I got my copy on Saturday and the specs going around are wrong. The new version is missing the Del Toro/Mingola commentary, the cast commentary(now on Disc 3) and the Gerald McBoing Boing cartoons from Disc 1 and has replaced them with the new commentary and an isolated score in 5.1. The Right...
Excellent news! I've always liked Exorcist III despite the tacked on exorcism. About ten years ago I remember reading a Fangoria article about the original cut and it sounded much better. Now if only Morgan Creek would get Clive Barker involved in a director's cut of Nightbreed.
If Soderbergh is going to release his original cut later on maybe he's held the documentary back to include on that. I'm guessing thats why there's no deleted scenes on this release as well.
According to this Pitchfork story, these are pretty much the same old releases. 4AD's contract with Elektra has ran out so they're just releasing them on their own label. Still I'm looking forward to that DVD in September!
Blackstar says the R2 verion is anamorphic. See here: Schizopolis. I might have to pick this up next week to tide myself over until the Criterion version appears.
Post Edited By Administrator - Please, Do Not Name Retailers that break Street Dates. Thank you. Douglas, Did you order your copy from a retailer? I just received my copy from them and it has the same Widescreen/Full screen printing error. Seen as Play only sell Canadian verions of R1...
Fox distributed Die Another Day theatrically outside of the US but MGM will be handling the home video versions. I think Windtalkers was the same. It was quite weird to see the Fox logo before a Bond movie!
Rumours keep floating around about another X-Files movie going into production soon. Chris Carter has said that it'll be a stand alone movie and that he'd like to release it in 2005. If both Duchovny and Anderson are back I'll be there opening day.
Excellent review Jack! I've been waiting for this to come to DVD for a long time and I'm happy to hear its been treated so well. Thank you Fox. I received shipping notice on my copy earlier today, so hopefully I'll be watching it this weekend.
My brother got me a DVD boxset of all these films for christmas!:) I've haven't yet plucked up the courage to sit down and watch any of them though. I was shocked to see that Crocodile was directed by Tobe Hooper. What the hell happened to that guy?
I own the Canadian version of The Devil's Backbone and, as far as I know, the only differences are the cover art and the option to choose French or English menus. Theres not that many extras(commentary, featurette, storyboards and a trailer) but its an excellent film(my fav of 2002) and its got...