solaris72 wrote:I emailed Blue Underground, and was told that Africa Addio and Goodbye Uncle Tom on volume 2 will be the English versions only, no director's cuts.
This box has never been on my wish list, but I cannot understand why BU are deleting it and replacing it with inferior versions, if the English versions may so be deemed. Why go to the trouble of mastering the director's cuts that have been unavailable for decades, only to now have them in the hands of the very few. I don't understand BU's obsessive 'Limited Edition' policy, if it is indeed a policy. Imagine if Criterion did this. Imagine if thet broke up the Cassavetes set and withheld the 135-minute version of
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and dropped
A Constant Forge?
I see no point in deleting titles unless the company loses the rights to the film. Not having Cronenberg's,
Stereo and
Crimes of the Future will really bug some people.
Fast Company isn't very interesting to me (car racing bores me to tears) but finally having those early films on DVD with excellent transfers is wonderful.
Bottom line: Blue Underground will lose money deleting their 2-disc editions and boxed sets and dropping extras. Anchor Bay's 3-disc "Limited Edition", released over four years ago and has been one of their biggest sellers and is still in print and widely available for reasonable money.
They produce their own special features, so you would think that they would want a maximum return on those investments.