I do hope you're not serious, particularly since it can't compare to:What about John Hughes' run from 1983-1987?
The rationale is that the correct original cut of the film, which is something like 20 minutes longer, has never been seen outside the first 4 weeks of the run in NY and LA. If they aren't putting something like that together then it is a pointless release. There was an extended version on LD but it was partly roadshow scenes and partly scenes intentionally deleted, and on top of that the new material want inserted in the right places and sometimes the wrong order. There are also big roadshow scenes not on the LD that haven't been seen outside those original showings, including virtually Buster Keaton's entire part. So there's something worth doing here.criterion10 wrote:Little late to the discussion here, but what the hell...
Is It's a Mad (x4) World really that bad? I remember watching it when I was young with my family, probably around 7 or 8 years old, and I enjoyed it then. Granted, I'm 17 now, my tastes have obviously quite changed, and so I may have a different reaction to it.
I'm still not too happy that Criterion is releasing it though, only because it's already got a fine Blu-Ray release. There are countless other films out there that have never even made it to home video or been released in decent quality that I would rather see Criterion put their time and effort into than a film that already has a DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.
Is Mailer in the mainline? I thought it was just the eclipse set.knives wrote:It's tolerable and if Kramer's name weren't attached the reaction would probably be more of a why then the genuine dislike it is now getting. To phrase it another way it probably isn't amongst the hundred worst films Criterion has released on the mainline, but Kramer is likely the worst director to have gotten a spine and I am including Norman Mailer in that.
MAD WORLD went from 192 minutes to 154, so that's 38 missing minutes. I know some of them are supposed to be the Entr'acte and Intermission police calls and Exit Music, but I think more than 20 minutes of actual movie were cut.Moe Dickstein wrote:The rationale is that the correct original cut of the film, which is something like 20 minutes longer, has never been seen outside the first 4 weeks of the run in NY and LA.
What don't you like about The Americanization of Emily? It's no masterpiece, but I thoroughly enjoyed it when digging into the Controversial Classics box last decade.knives wrote:I've only seen Carpool, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Love Story, Man of La Mancha, and The Americanization of Emily.
I'm guessing that Robert Harris will somehow be involved in the restoration. Around 2001/2002 he said the roadshow was 195 minutes. I'm not sure if that included the 15 minute intermission which had 6 1/2 minutes of the radio calls. This review from a 11/11/63 issue of Boxoffice magazine say 197 minutes plus the intermission. Robert said at that time he had 188 minutes of that footage.Joe Lugoff wrote:MAD WORLD went from 192 minutes to 154, so that's 38 missing minutes. I know some of them are supposed to be the Entr'acte and Intermission police calls and Exit Music, but I think more than 20 minutes of actual movie were cut.Moe Dickstein wrote:The rationale is that the correct original cut of the film, which is something like 20 minutes longer, has never been seen outside the first 4 weeks of the run in NY and LA.
