As Bokonon says: peculiar [film] suggestions are dancing lessons from god.

I am very proud to be a part of Flicker Alley's small team and it does my soul good to know that there are so many collectors out there who care about film history and preservation. Thank you all!

In the worlds of one my favorite fictional characters, the Reverend Jesse Custer...

Finally, the just released LAUREL & HARDY: YEAR THREE, concluding our trilogy of Stan and Ollie's silents. Since rejoining the FA team last year and working on YEAR TWO, I have become a big, big fan of the boys.

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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.

While it's not part of the sale because of how recently it was release, HE WHO GETS SLAPPED was another favorite. Not only is the movie so much fun, but I got to research and edit a short featurette about Leo the MGM lion. flickeralley.com/products/he-...

This one also features cover art by my sister, @hissthemovie.bsky.social it's the first time it has ever been on sale.

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.

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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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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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.

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.

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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Here's a quick thread of FA titles I worked on this year. I'm really proud of everything we've released and, as a big physical media collector myself, particularly thrilled with our site-exclusive slipcovers.

It's still my favorite. I remember a torturous wait to see it, because my parents wanted to take me for my birthday, which wasn't till mid-month.

I get it. That exact set was the most desirable thing in the world when I was nine.

Wow, it turns out that, in BILLY MADISON, Madison watches the end of a DOG HOUSE episode and says that. It's accurate!

Mann, I hope it's a Steelbook.

Perhaps they are cousins! She also has a sister, General, who is solid black.