All the President's Men

[Kristoffer4]

Saw this today on davisdvd.com


Is it just me or is it creepy hearing news anchors repeat the phrase "Deep Throat" over and over? To commemorate the film's 30th anniversary, look for Warner Home Video to re-release All the President's Men in a new special edition next year. Expect extras and featurettes focusing on the production, as well as the actual Watergate scandal.
Cool. =D>

[Sanity Claus]

Fingers crossed for G. Gordon Liddy commentary!

[Fletch F. Fletch]

Fingers crossed for G. Gordon Liddy commentary!

Or if we're real lucky, Al Haig.

[skuhn8]

Fingers crossed for G. Gordon Liddy commentary!

Ahhh...now this is the kind of thinking outside the box input I can bite into. I'd pay an extra tenner to have some actual nefarious participants chiming in. Forget the actor commentary...unless they had some actual experience with the real life players other than woodward and bernstein who I've just about enough from.

[Gordon]

Gord's too busy fixing the Fetzer valve on Alan Stanwick's bird.

Right, Fletch?

[dx23]

From dvdansers.com:

Title: All The President's Men
Starring: Robert Redford
Released: 21st February 2006
SRP: $26.99

Further Details
Warner has announced a two-disc special edition of All The President's Men which tells the story of the Watergate burglary investigation that ultimately brought down the administration of Richard Nixon. The disc will be available to own from the 21st February, and should retail at around $26.99. DVD extras will include a commentary by Robert Redford, a Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of All the President's Men feature, an Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat featurette, a Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire featurette, and a vintage featurette entitled Pressure and the Press: The Making of All the President's Men. Completing the package will be a vintage Jason Robards interview excerpt from Dinah!, hosted by Dinah Shore, and Alan J. Pakula thrillers trailer gallery.

Artwork here:
http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0 ... &n=1&burl=

[Gigi M.]

Warner has announced a two-disc special edition of All The President's Men which tells the story of the Watergate burglary investigation that ultimately brought down the administration of Richard Nixon. The disc will be available to own from the 21st February, and should retail at around $26.99. DVD extras will include a commentary by Robert Redford, a Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of All the President's Men feature, an Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat featurette, a Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire featurette, and a vintage featurette entitled Pressure and the Press: The Making of All the President's Men. Completing the package will be a vintage Jason Robards interview excerpt from Dinah!, hosted by Dinah Shore, and Alan J. Pakula thrillers trailer gallery. Artwork is below:

Artwork: http://dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1 ... &n=1&burl=

[Gigi M.]

Here's the first review so far:

Video:
Warner Bros. appear to have done everything they could to bring the movie to DVD in the best shape possible, but the results vary from scene to scene. The image is in widescreen, closely matching its original theatrical 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and it's transferred to disc at a high bit rate and enhanced for 16x9 televisions. However, while colors are almost always deep, the print seems rather dark, perhaps the result of so much location shooting, making faces in particular look too purplish or too strongly pink. When it's good, the picture quality is very good, indeed, but when it's too dark, it's a little annoying. There is also some very minor grain present and a few shimmering lines, none of which is enough to distract our attention from the story line.

[Lino]

Beaver comparison:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview ... review.htm

[Richard]

Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.

[skuhn8]

Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.

huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it

[Richard]

Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.

huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it

Hmm.. the bitrate-pics both say 2:18:05 but I was looking at the runtime-row where it says 2:18:05 and 2:01:08 for the old and the new version. I guess it's a mistake.

[skuhn8]

Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.

huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it

Hmm.. the bitrate-pics both say 2:18:05 but I was looking at the runtime-row where it says 2:18:05 and 2:01:08 for the old and the new version. I guess it's a mistake.

Mine is copy/pasted from the runtime row, not the bitrate. No mistakes there. Same to the second.`1

[Richard]

huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it

Hmm.. the bitrate-pics both say 2:18:05 but I was looking at the runtime-row where it says 2:18:05 and 2:01:08 for the old and the new version. I guess it's a mistake.

Mine is copy/pasted from the runtime row, not the bitrate. No mistakes there. Same to the second.`1

Made a screenshot:



EDIT: ok, I looked up the same page in IE and there it does show the same number. I think it's some sort of caching-error in Firefox or something.

[Ishmael]

I've actually watched the new DVD, and the film is exactly the same length it's always been.

[skuhn8]

[jumps back into Mystery Machine] "On to the next mystery gang!"

[flyonthewall2983]

Been watching this sporadically, and usually whenever it’s on HBOMax. It took me awhile to warm up to certain scenes, particularly anything not in the Post or involving Deep Throat and Hal Holbrook’s chilling performance. I’m struck a bit at the real-life happenings to the movie’s Mr. (Stephen Collins having admitted to sexual misconduct with minors) & Mrs. Sloan (Meredith Baxter coming out as a lesbian while revealing the spousal abuse committed against in her first marriage at the same time she was the mom on Family Ties), all the while that unseen exchange between Woodward and Bernstein about suburbia percolates ever more in these recent viewings.

[beamish14]

I’ve always wanted to read the screenplay draft that Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron wrote

[ryannichols7]

you guys had me excited that Warner had announced this for UHD...

[Finch]

Revisiting All The Presidents Men in 4K later this month is going to be bittersweet now that Jeff Bezos has gutted the Washington Post and gives personal tours of his cock shaped Blue Origin rockets to another man rivalling him in the who's the biggest cunt sweepstakes, drunkard Pete Hegseth.

[hearthesilence]

This is basically the worst-case scenario people envisioned when Bezos bought the paper, but at the time the industry was bleeding so much money, it was something to worry about "later." With so many major papers crumbling while the Post under Bezos was on solid ground, it was no surprise having a massively wealthy individual buying up a newspaper became the dubious model for financial solvency (like Patrick Soon-Shiong buying the Los Angeles Times among many other examples). And now, it's "later."

[MichaelB]

I’m one of the hundreds of thousands that cancelled their subscription in October 2024, an instant decision that I’ve never once regretted.

[TVC 15]

This is basically the worst-case scenario people envisioned when Bezos bought the paper, but at the time the industry was bleeding so much money, it was something to worry about "later." With so many major papers crumbling while the Post under Bezos was on solid ground, it was no surprise having a massively wealthy individual buying up a newspaper became the dubious model for financial solvency (like Patrick Soon-Shiong buying the Los Angeles Times among many other examples). And now, it's "later."

I want more honest journalism and media. If they had that many people working there and none of them could follow the money all this time then why should they be there? My country has been rocked and everybody is seeing the rot that was always there now I pray this is global and gives voices to the people and not corporations who have bought our governments who don't act on behalf of the citizens.

[hearthesilence]

I want more honest journalism and media. If they had that many people working there and none of them could follow the money all this time then why should they be there?

That's not a correct assumption to make. A lot of people at the Post did report and speak out about what was happening as it was happening. Most of them had already left and settled into jobs elsewhere by the time this came down yesterday. The executive editor said what's left of the Post would “concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness, and impact,” focusing on areas such as politics and national security, but as Ruth Marcus - who spent over 40 years at the Post - wrote in response, “this strategy, a kind of Politico-lite, would be more convincing if so many of the most talented players were not already gone."

[MichaelB]

And one of the reasons why I’ve never regretted cancelling my WaPo subscription is that most of my favourite writers there jumped ship afterwards and are now writing for other outlets.