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***GRATITUDE*** I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who follows the page, DMs me with questions, hangs out on my YouTube show, buys a copy of my magazine, or supports the releases that I work on. This community is INCREDIBLE and I do not ever take it for granted. I put so much work into this because I love it just like you do and I simply want to make work that I would love to see myself. With it being this time of year, I have had a few people ask this week how they can help support Disc-Connected and the other stuff I do. Links for those are below, but please don't feel obligated or pressured to do anything. Participating in all of this is surreal to me and I do not have ANY expectations for any sort of support from you all. Ways you can support Disc-Connected and the other stuff I do: - Become a patron. Go to patreon.com/DiscConnected and sign up at the tier of your choice and participate in the community. I have to pay for a LOT of things out of pocket to keep all of this working and that support goes a long way. Bonus: If you join at the Production Manager tier or higher, you get access to exclusive updates I am giving about the biggest project I have EVER worked on, coming in 2026! CAN NOT WAIT TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE WHAT THAT IS!! - Change your amazon bookmark. If you are still shopping at Amazon, change your bookmark on your computer and phone to this URL: amzn.to/4bxBP4e If you click that link before you shop, Amazon gives a tiny amount as a little kickback to me- at no cost to you! - Buy The Physical Media Advocate magazine that I put out on paperback or digital 10-12X per year. We are particularly proud of the issue that released this month!: l.linklyhq.com/l/1utJN - Share the stuff I do. Any time you like something I have a hand in making, share the video link, the podcast link, the deal link, etc. When someone asks who to follow for physical media announcements and deals, share my page with them. Don't assume someone else will, share the love everywhere. - Sign up for the email newsletter on my production company's website. Here, you will find a list of many of the titles we have worked on amongst a ton of other information: someonesfavoriteproductions.com - Comment! If a movie gets announced and you like it, comment! It reminds people of the page and it comes up in their feed. - Buy Disc-Connected merch and wear it everywhere!: teepublic.com/user/the-disc-… - Come on my show! Invite me on your show! Collaborate and grow the community! We all just want to expand our network a bit. DM me or email me at DiscConnected Media@gmail.com if you want to chat on a collaboration. - Last case , If you just want to Donate: PayPal: paypal.com/donate?hosted_… Venmo: @Ryan-Verrill CashApp: $ryanverrill Note: I will be LIVE on my weekly show #ReConnected just like every other Thursday starting at 9:30p EST. I will be up late covering all of the Black Friday sales and all of the announcements form this last week. Hope to see you there! youtube.com/live/ULal6351L… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #SomeonesFavoriteProductions

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***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming this fall on Blu-ray in the US from @DeafCrocodile: #TheManWhoThoughtLife (1969)! Fans of previous Deaf Crocodile titles THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR and TIME OF ROSES should be very excited to check out this B&W Danish 1969 Sci-Fi brain-scrambler, making its U.S. Blu-ray debut! THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIFE (MANDEN DER TÆNKTE TING) – 1969, Danish Film Inst., 97 min. A rare, overlooked gem of late 1960s Sci-Fi, Danish director Jens Ravn’s eerie, hypnotic thriller opens on a respected doctor, Max Holst (Preben Neergaard) who is brought in to examine an enigmatic, arrogant man, Steinmetz (John Price). Steinmetz can miraculously make objects materialize by focusing his mind (including an expensive cigar, in the film’s recurring leitmotif). When he attempts to blackmail Dr. Holst into performing surgery to expand this sinister brainpower, Holst refuses – and Steinmetz calls to “life” a mirror image that sets out to destroy the doctor’s willpower. Brilliantly shot in B&W Scope by cinematographer Witold Leszczyński, with a disturbing minimalist score by Per Nørgaard (BABETTE’S FEAST), the film has the angular 60s Mod / Sci-Fi vibe of films like THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR and TIME OF ROSES (both Deaf Crocodile releases) and British TV shows like “The Prisoner” and “The Avengers,” with labyrinthine corridors, banks of geometric lights and nurses whizzing past on electric scooters. (Deaf Croc fans will also notice doppelganger similarities to Henrik Galeen’s silent horror film, THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE.) “I will open the depths of existence to you, and will make all your ideas collapse violently," Steinmetz both promises and threatens Holst – and as we descend down the rabbit-hole of Ravn’s gripping, Stanley Kubrick-meets-Kiyoshi Kurosawa cerebral horror, we too begin to lose our grip on reality, until it may be too late. Deaf Crocodile is thrilled to present this first-ever U.S. Blu-ray release of the film, in collaboration with the Danish Film Institute. In Danish with English subtitles. NOTE: Stills are unrestored and not indicative of the final released version. Also, the order of title announcements does not correspond to the months of release! Full month-by-month release details will come on Friday, along with the final subscription price. #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #DeafCrocodile

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming this fall on Blu-ray in the US from @DeafCrocodile: #RoyFromSpace (1983)! ROY FROM SPACE (ROY DEL ESPACIO) – 1983, Andrea Pérez Mata, 64 min. Completely lost for over 40 years and only the 3rd animated feature ever produced in Mexico, ROY FROM SPACE has finally returned, newly scanned from the original 35mm negative and lovingly restored by Deaf Crocodile! The only feature made by noted titles and commercials animator Héctor López Carmona, ROY is a wildly entertaining work of Outsider / Sci-Fi Animation, loosely inspired (ahem) by the classic 1930s Flash Gordon serials. "I'm Roy from Space. I come from Earth,” our helmet-wearing hero announces with a straight face (note: he never takes off his helmet, indoors or outdoors), and we follow as he fights a nonstop stream of synthesizer-voiced robots and flying saucers in the service of wicked Ming-the-Merciless clone “King Alom” while fending off the king’s hot-blooded daughter. Produced over the course of 3 years, often with the help of non-professional animators, ROY features an incredibly strange and disorienting Outsider Animation style, ala DELTA SPACE MISSION: faces and body parts constantly shift, expanding and contracting without warning; bodies and feet don't seem connected to floors or walls; characters tumble through space like a Merce Cunningham modern dance piece. In other words, it’s a mind-altering blast. Working with the daughter of original producer Ulises Pérez Aguirre, Deaf Crocodile was able to locate the 35mm film elements at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico, but were shocked to discover 4-1/2 minutes of live-action footage had been slugged into the film from a Japanese sci-fi movie without permission. Independent animators Isabelle Aspin and Brian Smee were brought in to replace this bootleg footage, creating new animation using the cel-painted techniques and style of the original. Featuring a groove-a-delic synth-laden score by Ernesto Cortazar and the voices of Salvador Nájar, Patricia Martínez and Rubén Moya. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOTE: Stills are unrestored and not indicative of the final released version. Also, the order of title announcements does not correspond to the months of release! Full month-by-month release details will come on Friday, along with the final subscription price. #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #DeafCrocodile #Animation

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming this fall on Blu-ray in the US from @DeafCrocodile: #ScarletSails! (1961)! SCARLET SAILS (ALYE PARUSA), 1961, Mosfilm, 88 min. An often-overlooked gem from Soviet fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko (ILYA MUROMETS, RUSLAN & LUDMILA), SCARLET SAILS is a lovely paean to dreamers and the world of dreams, to outsiders and outcasts, rebels and sailors and storytellers – to those who live differently than the rest of us, no matter who tries to stop them. The film follows two parallel stories: the first about Assol, daughter of an impoverished sailor (Ivan Pereverzev from SADKO and NEBO ZOVYOT). As a young girl, an old storyteller predicts her destiny: "One day the sun will shine upon a white ship with scarlet sails. The white ship will slice through the waves and move right towards you." This shimmering dream sustains her into adulthood when she’s played by the luminous Anastasiya Vertinskaya (WAR & PEACE, AMPHIBIAN MAN, HAMLET). The second story revolves around Arthur, the rebellious son of an aristocrat, who only dreams of shipwrecks, pirates and going off to sea – as an adult he’s played by popular Soviet actor Vasiliy Lanovoy (WAR & PEACE, ANNA KARENINA). Ptushko’s films are filled with images of the sea and voyages, in SADKO, SAMPO and THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN, and this is his most lyrical homage to the lore and lure of the ocean: windmills framed in the darkening sky, bonfires flickering on cliffs, storm-tossed waves crashing to shore, faces bathed in red firelight like a Caravaggio painting. SCARLET SAILS was Ptushko’s follow-up to SAMPO, and the two films are companion pieces in many ways, both brilliantly shot by the cinematography team of Gennadi Tsekavyj and Viktor Yakushev. And we defy you not to weep at the film’s stunning climax, arguably the most purely emotional sequence in all of Ptushko’s filmography. Beautifully restored by Mosfilm in 4K for its first-ever U.S. Blu-ray release by Deaf Crocodile, in association with Seagull Films. In Russian with English subtitles. NOTE: Stills are unrestored and not indicative of the final released version. Also, the order of title announcements does not correspond to the months of release! Full month-by-month release details will come on Friday, along with the final subscription price. #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #DeafCrocodile #Ptushko #AleksandrPtushko

@BoxoProductions @AntennaForFilms It is SO much more difficult than it should be!

@disc_connected @AntennaForFilms Congrats on the first title going live. Distribution execution matters more than most people realize until they're actually doing it.

For those that did not see it yesterday, I wanted to share here that the first film from my distribution company @AntennaForFilms is NOW AVAILABLE on the Letterboxd Video Store! It is surreal to see that happening, especially for our first film! #StolenKingdom starts a 23 city roadshow tour across the US TONIGHT and tickets are still available for some of those screenings, but the roadshow stops are going quick! Screenings are happening around the country in more than 100 theaters around the roadshow, as well! See dates and get get tickets here: antennareleasing.com/stolen-kingdom…

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 18th on Blu-ray in the US from @IndicatorSeries: #FrenchDressing (1964)! Part romantic comedy, part slapstick, and easily the most British film to ever have ‘French’ in its title, cine-maverick Ken Russell’s feature debut sets about mocking the masculine ego and exposing the ‘sex sells’ mantra as it follows the fortunes of deckchair attendant-turned-publicity officer Jim Stephens (James Booth, The Man Who Had Power Over Women). In an attempt to revive the fortunes of run-down Gormleigh-on-Sea, Stephens sets up a film festival, inviting continental starlet Françoise Fayol (Marisa Mell, Danger: Diabolik) to be its main attraction. Soon, he finds that rivalries with neighbouring seaside towns develop, and realises that his time might be better spent getting acquainted with local journalist Judy (Alita Naughton, Gideon’s Day). Co-starring the much-loved Roy Kinnear (The Deadly Affair), and featuring dialogue by the legendary Johnny Speight (Till Death Us Do Part), French Dressing features some of the most gorgeous British seaside cinematography ever committed to screen as it takes a reflexive swipe at the film business. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration Original mono audio Making a Movie (1963): extract from the Herne Bay Newsreel, featuring rare colour footage of Ken Russell at work, as well as glimpses of actors Marisa Mell, James Booth, and Roy Kinnear The BEHP Interview with Kenneth Higgins (1991): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the cinematographer in conversation with Alan Lawson and Sidney Cole Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with new essay by Melanie Williams, Ken Russell on French Dressing, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the US powerhousefilms.co.uk #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Indicator #Powerhouse #KenRussell #JamesBooth #MarisaMell #RoyKinnear

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 17th in the UK and August 18th in the US on #4K and Blu-ray from @IndicatorSeries: #MerciLaVie (1991)! Charlotte Gainsbourg (Nymphomaniac) and Anouk Grinberg (The Night of the 12th) take a surreal road trip in Merci la vie, an outrageous, absurdist satire from acclaimed auteur Bertrand Blier (Femmes fatales). When naïve Camille (Gainsbourg) meets the carefree and promiscuous Joëlle (Grinberg), the pair undertake a journey of self-discovery across time and space, encountering the German wartime occupation, the AIDS crisis, and Camille’s own conception along the way. With cameos from French screen legends Gérard Depardieu (Stavisky…) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Crime Thief), and an eclectic soundtrack that ranges from David Bryne to Beethoven, Merci la vie is a provocative classic from one of France’s most controversial filmmakers. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD SPECIAL FEATURES 4K HDR restoration from the original negative 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original stereo audio Bertrand Blier on ‘Merci la vie’ (2020): the writer-director takes an in-depth look back at his award-winning film Location report (1990): extract from the French television programme 12-13, featuring footage of a night shoot and an interview with Blier Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials Script gallery: complete dialogue and continuity script New and improved English translation subtitles Limited edition exclusive booklet with new writing on the film by Sue Harris, archival interviews with writer-director Bertrand Blier, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits World premiere on 4K UHD Limited edition of 6,000 copies (4,000 4K UHDs and 2,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US powerhousefilms.co.uk #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Indicator #Powerhouse #GerardDepardieu #BertrandBlier #CharlotteGainsbourg #AnoukGrinberg

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 17th in the UK and August 18th in the US on #4K and Blu-ray from @IndicatorSeries: #BuffetFroid (1979)! Too farcical to be a thriller, yet too surreal to be a farce, Bertrand Blier’s wonderfully absurd Buffet froid follows Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu, Stavisky…), an unemployed man who befriends anyone who will listen to him, before, often, murdering them by mistake. After Tram’s wife is murdered, he befriends his new neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu (Bernard Blier, the director’s father), and his wife’s killer (Jean Carmet, Black and White in Color) as they hop from misadventure to misadventure, often in bizarrely liminal spaces, leaving behind a trail of accidental victims. Buffet froid was a financial flop in 1979, but has since gathered a die-hard cult reputation as, per Time Out, ‘a cherishably Buñuelian depiction of the far-from-discreet crimes of the bourgeoisie’. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD SPECIAL FEATURES 4K HDR restoration from the original negative 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original mono audio Bertrand Blier on ‘Buffet froid’ (2019): the writer-director takes an in-depth look back at his cult film Les Rendez-vous du dimanche: ‘Buffet froid’ (1979): extract from the French television programme, featuring Blier and cast members Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, and Jean Carmet discussing the film at the time of its release, alongside other guests Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials Script gallery: complete dialogue and continuity script New and improved English translation subtitles Limited edition exclusive booklet with new writing on the film by Sue Harris, archival interviews with writer-director Bertrand Blier, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits World premiere on 4K UHD Limited edition of 6,000 copies (4,000 4K UHDs and 2,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US powerhousefilms.co.uk #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Indicator #Powerhouse #GerardDepardieu #BernardBlier #BertrandBlier #JeanCarmet

@GERMAN_LUGER314 Classic!

***PREORDER*** #Hoppers #4K #SteelBook is now available to order on Amazon, this time with an expected ship date: amzn.to/4eTDjux #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #GirlsLastTour: The Complete Collection from #Sentai is now available to preorder on Amazon: amzn.to/4wGxpTP #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming this fall on Blu-ray in the US from @DeafCrocodile: #HayopKa! (2020)! Deaf Crocodile never misses a chance to bring more cat movies into the world, and this sub cycle brings an candy-colored, animated feline melodrama, HAYOP-KA! HAYOP KA!, 2020, Rocketsheep Studio, 73 min. From one of the most inventive and irreverent voices in Filipino and World Animation, director Avid Liongoren (SAVING SALLY, the upcoming ZSA ZSA ZATURNNAH), the utterly delightful HAYOP KA! is inspired by the beloved telenovela genre of romance melodramas. Nimfa (voiced by Angelica Panganiban) is a perfume saleswoman kitty in Manila, who receives a prediction from a fortune teller that she’ll fall in love with two men (er, dogs) simultaneously. One is her long-time boyfriend, likable but unambitious canine janitor Roger (voiced by Robin Padilla) – the second turns out to be high-powered top dog (literally) executive Iñigo (voiced by Sam Milby), who sweeps her off her paws and forces her to ask what’s more important: Love, or Wild Hot Sex + Lots of Bling? Featuring an irresistible style that’s both retro and Cartoon Network modern, HAYOP KA! (which roughly translates as “You are an animal!”) is one of the few Filipino animated films both made in the Philippines and about its life and culture. The Philippines has long been an animation powerhouse, but primarily churning out product for U.S. and Japanese producers -- until the arrival of a new generation of animators led by Liongoren’s Rocketsheep Studio and films like HAYOP KA! In Filipino with English subtitles. NOTE: Stills are unrestored and not indicative of the final released version. Also, the order of title announcements does not correspond to the months of release! Full month-by-month release details will come on Friday, along with the final subscription price. #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #DeafCrocodile #Animation

Well hello there, beautiful! It is an honor to say that Stolen Kingdom is now available to watch on the Letterboxd Video Store! The first of many collaborations between Antenna and Letterboxd! Antenna 🤝 @Letterboxd

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming this fall on Blu-ray in the US from @DeafCrocodile: #Demigod: The Legend Begins (2022)! Following on from this month's budaixi glove-puppet wuxia epic, THE LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE, we teased in its description that the film's 2022 follow-up would be coming out from Deaf Crocodile later this year. And here it is! DEMIGOD: THE LEGEND BEGINS – 2022, Pili International Multimedia, 103 min. "My friend, I'm not sure if you're pulling me into the abyss or helping me," muses white-maned hero Su Huan-Jen as he confronts a spectacular mystery filled with occult manuscripts, palace betrayals, kaiju-like Qilin monsters, incredibly-choreographed wuxia sword battles – all performed by puppets – in the struggle to control the Five Mountains and obtain the Limitless Celestial Book. Twenty years after directing the epic LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE (also released by Deaf Crocodile) and building on the long-running “PILI” TV show in Taiwan, director Chris Huang returned with this amazing fusion of traditional budaixi glove puppetry, wuxia martial arts storytelling ala CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and wildly imaginative fantasy filmmaking in the vein of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER and THE DARK CRYSTAL. The serpentine plot revolves around the murder of the Lord of Globe Castle and Huan-Jen’s quest to prove his innocence and unmask the killer, and involves (we kid you not) acupuncture secrets like the Needle of Roaring Snow, puppets perspiring and spurting blood, the Seven Words Poison, lovable con men named Shark Qin and Three Dots, and priceless dialogue like "Dumbass! You betrayed my teachings for a book!" and "Why would Evil Brink attack the Fantastic Academy??" In other words, a pure joy from start to finish for fantasy and wuxia martial arts fans! In Chinese with English subtitles. NOTE: Stills are unrestored and not indicative of the final released version. Also, the order of title announcements does not correspond to the months of release! Full month-by-month release details will come on Friday, along with the final subscription price. #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #DeafCrocodile #Puppets #BudaixiGlovePuppets #Wuxia

***UK PREORDER*** #PracticalMagic (1998) on #4K #SteelBook is now available to preorder on Amazon UK. I assume this will get a US release from Warner Bros as well: amzn.to/4dSKgLk #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #InterviewWithTheVampire (1994) on #4K #SteelBook is now available to preorder on Amazon UK. I assume this will get a US release from Warner Bros as well: amzn.to/4v06wJ0 #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #DastardlyAndMuttley in Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series on Blu-ray from #WarnerArchive is now available to preorder on Amazon: amzn.to/4uoAd6w #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #PrettyMaidsAllInARow on Blu-ray from #WarnerArchive is now available to preorder on Amazon: amzn.to/4eSZ4KZ #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected