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Lino wrote:Well, it does change it for me, anyway. I was thinking of passing on this release but I've been wanting to see those scenes from WAH ever since it won the Cannes Festival. Don't forget that whoever were at the Cannes original screening got to see them but afterwards all we got until now is the version currently out on DVD. So yeah, the table has turned for me. Definitely.

Drake wrote:Dugpa.com confirmed that there will be 120 minutes of Deleted and Extended WAH material from a rare work print.

Would have preferred the FWWM Deleted Scenes but 120 minutes sounds very interesting. I wonder if they will have any footage from Blue Velvet as well. I would have preferred Blue Velvet scenes over WAH scenes.

Quot wrote:Re: the scene with Grace Zabriskie and Harry Dean Stanton that supposedly "went to far"...I've never heard of this one. What supposedly happens in this scene?

The scene in which Johnnie is tortured and killed was originally much longer, as Juana, Reggie and Drop Shadow playa strange psychotic game in which she touches empty soda bottles, starts to masturbate, and shows him Santos's cufflink before Drop Shadow kills him. Lynch trimmed the scene following a mass walkout at an early test screening. As Lynch told Rolling Stone, 'It really taught me something: an audience can really be with you, but if you rub it in their face too much - which I didn't think I was doing - they say, "That's enough!" and out they go. And you can't blame them. I thought it was more powerful that way, but it reached a point where it was too much.' Lynch initially took the scene out entirely, but felt that it removed the life-or-death threat hanging over the rest of the film; instead, he truncated it. Ironically, the portion of the scene which remains in the film contains the most violence: those of the test audience remaining in their seats would have realised that the scene's denouement is no more or less disturbing than the build-up to it. Had the audience stayed, they would have realised that their own imaginings about where the scene were headed were probably more unpleasant than Lynch's .

Mr.Jagil wrote:Especially since the only one of his films i own is Blue Velvet, and i'll just give that to my dad...

ianungstad wrote:He either sold outright or is letting mk2 sell the film on his behalf. All mk2 will say is that the film has been picked up by a new US distributor who will reissue the film theatrically in the near future. I would guess Janus or IFC but it could be a number of other small labels.