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How two Vancouver filmmakers are 'fixing' The Good, the Bad and the Ugly I sure hope they're in touch with Jordan Krug! :)

I'm used to silent films that often have tons of lost footage or are missing altogether, so really don't find the missing snippets of OUaTitW that egregious. Having said that, it's definitely my fave western of all and I'd love a new, logically as-long-as-possible restoration.* Just a single cut...

I just got back from Il Cinema Ritrovato 2014 in Bologna and saw the latest restoration of A Fistful of Dollars. Sir Christopher Frayling was there for a few days to give his usual excellent insights into Leone and spaghetti westerns in general and again I got to chat with him. A quick aside...

Ok David, just checked out DVDCompare & the Italian disc seems to not be English-friendly... Does it have the same PQ as the various MGM releases? What's with the differing OAR; does it lose or gain info? For some reason, I can't seem to cut & paste URLs into my posts; presumably an anomaly of...

I love Leone, obviously, & the only film of his I haven't yet seen is Once... the Revolution/Duck You Sucker. I really want to see it - now - even if it's on an imperfect DVD. Once again David, no matter how many times I read its section in your initial post, it's v unclear; can you please just...

I posted this at DVDCompare: "I recently had an in-depth chat with Mr Frayling about all things Leone & asked him in particular why the missing shots & scenes weren't added into the restored version.. I said even if they didn't exist in decent quality, they would still be welcomed, either...

This is brilliant work - love this stuff. Makes for depressing reading though... I have faith that someone, somewhere will eventually produce definitive HD releases for the Dollars trilogy & Duck/Revolution, but it's a frustrating wait in the meantime. Even on re-reading, the two long posts...