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mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:21 pm I should have made this much of a fuss when PT Anderson made some tweaks to There Will Be Blood for home video, namely adding the title card to the beginning of the film...

senseabove wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:37 pm

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:21 pm I should have made this much of a fuss when PT Anderson made some tweaks to There Will Be Blood for home video, namely adding the title card to the beginning of the film...

I don't think I've ever seen that confirmed before, and it's bugged me for years, so thank you! I remember thinking at the time that the title card only showing up at the end was an excellent, pointed touch, and then it wasn't anymore on DVD and I just assumed I had completely imagined it.

senseabove wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:37 pm Though, on the contrary, twbb, I'd argue that it's an even more foreboding, ominous message to the audience at the end...

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:21 pm I should have made this much of a fuss when PT Anderson made some tweaks to There Will Be Blood for home video, namely adding the title card to the beginning of the film and adding a poorly dubbed coda to "you owe the church of the third revelation... five thousand dollars... as part of the agreement that we made!!" during the scene where Daniel drags Eli into the oil puddle and threatens to bury him alive. Both of these things still bug me to this day merely because I saw the film in the theater so many times. Then again, the first time I saw it in the theater the penultimate reel was initially projected upside down, so. All changes are not bad changes, in other words.

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:15 pm It potentially varied from theater to theater, then - none that I saw in New York or Philadelphia had a title card.

cowboydan wrote:

artfilmfan wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:55 am I was going to skip this box set because I did not want to spend all that money for the only title that I really want which is Days of Being Wild (on Blu ray). Seeing that Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love will be in 1.66:1 aspect ratio gives me second thought. I would love to have these two titles on Blu ray with this aspect ratio.

The standalone releases of both of those films are already in 1.66:1. Of course Chungking Express is OOP though. I think by now, most people who have seen Chungking Ex. and ItMFL have seen them in 1.66:1, on the Criterion Channel and Criterion releases. The 1.85:1 and 1.78:1 versions are maybe half of the older bluray and DVD releases from various regions. The only US release not in 1.66:1 is the Rolling Thunder (Quentin Tarantino Presents) Chungking Express DVD which is in 1.85:1. (I can't comment on any VHS or Laserdisc releases)

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:15 pm It potentially varied from theater to theater, then - none that I saw in New York or Philadelphia had a title card.

Drucker wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:04 pm Where'd you buy it? I placed an Amazon order that hasn't yet dispatched.

soundchaser wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:37 pm I know there are far bigger concerns here, but that colored-in jukebox is goofy as hell.

Boosmahn wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:21 am In the Mood for Love Criterion Blu-ray (screencaps are from this site!) and restoration comparison:

cowboydan wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:45 pm I just noticed a couple things.

I know that they're just trailers, but the audio on the new Thai trailer sounds different. Specifically, ~20 second mark when he starts shooting, it sounds like very modern Hollywood gunfight audio that utilizes panning. But on the Accent Films trailer it sounds very 90's, thinner, and with less/no panning. Is this an example of the difference between the 5.1 track and the 2.0 (original?) track, or is it possibly temp audio for the trailer?? I think I've only watched it with the 5.1 (on the Korean BD), and now I want to get the AE because it has both audio tracks in addition to being on a BD-50 instead of a BD-25 and having a superior bitrate.

I also just now realized that there are different cuts of this film. According to blu-ray.com and imdb: the Korean BD is 96 min. which would suggest it being (what imdb lists as) the German cut or the French cut. The AE BD is 99 min. which seems to be the longest. The HK is 97 min. Does anybody know what is cut out in the 96 and 97 minute cuts?? Also, it appears that the new 4k restored version is of the 99 minute cut.

edit: Maybe nothing is "cut out"? I just noticed in the trailer that some alternative takes were used. In the very first shot when the woman is putting the coin the jukebox, the angle of the camera is completely different and some things are in focus in one trailer but not the other. You could speculate that this due to the restoration but I don't think it is. A better piece of evidence is at 1:52 when Blonde hops up and peeks over the counter. It's brief but it's very clearly a different take in either trailer. So if they chose different takes for more shots/scenes, then potentially that could lead to a slightly different running time. But if anyone knows of any footage that is cut in some versions, I would love to know.