17 December, 2010

Cinema News to Round Out the Year

I got a kick out of Fake Criterions, a site with covers for fake Criterion DVD releases.





I wonder if this release would include the version dubbed into Spanish that I saw at Antojitos el Toril…?

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Don't buy that 2001: A Space Odyssey Blu-Ray just yet.

Visual effects guru Douglas Trumbull has said "that the 17 minutes that Kubrick cut from 2001 shortly after the film’s release have been found by Warners in their vault in a salt mine in Kansas. These cut scenes are perfectly preserved in CMY component negatives. Trumbull has no idea of what Warners plans to do with them."

From IMDB, the footage consists of:

Some shots from the "Dawn of Man" sequence were removed and a new scene was inserted where an ape pauses with the bone it is about to use as a tool. The new scene was a low angle shot of the monolith, done in order to portray and clarify the connection between the ape using the tool and the monolith.

Some shots of Frank Poole jogging in the centrifuge were removed.

An entire sequence of several shots in which Dave Bowman searches for the replacement antenna part in storage was removed.

A scene where HAL severs radio communication between Discovery and Poole's pod before killing him was removed. This scene explains a line which stayed in the film in which Bowman addresses HAL on the subject.

Some shots of Poole's space walk before he is killed were removed.


Bummer about the documentary being 86'd, though.

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A trailer for John Sayles' latest film, Amigo, has been released. It takes us back to 1900 and the Philippine–American War.



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I never thought I'd live to see the day when a trailer for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life was released but here it is.



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The Sundance roadshow will stop in Madison again this year. We'll be getting Like Crazy on 27 January. Hopefully it'll be better than last year's entry, The Runaways. Jennifer Lawrence stars and she was fantastic in Winter's Bone.

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Lastly, I see that Vision - from the Life of Hildegard von Bingen opens at the Orpheum here in Madison on 28 January for a 2-week run.





Too bad Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale won't be playing here. It's a Finnish black comedy about some archaeologists unearthing the "real" Santa. Sounds like some holiday fare that I could enjoy.

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