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The Pied Piper & Jiří Barta Shorts ~ 2-Disc Edition ~

The Pied Piper returns…and he’s brought friends.   THE PIED PIPER (KRYSAŘ), 1986, Czechoslovakia, 53 min.  Director Jiří Barta’s stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on...
Post by Craig Rogers
Jun 20 2025

The Devil’s Bride ~ Rarely seen Lithuanian Rock Opera coming to Blu-ray! ~

THE DEVIL’S BRIDE (VELNIO NUOTAKA) – 1974, Lithuanian Film Centre, 78 min.  Imagine a wildly surreal early 1970s Lithuanian rock opera directed by Ken Russell...
Post by Craig Rogers
Apr 18 2025

Assassin of the Tsar Cannes Debut (NYT archive)

Vincent Canby May 11, 1991 More than 30 years ago, at an earlier Cannes Film Festival, Robert Mitchum received some unexpected publicity when a...
Post by Natalie James
Apr 13 2025

Stunning Hungarian Animation Masterpiece HEROIC TIMES Coming Soon

Deaf Crocodile Films is thrilled to announce it’s releasing a new restoration of Hungarian director József Gémes’ rarely-seen animated medieval epic HEROIC TIMES (DALIÁS...
Post by Craig Rogers
Apr 13 2025

THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR: Deaf Crocodile To Release Karen Shakhnazarov's Mystery This Spring

Andrew Mack EDITOR, NEWS; TORONTO, CANADA (@MACK_SANARCHY) Deaf Crocodile Films will be releasing Karen Shakhnazarov’s time-traveling historical mystery The Assassin of the Tsar, starring...
Post by Craig Rogers
Apr 13 2025

Aleksandr Ptushko's THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN Coming Soon

Deaf Crocodile has released a promotional video for the brand new restoration of Aleksandr Ptushko's classic film The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967). The...
Post by Craig Rogers
Apr 13 2025