ext_73819 ([identity profile] hbdeath.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] laura_seabrook 2008-07-18 09:44 am (UTC)

Hmmm... don't know what version that would be then. I think Moroder's version was about that long, though. Maybe someone's taken his edit and just put a new score on or something (I've seen this happen in the past where a very specific version of a film with a very specific soundtrack, i.e. the 1960s version of "Witchcraft Through The Ages" with narration by William S. Burroughs, has has that soundtrack stripped and replaced by someone else). Force Video used to have a so-called "director's cut" which ran 140-odd minutes, but which was only the standard 90-minute cut step-printed and slowed down. And even then it was *still* missing footage from the standard cut.

The blurb from the Kino website is for their earlier restoration of the film, although they had apparently just finished work on cleaning it up even further for a Blu-Ray release next year when the news of this uncut print was issued. I'd say they may release both versions in one package rather than try and cut in the footage from the long version, cos the differences in quality will be too significant. (You can see this in the restoration of Abel Gance's Napoleon, which had to be done from a hodge-podge of sources, all the way down to 8mm.)

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