Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
06-05-14, 04:22 PM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
Damn, it's been so long since I've seen this can't remember which version I saw. Will give this one a shot when it comes out.
06-05-14, 04:35 PM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
I'm curious if they ended up doing more work of the new footage or if its just a port of the ittalian blu. we won't know until sept
06-05-14, 04:54 PM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
I found this on Wikipedia:
"In March 2011, it was announced that the original 269 minutes version was to be re-created by a film lab in Italy under the supervision of Leone's children, who acquired the Italian distribution rights, and the film's original sound editor, Fausto Ancillai, for a premiere in 2012 at either the Cannes Film Festival or the Venice Film Festival.[2][3] The restored film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, but due to unforeseen rights issues for the deleted scenes, the film's restoration ran for 251 minutes.[4][5] However, Martin Scorsese (whose Film Foundation helped with the restoration), stated that he is helping Leone's children gain the rights to the final 24 minutes of deleted scenes for a complete version of Leone's original 269 minute version."
Well who the hell has the rights to the deleted shit? That's the problem. Someone ain't letting go of those scene for some reason.
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06-05-14, 05:11 PM
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06-05-14, 05:21 PM
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06-05-14, 05:52 PM
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06-05-14, 06:07 PM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
Looking forward to this. Have seen the chopped version a couple times (but it's been a while).
06-05-14, 08:53 PM
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Get your preorders in now, Amazon has this for $24.49.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Onc...SIN=B00KSPST6Y
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Onc...SIN=B00KSPST6Y
06-05-14, 09:01 PM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
Doesn't some of it only have the raw production audio?
And just to add, Leone stated in an interview before he died that the 229 minute cut was his preferred cut. He had the final edit on that version. This isn't an Orson Welles situation where the studio took the film away from him and did a hack job.
And just to add, Leone stated in an interview before he died that the 229 minute cut was his preferred cut. He had the final edit on that version. This isn't an Orson Welles situation where the studio took the film away from him and did a hack job.
06-05-14, 09:01 PM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
Get your preorders in now, Amazon has this for $24.49.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Onc...SIN=B00KSPST6Y
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Onc...SIN=B00KSPST6Y
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
06-06-14, 06:59 PM
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06-06-14, 11:56 PM
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06-07-14, 04:41 PM
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08-11-14, 12:54 AM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
the back of the box is on blu-ray.com which confirms a few things
the "theatrical cut" is 229 minutes (so the chopped up american cut will not be included)
and
"due to the limited availability of 35mm work prints, the new inserts could not be restored to the same quality as the rest o the film"
which means either the new scenes will look like shit (like the overseas blu ray) or they "tried their best to restore them but couldn't go all the way"
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Once-U...Blu-ray/95062/
the "theatrical cut" is 229 minutes (so the chopped up american cut will not be included)
and
"due to the limited availability of 35mm work prints, the new inserts could not be restored to the same quality as the rest o the film"
which means either the new scenes will look like shit (like the overseas blu ray) or they "tried their best to restore them but couldn't go all the way"
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Once-U...Blu-ray/95062/
08-11-14, 03:28 PM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
Well... One would hope the reinserted bits sound good. But that's the gamble we get.
And then we still have more footage yet to see cuz of some unforeseen rights issues.
We were so goddamn close to getting the Leone cut.
And then we still have more footage yet to see cuz of some unforeseen rights issues.
We were so goddamn close to getting the Leone cut.
08-11-14, 11:54 PM
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I just realized we discussed this already on the first page. Yes, the new footage is worth seeing. No, it's not in good shape.
08-12-14, 01:04 AM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
the question still is, did Warner do any additional work to make it look at least decent or will this just be a straight rip of the ittalian blu
08-12-14, 01:20 AM
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Re: Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut - 9/30
Day one for me! I had been thinking about importing that Italian version, but this should be good enough.
09-28-14, 10:23 PM
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http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Once-U...105558/#Review
anyone own or have seen the italian blu of this cut know if they essentially "recycled" the same transfer or did more work
anyone own or have seen the italian blu of this cut know if they essentially "recycled" the same transfer or did more work
09-30-14, 02:05 PM
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