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Be your own movie.
In the worlds of one my favorite fictional characters, the Reverend Jesse Custer...
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Also, a big shout out to Michael F. Blake, who provided an excellent commentary, and whose only demand was that he treat us all to Carney's after. If you ever met him, he would instantly become one of your favorite people.

The *gorgeous* slipcover is only available from the FA website, btw.
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In a year of great release, this my favorite, a collection of four comedy features from the final days of the Weimar Republic. The films are *great* (and shockingly modern) in a vacuum, but the stories behind the scenes are terrifyingly relevant to what's happening in the world today.
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We LOVE Erich von Stroheim and were thrilled to do justice to this fascinating followup to FOOLISH WIVES, which was Stroheim fired and replaced during production.

Expansive bonus features include the feature film OLD HEIDELBERG, starring von Stroheim.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This is the reversible cover for the set, which includes the 1927 Roadshow cut and the 1928 sound reconstruction, the former of which includes an appropriately immaculate commentary from Marc Wanamaker for the full 161 minutes.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm not religious at all, but was surprised by how much I enjoyed KING OF KINGS. It's Cecil B. DeMille throwing every cinematic magic trick at the screen. The FA offices are just down the street from the Chinese Theatre, which opened with the Roadshow cut almost 100 years ago.
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Willat's followup doesn't pack quite the punch BTD does, but the look of it is gorgeous, and it boasts some of the most beautiful painted intertitles I've ever seen.
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
BEHIND THE DOOR (1919) and BELOW THE SURFACE (1920), two Irvin Willat films beautifully restored by @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social . BTD is an *intense* revenge tale with Wallace Beery perfectly case as one of the most vile villains you'll ever find anywhere.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The whole Mandela Effect thing is my bad, guys. I won't touch it again.
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Met a lion.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I cannot wait to watch this and am extra excited that it seems to have a pull quote from a fictional Adam Sandler character.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Mann, I hope it's a Steelbook.
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Perhaps they are cousins! She also has a sister, General, who is solid black.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Necronomicon ex Clovis
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
DOG CARCASS IN ALLEY THIS MORNING.
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Tragically, I only own Tobin's.
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Clovis is getting pretty good at spelling.
October 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
"They don't call it FRASIER in France? What do they call it?"
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Not all monarchies at bad. Clovis, for instance, recently declared herself Queen of the couch and her reign has been much lauded so far.
October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Captain Batel?
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Here's a CLU about tonight's screening.
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I bought a Jack Kirby sticker.
October 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
October 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hell, come to Frogtown
October 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM