The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast. My name is Brian Sauer. I am joined, as always, by the delight from Mr. Elric Kane.

Mr. Kane, this is our second episode of 2025, and you had a certain vision for it.

I know it was shifted, but what was your original idea for this episode?

Well, it hasn't, it's still the same.

Well, part of it's the same.

So this episode is New Year, New to Me, so New to Us, Films.

So that was the only thing.

It was originally going to be the January episode, because it was New Year's.

And, you know, we're off to a bumpy start to 2025.

We are on a day, like we're recording this in the second week of these fires in L.A.

And, you know, a lot of people are going through god-awful, devastating things.

And it's hard to even do some of this stuff and put it out because some of it feels pointless when bigger things are going on.

But on the flip side, I know Los Angeles, we don't have the luxury of shutting down, right?

Like we got to chew gum and walk at the same time.

Otherwise, we're going to have problems because the city needs to keep being what it is. And I feel like what we all do is like offer some distraction. So we're still

recording, but we are pushing the episode we were originally getting to do in January because we did

our discoveries to this new to us. Now, I had basically designed that episode with in mind, like five kind of more classic movies that have been sitting on my blue rays that I hadn't made it.

So an excuse to watch some big classics.

But I have lost access due to a we're looking after a family member downstairs.

And my house is now more like a mini hospital.

And so I have not watching movies where I do normally do.

So I'm up in my office and I've been pretty limited.

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