[laughs]

Uh, I mean, I think it speaks to his, the, the c- his career's, the extent of his career's accomplishment that there are many films we had to leave out of the series.

And I, that I personally am kind of missing from, from our, from our survey, but then there's also a lot of, there's a lot of deep cuts here.

I mean, one of, one of my favorite, uh, roles by, w- with Oldman is, uh, his appearance in Hannibal, where he's virtually unrecognizable.

This is the sequel that Ridley Scott made to Silence of the Lambs.

And the film is what it is.

I mean, it has some compromises.

Hmm.

I remember

... uh, a staff member, Edward Macary, who's a friend, and I, uh, immediately emailed him and asked him, "Okay, what's going on?" Uh, because I, I've been curious about Iosseliani's work for a very, very long time.

Uh, and, uh, so Ed told me that, uh, yeah, they had just acquired them.

They were planning on a kinda summer rollout, uh, that, uh, and then Inay, who is a friend, um, had, uh, already expressed interest as well.

Uh, so as happens in New York, you know, there's, there's a number of, uh, great repertory programs, art house cinemas, uh, uh, and there are a lot of programmers who are thinking along the same lines when a new restoration pops along.

So rather than compete, uh, uh, um, I think it's best to collaborate.

Uh, and uh, um, I think given that Inay and I are so close, it's, it's easy to, for us to work together.

Actually, the character that he reminded me the most of-