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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Water to the dead did indeed not make it into the final edit. I love the scene, but this and the extended "He's taken the water of life" scene with Alia were even more difficult to fit in. Jarring as the other deleted scenes are, these were far worse, especially audio-wise. But it pained me to not put that one back in.

Originally posted by: cashiers


Pssst, it's Linda Hunt.

I don't know if it was just compression weirdness (going from a DVD9 to a DVD5) but that Linda Hunt scene seems almost like it's video is in slow motion. Is it just me or the drugs talking?

BTW, I can't remember -- does the "he gives water to the dead" segment available at all anywhere? I thought it was among the deleted scenes (albeit in rough condition). Someone remind me?

Originally posted by: That Clever Shark
Yeah, what happened with Anchor Bay? From the sounds of things, they just decided to stop dealing with all Wenders titles. This is massively disappointing as I was looking forward to seeing "The State of Things", "Kings of the Road" and "Far Away So Close" again. They are, of course, only currently available in Germany (in german language).

Anyhow, in terms of UTEOTW, I can only speak firsthand for the German release which is 3 discs long and features optional german subtitles. The longest foreign language scene is the one in which Claire first encounters the bank robbers. The scene is longer on the DVD than it is in the american version but the general idea is still the same. Otherwise there are only a few places throughout where a foreign language is spoken (usually french). In most scenes where language might be an issue, there is the omnipresent voiceover from Eugene, explaining what's going on.

There are only two special features on the German DVD, an interview with Wim Wenders (in German, no subtitles) and about twenty-five minutes of extra footage that got left on the cutting room floor.

The video transfer is fantastic though. Crisp images and nicely saturated colours.

I believe the italian version has more extras (some of which may be in English) but is more or less the same film (and, like the german version is PAL). Anyone out there buy the italian version?

Originally posted by: Number20
I don't know of any fan edits of Superman either. Someone on here was planning to do an edit of Superman II to put Marlon Brando back in at Zod's trial on Krypton As for the different versions of the film, these are the ones I can think of, but there are probably more out there that I've missed.
1. Theatrical
2. 80's TV edit
3. Special Edition DVD
4. RIC

I personally perfer the DVD, but the RIC is pretty good, but the quality is better in the offical DVD.

Originally posted by: Doctor M


Oops, Focuspuller found me out.


Either way, I'm sort of stoked to see the anniversary cut in theaters.

Let's hope it isn't like the Alien Director's Cut. Ridley Scott says in the DVD extras that the new version is the Director's Cut in that he did the cut, but he personally doesn't like it as much and that the original version is really what he considers the definitive one.

Are we confused? Let's hope he doesn't George Lucas this thing.

Originally posted by: Rikter
Great news!!

Not a big fan of the DC but I'm really stoked about the Euro/Criterion cut being redone!!!!!!

Originally posted by: ShiftyEyes
Maybe supermauerbros is refering to the 1992 Director's Cut for later this year? As proven by this thread, they've been sitting on a rather nice transfer.

I wouldn't really call it a crash release. This year's possible 2-disc re-release of the '92 DC probably won't include much new in terms of bonus material and they've still probably got over a year to work on the Final Cut and supplements. Not to mention some of the work that was already done before they had to close shop.

Originally posted by: supermauerbros
Of course it's speculation. But this isn't the same thing as saying "Lucas might have a change of heart and release them in anamorphic." What we have here is a director with a proven track record of giving great care in his DVD releases along with a DVD production team that sounds like they know what they're doing. Quote TheDigitalBits:



And BTW, what do you mean when you say "crash release"? The movie, the director's cut at least, has been ready to go for over a year.

Originally posted by: Doctor M
Not really speculation at this point: Check out TheDigitalBits.com today.

DVD/BluRay/HDDVD "Director's Cut" ('92) (limited time release)
followed by a new Ridley Scott Anniversary Cut in theaters
then a massive box set for DVD/BluRay/HDDVD with (likely) all 4 editions of the film (put together by the guys that did the Alien Quadrilogy set)

And all anamorphic.
How can you not love it?

Originally posted by: zombie84
well its really about closeness. We can talk about the Inquisitions and such, which were more horrifying than anything committed that day in september, because we are not very emotionally connected to it. We dont know wifes who lost their husbands to the inquisitions and such. This is why the Holocaust used to be extremely sensitive, almost taboo, but has becoming increasingly comfortable discussing in society. September 11, being relatively fresh, it is no surprise that there are some who are still too emotionally scarred to confront such things so directly. For those who can however, this is a great project.