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Hello there, and welcome back to the Official Deaf Crocodile Podcast.

We are announcing the largest overall slate for a Deaf Crocodile month of releases ever and here tonight I'm Ryan Verrel and we've got Craig Rogers and Dennis Bartak who are running the company.

Gentlemen, Thank you.

Howdy, howdy, howdy, long time no see.

Yeah, talk with you.

It's been a bit and uh yeah, We've got a lot to cover tonight.

We have literally the most hyped Deaf Crocodile release ever.

We've been hinting at this release and revealing images, anders and postcards and titles all year, and now we finally get to talk about two of the releases I'm most excited about for the rest of this year.

We've got a double feature and a four disc triple feature box set.

Jesus, there's so much to cover tonight.

Dennis tell us about our first release.

We didn't plan it this way.

Somehow evolved to being a multi disc It's silent October.

Yes, and again, I don't I'd like to say that we planned it this way, but it's just the stars sometimes a line.

Both of the releases we're doing, the first are actually the two earliest films that we have put out to date with def Crocodile, both from the wonderful pioneering German director and writer Enrique Gallen al Rowne and The Student of Prague that we're releasing in collaboration with our good friends at the Film Museum Munchin in Munich, and then another silent release.

But these are brand new films from the Austrian experimental filmmaker Norbert Foffenbickler.

It's his incredible post apocalyptic mutant Monster Silent trilogy two five five to one that he has made over the past four years I believe incredible achievement, shot in abandoned underground World War Two era bunkers in and around Vienna, and they're sort of like the unholy marriage of David Lynch, Joel Peter Witkin, Metallic Bao House, Silent Hill, Hell Boy Too, eraser Head Begotten.

I mean, there's so many incredible sort of uh you forgot Charlie and Charlie Chaplin.

The first film, The Kid, is his version of Chaplain's The Kid.

They are astonishingly surreal.

I sort of describe them as mad Max run amok in the Moodor Museum.

If anybody has been to the Moodor Museum, you know what I'm talking about.

They are very often very NC seventeen some of the darkest and most extreme imagery that are you know, been in any films that we've put out, and they are truly remarkable, incredible music, an incredible achievement.

I mean, honestly.

They were recommended to us the two five to five one trilogy by Danish filmmaker Reinert keel Ky.

I I l and he knows he's friends with the filmmaker Norbert Foffenbickler.

They said, hey, he's about to screen the third one he just finished, called The End, got a screener links and put us in touch with Norbert, and Craig watched what was it like the first five minutes of the Kid the first film and the trilogy.

And he's sure, I'm not sure.

It was five minutes in before I paused and emailed you, like, so we need to send him a contract?

Yeah, no, we have to, And as it turns out, we licensed the films and then we kind of teased it, and another label was like, oh crap, we were going after those movies, and they're really mind blowing.

They are avant garde's silent feature films, but really four genre for sci fi monster horror fans, and it's a really hard trick to pull off, and they're really engaging, engrossing.

Essentially, the trilogy follows this epic journey between the ape Man and all of the characters I should mention in these films wear rubber monster masks of all sorts of incredibly grotesque mutated forms, and it's never clear whether those are intended to be masks or if they're supposed to be like their actual faces.

But everyone is masked in this underground, subterranean, nightmarish world that he has created, and essentially follows the ape Man and a kid, also masked.

There's a burlap sack with two crude eye holes, and he clutches this deformed, hideous little mummy doll that is his equivalent of like, I don't know, like a Barbie and Ken doll or Lilo and Stitch or something.

Throughout the trilogy, as they get together, he loses the kid, The kid grows up, gets indoctrinated in this horrible police state.

It is very much about fascist ideology and repressive political systems.

So it has a lot of connections to what's happening in the world today, in the United States today.

And we just love the movies, So it's Silent October.

We probably see more movies than the average person because we're big fans and so work work in the industry.

I've never seen anything like these, Dennis.

You've seen way more than even I have.

Is there any equivalent, Like.

I would say, the combination of shooting them silent using silent film techniques, so there's occasionally sped up footage.

There's there's you know, they kind of uses some of the language of silent cinema, uh with experimental and avant garde uh kind of imagery and styles as well as like you know, there's also there for death metal fans.

There for you know, fans of like you know, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, but everybody is it's the weird second one where you know, all the irradiated people are living underneath the surface and take their masks off and they're early freaky.

I mean, there's there's Ray Harryhowsen stop motion animation in it.

I mean, there's so much credible.

I think I think a lot of people will watch these and if they're unless they're you know, steeped in cinema history, aren't going to realize that, like the colors are like color tints from silent films, or you know, all all the all the other influences throughout cinema history that are all in there.

But it's become its own crazy animal that will be appreciated on a completely different level than any of that stuff that that he's pulled from.

And Norbert is a huge uh fan and admirer of film history.

So some of the bonus features we were really lucky to be able to license and include some of his avant garde films which kind of before he did these what he was best known for, and they kind of comment on and engage with film history and really fascinating and kind of challenging ways.

One of them he reinterprets Eisenstein's famous Odessa steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin.

Another he looks at a famous sequence from an early Chaplain short where he's on a moving, movable sort of floor belt, and in another he he reinterprets and plays with and distorts imagery and audio of actors who have portrayed Adolf Hitler over the years, from Alec Ginnis to Bruno Ganz to all sorts of different actors, and that is also kind of an experimental piece about the imagery of fascism.

So you will see throughout the two five five one trilogy his love for film history evidence in almost like every sequence in the movie.

And yet it's also completely original.

How they managed to shoot this I have, even having interviewed nor Bird and see behind the scenes, I don't know how they did it because these underground World War two bunkers, and there were also I think alcohol storage caverns, huge caverns.

There's no power, there's no toilets, there's no running water.

They had to bring generators down and apparently the fumes were poisoning the casting.

There's no ventilation like it's astonishing, and they made these all for absolutely minuscule budget, raised from a lot of public arts funding groups in Austria, so it's a monumental achievement.

And they are feature length, all three of them.

And the fact that they've sort of gone under the radar.

This is going to be the first physical media release for the trilogy anywhere in the world.

Yeah, the fact that the third film just just came out and was just hitting the festival circuit.

It played a Rotterdam in February, and we're putting it out in October, so that's pretty quick in terms of like.

I'm really surprised that they don't already have a big following, Like most people have not even ever heard of it.

So I really hope with this release people it has a massive crossover appeal.

You know, the horror film groups are going to love it.

The people who love, you know, silent cinema are going to be fascinated.

Like it's taking all of the techniques of silent cinema but applying it to a completely different genre of filmmaking and films.

It's I don't know, I'm very excited.

I can't wait for people to experience these films because they're really not like anything you've ever seen.

Oh yeah, no, it's it's just one of those things where you discover someone's incredibly detailed and fleshed out vision for this subterranean world of repression and brutality.

It also does, especially Part two, The Orgy of the Damned does.

What we're gonna warn people up front, there's some real hardcore.

Uh, there's some really hardcore sexual simulated sexual imagery, simulated violence, really freaky.

If anyone knows the photographs of the artwork of Joel Peter Wicken, that's another, I think reference point for Norbert's work.

But we're just super excited.

Also a shout out to Jared Gerald Weber at six Pack Film, who's his sales agent, distributor and supports the work of a lot of incredible avant garde filmmakers and in fact, as you'll see one of the bonus features on the Blu Ray, Oh my god, we have an entire disc and we actually almost ran out of space with visual essays won by someone who's on this call, Ryan Verrel and his partner in crime, doctor Will Dodson of Someone's favorite productions.

Danish filmmaker Ryan Keel did an interview in visual essay with Norbert and then experimental filmmaker and film scholar Stephen Brumer, and I think it's Stevens in particular that talks about the tradition of Austrian underground filmmaking and the sixty and early seventies which was really extreme.

There's some short clips from some of these films and again very NC seventeen.

Aren't for kids either.

Yeah, despite the fact that the film is called The Kid and has one of the main characters is a kid.

Not for kids.

But there is this this lineage, this tradition that Norbert comes out of of of really dark, surreal and graphic experimental filmmaking in Austria that I wasn't aware of.

And that's another amazing like you know, all of the connective threads that you discover when you're working on these projects.

So we're very excited.

Yeah, this is sorry putting a cat down, No setting her, setting her down on.

The floor, setting the cat part.

I'm currently putting a cat down.

I could hear a heart I could hear a heart attack from all the listeners on the podcast.

Oh my god, cat dad is putting his cat down on the podcast.

So I I listened to our watch Ryan's show every Thursday night, which everyone listening to this hopefully tunes into that live show every Thursday night.

And there's something he says once in a while that that I've always hoped one of our releases would get this.

Uh.

I don't know if it's an honor, but I love it when you're like, there are there are so many bonus features you couldn't put it in one Instagram post.

Yeah, I'm hoping this will be one of those.

I've already scheduled the post and I can tell you it absolutely is.

Yes, Dennis, we've made it yay.

Well, and one thing that I knew about this for Deaf Crocodile as well.

You know Dennis was talking about the NC seventeen aspect.

Craig, you had to update the website to be able to sell this, right, Uh?

Yeah, I had to.

I had to download an app that that age verifies for you to put it in your cart, because I don't want to get sued.

Yeah, that wouldn't be good.

But yeah, I mean, I don't know if there's anyone under eighteen that even knows who Deaf Crocodile is.

So it's not like, yeah, but they're not the ones buying the discs.

And you get promo copies anyhow, so if they want to watch it, they sneak them to do what kids have done throughout the ages, wait until their parents are asleep, and then sneak the good R rated stuff and watch it till we small.

Hours, such a cable box to the at a MAX channel at night and watch the scrambled image so you can hopefully see a titty or something.

We printed an article about exactly that in the last issue of The Physical.

Did any teenage boy not do that in the eighties?

Everybody?

So yeah, I'll just run down the list here.

Dennis already mentioned the visual essays, uh that Stephen Broomer did looking at the Vietnamese Underground and how it influenced two five five one, And then you're in Wills.

Did you say, did you say Vietnamese or Viennese VNES VNES.

We could be looking at the Vietnamese.

Hope I said Viennese.

I met Viennese.

I believe you said Vietnamese.

But that's okay.

I'm even reading it vines right there on my screen.

You'll fix that in the edit.

Right.

It's funnier the way it is.

All new interviews.

So we've got a new interview with the director Norbert Foffenbickler, a new interview with the cinematographer, new interview with VFX supervisor Paul Leckman a new interview with the actor who played the ape man, Stephan Erber.

There's a second interview with the director.

This one was conducted by his friend Reinert kil and they mostly discussed his experimental short films the two, five, five, one point three, the Third and the trilogy.

The end.

They actually have a twenty one minute behind the scenes like featurette that they they produced for that, so we've got that.

The supervisor, Paul Leckman sent us a a twelve minute compilation of VFX behind the scenes how they were doing them, different stages of them, and it was just like, it's really cool, just a bunch of footage.

And so.

We were really down to the wire on deadline, but I emailed them and I'm like, could you just do like a voiceover, just talk over and explain what it is that we're seeing and all that footage?

And yeah, like almost immediately he sent back.

Not only is it does he narrate and explain everything.

He's edited it in a like in an order that makes sense, and like, so now we've got this great almost thirteen minute VFX reel with the VFX supervisor explaining what they did and how they did all the stuff of the film.

Very cool.

We even have deleted scenes.

There's two deleted scenes from part three to the end, and then something we've wanted to do but it's rarely available.

We have the soundtrack score from all three films.

We'll be on that fourth disc as isolated tracks.

Part one has seventeen tracks, Part two as thirty tracks, and part three has ten tracks.

So you've got the soundtrack for the entire film.

I'm sorry, all three entire films.

And then as Dennis also mentioned, the short films by director one, two, three, four, five, six, seven short films that he did ranging from nineteen ninety eight to twenty nineteen and then less exciting, but it's on there.

We had three different trailers cut for the film, and we've included all three of the new trailers, so yeah, there's a lot.

Well.

I should also mentioned we have incredible audio commentaries.

I forgot because those are all those are on the discs one, two and three with the with the films, so.

Yeah, writer and writer and film scholar Sheila Rowan leg and film archivist Ava Letourneau, and artist curator and writer An Golden, and then podcaster Mike White of the projection Booth also does a commentary, really wonderful commentary, and then if you get the special deluxe limited edition, it has essays by film critic and author Alexander Heller Nicholas, who a number of people will recognize for her wonderful writing on film, Walter Shaw, who contributes to all of our releases, film historian Ralf Geeson, who also has contributed to a number of our recent releases such as The DEFA Sci Fi Set and others.

And in fact, his essay takes the form of an interview with Norbert Foffenbickler, the director the trilogy.

And what I told Norbert, I said, you know, we have this wonderful film scholar Ralf Geson, And he wrote back, I barely contain his excitement.

He goes, oh my god, oh my god, Ralf Geeson.

I have all his books on film history.

I worship him.

He's amazing.

So Norbert was like beside himself with excitement that he was going to be interviewed by Rolf.

So we're really excited to have these wonderful essays on the films.

Well, we also didn't mention that the limited edition cover art is by the absolutely incredible JG.

Jones.

If you've enjoyed comic books in the last thirty years, you know who he is.

I've just been a huge fan of his for so long, and it's just yet again, we're like, I'm definitely learning that, Like, you might as well ask because sometimes they'll say they can't, or they'll quote you a price you can't afford.

But sometimes they're just like, yeah, I can do that.

And so yeah, when when J.

G.

Jones said he would do a cover painting for us for this release, like I was just beside myself.

So yeah, there's a there's a whole new.

J.

J.

Jones painting that is the wrap around cover art for the limited edition.

Also somewhat exciting is he's we're going to have the original painting available for sale on the website.

So yeah, if you you're a fan of the film and you're a fan of JG, there's going to be an actual painting available on the website from JG.

He'll ship it to you directly himself.

Wow, I should mention that even though it was made in nineteen twenty eight, many years before the two five five one trilogy, al Rowne is equally in its way perverse and disturbing.

It is the story of essentially a test tube baby.

This scientist played by Paul Wegener, who was most famous for playing the Golem in nineteen fifteen and then again in the nineteen twenty version, which were written by Henrique Galen and Wegner directed the nineteen twenty version, which is the only one, the one that most people know is a complete version of the Golm that survives.

And Galen also wrote very famously Nosferatu and Waxworks, amazing anthology horror film from twenty four But in Alroune, Paul Wegner even saying this, he takes the semen of a hanged man and implants it in the womb of a prostitute, and she gives earth to a kind of a succubus that is played by Brigita Helm, most famous from Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Uh.

Brigita Helm drives all the men in the film to madness and suicide and murder and and the title al Rowne in German translates as mandrake mandrake root, which supposedly I think would grow up when ah semen from a hanged man would fall to the earth, and the mandrake root has slightly like some of the some mandrake roots look almost human like, anthropomorphic human like features, and so the German title al roun A sort of references this, I guess folklore from Germany, which is really perverted as well.

Everything about it's perverse, I'll be honest, and it was, you know.

They based on a story by Hans Heinz Avers, who was a very popular and successful writer in Germany and kind of pre World War One and post World War One into the Weimar era.

It is kind of forgotten now.

It was tremendously successful in his day, and Avers was a really strange ranger.

Our essays talk about how kind of bizarre and twisted Avers was, and you could really see that.

Like first and foremost in all run, The Student of Prague is equally weird and surreal in its way.

It stars Conrad Vite, who is most famous as the somnambulist in the captaet of Doctor Kaligari, a huge star in the Silent era.

He's in Waxworks, which Gallen also wrote.

He's in The Man Who Laughed, one of the iconic actors of the silent era, but then his career continued into well into the sound era, and he's most or best known today as the Nazi captain in Casablanca.

Much later, but he gives an amazing performance in the Student of Prague as a kind of hell raising student who literally sells his soul to the devil, and then his doppelganger literally walks out of a mirror like an image from cocktab and takes over his life and starts doing really awful things.

The in camera special effects in that film again, you're like, you see it, and you're like, if they could figure out how to do that in the nineteen twenties, why are we cgi ing everything to do It's just it's just crazy.

Yeah, seeing watching him walk out of the mirror is very cool.

He walks through an iron fence in another scene like it's yeah, you know, he disappears like it's it's just all in camera in the nineteen twenties visual effects that work perfectly.

Well.

And I think one of the really great things about this release is that it shines a light on the work of Henrik Gallen, who's from a Jewish family, pioneering Jewish German filmmaker these are probably his two best movies as a director, and hopefully it will also kind of shine a light on his importance as a writer.

As I said, directed the nineteen fifteen version of The Golm, which is mostly but not completely lost, And these movies are really wonderful.

And unfortunately his career didn't continue much into the sound era, and like many other Jewish filmmakers, he was forced to flee with the rise of the Nazi Party.

He came to the United States, he had actually I think looked into At one point he was trying to pitch a sound version of The Golm and that never came to pass, and he wound up passing away in the United States.

And we have a fascinating essay by a film historian and Eisner Award winning comics artist, Stephen Bissett's contributed to many of our releases trying to track down Henry Gallen's burial place, his his tomb.

How did he end up buried in a cemetery in Vermont.

Right, it's fascinating, like what happened?

Takes a deep dive into that.

Yeah, So there's a lot of amazing stuff on this release.

I mean again, our hats off are huge thanks to Stefan Dressler and the Film Museum in Munchin for preserving these incredibly rare films so beautifully.

Stefan contributes a wonderful essay to the booklet.

We have translations of several archival essays from the teens and twenties, one written by Henrykalleen, one written by Hans heinz Avers, and then some articles about the making of the films that came out at the time, which is great because you're seeing, you're hearing sort of documentary reportage.

And then we have several new essays, including the one by Stephen Bissett sort of searching for Lean's Resting Place, as well as from Walter Chaw contributes to a lot of our releases, in fact all of them.

And we have a wonderful, very wide ranging interview that I did with Stefan Dressler, head of the Film Museum in Munchin, where we were supposed to talk just about al Roune and Student of Prague, but often like these conversations, we wound up talking about a gazillion other things, including pre war stereoscopic three D filmmaking in Germany and Europe, his preservation and restoration of a lot of rare and unfinished orson Wells projects which are housed at the Film Museum Munchen, and then eventually about what is it?

Like forty minutes into it we were like, okay, now we're going to talk about al Ranney.

And then there's also a a rare clip courtesy of the Film Museum in Duzeldorf from alf geferlikin Schpuren aka Dangerous Paths, which is in nineteen twenty four crime film where we get to see Henrik Galeen as an actor alongside one of his frequent collaborators, director named Harry Peel, who was also an actor and Galen wrote Dangerous Paths.

So that's like a fifteen minute clip from this other surviving German silent film.

So we are super excited.

We've actually been talking with Stefan Dressler for a while about working with him in the film Museum in Munchin.

This is going to be the first of what will hopefully be an ongoing series of releases at least one, if not two a year of incredibly rare treasures from their archives.

Are super excited.

We do have another one planned which will be really mind blowing and landmark for I think probably October of next year, so we're already planning a year ahead, but we will have more wonderful silent genre cinema from the vaults of the Film Museum Munchin and if I could tell you some of the other stuff that he has in the archive, you shaw, what hit the floor makes my teeth hurt.

Some of these films are so weird and wonderful and amazing and surreal.

So we're really we're really excited that we're finally sort of dipping our toes into silent cinema that, like a lot of our releases, kind of is the intersection of art, house and genre.

And we have, in fact, two too silent releases scheduled for twenty twenty six already, so we're gonna this is sort of the start of something, but that's gonna hopefully blossom and continue.

And hopefully Dave McKean, we haven't mentioned it yet, but the limited edition of l Ronnie and Student of Prague Artwork is again by Dave McKean and is incredible, and he is a huge silent cinema fan and has a whole series of paintings that he's done covering all sorts of different silent cinema films.

So I asked him, if we release more silent films, would you be interested in doing the covers to those, And he's like, if you release a silent film, I will do the cover.

So hopefully, ah, well, I know, I know for at least the next release, he's already working on those.

So we've got more Dave McKain goodness coming down the road.

Even beyond this Alroni and Student of Prague release.

I should mention for al Rowne and The Student of Prague because I went over some of the or in fact, most of the amazing bonus features.

But one of the most amazing is we have audio commentaries for both films by the very acclaimed film historian Jan Christopher Horak, who is the former director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, was the former director of the Film Museum.

Munchin preserved and restored these two treasures, worked with the George the head of the George Eastman Museum and has been one of the kind of best known and revered figures in the archival film world for decades and delivered incredibly fascined aiding uh commentaries about both movies based on you know, his his amazing depth of knowledge and wealth of research into German silent cinema.

So I really encourage people to listen to the commentaries for al Roune and Student of Prague when they have time.

We are a fascinating information and.

Super we're super excited.

It seems like we've been working on these releases for a long time and we have and the fact that they're like about it, well, when people do this, it will finally go on pre sale.

Uh.

They are both quite limited al Ronnie and Student of Prague even more limited than.

Were going to go pretty quick because for the deluxe.

Edition with the Dave McKean artworks out.

If anybody's listening to this, if you haven't bought al Ronni and Student of Prague UH and two five five one, I would recommend getting them both because they're going to go quickly.

Yeah.

This is a big month.

I mean even just listing the number of contributors is overwhelming.

I mean the amount of people that work together to get these two releases done, this is an outstanding achievement.

Yeah, I gotta say that the everyone involved in two five five to one was so generous with everything, Like when I reached out and I said, hey, could you know, do you think we maybe we could put the score on there, Like all the composers that worked on it just they're like sent me way file, so like, yeah, here, do you need anything else?

Like you know, the VFX guy when I was like, hey, do you think you could put a narration on this?

Like he didn't just throw a narration over the top, he was like he sent back a featurette.

Like It's like everybody's just been incredible.

Yeah.

I should also mention for anyone listening to this who purchases our releases through Amazon, that we have a number of reprints releases that are up on Amazon.

Our for Alexander Patushka titles are all available individually.

That's Ilia Murramet's Sampo, The Tale of Zar Saltan and Russlan and Ludmilla are available through Amazon as well as the Alexander Patushka FANTASTICA box with new artwork is also available through Amazon.

You can purchase these through us directly.

We encourage everyone to do that, but people liked shopping through Amazon, they can get them there, so and we also have some other what are the next.

We've got to punch, uh, some some stuff that's been out of stock.

Heroic Times will be coming back barely soon.

That's another of the Ocean Era releases that's been out of print.

Amazing fully painted animated Tale of Knights Medieval Nights is just incredible.

It's been out of print for a little while.

So we've got a new slipcover.

As we usually do with these reprints, we'll have a very limited run of three hundred slipcovers and then then the releases you know, well it's not limited beyond the slipcover again in the new cases that we release all our films in what else do we have?

Well, and we're selling out very quickly on the limit did O card slipcovers for the reprints of Bubble Bass, of the Bizarre and Visitors from the art.

O Canda Galaxy and in particular.

Yeah, so we.

Had new covers are going pretty quick.

Slip covers done for the reprints of those, and they're selling out pretty quickly.

So if you don't have those, or you just want to get the new slipcovers, which are really groovy, uh, they're available through our store we got so much amazing.

Yeah, the defa sci Fi to to Film set, standard edition of that was sold out, so those are coming back in stock and Steve Thomas, who yeah, so Steve Thomas it did you remember the limited edition had multiple covers?

He actually did an one for us when we did that that we didn't use.

We're like, well, we're doing we need to reprint it.

Why don't we make it at Okart?

So that deepa sci Fi set is going to be coming back in print, and there'll be a limited run with a new cover by Steve Thomas for that one.

Well, and we've mentioned it before, but right after these October releases in November, we have a three film set dedicated to the work of the amazing pioneering Finnish director Tuvo Tulio with Cross of Love, Restless Blood, and his last film Sensuela.

He was one of the great masters of kind of intense surreal melodrama, up there with R.

W.

Fos Spender in Douglas Sirk.

His last film, in particular, is like an unbelievable fusion of John Waters and Russ Meyer and Anna Biller.

Sensuela is utterly mind melting.

Yeah, when I watched, the first thing I thought immediately was like John Waters probably wishes he had directed.

This Finland, and it's just astonishing.

In December will be the third volume of Our Treasures of Soviet Animation, devoted to the legendary Russian animator and filmmaker Yuri Norstein.

It will feature nine of his short films that he made, produced by Soya's Malt Film.

It will include several shorts that are I think new to physical media, certainly new to Blu Ray.

This is the first ever Blu Ray release of Northstein's work in the United States, and they are all nine of the films will be newly restored by Craig by F Crocodile for this release, or you're going to see brand new restorations from the best available film elements from Sawyer's Malt Film.

We're rounding out the year hard, yeah, a two film, two film sound set, a four disc trilogy, another another three film set, uh, and then then The Nurse nor December.

So that's monumental.

So what you're saying, you're subscribers eating very well this fall.

They're going to be very very happy.

Very happy.

We got a lot coming out if you thought the second half of twenty twenty five was busy, Wait till people get a ear full of first half of twenty twenty six and the second half of twenty twenty six.

Oh my god, We've got huge landmark restorations that we're working on.

We've got all sorts of rarities lost films, like films that are totally long mark.

Yeah.

I didn't even really realize it untill I was just looking at it.

But January February March, three months in a row, we've got four K releases yep.

So like a bunch of four KHD.

Lots and lots and lots of good stuff coming.

We have a brand new film, another incredible film by one of our favorite deff crocodile filmmakers, Shara Mokray, the great Iranian director of Fishing Kat and Careless Crime.

This new movie Black Rabbit, White Rabbit is just now premiering at international festivals and is amazing sort of mc escher slash moabs strip like meditation on reality and illusion, incredibly mysterious and enigmatic and amazing.

So we're very exciting excited that we could put out the fifth feature film by Sharam who is really is.

I think one of the most amazing and creative filmmakers working anywhere in the world right now.

So a lot of stuff upcoming.

In other words, I know I keep saying that, but it's true.

This is This is a plug for JG.

Jones if you don't know who he is.

His current project is called Dust to Dust that's being put up by Image Comics.

It's about a serial killer in Oklahoma during the dust Bowl.

Fully painted artwork.

Just Google image search JG.

Jones dust to Dust in it's just astonishing.

Yeah, it's so beautiful.

And I will give a plug for an upcoming episode of the podcast, which we've just recorded, although it will come out after this, where with a group of our incredible artist illustrators who have contributed to our releases.

It shines the spotlight on one of our favorite aspects of our Blu Ray releases is working with all these incredible talents to create the deluxe slipcovers for our product.

So that's going to come out after this, but we just recorded it before this.

So we've been talking for a long time.

Ryan, We've been gabbing for over four hours.

And your kids are probably like, where is if they're not asleep already.

We're in trouble or they're in trouble.

And I guess we should also mention, uh before we wrap up that uh, we have a nonprofits that people can leave a donation to when they're checking out.

Every month.

We we we uh we use the discord group, set a poll and have people vote on what nonprofits should should get the donation each month.

Last month was PBS and everyone like contributed, like we we were able to send them almost a thousand dollars thank you this month.

This month is a tiny little theater in Dover Foxcroft, Maine that shows you know, our house cinema and and and old films, and it's you know, it's it's it's one of those the theaters that, like, you know what, whatever however much we can give to them, you know, we'll make a difference.

It's like it's a small little operation in a small little town in northern Maine.

And it's a complete coincidence that Craig is from Maine.

It's not.

It is not.

It is not.

It is not saying that he followed the uh adage about voting in Chicago, vote early and often.

No, this this one is not a not a coincidence.

I was actually indover Foxcraft last summer.

Boy very cool little town, and I was thrilled to see like this this this small, little old, tiny theater there and looked him up and I was like, oh, they're a five oh one c three like like we should send them a donation.

So yeah, no, it's not a coincidence.

I stumbled upon the theater and I was like, you know, what's my home state.

We need to send some money there.

So so yeah, like when you check out, like a lot of people are just rounding up, you know, if your thing comes to, you know, something that twenty one cents, they'll just round up to the next dollar or whatever.

Other people I've I've looked through some of the orders and some people have been very generous.

I'm like, oh my god, that's just so nice.

But yeah, like having an our house theater near you shouldn't be the the benefit to only people that live in cities, like like it's it's you know, keep keeping these theaters, you know, up and running, particularly in areas that are much smaller, like it's really important, like.

Well and we've we've talked about this before, but we are in a really dicey time for arts organizations, for museums, for educational institutions that are under assault from our own government.

I didn't know that that was the point of the US government was to go after some of our most beloved institutions.

But that's what's happening.

And it's really important that people support their local nonprofits because they're being defunded and the only way for them to survive is through the support of their members of generous donors.

So even though you're buying physical media to watch at home, you know, if you can afford a little donation when you're checking out to these public arts nonprofits.

Again, I've worked in that field for almost thirty five years.

And if you get a check for five hundred bucks out of the blue man, that's that's five hundred dollars.

It goes to payroll, that's five hundred dollars, it goes to fixing a leaky roof in the bathroom.

Every dollar counts.

So thank you to everyone who has donated, and to anyone who can donate for these really amazing, worthy, plucky nonprofit theaters that are out there keeping cinema alive for the public.

It's been so cool just to see the way people respond to this and the deaf crocodile community really come together.

It's been nice to see.

It's been great.

Craig.

I think this was your idea.

We've got again, one of many great, great ideas to come from Cat Dad, Craig, who did not put his cat down.

He set his cat on the floor.

Well, sitting in the chair right next to me, breathing, still breathing.

I know we could talk a lot longer, but I think we're probably all talked out well, and.

I don't know if I'm overstepping, but I did want to recognize one thing.

We are already talking about October pre orders, which means it's time to probably start thinking about another subscription down payment if you are somebody that likes to subscribe to everything, So in the next couple months, we're likely going to be discussing that.

But also, membership's always opened if that's something that you're into.

We're talking behind the scenes about more and more benefits for members and opportunities for you to utilize some of those discounted store credits that you can purchase.

So keep that option in your mind because it's always available.

We got a lot of amazing stuff.

We haven't even like scotched the surface yet.

We get a lot of amazing stuff coming on in the first half of twenty twenty six, including our biggest box set ever, a five film box set, the first of a number that we're working on.

And as Craig said, the first three months all feature four K U h D plus Blu Ray combo releases, among other gems and rarities.

So, uh, I didn't I didn't.

Do the restoration, so I can't say credit for it, but the HDR grade on one of those films is one of the most beautiful.

Like it's a black and white film and it's stunning, Like this four K release is gonna put like people's hair is going to catch on fire.

It's it's it's really really stunning.

And it's really obscure.

But we were like, oh my god, they did a four K scan and rest off of the original negative.

Okay.

Normally we kind of like kind of weigh like, okay, is you know, is there an audience out there?

First of all, do we get the four K materials and there's there an audience out there to support a combo release?

And this we were like, oh man, we got to do it.

It's just so beautiful, Like it would be a crime not to make it available in four k UHD.

Yeah, it's not.

It's not often you have access to a four K scan from nitrate negative from the FOSH.

So I highly encourage people to subscribe and make sure that you get all of the deluxe limited editions, which are selling out quicker and quicker.

We are starting to up the number that we make and even as we up the number, they're still selling out quicker and quicker.

So and we and we had mentioned Alrani is going to sell out pretty quickly because we intended to up the number and missed the deadline.

So between I mean, we will have a standard edition, but if you want, you went the deluxe edition with the bucklet and the Dave mcckeen artwork by it early by early often voting in Chicago.

Between between the subscription discs that go out, the comps that go out, the review copies that go out, and then there is a decent trunk that goes out to wholesale to retailers.

Like Orbit and and and Diabolic and Subscription and many other So I think more than half is already gone when it goes on sale, so uh so, yeah, these are they are going.

They are going quicker and quicker.

So and thank you to everyone who is listening and has been supporting us so far.

This has been a super exciting twenty twenty five.

And like I said, we kind of we were now scheduling.

We're dating things for twenty twenty seven, late winter spring early summer of twenty twenty seven because we have so much stuff, and we keep licensing more stuff because we're like, oh my god, there's this amazing just gener so we got to go I don't want to tell you what it is, but just mumble, and then we wind up licensing more and more stuff because we're like, we got to put this out, and then it's like that's not going to come out until two years from now.

But we're working.

We're working to get this stuff out as fast as we can.

Yeah, there's no question at some point in twenty twenty six we'll probably have a a three title release because we just have too much stuff.

Yeah, there's no titles at all to even mention.

But for the first time we have actually reached out to a major American studio inquiring about availability.

So who knows if that'll go anywhere, but.

We'll see.

You've heard it here first, def Crocodile the first one.

The Disney deal, that's amazing.

I think Criterion already did that with Pixar, didn't they.

Well, they did, Wally, but that's only because the director approached them and got it done.

They still don't have a Disney deal.

Guys, I'm gonna have to jump off because my throat will also give out in about two seconds.

But wonderful.

Ryan, thank you so much for setting these up.

Thank you all.

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