Originally Posted by Michael Reuben
I understand you want to address this in a practical manner, but what is the reality of the situation here though?
Was the decision to license TLE to Criterion really Bertolucci's and Storaro's to make? And would they (Bertolucci in particular) have realistically pushed to have it released by some other lessor distributor if Criterion objected? And w/ TLE probably being not much of a $$$ maker, which is probably at least partially why it was licensed to Criterion at all, would B&S really hold that much influence over release decisions if the licensing rights did go to some other distributor? They are pretty much bound to lose a few sales over such controversy for such a film given the limited target market, so any distributor may need to consider that -- and Storaro's 2:1 controversy should not have been new news to anyone of significance in the context of Criterion's release of TLE.
_Man_