🐸🎞️ We are so delighted and honoured to have filmmaker Kamal Swaroop support us in getting his film out on Blu-ray for the first time - OM DAR-B-DAR deserves its cult status to extend worldwide and you can help make this happen: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...

☁️🚪 1 DAY TO GO - our kickstarter starts tomorrow! In this clip, @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social talks about the new label - check out the full interview by Disc-Conmected to learn more about us: youtu.be/jrHu6nds2ek

#LetterboxdFriday With an update to my Favorites (for the next 4 to 6 weeks). Recent watches include a doc, a feature-length visual essay and a pair of re-scored Buster Keaton shorts. Excited to explore more Buster Keaton and the next installment of Silents Synced.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched This week, I'm definitely digging into my love and appreciation for drive-in and no budget movies. As the most recent is a Ray Dennis Steckler film, I'm on my third viewing of it as I'm just starting the second commentary from Ray himself.

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
- Elon Musk

Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

“Christ walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction.”
- Timothy J Keller

What do you call someone who is, by definition, anti Christ?

Two media docs in the middle of a 1970s cult classic and a 1990s indie film that deserves more recognition. The Joe Frank doc is also worth seeking out as well as Dana Gould's "Joe Frank" podcast episode.

Happy #LetterboxdFriday. Here is my #LastFourWatched, which are bookended by a movie that I didn't know was already on physical media and a video compilation that deserves more attention than VHS.

#LastFourWatched The most recent watch was a chore to fit on. It was simply a busy week and not a knock on the movie itself.

Most of the folks that will read this probably are already part of the Disc-Connected Patreon, but if not, I think it is well worth everything that Ryan and the good folks already there bring to it. So please check it out and consider supporting the Disc-Connected.

@criterion.bsky.social is streaming David Lynch: The Art Life for free on Criterion Channel now through January 31 in honor of the late filmmaker 🤍

Watch now: boxd.it/8s8

RIP David Lynch to one of the best. Simply love this photo and it was one of many things that stuck out amongst the flood of thoughts I have had since I found out the news.

Coming soon: The A24 New Wave - A New Book from Aaron West & Jill Blake A new book by Aaron West and edited by Jill Blake about the film company that has challenged the status quo and achieved success.

A24 fans, check this out.

www.kickstarter.com/...

The Black Abbot (1963) Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have fig...

I just remembered there was one more. My introduction to German Krimi film: The Black Abbot on Letterboxd boxd.it/21xe

Add Blood For Dracula, and these are my watches in the last week. Like Ms. 45, it was a re-watch on the big screen.

ATTENTION SHOPPERS! The last of FCE's MGM-licensed titles will cease being for sale on January 15th!

SMILE, BORN TO WIN & HEARTBREAKERS.

They are marked down to rock-bottom prices, so if you've been on the fence, this is the time to act.

Shop link: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

That's where I started. For me, it was quite an enlightening interview.

I see that it was a hit in the UK. I knew of the song thanks to the Say Anything soundtrack, which was the first CD I ever bought. Great song!

OK, now he looks more like Santa Nic Cage.

Santa Cash Flagg will soon be here.

Perhaps someone at Wal-Mart is a fan of the Tom Waits' song "Frank's Wild Years"?

I finished Episode 6 of the @deafcrocodile.bsky.social podcast. The discussion on the uncertain state of film preservation should be required listening. Their ability to repeatedly introduce movies that I don't know even exist but come to love is the reason why they are my favorite Blu-Ray label.