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Friedkin's meddling is beautiful. The brown pattern in the coat is completely gone. The button on the coat which was a brown tortoiseshell color is now grey. The lapel pin which was red in both the untimed OCN and the DVD is now just dark grey. The turtleneck shirt which was noticeably brown now...

I'd like to see this, but I just can't bring myself to spend 30 bucks and be disappointed with Friedkin's meddling. Why couldn't he leave well enough alone? What is it with the urge to ruin what has stood in good stead for decades? I'd rent it, but the local shops tend to stock only new releases...

I'll take the word of the actual person who shot the film over the opinions of a bunch of people who wouldn't know one end of a lense from the other. If the cinematographer of TFC says this modified film is a travesty and atrocious looking then I'll trust his eye, since he was the one who shot...

Well, you can call it over emotionalizing because it is not your work that has been compromised. Would you be so understanding of someone's manipulations if it was your work that was modified with out so much as the courtesy of a consultation, especially if that work was creative? I don't...

If Friedkin's manipulations have, in the opinion of Roizman, weakened the cinematography then he (Roizman) is fully within his rights to say the film is emasculated. I read on another site that shadow detail has been reduced due to Friedkin's manipulation. An example that was brought up was a...

I really don't have a problem if a director wants to experiment; however, the least that could be done is to make sure that a decent copy of the original release is included as part of the package.