CD steel book. And then I grew
Speaker 2: up in southern California, so I was raised on the Lakers,
Speaker 2: and uh after, after Kobe died, they did like a
Speaker 2: memorial NBA two k something steel book, and I had
Speaker 2: to have it. And it's right there on the shelf
Speaker 2: for all time.
Speaker 3: While you go to the next one I'm gonna get.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna show you my CD steel thing I have.
Speaker 2: Sweet all right, next title after Terrifier three, Oh man,
Speaker 2: this is a big one. So I'm gonna ask what
Speaker 2: he thinks of this. But June ninth, Kurzone over in
Speaker 2: the UK is doing some larsvon Trier stuff. We're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about one now in a couple in just a minute.
Speaker 2: But this one Dancer in the Dark from two thousand.
Speaker 2: Have you watched any Lars won Trier titles.
Speaker 3: I gotta say I love him, favorite Lars.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: My mind goes right to the Five Obstructions, which is
Speaker 3: a quasi. It is a documentary that he made. Have
Speaker 3: you seen it? Do you know about it?
Speaker 2: I have not. I'm still diving into some of those
Speaker 2: older ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I love his early so, like I said,
Speaker 3: early work is great. I thought Antichrist was kind of
Speaker 3: a masterpiece. But Five Obstructions is him and this other
Speaker 3: filmmaker friend, and the whole idea is he comes up
Speaker 3: with these five rules, kind of like Dogma ninety five
Speaker 3: had these rules, and you have to make the same
Speaker 3: film short film five times using these five obstructions. And
Speaker 3: they both do it, and so it's a conversation between
Speaker 3: them about filmmaking. It's great. Definitely put the Five Obstructions
Speaker 3: on your watch list, anybody who's interested in that.
Speaker 2: I got a lucky enough I can't reach it.
Speaker 3: But it's not a typical of Ventreer, you know.
Speaker 2: It is that Curzona whole box that they did. It
Speaker 2: was only missing the title that's on the screen now.
Speaker 2: So now when I get this, it'll basically be a
Speaker 2: complete set. But everything that I've seen from him is
Speaker 2: at the very least supremely interesting, and you can't really
Speaker 2: say that for any directors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's got he has some you know,
Speaker 3: he's made some questionable statements, and he's a provocateur and
Speaker 3: all that, and you know, with any kind of provocateur
Speaker 3: you kind of have to take some of that with
Speaker 3: a grant of salt. But when it comes to the arts,
Speaker 3: like I think that what he did with Melancholia, like
Speaker 3: I said, Dance from the Dark, breaking the Waves, all
Speaker 3: they're just they're just very powerful works of film.
Speaker 2: So Dance from the Dark a little bit of a
Speaker 2: reminder for everybody that has not either paid a ten,
Speaker 2: don't understand or don't know the history. This isn't even true. HD.
Speaker 2: This is gonna come at I think it's four eighty
Speaker 2: ep It is going to be the max that this
Speaker 2: is gonna be able to hit. You got a bunch
Speaker 2: of extras on here, but essentially you're gonna buy this
Speaker 2: for the quality of the disc to be able to
Speaker 2: last a long time. It'll be better than the DVD was.
Speaker 2: This has behind the scenes doc von Treer's hundred eyes
Speaker 2: on this. I cannot wait to have this release in hand.
Speaker 2: And for those that have seen it, you'll you'll understand
Speaker 2: the braille that's on the cover of this is probably
Speaker 2: nice touch.
Speaker 3: They love the yorc so yeah, you know, those are
Speaker 3: really exciting to see when it came out. The York
Speaker 3: is in this film.
Speaker 2: Looks like a gorgeous release. I'm excited to get.
Speaker 3: The devastating movie.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. And like I said, we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about a couple more Von Trier just a minute
Speaker 2: that Corazona is doing on the same day, so be
Speaker 2: prepared for that. We mentioned the Shining earlier is getting
Speaker 2: yet another four K release. This is the exact same
Speaker 2: disc that has always been coming out. This is a
Speaker 2: four K steal, but coming from the Film Vault. Should
Speaker 2: be coming here in the next couple months. It's the
Speaker 2: Film Vault essentially is just a let's put all kinds
Speaker 2: of crazy packaging on the same studio disc that you've
Speaker 2: been getting for the last three years. Gotch and that's it.
Speaker 2: So they'll happily charge you sixty dollars for a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of plastic and if you already have the Shining,
Speaker 2: you probably don't need this. But if this is your
Speaker 2: first release and you love the movie, this is a
Speaker 2: great release. I won't shoot on it for that, but
Speaker 2: one that a lot of people don't have the four
Speaker 2: K four because it was kind of difficult to get
Speaker 2: at first. Poltergeist also getting that exact same style of
Speaker 2: release from the film Vault. I believe both of those
Speaker 2: will be releasing on the same day. It is a
Speaker 2: steel book in this weird pet plastic case, a bunch
Speaker 2: of art cards, some full up poster stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's for like the super super super fans of these films.
Speaker 2: That and somebody that thinks my shelves are not full enough. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next up a beautiful movie from last year, Flow that
Speaker 2: I wish I liked more. This is coming on four
Speaker 2: K over in the UK from Curzone again. This will
Speaker 2: be coming on June thirtieth. I loved this movie. The
Speaker 2: art style wasn't for me, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's just me being picky, but it felt like a
Speaker 2: video game a lot of the time.
Speaker 3: I will say yeah, I mean it kind of has
Speaker 3: to be said because like it is. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a low budget film, like I thought, the environments looked great.
Speaker 3: I agree, the close ups of the animals it did
Speaker 3: feel like, oh man, this is so close to being
Speaker 3: to working like stylistically and all jelling. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 3: such a beautiful film overall. The feeling of it that
Speaker 3: had no dialogue. I mean, what a great idea for
Speaker 3: a film that I kind of just I give it
Speaker 3: a pass. I thought it was great.
Speaker 2: I agree, And one of the biggest things. I've got
Speaker 2: two kids both have autism, one of them also has ADHD.
Speaker 2: All three of us sat silently and watched this entire
Speaker 2: film and that blew me away. For a movie with
Speaker 2: no dialogue, that is incredible.
Speaker 3: That so yeah, absolutely we need more of it.
Speaker 2: Something we might not need more of. Rad has gotten
Speaker 2: multiple releases, recently getting a collector's edition release from mill
Speaker 2: Creek again on June seventeenth, coming on Blu Ray. But
Speaker 2: the big thing they added the brand new documentary called
Speaker 2: a RAD Documentary. Reminder for anybody that might be pre
Speaker 2: ordering this. This is also getting a four K release
Speaker 2: out of Australia from Umbrella over the next year, and
Speaker 2: I don't know for sure, but my hunch is it's Umbrella.
Speaker 2: They're probably going to release the documentary with that one, too,
Speaker 2: so my suggestion would be to not get.
Speaker 3: This gotcha Still, how spot up with this one? I
Speaker 3: have a friend from college. This is one of their
Speaker 3: favorite movies of all time, so I will be forced
Speaker 3: to watch at some point, so I mean talk about missing.
Speaker 3: I'm a little too old for this. Sorry too young
Speaker 3: for this one.
Speaker 2: I didn't catch this one when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: so it doesn't have the same nostalgia factor. I could
Speaker 2: see why it would have been great if I saw
Speaker 2: it when I was nine. Did not love it as
Speaker 2: an adult? Yeah, this one, however, I did love and
Speaker 2: I think this is a hilarious idea for a steel book.
Speaker 2: June ninth, Entertainment and Video Over in the UK is
Speaker 2: giving us a four K steel book of Baby Girl.
Speaker 2: This is Nicole kidman standing in a corner on the cover,
Speaker 2: and then the inside, of course, has a picture of
Speaker 2: the dog and a glass of milk. You can pre
Speaker 2: order this now. If you're in the US and you
Speaker 2: really want this steel book, you can get it from
Speaker 2: Brother Belyle. Pre Orders for that are available should be
Speaker 2: pretty much everywhere out of the UK.
Speaker 3: You mean there's no plastic slipcase that has liquid milk
Speaker 3: in it that you can come.
Speaker 2: On, we'll be hitting that innovation in probably two or
Speaker 2: three years. Yeah, we'll have the video.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can actually drink milk out of it.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll re release what was that movie from about
Speaker 2: a year and a half ago. It's the Bathwater Oh god, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Selt burn.
Speaker 3: Like all the records, the vinyl records. They're doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Friday the thirteenth with the blood in it. Yeah. Next.
Speaker 2: I think this is a really sad idea of a
Speaker 2: steel book. But man, I actually really liked this movie.
Speaker 3: I've seen it. I don't know, man, I just I've
Speaker 3: been burned too many times.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. I disagree, but I
Speaker 2: get it. Maynight.
Speaker 3: But this is the most tempt that I've been to
Speaker 3: read it to come back in.
Speaker 2: It's It feels like a classic for the first half.
Speaker 2: But if you felt burned over the last ten years,
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna feel burned by the second half.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's figure. That's what I've heard.
Speaker 2: This is Warner Brothers over in the UK putting out
Speaker 2: Trap from last year in a four K Steel Book.
Speaker 2: It's got all the same extras that have been on
Speaker 2: the other releases that have been coming out, and I
Speaker 2: really wish they had done something different with the steel book.
Speaker 2: I do like when we get original poster art, but
Speaker 2: for a steel book, the art should be a little
Speaker 2: special and this it just is not quite enough to
Speaker 2: make me feel like I need to buy a premium
Speaker 2: package for it. Okay, going to the next one speaking
Speaker 2: a second run, which we don't get to a lot.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad you brought him up. May twenty six,
Speaker 2: there's a blu ray coming of Ishanu. This is from
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. I probably said that terribly. I am not
Speaker 2: known for being a linguist. This is a film that
Speaker 2: juxtaposes the spiritual world of the my byss with the
Speaker 2: rhythm with the rhythm of ordinary life. This is going
Speaker 2: to have a new four K restoration by the Film
Speaker 2: Heritage Foundation, a newly filmed interview with the director of
Speaker 2: this piece of Indian cinema, Film Heritage Founder Shavendra Singh
Speaker 2: Dungepur and the actor that they were interviewed by the writer.
Speaker 2: All happened in twenty twenty three, so they got some
Speaker 2: new stuff there's a book that with new essays, lots
Speaker 2: of stuff coming in. I'm glad that they're putting out
Speaker 2: an Indian film. This is pretty exciting. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: I mean the their curation is great, so I'm this
Speaker 3: is going to be on my radar.
Speaker 2: I no, yeah, they do some films again that like
Speaker 2: nobody else would ever put out.
Speaker 3: Another thing to mention to the listener is like another
Speaker 3: region I no pun intended have not entered is region free.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I'm sure I can buy a region
Speaker 3: free player any day, and I will, but so. But
Speaker 3: the nice thing about second runds is most of them
Speaker 3: are region free, not all of them, but you need
Speaker 3: to check each one. If you don't have region free,
Speaker 3: I guess most of your listeners probably do, but just
Speaker 3: check that before. But most of them are good.
Speaker 2: Every time we bring this up, we have a couple
Speaker 2: that in the chat will say I'm never going region
Speaker 2: free region a forever. There you go. So for those people,
Speaker 2: let's see what is next next up again Lars von
Speaker 2: Treer from crazone. This is also coming on June ninth.
Speaker 2: We're getting a standalone edition of The Idiots. This is
Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety eight. This is looked at as his
Speaker 2: masterpiece by a lot of people. This is a beautiful movie.
Speaker 2: It's got a making of on here, It's got behind
Speaker 2: the scenes doc all kinds of stuff that has been on,
Speaker 2: you know, associated with this film for years. How do
Speaker 2: you feel about the idiots, sir?
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it yet, some of his early work
Speaker 3: I need to see. Still so excited, you know, just
Speaker 3: kind of saving it and maybe this will be the
Speaker 3: time to go.
Speaker 2: Well, this one will be locked Region B.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well to Gossover.
Speaker 2: They're also doing Dogville on that same day. This as
Speaker 2: again all the same extras that were in the box set.
Speaker 2: And this is another one that it seems like all
Speaker 2: the von Treer titles get sort of equally sliced for
Speaker 2: a lot of people that think that it's their favorite one.
Speaker 2: But the big thing with this one, other than Nymphomaniac,
Speaker 2: this is probably his most mainstream cast. You know. We've
Speaker 2: got Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, John Hurt stealing scars, guard
Speaker 2: Philip Baker Halls in this, James Kahn, Udo Kure not
Speaker 2: in it for a long time, but the cast in
Speaker 2: this astounding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is a hardcore one, like it's if
Speaker 3: you can get through this one, you can in a
Speaker 3: way get through any of it. It's not that it's graphic.
Speaker 3: In fact, it's not. It's all on a stage. It's
Speaker 3: got this Brechtian thing that's the whole. Like the cover
Speaker 3: is showing the plot of the house, and it's all
Speaker 3: just an imaginary house. It's like a play, so you're
Speaker 3: imagining everything. It's just a acting film. And he gets
Speaker 3: the performances he gets, especially after out of actresses, I
Speaker 3: mean Kidman, just like this was in the when she
Speaker 3: really started going on a tear. Yeah, it was some
Speaker 3: of these incredible performance.
Speaker 2: Since we've had two Kidman's in the last five minutes.
Speaker 2: One thing I want to shout out back in I
Speaker 2: think it was twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen, she made
Speaker 2: this big public pledge that every time that she works
Speaker 2: with the director she would alternate at least and do
Speaker 2: I think the promise was do at least one film
Speaker 2: with the female director every year. Yeah, And since she
Speaker 2: made that promise, she's done like seventeen films with female directors. Yea,
Speaker 2: and not any other actor is doing something like that.
Speaker 2: I am insanely impressed. With that.
Speaker 3: Particularly love her because eyeswid Shut is in my top
Speaker 3: five of all time, and she's also in Nashvillian, where
Speaker 3: I live. She has come to the Bellcourt often. The
Speaker 3: Bellcourt did a series that Nicole Kidman hand picked of
Speaker 3: her career last year. It was one of the highlights
Speaker 3: of the movie going year. Here this is why the
Speaker 3: bell Court is great. See the Kidman series picked by her.
Speaker 2: What did she pick? Do you remember?
Speaker 3: I mean picked kind of what you'd expect, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of just these really interesting Dogville you know, Eyes
Speaker 3: Wide Shut, a film I'm going to mention later in
Speaker 3: my top five. Yeah, just you know, she's just worked
Speaker 3: with so many great people.
Speaker 2: She's incredible. Yeah, all right, And of course I clicked
Speaker 2: the wrong thing. Oh, let's talk about a brand new movie.
Speaker 2: Borderline from this year is coming on Blu Ray in
Speaker 2: the US from Magnolia on June tenth. This is with
Speaker 2: Samorrow Weaving and the other one is Ray Nicholson. This
Speaker 2: is John. This is Nicholson's son, Jack nicholson son, who
Speaker 2: is excluding right now. He had a small part in
Speaker 2: Smile Too, and they used him as the poster and
Speaker 2: now he is one of the two main actors in
Speaker 2: this one, and I've loved Tomorrow Weaving in most of
Speaker 2: what she's done, so I'm curious to see this one,
Speaker 2: but not heard amazing things.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know. This is a first I've ever
Speaker 3: heard of this or this or his Jack Wills and
Speaker 3: something I did not know why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got He's got the same like a nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy eight Jack style smile. Yeah you seum? Okay. Next,
Speaker 2: Keino is putting out King and Country here soon on
Speaker 2: Blu Ray. This is from nineteen sixty six with a
Speaker 2: hell of a evocative poster that they're using.
Speaker 3: Here is that the cover because that's just a poster
Speaker 3: full full on.
Speaker 2: That when they when they don't have a release date,
Speaker 2: they do not share the cover.
Speaker 3: Oh oh gosha.
Speaker 2: This might be the reverse of the cover when they
Speaker 2: put it out, but this is just the original theatrical
Speaker 2: post got it. So yeah, we don't know when this
Speaker 2: is coming out, but it'll be a four K restoration
Speaker 2: that Studio Canal did recently got at that point they
Speaker 2: might update it to UHG but probably not. Then the
Speaker 2: next one, this one will be a UHD uncommon valor
Speaker 2: from nineteen eighty three, will be a four K release
Speaker 2: from Keno here soon it will be a brand new
Speaker 2: HDR and Dolby Vision Master again huge cast. This is
Speaker 2: one that you know when Gene Hackman just recently passed,
Speaker 2: got brought up quite a bit. Gene is the main
Speaker 2: lead in this. We got Robert Stack, fred Ward, Patrick Swayze.
Speaker 2: This is quite a big one and directed by somebody
Speaker 2: who just passed like a week and a half ago,
Speaker 2: Ted Katcheff. So this is this is a very timely
Speaker 2: release from them. Okay, I've never seen this one, but
Speaker 2: I'm certainly eager to Yeah.
Speaker 3: Same, I got some Hackmans to catch up with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. He's done some great stuff. Next, I
Speaker 2: wanted to shortly mention this one my magazine that I
Speaker 2: put out, the Physical Media Advocate, handful of things. I
Speaker 2: wanted to remind everybody. If you're a writer, if you're
Speaker 2: an artist, if you review films or physical media, and
Speaker 2: you wanted somewhere to put out your work, I would
Speaker 2: love to share that with the world. Reach out to me.
Speaker 2: Send me an email at disc Connected Media at gmail
Speaker 2: dot com. The other thing is we do letters theaters.
Speaker 2: If you've ever had like a question about a film,
Speaker 2: itself for about physical media. If you want to. If
Speaker 2: you're too embarrassed to ask a label, I'll go ask
Speaker 2: for you. Send me an email. We'll we'll print your
Speaker 2: question and we'll try to answer it as well. And
Speaker 2: then the other thing. If you run a boutique label,
Speaker 2: or you run a theater or anything like that, we
Speaker 2: are happy to advertise events for you or any sport
Speaker 2: of releases that you got coming up. Just again, send
Speaker 2: me another email. But yeah, we got a brand new
Speaker 2: issue coming out on May first, and super excited for
Speaker 2: what it is turning out to be because it's going
Speaker 2: to be an astonishing one. How do you do it all? Man?
Speaker 3: That's so cool. I didn't even know about this yet.
Speaker 3: And it's just you got a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of iron you're cooking that you're.
Speaker 2: Cooking at We'll talk afterwards. Give me an address, I'll
Speaker 2: send you a copy. I didn't even know this was
Speaker 2: a thing. On June twenty fourth, End Circle, who is
Speaker 2: like a subsidiary of Mill Creek, they're putting out a
Speaker 2: blu ray steel book of Sonic Prime the Complete series.
Speaker 2: I guess this was a Netflix show. Had no idea
Speaker 2: about this, but yeah, this whole thing is coming out
Speaker 2: here soon, coming out in June. The biggest thing here.
Speaker 2: I'm always excited to see stuff that was locked on
Speaker 2: streaming get physical releases. I hope you get more and
Speaker 2: more of those. Man, we got an interesting thing. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be talking about two disc replacements coming up for
Speaker 2: Warner Archive tonight. This is the first one, and it's
Speaker 2: for Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. This is a
Speaker 2: series that they just did, an animated series from I
Speaker 2: think it was the seventies, and what happened is they
Speaker 2: accidentally did not author the bonus features on there, so
Speaker 2: they want to send you the disc that has them
Speaker 2: if you were able to get this in so make
Speaker 2: sure you are putting in for the replacement if you
Speaker 2: got this, because you deserve to have those bonus features.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about one more near the end of the show. Okay,
Speaker 2: oh man, this is one of my favorites. July eighth,
Speaker 2: we are getting a four K steel book and a
Speaker 2: standard release of Clueless from nineteen ninety five. This is
Speaker 2: the thirtieth anniversary of Clueless. Holy God, yep, I'm so.
Speaker 2: I'm in the nineties tribute band. We've been doing it
Speaker 2: for about fifteen years.
Speaker 3: We play all the music of the nineties and so yeah,
Speaker 3: nineties pop culture is like one of my like expertise
Speaker 3: is you know, And yeah, we have a lot of
Speaker 3: thirtieth anniversaries we're dealing with, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of thirtieth anniversaries that that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm all over this as well.
Speaker 2: This is one of my favorites easily. I think one
Speaker 2: of the best comedies from the nineties. I don't know
Speaker 2: about the Steel Book. The steel book that they're doing
Speaker 2: for this is the exact same steel book they did
Speaker 2: oh like two years ago for the Blu ray. They
Speaker 2: just put it in a slipcover and put all this
Speaker 2: fancy stuff with it. I don't need all that. If
Speaker 2: I can get the standard four K for like fifteen
Speaker 2: twenty bucks, I'll jump all over bit this one. I
Speaker 2: have heard great things about this.
Speaker 3: One, Okay, yeah, have you.
Speaker 2: June seventeenth, Magnolia is releasing a Blu ray of The
Speaker 2: Assessment from last year. This is a film with the
Speaker 2: Alicia of a Candor and Elizabeth Olsen and JAMESH. Patel.
Speaker 2: I've heard this is a very trippy film, and the
Speaker 2: people that have said that to me seem to have
Speaker 2: a lot of the same taste when they talk about
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. So I'm curious anybody in the
Speaker 2: chat seen this one yet.
Speaker 3: I've not seen it yet. I love the candor. Yea.
Speaker 3: There's this film called The Light Between Oceans and it's
Speaker 3: actually where she and Michael Fassbender worked together for the
Speaker 3: first time and then fell in love and got married.
Speaker 3: And if you've if you've seen a movie where two
Speaker 3: actors are literally falling in love on screen, the performances
Speaker 3: are so real, like it is. I saw that and
Speaker 3: I was like, she's my favorite actress of her generation,
Speaker 3: just like wow. So that it's just a period romantic drama.
Speaker 3: It's there's nothing genre about it. But if you just
Speaker 3: want to see great performances of Alicia vikandor.
Speaker 2: So, hell yeah, that sounds great. Yeah, all right. We've
Speaker 2: been talking about this for the last month and a
Speaker 2: half because of the multiple updates from this and it's
Speaker 2: selling out and people going crazy. And if you remember,
Speaker 2: I told you every single time there will be a
Speaker 2: standard release of The Beyond and four K, you don't
Speaker 2: need to worry about it. And just like I said
Speaker 2: July twenty ninth, you're getting a standard release of The Beyond.
Speaker 2: This will be available everywhere. The crazy thing is, every
Speaker 2: time I've been talking about it, I said they may
Speaker 2: drop a disc or two because this is a sixth
Speaker 2: disc release. They're not dropping anything. This is going to
Speaker 2: be a full six disc release. This is a great film,
Speaker 2: I love it, but to have a standard edition for
Speaker 2: this that is still six discs. Essentially, this is probably
Speaker 2: going to be sixty dollars to say sixty five dollars always,
Speaker 2: and then like once a year, probably around Black Friday,
Speaker 2: they'll have a sale on their site and it'll probably
Speaker 2: go down to about forty. But you're probably never gonna
Speaker 2: get it under that. You're not going to get something
Speaker 2: with only like three discs. The standard is the Deluxe.
Speaker 2: It's everything that came in the original release except for
Speaker 2: the plastic eyeball. Everything else is the same. That's wild,
Speaker 2: And don't what's the best way to say this, don't
Speaker 2: fall for the grindhouse releasing marketing every time, because yeah,
Speaker 2: literally everything will be identical. I've been saying this every
Speaker 2: single time they release something for years. Unless they come
Speaker 2: out and say, like there is an exclusive slip cover,
Speaker 2: everything else will be the same, and this standard release
Speaker 2: is the exact same as the deluxe release, and the
Speaker 2: deluxe release is the exact same as what they originally
Speaker 2: put out as the limited release, except it doesn't have
Speaker 2: a plastic eyeball. Nice.
Speaker 3: You know your stuff? This is good? Could inseel I try?
Speaker 2: May twenty seventh, Universal and Blumhouse putting out The Woman
Speaker 2: in the Yard from late last year. I never even
Speaker 2: saw that this got released. I thought he supposed to
Speaker 2: come out early this year, but I guess it came
Speaker 2: out earlier. This actually has some extras on here, a
Speaker 2: couple of featurettes. Nothing crazy. Again, anybody's seen this one?
Speaker 2: I've heard literally nothing about this one. No, yeah, I
Speaker 2: imagine that you had not.
Speaker 3: No. Yeah, I mean again, it's not totally my genre,
Speaker 3: but so, I mean, I keep up with everything that's
Speaker 3: coming out, and I'm pretty aware. But yeah, I hadn't
Speaker 3: heard this. I saw the announcement and jamming art and
Speaker 3: triggering key art for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's something that I'll make you pick it up off
Speaker 2: the shelf at least. Yeah, this one. June twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: Germany and Kpelite Pictures putting out a four K steal
Speaker 2: book of Maxine now this is one. A lot of
Speaker 2: people in the US have been speculating that A twenty
Speaker 2: four should release a four K set of X Pearl,
Speaker 2: which I'm wearing my Pearl shirt tonight and Maxine in
Speaker 2: like a three pack. We have we have no information
Speaker 2: on that. Do I think they will? I mean they
Speaker 2: like money, so probably, But when is that gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Because now Maxine has been out for gosh in what
Speaker 2: two months? It will be a year, and we still
Speaker 2: don't have any clues, any announcements, nothing. It's hard to
Speaker 2: hard to gauge.
Speaker 3: I did love this trilogy. Man, it surprises me, Like again,
Speaker 3: not horror is not nothing. I guess it would be horror,
Speaker 3: but I don't know how you guys define this this trilogy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was just really I think I saw
Speaker 3: Mia Goth in Suspiria, the Luca version that I love
Speaker 3: that film, like talk about like art Househoord. Suspiria was phenomenal,
Speaker 3: and it made me want to see this because because
Speaker 3: me A Goth was so good and I saw the
Speaker 3: whole trilogy, and but I didn't see them until Maxine
Speaker 3: was coming out and they did the re release in
Speaker 3: theaters of the other two. So it was like once
Speaker 3: a month, and so I went to see all three
Speaker 3: in theaters in like a month, and it was really fun.
Speaker 2: That that had to be a pretty damn it exciting
Speaker 2: experience get them that close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I didn't know how they were all going
Speaker 3: to I didn't know the whole thing about Pearl being
Speaker 3: a backstory and all this, and so it was just
Speaker 3: really cool to see this concept of a trilogy. You know.
Speaker 3: It's just you don't see like that kind of vision
Speaker 3: for you know, and Pearl maybe it's the best. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter which one is the best or if they're
Speaker 3: all great or not. It's just like the whole idea
Speaker 3: of it is really cool.
Speaker 2: Uh do you have a favorite of the three?
Speaker 3: Probably Pearl, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it beautiful movie, all right. So that is Maxine,
Speaker 2: also from Germany, A random ass movie. May twenty ninth,
Speaker 2: k Plight is putting out a four kse deal book
Speaker 2: of Over the Top, the only arm wrestling movie ever
Speaker 2: to award a truck to the winner. What Okay, Yes,
Speaker 2: there's an arm wrestling contest and the winner is meant
Speaker 2: to win a big rig truck.
Speaker 3: The art, the con it's all over the top everything
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: It's the lone so yeah, yeah, this has never been
Speaker 2: my favorite. I'm also I've never been a huge Stallone guy,
Speaker 2: so I am not after this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sam, but.
Speaker 2: This one I had never heard of either. July one,
Speaker 2: Synadim and Bloody Disgusting working with screen Box is putting
Speaker 2: out Tails from the Void. Now. What's cool is this
Speaker 2: is an anthology show that they did for screen Box.
Speaker 2: And this is an episodic horror anthology series that is
Speaker 2: both thought provoking and terrifying based on the most of
Speaker 2: viral and haunting stories from the subreddit called No Sleep,
Speaker 2: which is essentially just scary short stories that people write,
Speaker 2: and they took some of them and made them into
Speaker 2: a series, which I am intrigued to see how this
Speaker 2: turned out.
Speaker 3: Well, like scary real experiences people are posting.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they're sometimes they're framed like that, they're definitely all fiction.
Speaker 3: Okay, I gotcha.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's essentially short stories to freak you out
Speaker 2: and to make you not be able to go to sleep.
Speaker 3: I'll pass for now. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then we got criterions this week, which is a
Speaker 2: perfect week to have you on with your history. July first,
Speaker 2: they are releasing a four K and Blu ray release
Speaker 2: of The Big Heat, the Fritz Lang film. This is
Speaker 2: going to have Dolby Vision, which they've been sort of
Speaker 2: selective with how they give that out, so that's exciting.
Speaker 2: We've got a new audio commentary on this one with
Speaker 2: the Lane Silver and James Ersini, a new visual essay
Speaker 2: by Farre and Smith name on the women in the film.
Speaker 2: There's some audio interviews and then there's an essay by
Speaker 2: Jonathan Letham Fritz Lank Into Any Fritz Lank.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Like so at NYU Cinema Studies, they did these
Speaker 3: courses called Comparative Directors and it's always a random not random,
Speaker 3: but a different pairing and it was Hitchcock Lane and
Speaker 3: so each week you you went back and forth and
Speaker 3: you went through the timeline of both directors and saw
Speaker 3: how kind of sometimes how their work influenced each other
Speaker 3: and stuff. So you really did a deep dive in
Speaker 3: each director. So I got really into the Fritz Long stuff.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I remember loving this one and shout out
Speaker 3: to one of my friend's sister Hide. Yeah, Drew did
Speaker 3: this awesome art. Everything she does is cool and it
Speaker 3: was cool to see her do I have a different
Speaker 3: style for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is a big deal. I'm glad
Speaker 2: they got this. This is one that I think they've
Speaker 2: had the rights to for a while. It played on
Speaker 2: the Criterion channel many, many times, so people have speculated
Speaker 2: this should be coming. But it's nice to see it
Speaker 2: finally here. Yeah, great title, speaking to Kubrick, Barry Linden
Speaker 2: finally in four K and the word finally there's sort
Speaker 2: of said as a joke, but I want to point
Speaker 2: this out to Tony Meyer here says holy crap. Two
Speaker 2: my favorite internet's people. Sam was a fantastic person to
Speaker 2: be mutuals with on Twitter before it went to pot.
Speaker 2: He's excited to see you here.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, Yeah, good to see you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Barry Linden. This is a huge title. People speculating
Speaker 2: that most of the rest of the Kubrick stuff should
Speaker 2: be getting Criterion four k's eventually, but this one is
Speaker 2: probably the one that was guaranteed the most easily. How
Speaker 2: do you feel about Berry Lindon?
Speaker 3: Love it? I mean again, Kubrick. Kubrick and Miyazaki, I
Speaker 3: would say, are my two favorite directors. So every Kubrick
Speaker 3: film just I've seen them all at least a dozen
Speaker 3: times Big Screen Home Love Barry Lyndon Nice.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm really hoping that we get the Eyes Wide
Speaker 2: Shut four K from them, and I would love to
Speaker 2: see your grace that cover.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I did do a print for that one.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful, beautiful print.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: This is the big one too. Four K and Blu
Speaker 2: Ray release on July fifteenth. The Adventures of Antwine Danel.
Speaker 2: This is this is everything. We got the four hundred Blows,
Speaker 2: Antoina Collette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run,
Speaker 2: Truffeaux boxed set so much that people have wanted for
Speaker 2: a long time. Obviously, the four hundred Blows is known as,
Speaker 2: you know, the one of the absolute stone cold masterpiece classics.
Speaker 2: We've got new four K restorations here, all of this
Speaker 2: sounds great, lots of extras on here s a everything.
Speaker 2: This looks like a really solid release from them. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've been waiting for the to come to Blu Ray
Speaker 3: in this box. I was hoping that they would like
Speaker 3: do this box again because I had the DVD and
Speaker 3: just packaging is so great. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: you probably don't have the slideshow, right there, but how
Speaker 3: each title is like an art, a sweater or shirt
Speaker 3: like from his life. If you don't know these movies,
Speaker 3: it's the same actor over many years. And if you've
Speaker 3: seen Linklater's films like The Before Trilogy, which are some
Speaker 3: of my favorites, or Boyhood, those are all you know.
Speaker 3: Link Layer always cites this these films as an influence, like,
Speaker 3: could we use the same direct, same actor for all
Speaker 3: these decades. He's doing another one right now with Ethan Hawk,
Speaker 3: I think again for like the rest of his life.
Speaker 3: They're making a movie. So I love that idea. And
Speaker 3: then yeah, with just like the cinema of childhood I
Speaker 3: talked about, four hundred Blows is just one of the
Speaker 3: great films of coming of age.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big deal. This is a huge month
Speaker 2: from Criterion. I'll just say that right now before we
Speaker 2: get to the end. Next up, July twenty second, Carnal Knowledge,
Speaker 2: speaking of Jack Nicholson, we get a four K and
Speaker 2: a blu ray on this one. This is interesting because
Speaker 2: Indicator had just announced that they're doing a four K
Speaker 2: of Carnal Knowledge, So now you can compare the two
Speaker 2: in all reality. The extras on Criterions is not bad.
Speaker 2: We got a new audio commentary on here, new program
Speaker 2: with a Mike Nichols, biographer Mark Harris, and film critic
Speaker 2: Dana Stevens. New interview with Bobby Osteen on the film
Speaker 2: editing here from archival conversations, Q and a's that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. And then an essay by Warra we Gel
Speaker 2: and a nineteen seventy one piece from American cinematographer about
Speaker 2: the look of the film. There's so much on here
Speaker 2: that I'm not going to say you should pick up both,
Speaker 2: but I could see why somebody would want to own
Speaker 2: this and the Indicator release. They both look like stunning releases,
Speaker 2: and it's going to make it difficult to choose for sure.
Speaker 3: Cool. Yeah, I remember seeing this one in college and
Speaker 3: haven't revisited since, but it was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is great stuff. And then from
Speaker 2: two thousand you can count on me coming on four
Speaker 2: K and Blu Ray on July twenty second as well.
Speaker 2: This is the Cantalon again, and we've got Mark Ruffalo,
Speaker 2: Laura Lenny in this one again. We've got an audio
Speaker 2: commentary with the director on this new interviews with Lonigan
Speaker 2: and Matthew Broderick, Laura Linley and Mark Ruffalo are all
Speaker 2: on the disc. An essay by Rebecca Gilman. Have you
Speaker 2: seen you can count on Me? Yes? Great, great, great
Speaker 2: great rounds up a huge month from them all four K,
Speaker 2: all Dolby Vision huge.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. The next flash sale can't come soon enough.
Speaker 2: Between all of these and the Sean Baker stuff, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be expensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right Onora. Right.
Speaker 2: Then we've got Lionsgate Limited, which we knew a couple
Speaker 2: of these were coming, but then they surprised us with
Speaker 2: one of them. These are interesting. Here May thirteenth, we
Speaker 2: get a four K steel book of kick Ass. This
Speaker 2: is the fifteen year anniversary of kick Ass, which is
Speaker 2: wild to me. And then, sort of like they did
Speaker 2: previously with Reservoir Dogs, this is the exact same steel
Speaker 2: book that they had released through best Buy a handful
Speaker 2: of years ago, but this time the colorway has changed.
Speaker 2: In the background. That's the only thing that's different. The
Speaker 2: other one had a white background. This one has a
Speaker 2: black background, so that they can say the first one
Speaker 2: was still limited edition and so is this one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the only difference. But the big thing there are
Speaker 2: new extras on this so if you love this movie,
Speaker 2: you might want that. They've got three new featurettes, a
Speaker 2: little essay here that's called Physical Media Kicks Ass, which
Speaker 2: I'm very curious what they did for that.
Speaker 3: Huh interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's everything else was on the disc before,
Speaker 2: So not adding a whole lot, but at least there's
Speaker 2: something new for people that want this. Then the next one,
Speaker 2: this is one I'm genuinely excited about. The Crazies from
Speaker 2: twenty ten, also getting a fifteen year anniversary four K
Speaker 2: steel book release now this one. This is the first
Speaker 2: four K release of this film ever. This is a
Speaker 2: brand new steel book art for them. All of this
Speaker 2: is coming with a brand new audio commentary with the director.
Speaker 2: We've got a handful of other featurettes, including an alternate
Speaker 2: ending that we're not on the previous disc, and all
Speaker 2: of the legacy special features are with us as well.
Speaker 2: This is a pretty incredible look and release of this film.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what everbody in the chat's going
Speaker 2: to think of me saying this. I think this is
Speaker 2: much better than Georgia Romero's original. I love this movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not hip to it.
Speaker 2: Do you like him? At the Ola fant.
Speaker 3: I have no feelings either way.
Speaker 2: Too, che men would disagree. Okay, yeah I love Olifant
Speaker 2: and yeah I think he's pretty good. Okay. Next is May,
Speaker 2: also coming from lions Gate Limited. This is coming on
Speaker 2: May thirteenth as well. This is a Blu Ray release
Speaker 2: of May, same as what Second Site did over in
Speaker 2: the UK. And what's interesting is this is part of
Speaker 2: the Vestron Video Collection, which sort of makes no sense
Speaker 2: because this was not a Vestron video title when this
Speaker 2: was announced, because Vestron had ceased to exist by the
Speaker 2: year two thousand and two. This is just sort of
Speaker 2: an odd addition to all of the titles that they
Speaker 2: put out previously. And this is exclusive to the lions
Speaker 2: Gate Limited website, So if you really wanted this one
Speaker 2: and you don't have the Second Site, this is the
Speaker 2: place to get it. I'm glad that this is getting
Speaker 2: a region A release and that it has all of
Speaker 2: the same exers the Second site, but man, it is
Speaker 2: cutting off a lot of people from being able to
Speaker 2: purchase this, and it is sort of rough to see
Speaker 2: their prices go up. They had for a couple of
Speaker 2: years at least, gone from about a twenty five to
Speaker 2: thirty dollars MSRP all the way down to like a
Speaker 2: fifteen dollar MSRP, and now this is all the way
Speaker 2: back up to twenty five. So this is likely going
Speaker 2: to be what it's going for in the future if
Speaker 2: they do more restaurant titles. I'm assuming you haven't seen.
Speaker 3: Me no again, not on my radar this one.
Speaker 2: So this is a version of the Frankenstein story. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's a it's very good. This is this is a
Speaker 2: very like we'll say, awkward cult art house film.
Speaker 3: Okay, if it's our house, I'm in certainly in some ways.
Speaker 3: I love this artist, Matt Ryan Tobin.
Speaker 2: He's a credible Yeah.
Speaker 3: I really love the like the Pearl paper like the
Speaker 3: Maxine paperbacks he did, yep, and yeah, just all of
Speaker 3: this stuff is really good.
Speaker 2: So cool poster. Matt did the art for one of
Speaker 2: my favorite movies from last year, The Last Stop in
Speaker 2: You mccounty. He did the the art for I think
Speaker 2: it was the Umbrella release that he worked on. He
Speaker 2: just did great stuff for it. Oh yeah, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: all right. Next another great nineties comedy, mouse Hunt Wow
Speaker 2: four K from Final Lober on June twenty fourth, and
Speaker 2: this has a new audio commentary from Joe Ramoni, who
Speaker 2: is from Hats Off Entertainment. Love this movie. I think
Speaker 2: this is the best Tom and Jerry film that's not
Speaker 2: a Tom and Jerry film. Hilarious, great comedy. All of
Speaker 2: the extras that were on the previous releases are on
Speaker 2: the included blu ray. How do you feel about Mouse?
Speaker 3: I have not thought about this since.
Speaker 2: Nineteen I think that would be the same form many.
Speaker 3: And even then I barely thought about it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I've seen this film so many times of
Speaker 2: my kids. This movie a couple years ago.
Speaker 3: Okay, really good.
Speaker 2: Huh, It's it's genuinely really really funny. Okay, Okay, it
Speaker 2: is a blast, all.
Speaker 3: Right, I'll put it on my radar.
Speaker 2: One of the more exciting ones for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: This week July twenty second, Paramount releasing a four K
Speaker 2: steel Book of Small Soldiers from nineteen ninety eight. This
Speaker 2: is the Joe Dante film that brought a lot of
Speaker 2: people to Joe Dante. This, of course, is just an
Speaker 2: incredibly fun movie blast from the past for a lot
Speaker 2: of people that haven't seen it for years. What's crazy
Speaker 2: is this was languishing on DVD for years and just
Speaker 2: got a Blu Ray for the first time, like a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. So for Paramount to put money
Speaker 2: behind a four K is really impressive. Actually, So I
Speaker 2: hope this does well. I hope everybody's able to get
Speaker 2: a copy. This movie is fantastic. Have you seen Small Soldiers?
Speaker 3: I haven't, and I was like eighteen senior year or so,
Speaker 3: so I was I remember thinking like this looks so
Speaker 3: I just didn't. It didn't hit me at that time.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: This never never did.
Speaker 2: Totally get that that makes sense. Next up, Michael Hannika.
Speaker 2: This is back on the Umbrella site. This is the
Speaker 2: collection that we had talked about a few weeks ago,
Speaker 2: but there's been some changes. They when they first announced this,
Speaker 2: they were missing two films, and they sort of quietly
Speaker 2: removed this from their website, and everybody's like, what the
Speaker 2: hell's going on. I found a comment from one of
Speaker 2: their employees on a Facebook group that said they were
Speaker 2: working on licensing, which is terrifying to hear. That could
Speaker 2: mean they announced something that they didn't have the rights
Speaker 2: to and they're going to lose something. But they put
Speaker 2: it back on their site and went surprise. We added
Speaker 2: one of the two films that we didn't have before,
Speaker 2: which is Happy End from twenty seventeen. They also added
Speaker 2: Michael h profession director a documentary from twenty thirteen, and
Speaker 2: then a whole bunch of extras and featurettes that were
Speaker 2: not a part of it before, and all of those
Speaker 2: have been added with no increase in cost. Would pre
Speaker 2: order it before, So this now is his complete filmography
Speaker 2: except for the Funny Games remake, and everything else has
Speaker 2: like brand new extras, We've got essays. This is a
Speaker 2: remarkable set.
Speaker 3: I love Hannika. Dude. Yeah, it's interesting because like I
Speaker 3: I you know, I was telling you I don't like
Speaker 3: the Gore, I don't like the horror. I don't like violence.
Speaker 3: So if you are going to make a violent film,
Speaker 3: it's got to be at this level for me. The
Speaker 3: way he treats violence, he is saying something yeah, and
Speaker 3: that's what I want and need, and just the formal
Speaker 3: rigor of his films. Love Hannica.
Speaker 2: I uh, what what one would you say is your favorite? Hannakhah?
Speaker 3: Then oh that's so hard. I mean my mind does
Speaker 3: right to Cachet because it was like my introduction to
Speaker 3: him or cash. However, you would say that or I
Speaker 3: forget with the Juliabanoche that brought me in. I think
Speaker 3: it's what I would recommend to people if you've never
Speaker 3: seen one. It's a good jury point. Yes, I'd probably
Speaker 3: go with that. But I love like the Seventh Continent,
Speaker 3: like that one with the that's what that image is
Speaker 3: from that landscape? Yeah, like what I think it's his
Speaker 3: first feature. Yeah, I think it's his first I love again.
Speaker 3: I love seeing a director's first film, Like, what are
Speaker 3: they coming out of the gate with? What's what do
Speaker 3: they want to say?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's a phenomenal film.
Speaker 2: Uh. Sibboner is saying, how much is it?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: This is it's hard to answer because it depends on
Speaker 2: the site that you're ordering from. It basically is going
Speaker 2: to range between like two and twenty on the low
Speaker 2: end to like two forty five on the high end.
Speaker 2: And the big thing is if you order it straight
Speaker 2: from Umbrella, you already get free shipping just from this
Speaker 2: one title, so no matter where you are, that's pretty huge.
Speaker 2: We got another question Reservoirs asking why no Funny Games
Speaker 2: remake American rights. It has to do with rights, obviously,
Speaker 2: or they would have included it no doubt. I don't
Speaker 2: think American rights have anything to do with it. It's
Speaker 2: just they probably could not secure it for Australia. This
Speaker 2: is huge though. But the big thing, the Funny Game's
Speaker 2: remake is available from Europe on Blu Ray, and you
Speaker 2: can still pick that up very very cheaply. You can
Speaker 2: get it on eBay, you can get it from Rare Waves,
Speaker 2: you can get it Amazon UK even, I think so
Speaker 2: check that out and then you would have a complete set.
Speaker 2: Just put that, slip that disk in here somewhere and
Speaker 2: call it a day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, love it, love it. That's weird about the removal
Speaker 3: like that. You don't see that very often.
Speaker 2: No, and for it to be positive additions is very.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Okay cool.
Speaker 2: Cgv TV wants to point out Umbrella does amazing work
Speaker 2: on these deluxe box sets. The sets they did for
Speaker 2: Caligula Bullying Kids were top shelf. Fully agreed. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: heard that I had not got any of the deluxe
Speaker 2: editions until after everybody was on there. But man, I've
Speaker 2: got one. I happen to have a couple right here,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna show one that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I still can't believe I did this but a Sasquatch
Speaker 2: Sunset coming in a furry slipcover. Oh my god, is
Speaker 2: a beautiful idea.
Speaker 3: I love that film. It's so funny and moving.
Speaker 2: Oh man, what a unique one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Love the Xeleaner Bros. I've worked with them on a
Speaker 3: couple of things.
Speaker 2: Nice. Yeah. Uh. Then Blue Underground gave us some details
Speaker 2: on some previously announced titles. We got The Blood of
Speaker 2: Fu Manchu and the Castle of Fu Manchu both coming
Speaker 2: on four K on July twenty ninth, and these are
Speaker 2: gonna be world premieres of brand new twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: four K restorations. They're gonna have Dolby Vision HDR ten
Speaker 2: all the good stuff with that. We had a new
Speaker 2: audio commentary with Troy Howard and Nathaniel Thompson. There is
Speaker 2: gonna be a new interview Stephen Thrower on this as well.
Speaker 2: Of course it's Jess Franco title, so he's got to
Speaker 2: talk about it. The Blood of Manchu also has the
Speaker 2: rift tracks version of here, so lots of cool stuff
Speaker 2: coming on this disc. And then the Castle of Fu Manchu.
Speaker 2: This one will also have Nathaniel Thompson and Troy howerth
Speaker 2: on the commentary. They've got another new interview with Stephen
Speaker 2: Thrower and the Riff Tracks version also on here as well.
Speaker 2: Jess Franco. Have you watched much or anything from Jess Franco?
Speaker 3: Probably something, but not these.
Speaker 2: So yeah, this is this is basically the pinnacle of
Speaker 2: video quality of artistic films that you probably would not love. Okay,
Speaker 2: So if you want to want not great movies to
Speaker 2: look amazing, okay, good pickup. Okay, this one though, Sony
Speaker 2: putting out a standard release of Oliver from nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 2: This is getting a four K release that will be
Speaker 2: a pressed mod release, so don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: it being a burned disc or anything like that. This
Speaker 2: is a scaping the clutches of one of those Sony
Speaker 2: Columbia Classics box sets and now you can get it
Speaker 2: on its own. And it's not even a steel book,
Speaker 2: which is rare for Sony. Usually a lot of that
Speaker 2: stuff they still lock up in a steel book. So
Speaker 2: it's nice to see this getting just a regular release. Oliver.
Speaker 2: You got a history with Oliver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like them Oliver, you know, yeah, on the
Speaker 3: big my wife loves musicals. I don't love musicals as
Speaker 3: a rule. They have to something about. It has to
Speaker 3: bring me in in a different way. Oh yeah, that's
Speaker 3: a good one.
Speaker 2: It's a classic.
Speaker 3: Literally, yeah, please, sir, can I have some more? What else.
Speaker 2: Next up? Well? Go USA is putting out a four
Speaker 2: K and a Blu Ray release of Eleven Rebels from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four on May twentieth. This is a movie
Speaker 2: I've heard is great, has some really great action in
Speaker 2: it looks really good. I suggest everybody watched the trailer
Speaker 2: on this one if you're even somewhat interested in this film.
Speaker 2: Really good trailer on this movie. I'm definitely gonna have
Speaker 2: to check this one out.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, We'll go usually does good.
Speaker 2: Stuff and and titles that wouldn't get a release from
Speaker 2: anybody else. So that's a good thing. Uh, this heck
Speaker 2: is This June tenth, we get a Blu Ray release
Speaker 2: of the next Paul ws Anderson film, In the Lost Lands,
Speaker 2: with Dave Bautista and of course Mila Djoviovic.
Speaker 3: I love me.
Speaker 2: I got a picture from a mutual friend of ours
Speaker 2: that we can talk about afterwards, of him at the
Speaker 2: premiere of this in New Mexico holding on to Mila
Speaker 2: and to Paul W. S Anderson and you can probably
Speaker 2: guess who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've ever since Cuffs talking about nineties, I've
Speaker 3: been in love with her.
Speaker 2: So yeah, good stuff. I've not heard any good stuff
Speaker 2: about this film, though. Lots of Filmmaster's releases went up
Speaker 2: on their website this week. This first one is a
Speaker 2: Class of seventy four. This is from nineteen seventy two
Speaker 2: and it's a limited edition release from their archive collection,
Speaker 2: which means this is going to have a slipcover. It
Speaker 2: will have a new audio commentary. The person doing it
Speaker 2: is Heath from over at Cereal at Midnight. This will
Speaker 2: also have a booklet with an essay on it, and
Speaker 2: it's not on this because I just found out today
Speaker 2: the person who wrote the essay for the booklet is
Speaker 2: the one and only Amanda Reyes, who is incredible, so
Speaker 2: very interested in checking this out. I hear this movie
Speaker 2: is just very very fun and looks very very fun.
Speaker 2: And the big thing is, I know a lot of
Speaker 2: people had the old code red DVD of this one.
Speaker 2: If you have that, you might want to hold on
Speaker 2: to it because there is a contextual bonus film on
Speaker 2: that DVD that is not carried over to the Blu
Speaker 2: Ray release, so just keep that as a little bonus disc.
Speaker 2: Then they are also putting out the capture. This is
Speaker 2: coming soon on Blu Ray DVD from their archive collection.
Speaker 2: The archive collection means it'll have a new scan, it'll
Speaker 2: be a two K or four K restoration. It will
Speaker 2: not have bonus features though, and this will be coming
Speaker 2: on a BDR, so just be prepared for that, which
Speaker 2: no big deal. It'll still last for a long time.
Speaker 2: The next one, same line and everything. The Fabulous Dorseyes
Speaker 2: from nineteen forty seven, also an archive title. Again no
Speaker 2: bonus features, but a new restoration and it will be
Speaker 2: a BDR. A Life at Stake also coming from that line,
Speaker 2: and we don't have release dates for any of these yet,
Speaker 2: but this one is from nineteen fifty five, so I'll
Speaker 2: have a brand new restoration and it will be a BDR.
Speaker 2: The Blood of Jesus from nineteen forty one is getting
Speaker 2: a release from them as well, same archive collection, no
Speaker 2: bonus features whatsoever, and a BDR. This one looks very fun. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's it for film asks. Paul is saying, is
Speaker 2: this one the same scan as the previous film? Detective
Speaker 2: Blue releases. I bet it is, but I don't have
Speaker 2: confirmation on that. Next up July first, Altered Innocence is
Speaker 2: releasing Lost Country from twenty twenty three. This is set
Speaker 2: in Serbia during the nineteen ninety six protest. And this
Speaker 2: one sounds really, really good. We got some trailers on
Speaker 2: this and it will be a five point one mix
Speaker 2: for the audio, but not much else on here region
Speaker 2: free disc and the trailer on this makes it look good,
Speaker 2: looks like a good film. Next, Keno is releasing Rock
Speaker 2: Pretty Baby on June seventeenth on Blu Ray. This will
Speaker 2: have a brand new HD master from a four K
Speaker 2: scan of the OCEN and a new audio commentary by
Speaker 2: David del Val, who does great work. I always laugh
Speaker 2: at this one because this has young heart throb John
Speaker 2: Saxon I don't ever think of as a young heart
Speaker 2: throb Jihon Saxon and sal Mineo. And then next is
Speaker 2: Promise Her Anything with Warren Batty and Leslie Karen from
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six. This one will have a new audio
Speaker 2: commentary from Duayne Epstein. This will also be from a
Speaker 2: four K scan of the OCN. Lots of cool stuff
Speaker 2: coming from Keno.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how did this period though, last few you've done? Like,
Speaker 3: how long do those sell? Is it to an older
Speaker 3: generation that grew up with some of these movies and
Speaker 3: they're still collecting? Is that kind of the target audience?
Speaker 2: That's a bulk of them? And then we got to
Speaker 2: realize when these come out, they're probably priced at about
Speaker 2: fourteen bucks, and maybe two months later they're on sale
Speaker 2: for like eight ninety five. And so when they're that cheap,
Speaker 2: a lot of people go, oh, I like Warren Batty,
Speaker 2: Maybe I like this it's nine bucks? Who cares? Sure? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So a lot of people just throw it in and
Speaker 2: maybe someday check it out, but also maybe just never
Speaker 2: unwrap it. Yeah, I got that umbrella. Speaking of umbrella,
Speaker 2: we just had a long conversation about the stuff they do,
Speaker 2: the great work. We got a lot of great stuff
Speaker 2: to talk about. This first one is a four K
Speaker 2: release of The Salute of the Jugger from nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2: This is coming on August sixth, and there is so
Speaker 2: much incredible stuff to cover in this one. This is
Speaker 2: a Rugger Howard film with Jon Chen that people have
Speaker 2: wanted for years. Vincent Dinafrio is also in this one.
Speaker 2: This is going to be an exclusive four k HDR
Speaker 2: restoration of this film, so nobody else has this, and
Speaker 2: it has three different versions of the movie. This will
Speaker 2: also have a one hundred plus page book with a
Speaker 2: bunch of new essays. We got new bonus features. We've
Speaker 2: got an uncut one hundred and four minute remaster that
Speaker 2: was done. This is a huge, huge deal for Umbrella.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have wanted this film for a
Speaker 2: long time. They've got the workprint cut, they've got the
Speaker 2: one that people have seen recently, new audi commentaries, a
Speaker 2: bunch of extras. This is gonna be a crazy, crazy.
Speaker 3: I would say recommended if you like.
Speaker 2: What I've not seen this one because you heard anything,
Speaker 2: or uh no, uh is it?
Speaker 3: Marshall Art like, what is this?
Speaker 2: It says in a lawless future where society is crumbled
Speaker 2: and chaos reins, the deadly sport of jugging is the
Speaker 2: ultimate test of strength, skill and survival. After years of xi,
Speaker 2: a legendary player Sallo, is pulled back into the violent game,
Speaker 2: leading a rag tag team of misfits on a quest
Speaker 2: to ultimate victory. So to me, it sounds like if
Speaker 2: you like rollerball, you'd probably love this okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coast apocalyptic extreme fighting sport type of.
Speaker 2: Movie, extreme fighting sports to the death movie. Yeah, okay, Rutger,
Speaker 2: how are only doing films that have four versions? Absolutely
Speaker 2: just keeping it on brand for him? Yeah, and if
Speaker 2: Saluted the Jugger is not in your wheelhouse. They're also
Speaker 2: doing Norroy the one of the best found footage films
Speaker 2: ever made. This is from two thousand and five, also
Speaker 2: getting a Blu ray release on August sixth from Umbrella.
Speaker 2: So really great key art on this one too. This
Speaker 2: one is going to have a forty eight page book
Speaker 2: with behind the scenes experiences, art and essays, eight art cards,
Speaker 2: a custom slipcase, and box set art on it. The
Speaker 2: new audio commentary by Tom mess who is incredible at
Speaker 2: what he does. There's an interview with the director that's
Speaker 2: brand new, Alexander Heller Nicholas talks about Noroi and the
Speaker 2: horror mockumentary, and then there's some other featurettes that have
Speaker 2: been on previous releases as well. But this is genuinely
Speaker 2: a masterpiece, one of the best found footage movies ever made.
Speaker 2: Love this movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually I did see this one.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, would you think? Yeah, loved it very nice,
Speaker 2: very nice.
Speaker 3: I like the I like the like before the found
Speaker 3: footage got two. I mean there are certain ones. Who's
Speaker 3: the director?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 3: Like or does it say right there? Anyone?
Speaker 2: His name is Kogi Shirashi.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I mean, especially Asian horror of the
Speaker 3: late nineties. I love Asian horror.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: I mean, any you know Takashe, Mike Japanese like anything
Speaker 3: like that, I'm pretty much go for that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The next one is a Blu Ray release of
Speaker 2: Funny Things Happened Down Under starring Olivia Newton John from
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five. This is a movie I had never
Speaker 2: heard of, but man, they've got some new bonus features
Speaker 2: on this one. This is just getting like a standard
Speaker 2: little sideloading release from the Earth slipcover release for them.
Speaker 3: Discovering rainbow colored goats, realizing they have a major discovery
Speaker 3: on their hands.
Speaker 2: Yes, doesn't Doesn't that make you want to pop that
Speaker 2: in right now? It does?
Speaker 3: Like, I think my wife would want to see this.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be. It's super unique.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's very young here, very cute.
Speaker 2: Very young. Yeah, nineteen that's cool. The next one a
Speaker 2: full Moon box that this is their second volume. This
Speaker 2: is Full Moon Frights and uh, this one is going
Speaker 2: to include Puppet Master, Sorority Babes, and the Slameball Bowl rama.
Speaker 2: And I believe I had to go to two posts.
Speaker 2: Oh no, maybe I didn't. Uh, let's go back to that. Uh,
Speaker 2: I just didn't list all the extras. It looks like
Speaker 2: because there are so many. It's got Seed People, Shadow
Speaker 2: Zone as well. This is perfect for everybody that got
Speaker 2: that first volume of the box sees that they did.
Speaker 2: If you love Full Moon stuff, you're definitely gonna love
Speaker 2: this stuff. I know that there has been I think
Speaker 2: standalone releases of a few of these in Australia. I
Speaker 2: think Sorority Babes that might be the first one that's new.
Speaker 3: Go back to that last image.
Speaker 2: The last image is that Seed People. Uh I did
Speaker 2: it all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah about But I like how I like how they've
Speaker 3: put all this together. The video Zone or whatever what
Speaker 3: is that?
Speaker 2: The video Zone is a little magazine that comes with it.
Speaker 3: So that's I love that desire. That's cool.
Speaker 2: Yes, that looks really great. They do really good stuff.
Speaker 2: Like we said with their box sets that they're special,
Speaker 2: cool new extras on pretty much everything. It's exciting if
Speaker 2: you love full moon stuff. I actually just talked about
Speaker 2: a Moonbeam entertainment film on another podcast this week. I
Speaker 2: love a lot of this old stuff. Cool one on
Speaker 2: one Films over in the UK is putting out tourist
Speaker 2: traps speaking of full Moon. This is another full moon film.
Speaker 2: This is coming on June twenty third. This will be
Speaker 2: region B locked new special features on this they got
Speaker 2: an interview with Charles Band, this brand new interview with
Speaker 2: Ted Nicolao, interview with an actress, and then Chris Alexander
Speaker 2: is also interviewed on this one. Plus they've got some
Speaker 2: archival extras. This will likely be the same scan that
Speaker 2: was released in the US, which if I remember, I
Speaker 2: think it was cut. It was missing like sixty seconds
Speaker 2: or something like that. I'm not sure. Ok have you
Speaker 2: seen this film ever? This is a really good one.
Speaker 2: This one's special. Chuck Conners is amazing in this.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay. I gotta be really convinced when it
Speaker 3: comes to the typical horror movie, especially American.
Speaker 2: I totally get that.
Speaker 3: I need you really sell me on it.
Speaker 2: Speaking of atypical and not American. June ninth, we're getting
Speaker 2: a four K release from Hammer of the quiter Mass Experiment. Now,
Speaker 2: this is this is an incredible, incredible film. This is
Speaker 2: from nineteen fifty five and it's a sci fi classic
Speaker 2: that made Hammer who they were. Basically, this is going
Speaker 2: to be huge like some of their other releases. Funny enough,
Speaker 2: I don't even remember if I showed it on the
Speaker 2: channel when it came in, but I got in there
Speaker 2: Captain Kronos release that they just did, and this thing,
Speaker 2: this thing is thick, like, this is the size I
Speaker 2: don't know, four films wide, and quiter Mask looks like
Speaker 2: it's gonna be at least that thick. This is a
Speaker 2: this is a crazy looking release. We've got four K discs,
Speaker 2: we've got Blu ray discs, we've got brand new extras,
Speaker 2: we've got multiple aspect ratios to choose from. This is
Speaker 2: a five disc set. You've got posters, you've got booklets,
Speaker 2: art cards, everything that you can want for this film.
Speaker 2: This will be the definitive release of the Quider Mask Experiment.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I've always wanted to see this.
Speaker 2: It is an incredible movie. This and the sequels are
Speaker 2: good too. I know a lot of people are down
Speaker 2: on one or two of them. But this is really
Speaker 2: great cool. I am excited to get that one. Then
Speaker 2: Severn came out of nowhere and announced a Blu Ray
Speaker 2: box set today. This is a part of their Inner
Speaker 2: Vision line. Is their first Innervision box set that they've
Speaker 2: ever done. This is called Bloody Legend the Complete Cliff
Speaker 2: Twemlow Collection. This is coming in mid June if you
Speaker 2: buy from their website, or if you want the wide
Speaker 2: release that'll be coming on July twenty ninth. This is
Speaker 2: eleven movies on nine different Blu rays. It also has
Speaker 2: the documentary that they did called Mancoonian Man, so I
Speaker 2: have thirteen plus hours of special features and a bonus CD.
Speaker 2: One of the big things here is GBH. This was
Speaker 2: a video nasty, I believe, and seven has been chasing
Speaker 2: all of those for years, and I'm so glad that
Speaker 2: they were able to get this box set out. I've
Speaker 2: never seen anything from Cliff, but I've heard that these
Speaker 2: are really fun. The trailer for this looks great. Very
Speaker 2: very excited to check this one out, and if you
Speaker 2: wanted to go all out, of course, they're doing a bundle.
Speaker 2: You can get a shirt with it that says not
Speaker 2: for the Squeamish, and then they're also putting out three
Speaker 2: different books that you can get with it as well.
Speaker 2: Cool Crazy set for one hundred and fifty nine bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the deluxe these deluxe. This is all
Speaker 3: this stuff that's neat.
Speaker 2: They take up so much space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the super fans.
Speaker 2: All right, the best censoring week, Okay, Manda Micabre we
Speaker 2: talked about them earlier. They are putting out a blu
Speaker 2: ray of Ava Man and the Return of Ava Man.
Speaker 2: This is from nineteen eighty nineteen eighty two. This is
Speaker 2: a transgender film from back then. New two K restorations
Speaker 2: for both movies. The poster art on this one is wild.
Speaker 2: I of course had to censor for YouTube and Instagram
Speaker 2: and Facebook or I'd be banned from everything. But we
Speaker 2: can also look at their other poster art that's on
Speaker 2: the other side that also had to be censored. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the art on this looks crazy. We've got new commentary,
Speaker 2: We've got new interviews, including with the main star from
Speaker 2: this which is wild to get them forty five years later,
Speaker 2: new visual essay, new interviews will be of available to
Speaker 2: pre order at the same time as the next title,
Speaker 2: which is Lady Desire accompanied with sex Omania coming in
Speaker 2: a Blu Ray double feature as well. These are from
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty eight and nineteen seventy four and these will
Speaker 2: go on sale on May first at nine am Pacific.
Speaker 2: If you are looking for these again, great releases looking
Speaker 2: from them. They've got extras like crazy. They've got tribute videos,
Speaker 2: brand new two K restorations for these, and trailers and
Speaker 2: everything that you could want. If you get the red cases,
Speaker 2: you get the booklets and uh yeah, if you like
Speaker 2: Monda Micabro, you probably know what you're getting with these
Speaker 2: cool m Yeah, these are a must. I pretty much
Speaker 2: always like the Mondo Micabro stuff and these. This is interesting.
Speaker 2: So over in Italy there's a brand new boutique company
Speaker 2: called Legends Collection that I just happened upon. They're putting
Speaker 2: out Singham from twenty eleven. This is an Indian film
Speaker 2: and it's the start of the cop universe. They've put
Speaker 2: out a bunch of films under the same franchise, I guess,
Speaker 2: and this will be a Blu Ray release. It's got
Speaker 2: English subtitles, which is not even on Italian releases, so
Speaker 2: it's nice that we're gonna be able to get this.
Speaker 2: Any company willing to put out more Bollywood films gets
Speaker 2: an A plus for me, it is super rare. So
Speaker 2: it's nice to be able to see we've got brand
Speaker 2: new artwork on these. Eugenio eric Alani, friend of the channel,
Speaker 2: has done quite a bit on this one. So that
Speaker 2: is where I first heard about this. This is exciting.
Speaker 2: Have you checked out many Bollywood films?
Speaker 3: Sad to say, I haven't. I mean, I guess the
Speaker 3: length of all of them and the amount of them.
Speaker 3: It's just like it is daunting. I mean, I do
Speaker 3: want to like start seeing. I mean, I love like
Speaker 3: this is in Bollywood, but I love Indian cinema. I mean,
Speaker 3: like the Sachijit ray, like the Appu trilogy and stuff
Speaker 3: like that is great. Path Upon Choli is one of
Speaker 3: my favorites of all time. And of course we saw
Speaker 3: our r R R R R love r R. But
Speaker 3: I mean that's all I know.
Speaker 2: So no, I'm still hoping that r R R gets
Speaker 2: a like an actual great release.
Speaker 3: Does it it got?
Speaker 2: I think it even got a four K, but only
Speaker 2: in like Japan. Yeah, okay, I don't know. It's got
Speaker 2: to be some of them with.
Speaker 3: The rights, sure, Yeah, I would love that too.
Speaker 2: Lastly, like I mentioned earlier, we were going to talk
Speaker 2: about another Warner Archive replacement disc and uh, this is
Speaker 2: brand new, just friends. Literally just went up for pre
Speaker 2: order and really only like a handful of these were
Speaker 2: even shipped out. But this got announced as having special features,
Speaker 2: and uh, when people were getting these, the special features
Speaker 2: we're just missing on the disc, just the film, so
Speaker 2: they are replacing the disc. I've got all the details
Speaker 2: on the post. You can go find it. That's all
Speaker 2: we know for now. Just got to put in to
Speaker 2: get your replacement discs so you can get those bonuses.
Speaker 2: There you go. Reservoir was asking about that Italian company
Speaker 2: and I said that they are putting out Asian films,
Speaker 2: and Reservoirs said, what kind of Asian films. It's a
Speaker 2: big continent. Literally, that's all that says. If you go
Speaker 2: to their about page, it says we plan on sharing
Speaker 2: Asian films. It's not a lot of informational. As always,
Speaker 2: after the announcements, just in case you forgot, we cover
Speaker 2: what is coming out next week real quick in case
Speaker 2: you want to go grab it before something sells out.
Speaker 2: Of course, the big title Tombstone four K coming next
Speaker 2: Tuesday here in the US. That is shipping from some
Speaker 2: people already Sneakers four K from Keno, Career Opportunities, four
Speaker 2: K from Keno, Foul Play four K from Keno as
Speaker 2: If They ever rest. The four K of the Hunt
Speaker 2: comes out next week from Shout. We've got the Jean
Speaker 2: Florette and Monande spring title that is coming from Criterion.
Speaker 2: Captain Planet and the Planeteer is the complete franchise next week.
Speaker 2: Cheyenne the complete series from Warner Archive. Yakuza Wives from
Speaker 2: eighty eight films, Jackaman and Tetsu is also next week.
Speaker 2: Lady with the Sword the Cruel see from Keno Hysteria
Speaker 2: Season one or also should have been called the complete
Speaker 2: series because it was canceled already, But those are the
Speaker 2: big ones. Borderline is also coming from Keino Classics, and
Speaker 2: then Tribeca putting out Tendaberry next week. That one is
Speaker 2: an Amazon exclusive, so if you want that one, you
Speaker 2: gotta get on Amazon. Tombstone the big title. Have you
Speaker 2: ever seen Tombstone? Yeah? Yeah, sure, good, It is a
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 3: Should revisit it after Valve's passing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. The announcement of that and the timing
Speaker 2: of that is going to make it sell like hotcakes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I career opportunities was, you know, a big
Speaker 3: hit for Kino. That was a formative movie for me.
Speaker 3: You could say Jennifer Connelly is probably my like number
Speaker 3: one cinema love you know, gorgeous. Yeah, absolutely like I love.
Speaker 3: In fact, it's funny, I just removed one of her
Speaker 3: films from my top five cover designs that we're going
Speaker 3: to do because while revisiting the list, I realized there
Speaker 3: is a blu ray of the title I was going
Speaker 3: to have, which is very rare. It's a film called Etol.
Speaker 3: So this is like young Jennifer Connelly, like Labyrinth Phenomena era,
Speaker 3: and she made this obscure never seen It's almost like
Speaker 3: a black Swan type of thing. It's a ballet, but
Speaker 3: it's like this dreamlike nightmarish kind of thing. And I
Speaker 3: need to find this. Maybe you can help me get.
Speaker 2: A Yeah, it's gonna have to be eBay only. It
Speaker 2: was a Ronan Flicks site exclusive, which Ronan Flicks doesn't
Speaker 2: even do much anymore. This was done by Scorpion Releasing
Speaker 2: a handful of years ago and has been long sold out.
Speaker 3: Have you even heard this of this movie.
Speaker 2: I mean when it was announced, that was it. But
Speaker 2: it's not like I didn't even know anybody that had
Speaker 2: seen it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, no one's seen it. And like you would think,
Speaker 3: since everyone loves Phenomena and Labyrinth, that people the least
Speaker 3: look up what is this? And that's what I did,
Speaker 3: because I'm a Connony super fan and like I was like,
Speaker 3: I have to see this. This looks cool and it
Speaker 3: was cool. I mean it's you know, underappreciated. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: not a masterpiece, but it's still really interesting.
Speaker 2: So now that we've gone through all the announcements discussion
Speaker 2: with Sam, we are going to cover a top five lists.
Speaker 2: You picked five titles that you would love to design
Speaker 2: art for if they were to be released, And funny enough,
Speaker 2: I picked five titles that I would love for your
Speaker 2: style to be applied.
Speaker 3: I figured that's what you're going to go for.
Speaker 2: Yes, I actually this was really hard to whittle down.
Speaker 2: I had like nine, Well, dang it. There's a couple
Speaker 2: that I always seen as for some reason, like attaching
Speaker 2: with you in my mind, and then there's things that
Speaker 2: I went, you know, I kind of wanted him to
Speaker 2: push somebody else out and do it if they were
Speaker 2: to do this. So I got some cool ideas. So
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that a little bit. But first, how
Speaker 2: do you describe your style to somebody that's never seen
Speaker 2: your work?
Speaker 3: Well, I go back to a traumatic moment in middle
Speaker 3: school and drawing class when the late Jean Sizemore, my
Speaker 3: drawing teacher, gave me a B minus and told my
Speaker 3: parents Sam's great, he's brilliant, but he doesn't have a
Speaker 3: style and he needs to get a style. And I
Speaker 3: my dad was so offended. It's sticking up for me,
Speaker 3: you know, like why do you have to have one style?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: And that always stuck with me and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's right. I don't have to have a certain style.
Speaker 3: And I think if you have one visual style, especially
Speaker 3: if you're an illustrator, you know, you get pigeonhole to
Speaker 3: doing the same thing over and over again. We've seen
Speaker 3: this with a lot of the like the Mondo people
Speaker 3: I mentioned, and they're great, But I've never been like
Speaker 3: a specialist of a specific style. In fact, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I do love drawing.
Speaker 3: Some of my favorite things I've done are like hand
Speaker 3: drawn illustrations, but it's not my you know, I haven't
Speaker 3: put in the thousands of hours, so I love just
Speaker 3: like an iconic concept, so conceptual ideas and the not
Speaker 3: necessarily showing the actors showing an idea. That's why I
Speaker 3: love all the Polish posters, the check posters, Cuban posters,
Speaker 3: because Cuban posters have that simplicity of design. You can
Speaker 3: just have cut out shapes or whatever. So I love
Speaker 3: anything like that. But it's always like finding the best
Speaker 3: solution for the film. You know, given the brief that
Speaker 3: whoever you're working for or for you is doing some
Speaker 3: for yourself, then I'm just like, I want to see
Speaker 3: this as a cool yellow and blue That's what I'm
Speaker 3: seeing in my head. I'm gonna I'm gonna do that
Speaker 3: and try to do something atypical for what's already been
Speaker 3: out there, you know, like kind of maybe a new
Speaker 3: way of looking at a film visually.
Speaker 2: It's a good answer, because you know, even just looking
Speaker 2: at your website, it's hard to you know, look at
Speaker 2: three different things that are vastly different. Just anybody else
Speaker 2: looking at them could think these are three different artists
Speaker 2: entirely cool. It is such a fun. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you announce that you're involved with something. You just
Speaker 2: never know what you're gonna get, which is the most
Speaker 2: exciting aspect of it.
Speaker 3: I think, thank you, thank you. That's that's like the
Speaker 3: best compliment, you know. And I think it's cool to
Speaker 3: you work with photography like I love. Yeah, I love
Speaker 3: actors and photographs. Why do we love movies actors? I mean,
Speaker 3: it's like one of the biggest things to see a
Speaker 3: human we're not watching. I mean, yes, Kaiina SCATSI is
Speaker 3: one of my favorite films of all time. It happens,
Speaker 3: but not every movie is like about buildings and landscapes.
Speaker 3: You know, you love seeing a face of someone you
Speaker 3: love on screen, and it's amazing when you think about it.
Speaker 3: Almost every poster and DVD has a human face on it.
Speaker 3: Like it's very rare, it doesn't, you know. But yeah,
Speaker 3: using photography, there's a lot of great things you can
Speaker 3: do with it, and then hand drawn, you know whatever.
Speaker 3: I try to think of, like what's the what's the
Speaker 3: idea of the poster and then let that determine how
Speaker 3: I what medium I use, Right, So just go to
Speaker 3: find out the closest path to.
Speaker 2: That anybody that's watching is that that is interested in
Speaker 2: being either a graphic artist or they're already gabbling in
Speaker 2: some of this. Would probably want to know what are
Speaker 2: some of your go to tools? What do you like
Speaker 2: to work with.
Speaker 3: Most I'm you know, every person kind of gets stuck
Speaker 3: in their own weird ways. I use Photoshop for assembling
Speaker 3: everything I do. You know, of course, you have to
Speaker 3: deliver files digitally. You can't just mail someone up painting.
Speaker 3: That's how they used to do it, though I guess
Speaker 3: I could if I really wanted to. But I like
Speaker 3: having control over the type, you know, the layout. I
Speaker 3: love to do a whole package when possible. All my
Speaker 3: criterions were like, you know, you do the whole package
Speaker 3: the menus as well. Now with most of the boutiques,
Speaker 3: you know, again their smaller budget, they have an in
Speaker 3: house designer, so they used to to cover. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I like to use some I like to use organic
Speaker 3: elements where I can. I like to have a texture
Speaker 3: that's real, not fake textures. I hate like it. It's
Speaker 3: fine every now and then for a certain brief, but
Speaker 3: I don't like fake poster textures. I like to use
Speaker 3: real paper, real materials to kind of you know, bring
Speaker 3: a handmade quality to things. I sometimes cut, like the
Speaker 3: Love Crime was all made with cutout paper, like actual
Speaker 3: construction paper. But you know, so I cut I well
Speaker 3: sometimes like that's interesting, I'll sketch it out digitally with
Speaker 3: a tablet the forms, then i'll print that out. Then
Speaker 3: I'll cut those forms out with paper. Then I'll scan
Speaker 3: them in and put them back into photoshop. So you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you can use the digital tools like a tablet
Speaker 3: to really get an idea out quick. It's very helpful,
Speaker 3: or you know, in my sketchbook. But yeah, everything goes
Speaker 3: into photoshop usually, and yeah, sometimes it's photocolors. Sometimes it's
Speaker 3: you know, all digital illustration I've done on some cases.
Speaker 2: So yeah, uh, what is uh, we'll go two different things.
Speaker 2: What is the piece of art that you've created that
Speaker 2: you're most proud of so far?
Speaker 3: Oh, gosh, I most proud of. I mean, I really
Speaker 3: am proud of these two that I did for before
Speaker 3: sunrise and before sunset, and then later he did before midnight.
Speaker 3: So I did a third one that was like years later,
Speaker 3: which I tried to kind of make it work with
Speaker 3: the other two. I don't know how successful that one is,
Speaker 3: but the first two, you know, just again, you know,
Speaker 3: idea comes to you and just a very short distance
Speaker 3: between the idea coming and you executing what you see.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure you would relate to this in any
Speaker 3: of the things you do, even though you're not a
Speaker 3: visual artist, like, oh wow, I really that was a
Speaker 3: perfect flow, you know I am, And when you're doing
Speaker 3: something just for yourself, you can have that. I didn't
Speaker 3: do that for a client, although little trivia like Peter
Speaker 3: Becker at Criterion always told me back in the day like, oh,
Speaker 3: we would love to use those one day for a
Speaker 3: before trilogy, And you know, years go buy and things
Speaker 3: change and different ideas come about, and that didn't. It
Speaker 3: did end up happening. But I do love those. I'm
Speaker 3: really proud of them, and I made screenprints that sold
Speaker 3: out the whole addition, it's it's one of my things
Speaker 3: in my back pocket. I would love to do one
Speaker 3: more edition at a larger size like silk screen. And
Speaker 3: those are very inspired by the Cuban posters where you
Speaker 3: have just like shapes, colors and shapes that represents something
Speaker 3: like to how do you represent two people talking on
Speaker 3: one night? Well, you can show them walking and talking,
Speaker 3: or you just do the idea of a son with
Speaker 3: this little sliver of time, you know, so I thought
Speaker 3: that was I look back, it holds up. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: change a thing about it, you know.
Speaker 2: So, uh, sibitor has got a question for you. Here,
Speaker 2: Are you a fan of Pascal Champion?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'll look.
Speaker 2: I don't know the name either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is it an artist? So I'll check and get.
Speaker 2: Back to you. One of the other things, you know,
Speaker 2: I asked what piece of art you're most proud of?
Speaker 2: Is there a piece of physical media that you have
Speaker 2: been attached to that you're still like baffled that your
Speaker 2: name is attached to that film?
Speaker 3: Well, ause, I mean I have to say how it's
Speaker 3: just the fact that, like I got a note from
Speaker 3: Obayashi himself and he has the poster, and like I
Speaker 3: got to meet his daughter Chigumi when I was in Japan,
Speaker 3: you know, just like that kind of thing, having like
Speaker 3: a personal connection to this filmmaker and this this work
Speaker 3: that's been totally reappraised, and that poster played a role
Speaker 3: in that. That's a huge honor. So that is that,
Speaker 3: And then I would say the Kotsi trilogy for Criterion.
Speaker 3: I love Kawana Scott Si, the whole Cotzi trilogy. It's
Speaker 3: something my dad, like, you know, who is an artist.
Speaker 3: He probably he had the soundtrack when I was growing up.
Speaker 3: He probably turned me on to it. And then I
Speaker 3: remember being an n YU they had the in the
Speaker 3: NYU library. You have a viewing floor, like of the library.
Speaker 3: It's a big library down in Washington Square, and you
Speaker 3: just go to this media center and you can there
Speaker 3: are these little cubicle booths and there's a little CRT
Speaker 3: televisions in each one and you can watch anything you
Speaker 3: just check. You have them pulled it from their library,
Speaker 3: and it's like not the ideal viewing conditions, but I
Speaker 3: always say that, like a great film, you can watch
Speaker 3: it on a ten inch CRT and it will blow
Speaker 3: you away. And that's what happened with Coin On SCOTTSI
Speaker 3: one of the most visually stunning films and I'll never
Speaker 3: forget seeing that. And so getting the chance to do
Speaker 3: that for Criterion was huge.
Speaker 2: It looks like Pascal Camping does covers for The New Yorker.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Yeah, New Yorker is on my bucket list
Speaker 3: one day to do a cover.
Speaker 2: Not yet.
Speaker 3: Times but not New Yorker.
Speaker 2: That was one of the things that I was going
Speaker 2: to ask too, is where where you know, now that
Speaker 2: you've been associated with some of these more monumental films
Speaker 2: and music and events and stuff like that, what is
Speaker 2: something that you would feel like, dang, my art being
Speaker 2: associated with this Now I've made it.
Speaker 3: Go like the next goal, the dream or whatever. Well,
Speaker 3: I want to venture into whole new terrains with different
Speaker 3: projects and ideas. One would be like to do children's
Speaker 3: books one day, and not just like not just the
Speaker 3: typical children's book, but like I really want to make
Speaker 3: I did a show in Japan that was geared at children.
Speaker 3: It was like this history of the Universe thing, and
Speaker 3: it was it was to try to get my foot
Speaker 3: in the door and meet some people and like, imagine, okay,
Speaker 3: what could I do one day, Like if I were
Speaker 3: to do like children's art. So I'm really interested in that.
Speaker 3: If if I had my way, I would have. I
Speaker 3: do have a brand called Sammy and it's it's got
Speaker 3: on Instagram. I just got it sitting there waiting because
Speaker 3: I want to make like children's cool stuff like puzzles, clothes,
Speaker 3: like that's an area I want to get into at
Speaker 3: some point. And then also, I also have a I'll
Speaker 3: just tease for everyone listen listening, I've designed a game.
Speaker 3: So this is not announced you. I'm not announcing it
Speaker 3: here the name or anything. But it is a game
Speaker 3: and I've designed it. It's done, and I'm excited to
Speaker 3: try to have that come out and potentially be a success.
Speaker 3: That would be a big goal to like, have thisam
Speaker 3: be a success.
Speaker 2: Biero.
Speaker 3: You'll you'll probably hear about it whenever I actually get
Speaker 3: around to trying to get it out, which hopefully will
Speaker 3: be in the next year. Maybe.
Speaker 2: I hope that's excellent. I'm excited for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll probably pick your brain about ideas, and I'll
Speaker 3: need your help promoting.
Speaker 2: It for sure, happily, Happily.
Speaker 3: It is a is a card game, nice, and I
Speaker 3: would say, rather than a strategy it's a party game,
Speaker 3: and it is a move is a movie game. And
Speaker 3: I know there's already a couple movie games out there.
Speaker 3: This is the best one you've ever played. Wow, I'm
Speaker 3: confident to say.
Speaker 2: Well that, okay, I'm very excited. That's awesome. Yes, all right,
Speaker 2: So to change gears entirely, this is go a little
Speaker 2: bit of whiplash. One of the things that I've I've
Speaker 2: always wanted to ask you, and I still can't believe
Speaker 2: that this friendship has happened. But yeah, I've respected you
Speaker 2: for so long for associating with the West.
Speaker 3: With the with which one the fantasy three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Uh, where where did the desire to you know,
Speaker 2: throw yourself behind that come from?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, I guess just simply the ways I
Speaker 3: can do something, you know, without you know, we don't
Speaker 3: have to get into any of the politics. It's it's
Speaker 3: all common sense when it comes to gun safety.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: If you don't, if you're not on board with that,
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I got nothing for you.
Speaker 2: We're not going to fix it the next five minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But yeah, I mean we had the shooting that
Speaker 3: was at Covenant School and that's five minute walk from
Speaker 3: my house, so I live in that neighborhood. And so yeah,
Speaker 3: just it's one of those things you know when you have,
Speaker 3: like there's a school shooting and that happens in your
Speaker 3: neck of the woods, and it's like oh wow, and
Speaker 3: so yeah, just getting how can I do something? You know,
Speaker 3: as an artist, you rarely feel like you can help
Speaker 3: in any way, and not that it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: It's not. But I was like, oh, I like making posters,
Speaker 3: and I one of the things that inspired me to
Speaker 3: Mague posters was the Cuban posters. There's this great book
Speaker 3: you should all check out called Well there's a few
Speaker 3: book of books of Cuban posters. Now any of them
Speaker 3: will do, but all the revolutionary Cuban posters, you know,
Speaker 3: and the film posters from Cuba at that time, they're
Speaker 3: really cool and they inspired me in the first place.
Speaker 3: So every now and then I'll just play around with
Speaker 3: like political posters just if I have an idea, and
Speaker 3: you know, throw them out online. And with Tennessee three,
Speaker 3: it was just yeah, I was down there at the
Speaker 3: capitol every day in any ways, and so I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I might as well make these posters and shirts. And yeah,
Speaker 3: then like everyone wanted shirts of the Tennessee three. So
Speaker 3: and we just like, I know, a bunch of screen printers,
Speaker 3: like I've done, you know, screenprints and stuff. So my
Speaker 3: screen printer friends and printer friends all jumped into help,
Speaker 3: and we in about twenty four hours, we went from
Speaker 3: nothing to having you know, a few hundred shirts and
Speaker 3: posters and just went down to the Capitol and yeah,
Speaker 3: sold the shirts and donated all that to every town
Speaker 3: just as like a fundraiser for gun safety awareness, and yeah,
Speaker 3: just a way to do something.
Speaker 2: This is I think one of the best examples of
Speaker 2: somebody that you know, has a platform but isn't like
Speaker 2: a Kardashian or something that we would call like an influencer,
Speaker 2: doing the most with what they can in a way
Speaker 2: that supports you know, just straight human empathy and without
Speaker 2: Without that, there are so many things that just would
Speaker 2: never get attention. There are people that wouldn't care their
Speaker 2: thing that you can put, you know, your energy behind
Speaker 2: and raise some money for people that would never get
Speaker 2: an opportunity for proper representation or what have you. And
Speaker 2: it's it's just a big deal to see somebody that
Speaker 2: you respect respect others like that. So thank you.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the very least I can do. I
Speaker 3: mean a lot of people do a lot more. You know,
Speaker 3: I could be doing political art twenty four to seven,
Speaker 3: but I usually just don't do something like that unless
Speaker 3: the idea comes to me and it just feels natural.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be preachy about anything. I just
Speaker 3: I love graphic design as a problem solving tool, and
Speaker 3: you know, I was like, there's this needs to be made.
Speaker 2: So yeah, on that note, to.
Speaker 3: Meet got to meet them too, you know, got to
Speaker 3: meet Pearson and Justin and Gloria and that was so
Speaker 3: cool because I think Peerson is an incredibly inspiring political
Speaker 3: figure man like.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it's an interesting time out there. Every
Speaker 2: town has done some good stuff, so yes, it's good
Speaker 2: to hear. On that note, we we both prepared some
Speaker 2: some top five lists you of titles that you would
Speaker 2: want to work on, and I've got five that I
Speaker 2: would want you to work on. I will happily go
Speaker 2: first here, and I tried to make these as the blue.
Speaker 3: Rays that have not been released on Did you have
Speaker 3: a framework here?
Speaker 2: I did, because.
Speaker 3: None of mine have been released on Blue ray at all.
Speaker 2: Well, I mostly have a framework, yes, yes, so I'll
Speaker 2: go first here. Number five is one that has has
Speaker 2: been on Blu Ray. However, it was only by the
Speaker 2: director and it had like the shortest run ever. It
Speaker 2: did get a Blu Ray over in the UK, but
Speaker 2: we need a domestic Blu Ray release of Adam Ray
Speaker 2: Meyers Dinner in America. And there is something about this
Speaker 2: movie that is Kyle Gallner and he is just like
Speaker 2: the definition of punk in this in the coolest way.
Speaker 2: He is also working with Emily Skeggs, who is just
Speaker 2: amazingly cute in this. The musician side of you, I
Speaker 2: think would pull some really interesting inspiration with the art
Speaker 2: style here, because Kyle Gallner plays the lead singer for
Speaker 2: an underground punk band that wears a ski mask, you
Speaker 2: can never see his face, and just what you've done
Speaker 2: to minimalize some of those artistic images, I feel like
Speaker 2: you could really kill a cover for this film.
Speaker 3: Okay, Cool, It's add to the watch list.
Speaker 2: It is a wonderful movie. And it has a really
Speaker 2: really great musical scene of him building a song with
Speaker 2: Emily Skeggs in front of him, and it's a it's
Speaker 2: just a beautiful film. Love this movie.
Speaker 3: Cool, Yeah, yeah, Okay, nice? Yeah. Like the iconic Like
Speaker 3: when I say iconic, that word is overused, you know,
Speaker 3: Like I could say you are iconic because you have
Speaker 3: a great Blu ray channel and you do. But I
Speaker 3: what I'm what I mean by iconic is like in
Speaker 3: the sol bass type of way where something that could
Speaker 3: be especially seen at a small scale and still have
Speaker 3: an impact because we're seeing everything on thumbnails now I'm looking,
Speaker 3: I'm looking at you know, something that small. I want
Speaker 3: my posters to hit at that size. Yep, and the
Speaker 3: full size, so you know, less is more kind of approach.
Speaker 2: I agree, and I think this is the perfect one
Speaker 2: for your style.
Speaker 3: Okay, are we going back and forth or are you
Speaker 3: going all.
Speaker 2: Your let's do it. I think that'll make it a
Speaker 2: little more interesting.
Speaker 3: You got just okay, So five favorite films of mine
Speaker 3: that have never been reallysed on blue ray. I particularly
Speaker 3: would love a chance to design something for now. You're
Speaker 3: probably gonna tell me, oh, there's a blue of that
Speaker 3: blue of that. That'll be great news. I would love
Speaker 3: to find out that there's a lut Okay, the first
Speaker 3: one is. And by the way, is it easy for
Speaker 3: you to like tap over to a scene where you
Speaker 3: could like pull up images or is that too?
Speaker 2: That's too, I can do that. But also at the
Speaker 2: bottom of your screen, if you have it up there,
Speaker 2: there's a button this is present there. You can share
Speaker 2: a tab and I can display it for everybody as well.
Speaker 3: Just like a tab yeah tab of my chrome. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: because it'll be it'd be interesting to give people a
Speaker 3: visual of the film and also the existing stuff. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm going to share my tab. Sorry sorry sorry, Okay,
Speaker 3: so present and I choose my own tab.
Speaker 2: Yes, you'll click on share screen and then when that
Speaker 2: pops up, you'll keep it on chrome tab and just
Speaker 2: choose whichever.
Speaker 3: One you're Okay, perfect, Here we are. It is the
Speaker 3: Secret of Roan Inish. Okay, now I told you I
Speaker 3: love children's cinema. I love fairy tales, folklore. This is
Speaker 3: a deaf crocodile or it's waiting to happen, you guys,
Speaker 3: if you're.
Speaker 2: Listening, Craig will listen and you can.
Speaker 3: Get this going. It is a beautiful little Irish fable.
Speaker 3: You've heard of? Have you seen like Song of the Sea?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you see like the Selki the idea of
Speaker 3: a the Selki, which is this like seal spirit of
Speaker 3: someone from who's gone. So it's this father daughter thing.
Speaker 3: It's just on this little island house where this girl
Speaker 3: encounters with Selki that maybe maybe her mother. Oh so
Speaker 3: beautiful man directed by John Sales. Love it. So yeah,
Speaker 3: let's get that we're gonna manifest.
Speaker 2: As as a deaf Crocodile release. I could definitely see that,
Speaker 2: right man, that is a good idea. And look at that,
Speaker 2: Tony says, Rowe nine Ish is one of my favorites,
Speaker 2: longtime favorite films. There you go.
Speaker 3: Oh you're on Facebook too? Yeah, okay, I see, I
Speaker 3: didn't see all the comments.
Speaker 2: You a mission?
Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah, Tony knows what's up pretty much anyone. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: if you love Banshees of an a Shearin, go right
Speaker 3: to this.
Speaker 2: Uh so mine. My next one is one that I
Speaker 2: have a feeling. This is not a guarantee, but I
Speaker 2: have a feeling is going to be in the Criterion
Speaker 2: collection soon. So this is the triumphant return. Hopefully we
Speaker 2: get you on this. With the recent success, I think
Speaker 2: that Sean Baker is going to get his release of
Speaker 2: Four Letter Words soon. This is his first feature film. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have not seen it yet, and he just had
Speaker 2: this film added to the Criterion channel, and I believe
Speaker 2: Janis picked up the film rights for this, so I'm
Speaker 2: hoping that this happens soon. The style here that we're
Speaker 2: seeing in the posters is not as iconic as his
Speaker 2: most recent stuff because it was so young for him.
Speaker 2: But as you can tell you know, the colors that
Speaker 2: are with this would go great with a lot of
Speaker 2: how you've used some really great colorways. This is a
Speaker 2: movie we're gonna be talking about in a few weeks
Speaker 2: on the channel. Again, just to heads up, this is
Speaker 2: some good stuff. But yeah, Sean Baker obviously getting a
Speaker 2: lot of attention at the moment, and for good reason,
Speaker 2: and with the Criterion channel picking it up, I think
Speaker 2: we're likely to see a release it this year soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool. Yeah, it's got that gradient, it's got his
Speaker 3: classic font he has on everything now. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: love Baker. I loved Tangerine, especially of course Honora I
Speaker 3: thought was great.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned his font and that that brings up
Speaker 2: a good question. How do you are you passionate about
Speaker 2: fonts and testography?
Speaker 3: Oh? Sure, for sure, of course, of course I think
Speaker 3: the lettering and the typography is very important. I loved
Speaker 3: working with it. I love working with even the billing block,
Speaker 3: you know, just like making it all come together and
Speaker 3: lock in. Uh so, Yeah, you can always learn so
Speaker 3: much more about typography and fonts. Font You know, fonts
Speaker 3: just means the computer file. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: knew that, but you would really say typeface, you know,
Speaker 3: rather than a font. And I have certain designers I
Speaker 3: know who are like encyclopedias and I'll go to them
Speaker 3: with questions or can you help me identify this this
Speaker 3: typeface or this font. I love recreating fonts for typefaces
Speaker 3: from from films where you don't know what was that
Speaker 3: you know in the title car and try to bring
Speaker 3: that into the cover, especially if the title treatment from
Speaker 3: a film has not been used in a poster like
Speaker 3: The Keep did that They used that actual lettering and
Speaker 3: I love that. So yeah, I'm a big geek about.
Speaker 2: Type good stuff. Uh, next one for you, would you?
Speaker 3: Okay? Next for me? We got now this one does
Speaker 3: have like a UK Blu Ray, so okay maybe, but
Speaker 3: I want the US Blu Ray release. I want another release.
Speaker 3: It is a Japanese filmmaker that I love, Coreta, and
Speaker 3: he has made of course Shoplifters. Uh just came out.
Speaker 3: This is his first film. It's called Maba ROSSI have
Speaker 3: you ever heard of it?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know everyone talks about Shoplifters, and you know
Speaker 3: people have seen Broker Monster his new ones. But this
Speaker 3: is a film about a woman who goes to a
Speaker 3: a kind of It's also on a coastal town where
Speaker 3: she was from, and it's a type of ghost story
Speaker 3: but done in a very lyrical, beautiful poetic way. It
Speaker 3: is my favorite Creator film by the ways. Still Life
Speaker 3: another great Creator film. Criterions put that out. That's this
Speaker 3: like Afterlife, Sorry, Afterlife, not Still Life. That's Jacques Gienca.
Speaker 3: Afterlife is great. I would recommend that if you want
Speaker 3: to see more Creta. That's like people have died and
Speaker 3: they go to this in heaven or it is like
Speaker 3: a movie studio and you recreate one scene from your life.
Speaker 3: So he plays around with the like ideas of like
Speaker 3: story that deal with crossing over, you know, and it's
Speaker 3: just it's stunning film. So this is probably the most
Speaker 3: low key, like no one knows about this one when
Speaker 3: I pick it, it's not like, oh yeah, that movie.
Speaker 3: But I would highly recommend it to people. And this
Speaker 3: is this DVD by Milestone Films. You know, it's so weird,
Speaker 3: Like I saw the Blu ray at video drone from
Speaker 3: this Milestone Films, but like I can't find it on eBay.
Speaker 3: There's no listing on Blu ray dot com, Like, can
Speaker 3: you help me?
Speaker 2: Out. There is UH on Amazon right now for one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty.
Speaker 3: Five dollars exactly. So I don't know why, why is
Speaker 3: that so rare.
Speaker 2: Because it went out of print very quickly and people
Speaker 2: love Coreata, so but.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyone who has it, Like, who are
Speaker 3: these people?
Speaker 2: Video Drome in Atlanta? That's it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw it. I was like, oh my god, Okay,
Speaker 3: so yeah, baby, I was wrong there. So blue ray exists,
Speaker 3: but it's it's time to get a new restoration going
Speaker 3: of this. I'm sure. I'm sure something's in the works
Speaker 3: at some point now that Corey is on such a platform.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean yeah, if people are paying attention something
Speaker 2: that's that out of print and it's going for one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars, we deserve to have an imprint
Speaker 2: release of that. And what's hilarious. I am glad that
Speaker 2: you picked that as the next one, because it's a
Speaker 2: perfect segue for the next one, which you have worked
Speaker 2: on some incredible Asian films. You were working on some
Speaker 2: Asian films coming out in the future. I think that
Speaker 2: Criterion needs to release this one because it is currently
Speaker 2: out of print in the US, and I think it
Speaker 2: deserves the notoriety of a criterion release just so that
Speaker 2: more people will see it. And this movie is so sumptuous,
Speaker 2: I guess is a good word that it deserves a deep,
Speaker 2: rich four K release of twenty sixteen's The Handmade It Ooo.
Speaker 2: This is This is one of those movies where every
Speaker 2: single frame is like, we can stop, we can it,
Speaker 2: we can put it on the wall, and you will think, yes,
Speaker 2: that is just a work of art. This movie is perfection,
Speaker 2: one of the most romantic films ever made. And with
Speaker 2: your you know, making something beautiful out of an already
Speaker 2: an already gorgeous movie and stripping that down to its
Speaker 2: bare minimum, this would be so perfect for you. I
Speaker 2: could see a screenprint of this just doing Gangbusters. This
Speaker 2: movie is. This is a life changing movie for those
Speaker 2: that have never seen it. Twenty sixteen is The Handmaid
Speaker 2: and really needs to be at the top of your
Speaker 2: watch list, not gatekeeping whatsoever, not saying, oh my god,
Speaker 2: how have you seen this? But it is a modern
Speaker 2: masterpiece that can wake you up to a different style
Speaker 2: of filmmaking than you've ever imagined. This movie is perfect.
Speaker 3: Dang hi praise, I love that. Yeah, Park Chan wuk Yeah,
Speaker 3: beautiful stuff cool, Okay, okay, it's giving me ideas. You
Speaker 3: got me, you got my gears turning?
Speaker 2: All right, what have we gotten next?
Speaker 3: Beautiful?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I will say this film will be life changing. If
Speaker 3: you haven't seen it now, don't hit my tab just shew.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you when we mentioned Nicole Kidman, this film
Speaker 3: thankfully is now getting more people on board in the
Speaker 3: last couple of years because of the Zone of Interest,
Speaker 3: and that is one of my favorite films of the
Speaker 3: last twenty years, maybe my favorite film of the two thousands.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Glaser's Birth so criminally overdue for a Blu Ray release.
Speaker 3: There has to be some I'm sure this is already
Speaker 3: in the works with Criterion or someone that it has
Speaker 3: to be unless it's in some weird legal hold up.
Speaker 3: Do you know anything anyway, I'm not even worthy of
Speaker 3: this film, Like Jonathan Glazer has only made four films, right,
Speaker 3: Sexy Beast, Birth, Under the Skin, and Zone of Interest.
Speaker 3: They've all been well. Birth and Under the Skin and
Speaker 3: Zone of Mistress are masterpieces.
Speaker 2: To me.
Speaker 3: Sexy Beast is incredible. I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece,
Speaker 3: but I just man, the guy is just everything Glazer does.
Speaker 3: All his earlier videos I loved, but this was shot
Speaker 3: by Harris Savidez and he is gone now. And the
Speaker 3: cinematography it's like a full frame you know. I love
Speaker 3: the full frame aspect ratio. I'm way into that, any
Speaker 3: kind of Academy ratio or one three three. And the
Speaker 3: cinematography is astonishing. And the concept it's that the fantastique
Speaker 3: I told you about. It's like this idea that what
Speaker 3: if this child is her former husband and what that
Speaker 3: can do to your mind when you're grieving someone, This
Speaker 3: idea of not for being able to let go of
Speaker 3: someone you loved, it is so haunting. It is a
Speaker 3: New York movie. It is a winter movie, a gothic
Speaker 3: New York Upper West Side fairy tale, and it is
Speaker 3: It's kids Kidman's best work. And that includes Eyes Watched,
Speaker 3: that includes Dogville. It is phenomenal. I really hope now
Speaker 3: that zone of adventuresses out. You guys, Oh, I worked
Speaker 3: on Birth, so.
Speaker 2: I was going to that has worked on quite a
Speaker 2: few films here.
Speaker 3: Okay, like what he can tell me in the chat,
Speaker 3: but I'm curious what crew capacity or whatever, So I
Speaker 3: don't really know what I would do for birth, but
Speaker 3: it was one of those things where if someone emailed me,
Speaker 3: it was like, hey, we have birth, we heard you
Speaker 3: on Disconnected, and what would you do for this? I
Speaker 3: I would just like, oh, I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Let me let me to yes, yes,
Speaker 3: but I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy. And the best
Speaker 3: Alexander Displas score that he's ever made, the score alone
Speaker 3: is final. Have you seen Birth?
Speaker 2: My friend? I adore Birth the first time a few gosh,
Speaker 2: maybe it was last year now, not too long ago.
Speaker 2: It was zone of interest. In talking to Sibnar, they
Speaker 2: got me to watch it, and uh, I guess I
Speaker 2: probably should have sought it out after loving under the
Speaker 2: Skin and getting Sexy Beast from overseas as well, because
Speaker 2: I don't think do Sexy Beast still not have a
Speaker 2: Blu Ray in the US either?
Speaker 3: I think, as far as I know, I don't have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it looks like it was released by Twilight
Speaker 2: Time way back in the day, but on Amazon right
Speaker 2: now for two hundred and fifty dollars. Good God, Jesus.
Speaker 2: So Sibner says he played a waiter at the reception
Speaker 2: after the husband's funeral.
Speaker 3: Oh fantastic, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Love it, love it. Okay, so my on.
Speaker 3: Set with Harris a Vedez and the cast, Danny Houston,
Speaker 3: I mean, I could go on and on, Laren Bacall,
Speaker 3: for God's sake.
Speaker 2: It's a big deal, big big deal. Yeah, we need
Speaker 2: to release that for sure. And just like you said,
Speaker 2: I kind of assume that one is in the works.
Speaker 3: It'll just yeah, but you'd think it would have come
Speaker 3: out by now. Also, so it's like, what is taking
Speaker 3: so long? I don't know, but you know, maybe Glazer
Speaker 3: takes this time. He clearly takes his time with projects,
Speaker 3: so maybe he's supervising a whole new restoration. I mean
Speaker 3: the DVD, like the version that's shown on Criterion Channel.
Speaker 3: Whenever they show it, it looks perfect to me. I
Speaker 3: don't know why you'd reapproach the anything about the transfer, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. Yeah. My next one is a bit
Speaker 2: of a cheat a little bit, because I have envisioned
Speaker 2: you doing a great version, like we talked about, where
Speaker 2: you the entire package, not just the cover art. But
Speaker 2: some of my favorite releases over the last I think
Speaker 2: we're going on three years now are the two box
Speaker 2: that's the seven Films has put out called All the
Speaker 2: Hauntspy Hours the Okay, seeing your take on a full
Speaker 2: design of this where you're integrating the booklet on the inside,
Speaker 2: the menus, everything would make one of these mind blowing.
Speaker 2: The way that you can take, you know, fifteen films
Speaker 2: and make stylized key art that all matches in very
Speaker 2: unique ways with the styles of those films from all
Speaker 2: across the world. Because your styles are so different, it
Speaker 2: is the perfect way to showcase all of those at once.
Speaker 2: And I would just love to see that sort of
Speaker 2: a platform for you.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Well, I think very highly of those releases. Again,
Speaker 3: I used to just say I don't love horror, but
Speaker 3: now I've found so many of these sub genres that
Speaker 3: are really feeling and that that a lot of those
Speaker 3: are that you know, I got the first box, uh,
Speaker 3: the House of Psychotic Women. Like you said, I know
Speaker 3: that's that's not folk horror, but this kind of academic
Speaker 3: I love the Yeah, I love that All the Haunts.
Speaker 3: There's some not okay, there's not really over but you know,
Speaker 3: Kierla Janice talks about some folk horror things and the
Speaker 3: art on the the all the Haunts already. I can't. Like,
Speaker 3: if they asked me to do volume three, I would say, no,
Speaker 3: you guys, just do what you do on the others,
Speaker 3: because it's it's great all that, like the Woodland Days
Speaker 3: Dark and Bewitched documentary with all those great Guy Madden
Speaker 3: due the collages or my dein it all looks so
Speaker 3: great already. So I mean, and it's funny you say that,
Speaker 3: because there have been times when someone's asked me to
Speaker 3: do something and I pass it on to someone else
Speaker 3: because I'm like, this person would do with an even
Speaker 3: better job, you know. But yeah, that's that's cool. It
Speaker 3: would be fun to do some kind of maybe not
Speaker 3: another All the Haunts by name, but something similar to
Speaker 3: that where I could do a whole series. I am
Speaker 3: doing a box set right now of a TV show,
Speaker 3: so it is a lot of assets. I can't say
Speaker 3: what it is yet under I'm under contract on that,
Speaker 3: but it'll be a chance to do a lot of
Speaker 3: art in a style that kind of goes together.
Speaker 2: So nice. All right, Then your next one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay again, don't go to the tabu till
Speaker 3: I tell yeah, this is an interesting one. And you
Speaker 3: know what I'm gonna go ahead and say, right now,
Speaker 3: this might be very hard for you to pull off.
Speaker 3: That may give you a challenge that you should manifest
Speaker 3: with me. This this existing because I think you have
Speaker 3: some I some resources, some similar lines of thinking that
Speaker 3: something like this should be released. Okay, And before you
Speaker 3: click in, I'm just going to say, you know, the
Speaker 3: most famous poster designer anyone can name is Sallbass. He
Speaker 3: did the Vertigo poster. He also did a bunch of
Speaker 3: title sequences. He directed the shower scene in Psycho. Let
Speaker 3: me say that again. He directed the shower scene in Psycho, the.
Speaker 2: Most well known scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe the most well known and well edited scene ever.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, okay, so title sequences. He did some short films,
Speaker 3: a lot of corporate films that are interesting, and they
Speaker 3: those Japan has released some of them on DVD and
Speaker 3: Blue Red I think. But all of his shorts are
Speaker 3: really interesting. And there's one in particular that blew me away.
Speaker 3: If you love genre, if you love fantasy, you need
Speaker 3: to see hit it Quest. Have you heard of or
Speaker 3: seen Quest?
Speaker 2: I've definitely heard of it. I've not seen it.
Speaker 3: Super cool man, It's like a short. I'm going to
Speaker 3: say it's under let's see what's the run on. It's
Speaker 3: probably like thirty minutes, so you know, not it's a
Speaker 3: substantial short, and it's you know, if you've see like
Speaker 3: he did a feature called Phase is A Phase five
Speaker 3: is four Phase four Yeah yeah, and like I saw that,
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, that was pretty cool, but it
Speaker 3: didn't something about quest. You can see just from these
Speaker 3: pictures alone, how neat this looks. He uses like paintings
Speaker 3: and miniatures and all this stuff. It's about this. It's
Speaker 3: this myth of this boy who comes from the from
Speaker 3: nature and he's selected to be the chosen one. It's
Speaker 3: very abstract and there's no good version of it. And
Speaker 3: the idea that you can't get a great nude transfer
Speaker 3: is on Blue rat Like I would love to see
Speaker 3: this and you could just pair it with other Slivas shorts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this really neat to happen.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I'm getting like Jim Henson and Ken
Speaker 2: Russell made a baby from looking at this.
Speaker 3: Oh well, it's because it's showing that that monster the
Speaker 3: second one that's this like weird beast that he plays
Speaker 3: chess with in one see. But you know, Bass would
Speaker 3: just do these really interesting visual sequences and effects that
Speaker 3: that fifth see the sixth image that's like a black
Speaker 3: border with a yulage of photos. That is a poster
Speaker 3: that saw Bass designed. And so what I would want
Speaker 3: to do if I were tasked with this, I would
Speaker 3: want to do something that Saul Bass would have done too,
Speaker 3: and use some of some of that approach make it
Speaker 3: kind of look similar to that. I really love to
Speaker 3: do things. I've done a couple of criterions actually where
Speaker 3: I didn't actually create the cover art. I just adapted
Speaker 3: a poster and tried to develop the rest of the
Speaker 3: package in a way that felt like what they would
Speaker 3: have done at the time. So I would love to
Speaker 3: handle the release of quests you know nice. Yeah, interesting,
Speaker 3: it wasn't one oh one going to put it out.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have not heard about that, but that would be
Speaker 2: good to know. Okay, Yeah, chase that down, Simon or
Speaker 2: if you can, if you can figure that out, that'd
Speaker 2: be good to know. Okay. So my number one is, uh,
Speaker 2: this is this is like the most obvious number one
Speaker 2: in the world. I feel like because this is from
Speaker 2: a director that you can take a couple images from
Speaker 2: every single one of his films and say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this person directed that. We we absolutely know that, so
Speaker 2: it would never be a question. But the way that
Speaker 2: you I could see using his just jarring imagery and
Speaker 2: make something minimalist out of that that captures the brain
Speaker 2: in a cool way. I can't possibly imagine anyone else
Speaker 2: doing Ken Russell's the films.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 2: This would be such a cool turn for you. I
Speaker 2: mean some of the ways that uh, you know, some
Speaker 2: of the more I don't know, frenetic I guess designs
Speaker 2: that you've done could work well for this. With Ken
Speaker 2: Russell being just such a unique bastion for the surreal
Speaker 2: in some of his films and you coming from like
Speaker 2: the opposite spectrum of that, I feel I could make
Speaker 2: this such a damn unique clash of styles.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, cool, Yeah, certainly, I'm game. There was a
Speaker 3: great poster I saw in my I think it was
Speaker 3: Midnight Marauder. Who did it? If you tab over to
Speaker 3: my tab? Wait, oh no, it's not the same tab anymore,
Speaker 3: I need to go Yeah it is so right here.
Speaker 2: Ah yeah, I like that a lot.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm sure there's lots of cool things you could
Speaker 3: do with it. Okay, okay, cool, Well you've given me
Speaker 3: some fun ideas.
Speaker 2: So you got number one yours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got one left and I don't I don't
Speaker 3: actually know if I ranked these. So these these are
Speaker 3: all five kind of equally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 3: One I've already done a a toaster for for myself
Speaker 3: for fun. So would I just use this if I
Speaker 3: were to be asked to do the Blu Ray maybe
Speaker 3: if they if they let me get away with it.
Speaker 3: It is Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park. This is one
Speaker 3: of my favorite films period. Uh, Gus Van Sant. You know,
Speaker 3: he's done a lot of interesting things from you know,
Speaker 3: his early work My Own Private Idaho, then like a
Speaker 3: couple of Hollywood things like Goodwill Hunting, but then he
Speaker 3: did this death trilogy in the two thousands with Jerry
Speaker 3: Elephants and Last Days. Have you seen any of those?
Speaker 2: Uh, I've seen a few. I've seen my Own Private Idaho.
Speaker 2: Of course. I love that we talked about side Kill
Speaker 2: right before you bring up with ghost fans.
Speaker 3: In that's true, that's true. I even thought that was
Speaker 3: cool that he remade Psycho and no one else thinks that.
Speaker 3: But I think it's cool, but yeah, Jerry is awesome.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 3: It's just Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as two guys
Speaker 3: named Jerry walking in a desert and you don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on, and that is a great there. They
Speaker 3: just have a great feeling to them. And Paranoid Park
Speaker 3: he made after the Death Trilogy, and it is a
Speaker 3: it's from the point of view of this boy, this
Speaker 3: teenage boy, and he encounters something traumatic that happens, and
Speaker 3: the whole film is him kind of just in this
Speaker 3: moment of his life, reflecting on the experience of what
Speaker 3: he just witnessed and the effect it has on him.
Speaker 3: I've never seen a film truly capture what in my
Speaker 3: experience it felt like to be a teenager and just
Speaker 3: in just the thoughts in your head, feeling so like
Speaker 3: tender in the world and like kind of like trying
Speaker 3: to figure out who you are, but in the least
Speaker 3: cliche possible way. This is a very special film and
Speaker 3: really would love to see a Blu ray release. And
Speaker 3: I did a to show you the print I did.
Speaker 3: I'll see if I do, I'll see if it comes
Speaker 3: up on Google search test Google's ability. Okay, not yet,
Speaker 3: but it is not. It's on my site, so I'll
Speaker 3: go there. Yeah, here we go. This is what I
Speaker 3: did for it. I know that's a very strange looking thing.
Speaker 3: You probably look at that and say, what what's that?
Speaker 3: But I'm just gonna let it speak for itself. That's
Speaker 3: my that that's what I did. And of course it's
Speaker 3: a pretty abstract to be a blue red cover, but.
Speaker 2: I mean that's perfect for Ghosts Fan's antho too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's actually like he has his hands over his face
Speaker 3: and it's from a scene, a shower scene where the
Speaker 3: water is pouring down over his face. And the way
Speaker 3: they did a frame rate or something, I actually think
Speaker 3: it was okay. Christopher Doyle and rain Lee. Christopher Doyle
Speaker 3: is a cinematographer. He did the one car y stuff wow,
Speaker 3: and so I'm telling you man, And then it's in
Speaker 3: the rain Lee aspect is too. Rain Lee did all
Speaker 3: this skateboard footage, so he does he skateboards this kid
Speaker 3: with his friends, and so interspersed you have this like
Speaker 3: DV or like eight millimeters maybe skateboard footage. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of a skateboarding movie too. Man. It's just very
Speaker 3: powerful film. Please check it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have to see this one. I love
Speaker 2: some of those movies that just captures I don't know,
Speaker 2: the zeitgeist of that era of skateboarding. I was too
Speaker 2: tall and and a klutz and way overweight to skateboard,
Speaker 2: but I was dying to be one of them. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I tried to. I tried to, and like I never
Speaker 3: made it, like to a skate park, but it's got
Speaker 3: those moments where like he he goes to a skate
Speaker 3: park for the first time and sits on the edge
Speaker 3: and they're like that nervousness of like, oh am I
Speaker 3: allowed to be with these kind of try kind of
Speaker 3: fit in with these people, and then just the freedom,
Speaker 3: like almost in a I think of me as Zaki,
Speaker 3: this idea of like you're on the board and you're
Speaker 3: you're skating, and it's like everything is safe, everything is perfect,
Speaker 3: everything is fine.
Speaker 2: It hits that amazing. Yeah, I think you missed this
Speaker 2: because we were talking about your title. Quest is a
Speaker 2: short film included on the Phase four release over in
Speaker 2: the UK, and dug Up then found that Quest was
Speaker 2: newly restored an HD for that release.
Speaker 3: Well, see, so it's ready to go.
Speaker 2: But it is probably region lock to reagion.
Speaker 3: B Okay, Yeah, but I mean I don't know how
Speaker 3: this works. I'm just saying, like, if there's a new
Speaker 3: restoration and it could be paired with some of the
Speaker 3: other shorts, this could be really neat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be a really fun idea. And not
Speaker 2: to mention that the history of his I don't know,
Speaker 2: like ability to craft something like you said, iconic without
Speaker 2: using the the overused version of that word. Yeah, to
Speaker 2: make it something that is so striking that it digs
Speaker 2: into you. Just the history on that could be very
Speaker 2: very cool. Cool.
Speaker 3: Patty Boy has picks for me made in Heaven, the
Speaker 3: thing called Love. They all laughed, Blind Shaft, Bubble and
Speaker 3: Schizopholis two Soda Borks. I do love soda work.
Speaker 2: Bubble could be really cool for you.
Speaker 3: How do you top the original art?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so good.
Speaker 3: Soda Birks posters are great. You know, Kellor House did
Speaker 3: a lot of them. He's always doing interesting posters.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that is such a cool idea. Got BOGDANOVICHA
Speaker 2: that'd be fun. What's your favorite soda brig then.
Speaker 3: Gut gut feeling gut goes right to the Ocean's eleven.
Speaker 2: Nice? Nice I mean it's just perfect, right, It's a
Speaker 2: very very fun movie.
Speaker 3: I love his his you know, slower Arts, you know,
Speaker 3: I love you know Traffic and Solara. I love the
Speaker 3: Solaris remake, but yeah, probably Oceans. Love him.
Speaker 2: Did you ever see Aaron Brockovich that he did? Yeah? Great,
Speaker 2: So when we were talking before we went live, Aaron
Speaker 2: Brockovich was set about ten minutes from where I grew up.
Speaker 2: I know, I know people that were affected by the whole.
Speaker 3: Real Okay, okay, yeah we watched that recently because my
Speaker 3: wife hadn't seen it, and yeah, there was a great
Speaker 3: one he made recently. I've really I have to say,
Speaker 3: I hope he's not watching this. He hasn't wowed me
Speaker 3: in a while since he came back and started making
Speaker 3: films like all the time. Only one of them really
Speaker 3: really hit for me, which was called Let Them All Talk.
Speaker 3: It was a Meryl Street film and not many people
Speaker 3: saw it, so it went right to Max had never
Speaker 3: even got theatricals. I think it was during COVID. I
Speaker 3: love that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you did that right after Kimmy and
Speaker 2: Kimmy like overshadowed that one. Yeah, good stuff. So one
Speaker 2: of the last things I wanted to ask for people
Speaker 2: that are you know, interested in hearing your responses to
Speaker 2: all this tonight. Who are some graphic designers that you love?
Speaker 2: Who are some other artists that you admire right now?
Speaker 2: Active people that every time you see something they put out,
Speaker 2: you go, damn, that's inspiring.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, so many. I mean, like I said, Adam
Speaker 3: might have who just did the phase he did that
Speaker 3: Phase four that we were just talking about. Adam's great man,
Speaker 3: uh Drew sister Hyde. My friend Brandon Schaeffer, who I
Speaker 3: did the Poster Boys podcast with. We did that for
Speaker 3: a few years, maybe four years or so. We did
Speaker 3: a graphic design podcast that's still out there if you
Speaker 3: want to listen to me talk about poster design and
Speaker 3: different luminaries from film posters throughout the decades. And Brand
Speaker 3: is just a workhorse man. He's he always does nice things.
Speaker 3: And Akiko is a friend of a. Keiko Sternberger. I
Speaker 3: will brag every day that she is a friend of
Speaker 3: mine because she is the most talented poster designer in
Speaker 3: the game, just period. Like she she paints, so like
Speaker 3: she She did the Funny Games US theatrical poster that
Speaker 3: close up of Naomi Watts crying and that is a painting,
Speaker 3: so she's capable of doing these photo realistic paintings, but
Speaker 3: also just like great concepts that are like funny, you know.
Speaker 3: So definitely followed doy rivetive on on Instagram. And there's
Speaker 3: now a book out of a Kiko's work called The
Speaker 3: Kiko Matic that I would highly recommend. So yeah, those
Speaker 3: are a few that come to mind, you know, But
Speaker 3: I mean, I really am more. I'm not the saying more.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of great people doing work right now,
Speaker 3: of course, but I really just my biggest inspirations are,
Speaker 3: you know, stuff from the past, the Polish grades, the
Speaker 3: Cuban poster artists. Hans Hillman is a German designer. If
Speaker 3: you want to like discover someone, Hans Hillman. He he
Speaker 3: did all these German posters that actually ended up long
Speaker 3: story short, inspiring Jani's films to make some of their
Speaker 3: first posters, including that one for Donkey Skin, which then
Speaker 3: led to Criterion. And there was a whole history, you know,
Speaker 3: as you kind of retrace the steps of graphic design history,
Speaker 3: which is still young as an academic field, but you're
Speaker 3: learning about more of these important people that we're doing
Speaker 3: it and in these like idealistic conditions where they could
Speaker 3: just do whatever they want for a poster and they
Speaker 3: don't have an email of twenty people on it all
Speaker 3: chiming in, or you know, they don't have to use
Speaker 3: contractual obligations for actors and things like this. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I just love I love poster design history and modern
Speaker 3: modern history.
Speaker 2: Have there been any projects that you've had I we'll say,
Speaker 2: restrictions put on you that you've not enjoyed, because I'm
Speaker 2: sure that this is one thing that a lot of
Speaker 2: people worry about. Like, you just did a cinematograph title,
Speaker 2: and last year one of the biggest complaints was Little
Speaker 2: Darlings the title they put out that they didn't get
Speaker 2: permission to use the likeness and so a lot of
Speaker 2: people didn't love that they couldn't see the faces and
Speaker 2: they made a choice scatter that looks like brown and
Speaker 2: could have been a little bit better. But anything like
Speaker 2: that that is tough for you to work around.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we'll see I always have the I have the
Speaker 3: other perspective on that one, which is like I never
Speaker 3: even thought twice about that. I was like, that's a
Speaker 3: cool cover and now that makes sense to me that
Speaker 3: that's why they did it that way. And I would
Speaker 3: always say, and it's totally okay if you didn't like
Speaker 3: that cover. But there's always a reason for something, you know,
Speaker 3: Like people love to just whatever armchair quarterback graphic design.
Speaker 3: They love to say, but stupid, why do they do this?
Speaker 3: Why do they do that? And there's usually a reason,
Speaker 3: And it's sometimes these contract things. You did the best
Speaker 3: with what you can't and with the time, the budget,
Speaker 3: the brief, the restrictions there. Yeah, I've been pretty lucky,
Speaker 3: Like there haven't been a lot of things I've worked
Speaker 3: on that have had strict contractual stuff. But the cinematograph
Speaker 3: one I did for the Last of the Red Hot Lovers,
Speaker 3: that was hard because if you see that cover I did,
Speaker 3: I actually have one right here.
Speaker 2: I can show you other current titles that Sam has
Speaker 2: worked on, a tail of Star and Sadness from Radiance
Speaker 2: them Rock from Radiance is also another one that you
Speaker 2: just did.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's an insane film, Like if that if them
Speaker 3: Rock is not on your radar, players don't radar now,
Speaker 3: like trust me, So this one last of the Red
Speaker 3: how Levers. You see how much writing is on this.
Speaker 3: This is all because it had to be that way.
Speaker 3: I had to come up with a solution that was
Speaker 3: just like, fits so much stuff, and I know it's
Speaker 3: a scribbly mess, but I was just like, it's just
Speaker 3: going to be a scribbly mess. It's going to be
Speaker 3: a tic tac toe with litprints and he makes notes
Speaker 3: on napkins in the movie, so I was like it
Speaker 3: could maybe feel like that. And so yeah, Arkin had
Speaker 3: to be literally seventy of the title size, and then
Speaker 3: the three actresses had to be the same height. And
Speaker 3: this is how in the this goes back to a
Speaker 3: contract from the original poster. You still have to honor
Speaker 3: where you know, the actors have these clauses and their
Speaker 3: name have to appear equally. So the of these actresses
Speaker 3: have to appear as the same size as Alan Arkin,
Speaker 3: and so already there that's so much. And then everything
Speaker 3: else had to be at this size too and had
Speaker 3: to be included. So basically you're looking at a poster
Speaker 3: that's all text. Yeah, you know, unless you go real
Speaker 3: small with it, but then you can't see what it's
Speaker 3: saying because it's so that was tricky, and then actually
Speaker 3: I'm doing another cinematograph. I think you alluded to it,
Speaker 3: but it's not been announced yet. Did you say you
Speaker 3: have one coming?
Speaker 2: Uh No, that's the one that I've ordered that I
Speaker 2: have not got yet.
Speaker 3: This is the one. Okay, So there's another one coming
Speaker 3: that I did for Justin it'll be announced soon. And
Speaker 3: that one had an actor likeness situation where we could
Speaker 3: not get approval on one of the likenesses ultimately, and
Speaker 3: I had to change something about it. It was minor,
Speaker 3: but you know, I try to. That's one of the
Speaker 3: nice things about just coming up like conceptual covers. You
Speaker 3: don't have to worry as much about actors. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: if you're doing like real movie posters for big agencies
Speaker 3: and big studios, which I don't, I can't compete with
Speaker 3: the big agencies that you saw one hundred poster concepts for,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever, big movie. But then you're dealing with
Speaker 3: a lot more of those restrictions. But it's always it's
Speaker 3: fun to have restrictions, restrict like the five instructions. You know,
Speaker 3: it creates creativity. You know, if you have no limitations,
Speaker 3: then then you're just making five avatar movies for the
Speaker 3: next twenty years. That's not interesting. Sorry to throw shots fire,
Speaker 3: but that's not interesting at all. You have no, you've
Speaker 3: lost all sense of creative restriction. That's not interesting. What's
Speaker 3: interesting is you making the Abyss when you did.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 3: So sorry I had to go off there for a second.
Speaker 2: I completely agree, and I love that. You know, the
Speaker 2: abys comes out in nineteen eighty nine and a year
Speaker 2: of aquatic horror things that just it all struck it
Speaker 2: is and it makes it just just this unique like
Speaker 2: subculture of film at that moment.
Speaker 3: Speaking of nineteen eighty nine, I'm going to shout back
Speaker 3: to something I mentioned earlier. I found for you my
Speaker 3: steel case CD of The Prince Batman soundtrack.
Speaker 2: Amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, the only thing I wish I had is the
Speaker 3: bat Discman from Batman Returns, so that I could use
Speaker 3: this in that. But it is a cool special edition
Speaker 3: of the Prince. This movie was pretty formative for me,
Speaker 3: you know, eight years old, nine years old. Yeah, this
Speaker 3: is cool because it's a round booklet. Oh no, and
Speaker 3: it's just got the regular soundtrack in there. But it's
Speaker 3: a cool disc.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So if you're a Batman eighty nine fan, this is
Speaker 3: a nice little eBay thing you can look.
Speaker 2: For very nice. I love the black on the outside too,
Speaker 2: and they didn't put the yellow on there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's that's really real. Any any Criterion cover
Speaker 2: art that you look at that wasn't you and it
Speaker 2: isn't an original poster that you go Damn, I wish
Speaker 2: I'd designed that.
Speaker 3: Oh so many. We did a whole Poster Boys episode
Speaker 3: on that so got out in the where to begin honestly, gees,
Speaker 3: I mean any of the keller House stuff. Neil Kellerhouse
Speaker 3: and his company. A couple other designers were involved in
Speaker 3: some of them, but they did some great ones that
Speaker 3: really got me into Criteria, like walk About. Um gosh,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. There's so many. Jay Shaw, who
Speaker 3: I love, is a friend and he's one of my
Speaker 3: favorite designers. He's not doing much anymore, but he did all.
Speaker 3: He had a period of Mondo stuff and Jayshaw did Repo. Man.
Speaker 3: I thought that's a great one. I was like, I
Speaker 3: wish I had done that or thought of that, or
Speaker 3: been able to do that. Oh god, there's so many,
Speaker 3: mad but we did. We did a Posterboice episode of
Speaker 3: Top Top ten Criterion covers and so if you want
Speaker 3: to find out on Spotify, I do go through my
Speaker 3: ten favorites nice, so you guys can check that out.
Speaker 2: For further One more, I wanted to shout out, that's
Speaker 2: amazing your print for Kumiko h Y is a friend
Speaker 2: of mine. He swears by this movie. It's like one
Speaker 2: of his favorite films from the last twenty years or
Speaker 2: art perfectly captured so much about that film, how it's
Speaker 2: just easy to get lost in essentially kind of like
Speaker 2: the film. That's cool, beautiful colors. Really like what you
Speaker 2: did with the incredible choices.
Speaker 3: Thank you. We Yeah, they just reused it last year
Speaker 3: for the ten anniversary and the original piece we It
Speaker 3: is a screenprint and it is a twenty four thirty
Speaker 3: six ten color silkscreen, which is it's pretty rare for
Speaker 3: me design something that has that many layers of color,
Speaker 3: and it's expensive to make a print that's that complex.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I've got some in my flatfall. I might
Speaker 3: have to get your address.
Speaker 2: I participate a lot, and I don't know if you
Speaker 2: know many people that do this. There are Facebook groups
Speaker 2: dedicated to screenprint commissions and I have I don't know,
Speaker 2: probably fifteen here, which is a lot cool. Just you
Speaker 2: join a group and there's usually less than fifty people
Speaker 2: that are literally privately commissioning an artists to come up
Speaker 2: with a design. And some of the best silk screen
Speaker 2: print designs are coming from these random ass groups. And
Speaker 2: then you see the art used in other places for
Speaker 2: years to come because it becomes so great, Like Graham
Speaker 2: Humphreys is doing stuff in some of these groups, suspirit it.
Speaker 2: There's so much that's just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful art.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've never like I've never really kind of
Speaker 3: entered that world, like with Mondo. I never did any
Speaker 3: Mondo things. Yeah, they never asked me, which is fine.
Speaker 3: I mean it would have been it would have been cool.
Speaker 3: But you know, I never became like a screen prints
Speaker 3: artist that people collect although you know, the house poster
Speaker 3: is you know, like I said, like kind of my
Speaker 3: my one famous thing that you know, if I were
Speaker 3: to do one more addition, I probably will, but it'll
Speaker 3: be a large addition.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I know that that print will sell and people will
Speaker 3: want it, but most print collectors like don't know who
Speaker 3: I am, you know, just because I haven't done any
Speaker 3: Mondo and you just don't you gotta do Mondo or else.
Speaker 3: No one knows who you are, but those commissions are
Speaker 3: cool and branded. My co host I mentioned he does
Speaker 3: he does some of those.
Speaker 2: I wanted to up one last thing and this is
Speaker 2: not meant to end on a negative or anything, but
Speaker 2: fucking Ai Sam. We we probably should talk about this
Speaker 2: because man, the the the tendency lately to see cover
Speaker 2: art on a release that is quote bad in somebody's mind,
Speaker 2: and the first thing they say, this is AI because
Speaker 2: it's bad. Uh, how do we how do we get
Speaker 2: out of this point? How do we scrutinize these things
Speaker 2: in a way that is meaningful to the artist and
Speaker 2: respectful to the artists without accusing people? And how do
Speaker 2: we keep this filled with integrity? God?
Speaker 3: Man, I mean, that's such a big question, and it's
Speaker 3: just it's all about visual literacy and truth. It's if
Speaker 3: you've been following what's been happening culturally in this country
Speaker 3: for the last twenty years, there's a and it's the
Speaker 3: Internet's fault, and it's you know, certain influential Without getting
Speaker 3: into politics, it's just like we've lost the ability to
Speaker 3: even discern what is or even regulate the idea of
Speaker 3: discerning what is real. And so the bigger problem is
Speaker 3: not DVDs and Blu rays. It's that it's you can't
Speaker 3: even look at a photo anymore until I mean, people
Speaker 3: like me can kind of still tell. But you're gonna
Speaker 3: have deep fakes of all kinds of stuff that's going
Speaker 3: to cause major world problems, I guarantee you. So when
Speaker 3: it comes to Blu ray, it's like it's less of
Speaker 3: you know, it's less significance. But you're right that, I mean, gosh,
Speaker 3: I always try to encourage people to just stay informed.
Speaker 3: You can't expect the average person to, especially at the
Speaker 3: rate AI is progressing and Generative Imagery is progressing with
Speaker 3: with mid Journey and now chat GPT kind of catching
Speaker 3: up to mid Journey. I've really tried to stay informed
Speaker 3: about it myself. I am not a black or white
Speaker 3: person on this. I think that everything you do, if
Speaker 3: something's inevitably happening, then go ahead and figure out how
Speaker 3: you can use it as a tool and evolve might
Speaker 3: as well. And then I always you can always not
Speaker 3: use it, but good to like know what's going on.
Speaker 3: But god, it's just it is hard to tell. It's
Speaker 3: a lot of the it's the devil in the details.
Speaker 3: Usually with like even spotting AI. It's not what you
Speaker 3: asked me. You asked me how to defend a real
Speaker 3: artist from being accused of AI? And I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just think that, Yeah, I don't know about that one.
Speaker 3: I would just I would just say it speaks to
Speaker 3: the lack of thorough critical thinking in our visual culture, and.
Speaker 2: There a vi lack of media literacy across research.
Speaker 3: In general, not just visual but reading information, truth, all
Speaker 3: of it. The people who want to be literate in
Speaker 3: these areas will and most people find that it's a
Speaker 3: lot of people find that it's easy just to to
Speaker 3: coast and accept the reality they're presented. And I don't know, Man,
Speaker 3: what do you do? I don't know, rewind twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five years and do things differently. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's an odd time, it's ad time.
Speaker 3: But I I've used AI and I'm against AI in
Speaker 3: general as like as a as a harmful kind of resource.
Speaker 3: But it is being used. You know, I don't eat
Speaker 3: a lot of meat. I don't really eat meat. But
Speaker 3: people are not going to start eating meat, stop eating
Speaker 3: me on the entire planet, even though I think it
Speaker 3: is great to be vegan, and I'm trying, and my
Speaker 3: wife's vegan, and like I can't, I can't expect the
Speaker 3: whole world to do it, So I can't expect a
Speaker 3: there's not going to just be an end to AI imagery.
Speaker 3: So it's here. Understand it. Know that in a year
Speaker 3: from now it's going to be even more impossible and complicated.
Speaker 3: I personally believe it's it's always about what you do
Speaker 3: with the tools, just like synthesizers did not put trumpet
Speaker 3: players out of work or string musicians out of work.
Speaker 3: And I've used generative imagery. I mean, I'm not afraid
Speaker 3: to say this, I've used generative imagery in recent jobs.
Speaker 3: But I use it in a way that is a
Speaker 3: means to an end, and I will bring my human
Speaker 3: touch to that and use it as a tool to
Speaker 3: help me achieve something more easily or in a way
Speaker 3: that I could otherwise do. But just creating generative imagery
Speaker 3: of you yourself as an action figure and posting on Instagram,
Speaker 3: you're really you're not really practicing what you preach all
Speaker 3: the Miyazaki form, Yeah, and I try to see all
Speaker 3: angles of that too. It's like bless everyone's heart. They
Speaker 3: just love Ghibli and they want to see their dog
Speaker 3: as Ghibli. They don't mean to be, you know, pushing
Speaker 3: us further into the brink of apocalypse.
Speaker 2: They just.
Speaker 3: So you know, humans are endearing that way. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: you know, like the good thing is in the in
Speaker 3: the with our interests. I mean, I don't think AI
Speaker 3: is going to replace any of these, you know, blue
Speaker 3: ray car. I mean no, I don't even see a
Speaker 3: company if someone made like an all AI generated Blu
Speaker 3: ray cover. I mean they've come close, Like those Civil
Speaker 3: War posters were or whack, but that was only because
Speaker 3: people spotted the errors. And that was what almost two
Speaker 3: years ago now, and those still those errors don't exist anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I still believe art's gonna and humans will will thrive.
Speaker 2: And see that's that's to me. Like you know, similar
Speaker 2: in the chat is talking about how musicians use stuff
Speaker 2: like that to to tweak and fix small things, and
Speaker 2: that's why you know, the like some of the classic
Speaker 2: songs from history, there are actual human errors that you
Speaker 2: can hear in those things that give it that taste
Speaker 2: character that are just amazing to hold on to. I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the chat is really more active on this than
Speaker 3: I've seen all night. And it's true, oh flickering waves,
Speaker 3: William mentioning a album cover I just did by William Tyler.
Speaker 3: If you love instrumental music, definitely check that out. But yeah, photoshop, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: Photoshop has already been using I mean, the whole thing
Speaker 3: with the brutalists and everyone going on this high horse
Speaker 3: about the vocal stuff. Like, guys, you can't like I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna throw Avatar under the bus again, But computers
Speaker 3: have been computers have been helping achieve things forever, like.
Speaker 2: Since they existed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like, yeah, just uh, informing yourself critical thinking.
Speaker 2: Are good. I don't think anybody in the chat would
Speaker 2: do it. But the amount of times that we're seeing
Speaker 2: people on social media specifically to say I don't like
Speaker 2: this cover art, it is bad. Therefore it was probably
Speaker 2: done by AI.
Speaker 3: See I haven't seen a lot of that.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of reductive reasoning and it makes zero
Speaker 2: sense whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and I again I'm trying to look for
Speaker 3: the silver lining. At least it's showing that people don't
Speaker 3: want AI, right, Ah, it's misapplied, And yeah, we don't
Speaker 3: want to hurt artists feelings. I've seen a lot of
Speaker 3: artists get ripped off or some AI does happen to
Speaker 3: look like someone's art. But I have to hope that
Speaker 3: people are being There is like a certain watchdog mentality
Speaker 3: about AI that if you're not like an AI bro,
Speaker 3: you're pretty much kind of like we agree, like on
Speaker 3: just basic common sense principle that you know, we don't
Speaker 3: want to make AI make art. No AI is supposed
Speaker 3: to help us do all this crap we don't want
Speaker 3: to do, not make art. Making art is the only
Speaker 3: thing that humans do that other animals don't. I mean, okay,
Speaker 3: it's of course I think other animals do make art birdhouse,
Speaker 3: you know, bird nests or whatever. But you see what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. It's like it's it's the human spirit, and
Speaker 3: it's it's always going to be there.
Speaker 2: I agree. Fun way to end it. I guess, Sam,
Speaker 2: this has been amazing. Anything that you want to share
Speaker 2: with the people that you've worked on recently that you've
Speaker 2: announced that you can't.
Speaker 3: Well, I have announced the Obayashi projects.
Speaker 2: I don't want to.
Speaker 3: We probably should have led with that I'm doing for
Speaker 3: Obayashi titles. Hopefully as long as the plan goes in place. Uh,
Speaker 3: Cult Epics is releasing them on us Blu Ray. I
Speaker 3: got in touch with Cult Epics what I heard about
Speaker 3: the news, and I just offered my services and it's
Speaker 3: working out this way. So I can't say which one
Speaker 3: is first, but the first one's wrap will be announced soon.
Speaker 3: I'm excited, you know, is amazing. So I'm excited to nothing.
Speaker 3: I can't make covers that are as good as House,
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be as good as House, but I'm
Speaker 3: excited to do those, So look out for those for sure.
Speaker 3: Follow my socials, Follow Cult Epics.
Speaker 2: These are four beautiful movies. Yes, they're gonna be some
Speaker 2: really fun releases of these.
Speaker 3: Definitely fan favorites for the last twenty years, almost twenty
Speaker 3: years since House hit the hit the scene. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's coming up. Like I said, a couple of things
Speaker 3: I can't talk about yet, but yeah, Brimstone and Treacle, them, Rock,
Speaker 3: Love Crime all in all available now too. They're all
Speaker 3: they're not no, no, those are well. Red Hot Lovers
Speaker 3: is out. Others you can pre order at Vincent and Radiance.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you'll follow a my socials to see some
Speaker 3: blue reism working on it. It's cool to be part
Speaker 3: of some of the boutiques right now. I don't know
Speaker 3: if I'll be doing them forever, and I'm just kind
Speaker 3: of like, like I said, I might pivot into some
Speaker 3: different things. I love doing album art, I love doing
Speaker 3: illustrations for all sorts of things. Got a game coming,
Speaker 3: got it, hopefully got this game coming, so stay tuned
Speaker 3: excited for that.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody, thanks for hanging out to that. As usual,
Speaker 2: my pitch. If you want to continue conversations like this,
Speaker 2: join the Patreon the link in the description below. We
Speaker 2: got a discord associated with the community. We'd love to
Speaker 2: have you the discord. We would love to see some
Speaker 2: background on the art in there. They would, they would,
Speaker 2: They would be all over that, I promise. Other than
Speaker 2: that's come back next week. It's going to be a
Speaker 2: another fun conversation. We got some stuff that I believe
Speaker 2: is getting announced this week that is going to be
Speaker 2: a fun one. John Daly, who is Rock Hudson Online
Speaker 2: video editor. He is somebody that I work with on
Speaker 2: stuff for tear Vision and some other stuff, will be
Speaker 2: the guests again next week, so come check that out.
Speaker 2: It will be a good time. Sam, You're incredible. I
Speaker 2: hope we can do this again.
Speaker 3: Thanks Ryan, it's so awesome to me you and connects
Speaker 3: and yeah, I'm game to do it again and follow
Speaker 3: I'll be following the show. Thanks for everything you're doing. Man,
Speaker 3: you're like a major figurehead in this community, just in
Speaker 3: terms of the services you're the give, the giving nature
Speaker 3: of everything you're doing. I think it's it's awesome. And
Speaker 3: you have a damn great voice. Well, I mean yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sure that's how you got into No. No, I
Speaker 3: mean people have told you that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I've only been told that once ever in
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 3: My square I what I chat back me up chat
Speaker 3: is that you are made for, say radio, They would say.
Speaker 2: When when I grew up, my first job was at
Speaker 2: Carl's Junior in California, and I had a car full
Speaker 2: of like forty year old women that pulled up and said,
Speaker 2: can you give us directions the highway? And I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's right there, you can see it. They're like, no,
Speaker 2: just tell us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Thanks for that voice. Yeah, we see all next Thursday.
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