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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.… - 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 [email protected] if you want to chat on a collaboration. - Last case , If you just want to Donate: PayPal: paypal.com/donate?hosted_but… 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/ULal6351LPo #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #SomeonesFavoriteProductions

***PREORDER*** A number of previous #A24 site exclusives are now able to get a wide release in December and are currently available to preorder: #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce on #4K: link.amazon/B03GGHE1N and on Blu-ray: link.amazon/B0h3Vib4z #TheLighthouse on 4K: link.amazon/B0a3Pn9NU and on Blu-ray: link.amazon/B03p618fs #Midsommar on 4K: link.amazon/B01o7JVcs and on Blu-ray: link.amazon/B0dzQpoHG #TheSouvenir Parts I&II: link.amazon/B0dudaCBj #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #Aftersun on Blu-ray from #A24 is getting a wide release and is now available to preorder: link.amazon/B0cX0XFeM #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #Primetime on Blu-ray is now available to preorder: link.amazon/B05BmOmRC #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #Primetime on #4K is now available to preorder: link.amazon/B05REBRJb #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** A number of previous #A24 site exclusives are now able to get a wide release in December and are currently available to preorder: #TheGreenKnight on #4K: link.amazon/B06NRoq8p and on Blu-ray: link.amazon/B03odhwWz #Highest2Lowest on 4K: link.amazon/B0d0PVvRw #ISawTheTVGlow: link.amazon/B03IX90my #TheInvite: link.amazon/B062I4sUE #MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn on 4K: link.amazon/B0hY5mVF7 and on Blu-ray: link.amazon/B00BKG5eh #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #ArthurTheKing on #4K is now available to preorder: Amazon: link.amazon/B09STJCYX #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller #4K #SteelCase is now available to preorder: Amazon: link.amazon/B004iI7fO #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #TheLastTemptationOfBecky on Blu-ray is now available to preorder: Amazon: link.amazon/B0bsAHaCN #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #Gabriela on Blu-ray is now available to preorder: Amazon: link.amazon/B05nNgiFD #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***PREORDER*** #Buddy on Blu-ray is now available to preorder: Amazon: link.amazon/B00ioB7Bn #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected

***DEAL*** Grub's Black Friday deals are now live: 3for $33 #4K: tinyurl.com/bdzdabvd 4K for $13: tinyurl.com/46a3jerm $10 Blu-rays: tinyurl.com/t3hd6h2e 3 for $1 Blu-rays: tinyurl.com/uk7wuw5k #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on January 25th on limited edition #4K/Blu-ray dual format and separate standard edition #4K and Blu-ray releases in the UK from @SecondSightFilm: #GangsterNo1 (2000)! An ruthless young gangster is recruited by an influential mob boss as an enforcer. He becomes obsessed with the affluent lifestyle of his new boss and decides to overthrow him in order to become No.1. Director: Paul McGuigan Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows Special Features New Second Sight Films 4K restoration from the original camera negative supervised and approved by Director Paul McGuigan Dual format addition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main features and bonus features on both discs UHD presented in HDR with Dolby Vision New audio commentary with Director Paul McGuigan and Actor Paul Bettany Archive audio commentary with Paul McGuigan Points of Detail: a new interview with Paul McGuigan Like a Dream: a new interview with Paul Bettany A Heightened World: a new interview with Production Designer Richard Bridgland Cut to Fit: The Tailoring of British Violence - a video essay by Joseph Wallace Making of Gangster No.1 Cast and Crew Interviews Behind the Scenes Trailer & TV Spot Limited Edition Content Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Time Tomorrow 120-page book with new essays by John Bleasdale, David Michael Brown, Andrew Graves, Rich Johnson, Francesco Massaccesi, Leigh Singer, and Hannah Strong 6 collectors' art cards Certificate: 18 Region: Region Free Language: English Subtitles: English for the Hard of Hearing Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 secondsightfilms.co.uk/produ… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #SecondSight #SecondSightFilms #PaulBettany #MalcolmMcDowell

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming in late December on Blu-ray in the US from @DeafCrocodile: #TreasuresOfSovietAnimation Volume 4: The Adventures of Mowgli (1967-1971)! The 4th installment in our series of newly restored gems from the Soyuzmultfilm studio features one of the most visually stunning animated films ever made in Russia, or anywhere. Director Roman Davydov’s utterly glorious adaptation of Kipling’s The Jungle Book was originally released as 5 separate short films between 1967 – 1971 titled “Raksha,” “The Kidnapping,” “Akela’s Last Hunt,” “The Fight” and “Return To Mankind,” and then combined into a single feature. Frankly, this puts the better-known Disney version to shame with its phenomenal colors and highly stylized designs: enormous ebony-black elephants thunder in the darkness, monkeys chitter with glowing green eyes at a row of stunning death's-head cobras, and a splendid, bejeweled peacock spreads its feathers like an emerald and ruby crown. (Episode 1 of MOWGLI was actually released in 1967 just before Disney’s feature version.) There are numerous other differences as well: here, Bagheera is a lithe female panther (voiced by famed Russian actress Lyudmila Kasatkina); Baloo, an Asiatic black bear (voiced by Stepan Bubnov); Tabaqui, the cowardly minion to tiger Shere Khan (voiced by Anatoliy Papanov) is a golden jackal as in the original story. The astonishing climax with Mowgli and his wolf pack facing off in a ferocious battle against a horde of wild dogs, is one of the viscerally thrilling animated sequences ever put on film. Newly restored by Craig Rogers for Deaf Crocodile. In Russian with English subtitles. Special Features New cover artwork by Haleigh Buck 60-pg. Illustrated booklet New essay by film critic Walter Chaw New essay by film historian Jennifer Barker New audio commentary by filmmaker & animator Dorian Saisse New visual essay by film historian Evan Chester New video interview with Soviet animation historian Maria Tereschenko New artwork and graphic design by Beth Morris Blu-ray authoring by Vital Passenger deafcrocodile.com/products/t… #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #DeafCrocodile #Animation

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming in late December on Blu-ray in the US from @DeafCrocodile: #Passage (1997)! An incredible rediscovery from Czech / Slovak master filmmaker Juraj Herz (THE CREMATOR, MORGIANA, BEAUTY & THE BEAST), PASSAGE is one of the most obscure works in his filmography – until now. The very definition of a Kafkaesque / Escher-like / cinematic Moebius strip, PASSAGE follows a businessman, Michal Forman (Jacek Borkowski) caught in a blinding rainstorm, who seems to witness his doppelganger being hit by a car. He takes refuge in the Lucerna Palace, a labyrinthine early 1900s entertainment complex in Prague where he encounters an increasingly surreal, Fellini-esque carnival of characters: an enigmatic woman (Małgorzata Kożuchowska) in spiked heels who apparently screws men to death (!) in a filthy bathroom; homeless punks and harried shoppers, night watchmen and beefy sauna operators; a mysterious film crew who may be making the movie we’re watching unfold … Forman finds himself frustrated in every attempt to leave the maze-like Lucerna, which resembles a sunken luxury liner or the Paris Opera, with endless passageways and workers and prostitutes all jostled together. Comparisons abound, to Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS, Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL, Shakhnazarov’s ZEROGRAD, Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE – all labyrinthine narratives about worlds that follow their own twisted logic – but PASSAGE stands on its own as one of Herz’s finest undiscovered gems, the film as strangely lost as Forman himself. (It’s worth nothing that PASSAGE and THE CREMATOR were Herz’s two personal favorites from his filmography.) Newly restored after an exhaustive archival search by Deaf Crocodile and Comeback Company for its first-ever worldwide Blu-ray release. In Czech with English subtitles. Special Features Limited edition slipcover artwork by Marc Aspinall New commentary by film historian Peter Hames and Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company New visual essay by experimental filmmaker and film scholar Stephen Broomer “On Location, Then and Now: Lucerna Palace”: New featurette on the Lucerna Palace, the main location for PASSAGE, shot by Irena Kovarova 48-page illustrated booklet New essay by film critic Walter Chaw New essay by film historian Jonathan Owen Interview with producer Eve Vercel New artwork and graphic design by Beth Morris Preorder: deafcrocodile.com/products/p… #BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #DeafCrocodile #JurajHerz

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on February 23rd on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @Criterion: #TheSweetHereafter (1997)! Atom Egoyan pieces together the shards of a tragedy that has left a community shattered in this ethereal, emotionally arresting film, an Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Russell Banks novel. Drifting between past and present, The Sweet Hereafter offers an intimate panorama of a snowbound Canadian town reckoning with the fallout of a school-bus crash that claimed the lives of fourteen children—a fresh wound that’s further inflamed when a big-city lawyer, who is contending with his own personal tragedy, arrives to assemble a lawsuit on behalf of the victims’ families. Achieving an almost incantatory intensity through the mesmerizing performances of an ensemble cast led by Ian Holm and Sarah Polley, this winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival is a devastatingly clear-eyed vision of the ways in which trauma can ripple through our lives. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration supervised and approved by director Atom Egoyan, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Two audio commentaries, one from 1998 featuring Egoyan and author Russell Banks, and the other from 2012 featuring Egoyan New interview with Egoyan Interview with Egoyan and actor Sarah Polley “Egoyan to the Oscars,” a 1998 segment from the Canadian television program The National Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the use of associative editing, featuring scholar Jeff Smith Isolated track featuring Mychael Danna's score Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic César Albarrán-Torres and an introduction by Egoyan New cover by Anthony Gerace, featuring photography by Johnnie Eisen criterion.com/films/29271-th… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Criterion #CriterionCollection #AtomEgoyan #IanHolm #BruceGreenwood

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on February 16th on #4K in the US from @Criterion: #TheIrishman (2019)! Martin Scorsese’s cinematic mastery is on full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life’s journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The Irishman (based on the real-life Sheeran’s confessions, as told to writer Charles Brandt for the book I Heard You Paint Houses) is a uniquely reflective late-career triumph that balances its director’s virtuoso set pieces with a profoundly personal rumination on aging, mortality, and the decisions and regrets that shape a life. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 4K digital master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features Roundtable conversation from 2019 featuring Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci Making “The Irishman,” a program featuring Scorsese; the lead actors; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Jane Rosenthal, and Irwin Winkler; director of photography Rodrigo Prieto; and others from the cast and crew Gangster’s Requiem, a video essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme about The Irishman’s synthesis of Scorsese’s singular formal style Anatomy of a Scene: “The Irishman,” a 2020 program featuring Scorsese’s analysis of the Frank Sheeran Appreciation Night scene from the film The Evolution of Digital De-aging, a 2019 program on the visual effects created for the film Excerpted interviews with Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran and Teamsters trade-union leader Jimmy Hoffa from 1999 and 1963 Trailer and teaser English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien Cover by Gregory Manchess criterion.com/films/30553-th… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Criterion #CriterionCollection #MartinScorsese #RobertDeNiro #JoePesci #AlPacino #HarveyKeitel #RayRomano #AnnaPaquin #StephenGraham

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on February 16th on #4K, Blu-ray, and DVD in the US from @Criterion: #JayKelly (2025)! In this rueful comic drama from acclaimed director Noah Baumbach, George Clooney delivers a richly nuanced performance as Jay Kelly, a Hollywood icon who embarks on an incident-filled journey from Los Angeles to Paris to Tuscany. While confronting the choices that have left him unmoored from any true sense of self and estranged from his daughters and friends, he remains willfully oblivious to the sacrifices of his devoted manager (a soulful Adam Sandler) and his publicist (Laura Dern), who try to maintain the bubble around him. Featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, virtuoso production design, and dynamic cinematography, this tour-de-force character study weaves past and present into a memory piece, exploring the hard truth that we get only one shot at this life. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital master, approved by director Noah Baumbach, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features New programs featuring interviews with Baumbach; actor-cowriter Emily Mortimer; actors George Clooney, Laura Dern, and Adam Sandler; and composer Nicholas Britell Documentary on the making of the film Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio PLUS: An essay by critic Nicolas Rapold New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde Design criterion.com/films/36010-ja… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Criterion #CriterionCollection #NoahBaumbach #GeorgeClooney #AdamSandler #LauraDern #EmilyMortimer

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on February 16th on Blu-ray in the US from @Criterion: #RugglesOfRedGap (1935)! Directed by renowned Hollywood humanist Leo McCarey, Ruggles of Red Gap is one of the great comedies about the American ideal. Charles Laughton leads a delightful ensemble cast as Marmaduke Ruggles, an English valet who, while accompanying his employer on a trip to Paris, finds himself gambled away to a new-money American couple. The bewildered butler’s tradition-bound world is upended when the couple bring him back to their frontier outpost in Washington State, but there he eventually discovers a newfound sense of self-determination in a land “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Balancing relaxed physical humor with a heart-swelling affection for everyday people, McCarey fashions a comedy of rare effortlessness and poignancy. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with critic Farran Smith Nehme Three radio adaptations Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris New cover by Abigail Giuseppe criterion.com/films/28992-ru… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Criterion #CriterionCollection #CharlesLaughton #LeoMcCarey

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on February 9th on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @Criterion: #KungFuHustle (2004)! Martial-arts mayhem meets Looney Tunes invention in this outlandishly entertaining extravaganza from Hong Kong comedy legend Stephen Chow. He brings his everyman magnetism to the role of Sing, a wastrel wannabe gangster in prerevolutionary Shanghai, whose destiny is revealed after he becomes embroiled in a war between an axe-wielding gang and the eccentric residents of a tenement complex, who turn out to be formidable adversaries. Soft-shoe-shuffling mobsters, a panoply of martial-arts icons, and a climactic battle that ascends to the heavens: Chow and legendary action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping throw all this and more into a showstopper that was a resounding success both in Hong Kong and internationally. 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Audio commentary featuring director-coscreenwriter-actor Stephen Chow and actors Danny Chan Kwok-kwan, Lam Tze-chung, and Tin Kai-man New audio commentary featuring Griffin Newman and David Sims, hosts of the podcast Blank Check New interview with film curator La Frances Hui Making-of documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew members Interview with Chow conducted by author Ric Meyers Featurettes on the film’s fight choreography, production design, and costume design Outtakes, bloopers, and deleted scenes Film-to-storyboard comparison Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by comedian and writer Demi Adejuyigbe New cover by Jason Raish criterion.com/films/33768-ku… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Criterion #CriterionCollection #StephenChow