Caligula Four-Disc Imperial Edition

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#1 Post by Lino » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:42 am

From TLAVideo:
PRODUCT FORMAT INFORMATION:
DVD: Letterbox $33.99 4-disc Special Edition
Availability: PRE-ORDER: Available 10/02/2007
Close Caption: No

Region Code: 1

UPC: 014381875720

Catalog #: DL1031352

Studio: Penthouse

Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1 - Primary

Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Widescreen
Extras: Anamorphic
Cast/Crew Biographies

Features: Booklet

Audio commentary (On-set writer Ernest Volkman)

Audio commentary (Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren)

Documentaries (Two versions of "The Making of Caligula")

Interview(s) (Tinto Brass and actors John Steiner and Lori Wagner)

Photo gallery (Never-before-seen images from the set)

DVD-ROM content (Press kit notes)

DVD-ROM content (Interview with Bob Guccione)

DVD-ROM content (Gore Vidal's original screenplay)

DVD-ROM content (Three Penthouse magazine features)

Featurette (Alternate pre-release version of the film with never-before-seen footage)

Digitally remastered (New high-definition transfer of the unrated, uncensored feature film)

Other (Bonus CD containing the full released soundtrack plus 40 minutes of film score never before available)

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#2 Post by The Invunche » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:47 am

4 discs? There shold be one dedicated to Helen Mirren nudity of which there's too little in Caligula.

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#3 Post by tavernier » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:01 am

There are enough other movies with a naked Mirren in them....I can't wait to hear the McDowell/Mirren commentary, especially if they recorded it together.

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#4 Post by domino harvey » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:43 am

I imagine the commentary will consist mostly of a lot of thumps against the microphone as the two actors' heads repeatedly shake left to right in embarrassed disbelief.

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#5 Post by Lino » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:10 pm

tavernier wrote:There are enough other movies with a naked Mirren in them....
But the best one, with Mirren in full frontal climbing the staircase of an English stately manor is still absent. I'm referring of course to Ken Russell's Savage Messiah in which she plays a suffragette.

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#6 Post by patrick » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:42 pm

The impression I'm getting from the Moebius forum thread about this is that the McDowall and Mirren commentaries are actually separate tracks, which is a bit of a shame. McDowall's commentary on If... is fantastically entertaining (I could listen to him read me Chinese takeout menus), so I'm still looking forward to hearing this.

I'm also interested in seeing the recreation of the Tinto Brass cut.

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#7 Post by malcolm1980 » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:15 pm

Holy crap! A Malcolm McDowell/Helen Mirren commentary? That's worth the price of the DVD right there.

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#8 Post by MichaelB » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:07 pm

patrick wrote:McDowall's commentary on If... is fantastically entertaining (I could listen to him read me Chinese takeout menus)
(shameless plug) I assume you've seen this, but just in case you haven't... (/shameless plug)

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#9 Post by Scharphedin2 » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:20 pm

MichaelB wrote:
patrick wrote:McDowall's commentary on If... is fantastically entertaining (I could listen to him read me Chinese takeout menus)
(shameless plug) I assume you've seen this, but just in case you haven't... (/shameless plug)
McDowall is great! (don't be too quick in pushing the buttons during the program, you will miss out on some fun details).

Shameless plug and all, this may be as good a place as any to commend you (Michael), and everyone else involved with the Screenonline project, on a great job. A lot of valuable information is being put together and presented in a fun and entertaining way. (You just know that I love the directors' profiles).

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#10 Post by richast2 » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:26 pm

"So here's the famous scene where I put my fist in a guy's ass..."

SOLD.

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#11 Post by Mr Pixies » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:14 am

Yeah, real excited for this, sold mine for $30 on Amazon and it sold right away. Is this going to be on sale everywhere? I'm a fan of Tinto Brass, I don't understand though, this includes his vision of the film?

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#12 Post by patrick » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:37 am

From what I've read, the second disc is a reconstruction of Tinto Brass' original cut of the film/what he originally intended for the film (similar to the Io, Caligola version, if I understand correctly).

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#13 Post by MichaelB » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:46 am

patrick wrote:From what I've read, the second disc is a reconstruction of Tinto Brass' original cut of the film/what he originally intended for the film (similar to the Io, Caligola version, if I understand correctly).
Presumably this is either the same as, or very similar to, the version that played on FilmFour in the UK a few years ago - essentially, the hardcore footage was removed, thus achieving the double bonus of (a) being truer to the original director's version and (b) making it legally screenable on British TV.

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#14 Post by Cinesimilitude » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:08 am

I'll buy it. the current disc was always too expensive for what you were getting IMO, but 4 discs for under $30 is totally worth it.

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#15 Post by Narshty » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:08 am

MichaelB wrote:Presumably this is either the same as, or very similar to, the version that played on FilmFour in the UK a few years ago - essentially, the hardcore footage was removed, thus achieving the double bonus of (a) being truer to the original director's version and (b) making it legally screenable on British TV.
Apparently it's some kind of halfway house curiosity; Bruce Holecheck at MHVF.net says it is:
a never-before-seen pre-release edit that eliminates the Guccione footage, restructures to film to conform with the shooting script, and contains alternate Brass-filmed footage, different edit rhythms and previously unseen deleted material (Disc 2). The Channel 4 version will not be on the disc, nor will the "R" rated abomination.

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#16 Post by Nothing » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:07 am

The Channel 4 version was a complete joke. They censored half the movie to meet ITC requirements, then tried to pretend that all of these changes were in the spirit that Brass intended. This pre-release version sounds far more interesting (though I'm rather partial to Guccione's additions in a way...)

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#17 Post by Barmy » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:35 pm

Possibly the greatest Italian film not directed by Antonioni.

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#18 Post by tavernier » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:46 pm

Barmy wrote:Possibly the greatest Italian film not directed by Antonioni.
....or Fellini or Bellocchio or Amelio or Rossellini or Latuada or De Sica or Olmi or....

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#19 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:20 pm

Barmy wrote:Possibly the greatest Italian film not directed by Antonioni.
stopped reading at the word "greatest"

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#20 Post by miless » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:04 pm

tavernier wrote:
Barmy wrote:Possibly the greatest Italian film not directed by Antonioni.
....or Fellini or Bellocchio or Amelio or Rossellini or Latuada or De Sica or Olmi or....
it could have also been been said: greatest Italian erotic film not directed by Bertolucci

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#21 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:26 pm

I understand the desire on this board to latch onto and "rescue" films which are generally looked down upon, but give me a fucking break

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#22 Post by Barmy » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:23 am

I seriously think this is an excellent film. The music is great, it features some great star turns and does a far better job than Gladiator, that dumb Rome HBO series, CLAVDIVS or any other film (other than Satyricon, although that obviously is a diffferent kettle of fish) in depicting just how strange the life of a Roman emperor presumably was. I also confess to being a zoom aficionado, but leaving that aside, what is so "bad" about this film other than the Guccione "inserts"?

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#24 Post by Barmy » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:45 pm

What's with the tiny poncey soldiers? Put some nude Mirren on the cover!

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#25 Post by Mr Pixies » Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:11 pm

Barmy wrote:I seriously think this is an excellent film. The music is great, it features some great star turns and does a far better job than Gladiator, that dumb Rome HBO series, CLAVDIVS or any other film (other than Satyricon, although that obviously is a diffferent kettle of fish) in depicting just how strange the life of a Roman emperor presumably was. I also confess to being a zoom aficionado, but leaving that aside, what is so "bad" about this film other than the Guccione "inserts"?
Maybe it's all the dicks, people like tits, but not dicks, once there's a visible dick, it's porn and porn is the opposite of art. I thought the film was great, but I like extravagant weirdness and naked people. Too many of the wrong people saw it I guess.

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