Well, don't worry on missing out: it looks like the film's home release will include
the alternate version of the film, too.
Two
alternate versions of the film: director Jacques Tati's 1964 reedit, featuring hand - colored objects and newly incorporated footage, and the full - color 1995 rerelease, completed from Tati's original color negatives
I know the fans want to see
this alternate version of the film, which has many different scenes and apparently an alternate ending.
Whether or not the scene Bates referred to was
an alternate version of the film death, its absence is still conspicuous.
A recent deep - dive article dedicated to the 20th anniversary of John Woo's Face / Off reveals a very interesting
alternate version of that film, with Nicolas Cage potentially having gone up against a young Johnny Depp instead of John Travolta.
Two Original Storybook Openings — Two
alternate versions of the film's opening sequence described by co-directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard.
Not exact matches
But I kept telling the studio, and I kept telling Ryan, I'm like, «No, the director's cut going to come in at like 2:12,»» Leitch explained about his rough cut
of the
film before elaborating that the extended
version contains a montage
of Deadpool attempting suicide, some extra material with Domino and
alternate takes
of existing scenes with different dialogue.
Features both the American and British
versions of the
film, commentary track by creator / actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture track with a live
version of the show and a «callback» subtitle track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical scenes, outtakes,
alternate opening and ending, and other celebrations
of the culture
of «Rocky Horror.»
The extended clip featured a first look at the
film's ridiculously exuberant and nerdy
version of Dick Grayson (voiced by Michael Cera), who's shown trying on many
of Batman's
alternate costumes until he finds his trademark Robin outfit, which the Caped Crusader notes was previously his «Reggae Man» disguise.
Aside from the
alternate version, here we have a running commentary track with Peter Bogdanovich (who contributes most
of the insightful - if - already - well - acknowledged elements
of the
film and its place in the Hitchcock legacy), Joseph Stefano, and about two dozen other people.
The Complete Jacques Tati (Criterion, Blu - ray and DVD) collects all six features he directed (including
alternate versions of three
films) and seven shorts he wrote and / or directed, plus a wealth
of other supplements.
Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and
film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making
of «King
of Jazz»; deleted scenes and
alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short
film featuring a
version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale
of «King
of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short
film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King
of Jazz.»
Supplements include an
alternate version of the song «Rahadlakum» (in B&W) from the archives, an audio - only deleted song, two excerpts from the TV series MGM Parade about the
film, the 1955 short The Battle
of Gettysburg and Tex Avery cartoon The First Bad Men, and trailers from the
film and the earlier 1944
version of the musical.
Extras include an
alternate opening that recaps the events
of The Exorcist through freeze - frames and Burton voiceover — a 2 - minute prologue whipped up for the TV
version of the
film; teaser and theatrical trailers for Exorcist II: The Heretic; and filmographies for Blair, Burton, Boorman, and screenwriter William Goodhart.
The second disc contains a treasure trove
of found gems: the original and the new re-release trailer, a featurette on Tom Waits and the
film's music,
alternate versions of said music, rehearsal footage, deleted scenes, a featurette on the «new» electronic cinema, and an all - new «making
of» documentary.
There is an extended
version of the
film that contains an
alternate opening.
This could imply that Hopkins» character, assuming the comment was pre-emptively about him, will provide the voice for Goldbug - an evil,
alternate reality
version of Bumblebee - or possibly another Autobot such as Ultra Magnus (assuming he's not simply playing a human in the
film, that is).
With the highly anticipated new Halloween movie, executive produced by John Carpenter and arriving in theaters in October 2018, about to begin
filming, co-writer Danny McBride has just revealed a few new details about the project, mostly confirming what Carpenter already said, that the new
film will in fact present an «
alternate»
version of events following the original 1978 Halloween, ignoring all existing sequels, and he's really hoping it doesn't «piss people off».
Davies» comments are somewhat more abundant and insightful in the disc's most substantial supplement, a longer
alternate version of a four - scene stretch that occurs early in the
film; needless to say, he prefers this extended piece, which was truncated in various ways only for run time considerations.
Midnight features commentary by Lucas, a 2015 interview with Ernesto Gastaldi (31 mins), visual essay «Desperately Seeking Susan» by Michael Mackenzie that explores at the collaboration between Ercoli and Nieves (27 mins), and the
alternate TV
version of the
film, which runs four minutes longer and features additional and
alternate footage.
Wong's violent interludes are most often brief riots
of slurred or slow - motion action
alternating unexpectedly with freeze - frames; these sequences, delivered so rapidly one can often barely perceive what's happening, are obviously abstract
versions of the action scenes in conventional martial - arts
films (The Eagle Shooting Heroes included).
The
film takes place in an
alternate version of modern - day Los Angeles.
Extras include a fistful
of featurettes, an «all access» mode which plays behind - the - scenes material alongside the
film itself, a pre-visualization sequence covering an
alternate version of the ending, and a tour
of the U.S.S. Missouri battleship which plays a large role in the movie.
Deadpool's sense
of humor is dark and pervasive, and some
of the
film's best lines apparently had many
alternate versions.
- New, restored 4K digital transfer
of the English - language
version of the
film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray -
Alternate French - language
version of the
film - Audio commentary from 2005 featuring
film scholar Adrian Martin - Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif - New interview with actor Norman Eshley - Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant - New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas - An essay by
film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
The main selling point is the inclusion
of an extended director's cut as well as the theatrical
version, but the
alternate cut, running about five minutes longer, is
of no substantial difference, positive or negative, to the
film.
Various bits
of ephemera appear in the secondary picture window as the
film plays back — interviews,
alternate line readings, clips from the edited - for - TV
version of the
film and the 1932 Scarface.
The Blu - ray also contains the
alternate U.K.
version of the
film.
It's a great way to see a couple
of the
alternate versions of such a beloved
film.
Instead
of wrapping things up cleanly, we are treated to an
alternate version of the events that may or may not be true, and also does not add anything to the substance
of the
film or the force
of its moral.
English subtitles are offered only for the regular
version of the
film, and though it's not an option on the Set Up page, using the «Subtitle» button on a DVD remote can yield
alternate Spanish subtitles during the songs; these should be selected automatically so long as you choose the Spanish audio from the menu.
James Whale's 1931
film classic went wildly off - book to define cinema's long relationship with the text, and the past few years alone have seen adaptations both faithful (Danny Boyle's stage
version, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
alternating roles) and freestyle (I, Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful's heady stew, Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein); even Ex Machina could be seen as an AI - themed retelling
of the Frankenstein story.
To these ends, Lucas trained an entire generation
of film readers and video renters to manually measure aspect ratios onscreen, hunt down multiple and multi-region releases
of the same title, compare
alternate run - times and conflicting
versions of the same
film, and in the process, appreciate the ever - blurring line between exploitation and art house.
Carried over from previous releases is scene - specific commentary by director Mel Brooks, the 28 - minute documentary «Back in the Saddle» (with new interviews with Brooks, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, writer Andrew Bergman and others, and plenty
of clips from the
alternate TV
version), 1975 TV pilot Black Bart, inspired by the
film and starring Lou Gossett Jr. and Steve Landesberg, ten minutes
of deleted and
alternate scenes (including the full
versions of clips seen in the documentary), and the trailer.
A huge hit at Sundance and the feature
film debut from writer / director Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You offers you an
alternate present - day
version of Oakland, CA where a telemarketer discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.
Starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as the brothers, and Dennis Hopper as King Koopa, the
film had shockingly little in common with the games, and instead told a cyberpunk - tinged story about inter-dimensional travel and an
alternate version of New York populated by human / dinosaur hybrids... Or something.
The suit shown in the photo differs from both the original suit depicted in the mid-credits scene from Ant - Man (pictured below) and Andy Park's painted poster for the
film, so it's uncertain whether this will indeed be the Wasp's final costume or some
alternate version of her outfit for the
film.
For
film editors alone, the possibilities are tremendous: Think about being able to preview a scene in a screening room, connected to your work machine, and being able to pause the playback from your iPad, jump into the timeline, and move a clip from one area to the other — or swap between timelines altogether to preview an
alternate version of the scene.