Updates!
The scan should be starting today, so with any luck I'll have a sample to post in the next day or two.
I was finally able to nail down the theatrical release for this movie, and it played for 8 days on 1 screen in 1 theater in New York City in November, 1983. So the number of people that saw this in widescreen would be extremely low, and this release will be the first widescreen video transfer that anyone's done.
Other exciting news! It turns out there was actually a second movie adaptation of I Am the Cheese in 1992. It was a Canadian - French co-production called "Lapse of Memory." It never came out in the U.S. but got released in Canada and a large chunk of Europe (UK, France, Germany, probably other countries as well.) It doesn't seem to have a DVD release (or even laserdisc that I could tell) but I did manage to get a copy of the Canadian VHS tape that I'll be capturing and including as a special feature with I Am the Cheese.
And to all of you who have been kind enough to pledge donations - thank you so much! I'll be needing to make the second payment for the scan in the next week or so, so I would appreciate it if you could send in your donations as soon as possible. In case anyone doesn't have my email address for PayPal, just let me know!
And of course it's never too late to make a new donation as well.