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On Thursday it looked like it would soon sell out, and that’s what happened. Vinegar Syndrome is offering a Blu-ray from The American Genre Film Archive of Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s legendary The Movie Orgy. We witnessed the nearly indescribable 5-hour movie montage / melange / massacre at the New Beverly back in 2008, and described more than we should have in a CineSavant review.

Live presentations of The Movie Orgy are the kind of comedy events that have audiences laughing so much it actually hurts … you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Darren Gross practically falling on the floor (me too). We hope more than a few fans caught this in time before it went away. 3,000 copies was not enough.

At any rate, barring an intervention by the Supreme Court, The Movie Orgy is getting a disc release:

Next up, Joe Dante recommends a charming animated film about a polar bear searching for a friend.

The animator is Aaron Blaise and it’s quite a thing of beauty in 4K on YouTube; it launched 8 days ago.

The filmmaker emphasizes that his polar bear character is hand-drawn, not computer-generated. That was enough motivation for me to take a look.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson