StudioCanal Cult Classics (Extreme Prejudice, High Crime, More)

[drush9999]

^ I definitely think StudioCanal screwed the pooch with High Crime, doesn't make sense to be a genuine cut of the film. Even a US/International cut would have kept all that action back in the 70s over dialogue scenes. The missing scenes featured on the Filmart BD are of lesser quality (from a print or something), but not enough to be excluded for that reason.

[wabrit]

Originally Posted by drush9999

^ I definitely think StudioCanal screwed the pooch with High Crime, doesn't make sense to be a genuine cut of the film.

Agree - it put me off the whole line, making such a mess of one of the first releases.

[Takuma]

Originally Posted by Takuma

Regarding High Crime

I recently bought the German BD which features the full 103 min version, and can be viewed with either the original or the alternative ending which is a few seconds shorter and modifies the fate of one character. I had already seen the film before from an English language 35mm print about 15 years ago. That print was listed as being 100 min and despite my earlier doubts I think the running time is actually correct since it was the full version of the film (as far as I can tell) but with the alternative ending (this I remember 100%) and no ending credits at all (this I also remember 100%).

I also had a chance to briefly examine the 93 min Studio Canal version as it was on TV yesterday. I only took a look at the ending and Dear God, this is much worse than I thought. I think I can explain this without major spoilers. The Studio Canal version shows the drug courier landing at the airport, hopping into a car, then we hear the line “to the port” and then the film immediately cuts to the end credits against the port background. The climax, where the plot is wrapped and several seminal characters are killed, is missing entirely. All the footage from the port is missing, the last scene at Fernando Rey’s house is missing, and neither the original nor the alternate ending are featured in this version. It just ends in the middle of everything without any kind of wrap up or “closing shot”.

I absolutely cannot comprehend how this 93 min version came to be. It doesn’t feel like an alternative version or shortened version, but rather a faulty version where the last film reel was omitted by accident. The ending is just incredibly awkward here.

The film itself is brilliant and one of the best poliziotteschi ever made. Thank God for the German BD.

I took another look at the two versions (103 min BD vs. 93 min TV broadcast) and I realized the line "to the port" comes at 92 min in both. The 103 min version continues another 11 min after that line whereas the Studio Canal version cuts to the end credits.

I think I've seen it stated here or elsewhere that the Studio Canal print was missing 10 min, including 5 min from the climax, but it seems all of that missing 10 min actually comes from the end (if there's any footage missing before that, must be very brief). I thought I should point this out in case someone was as confused as I were.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

Per the BBFC, it looks like Blazing Magnum (AKA Shadows in an Empty Room) is coming soon.

Strangely, BBFC has rated this again, and there's a 5 second difference in the runtimes listed. No mention of any cuts though.

[Mattmck99]

Next two releases up for pre-order: Blazing Magnum & The Antichrist

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blazing-Mag...A3P5ROKL5A1OLE







https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Antichr...A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

[DTSBOY]

I'll be having those.

Whitman, Saxon and Landau. Not bad.

[Django100]

I'll grab 'Blazing Magnum'.

Already have the Kino Lorber 'The Antichrist' and the extras are pretty similar.

[Paul Fulci 001]

Roll on Holocaust 2000 next!

[oddbox83]

Antichrist - I'm having me some of that please.

This has been rumoured for a while so was holding off importing.

[fatboyslim142]

Originally Posted by Joppers

If anyone's on the fence about the the German disc, it is has an English audio track, and Franco Nero dubs his own voice on it.

Normally he'd do his own voice in Italian but not in English hence why it is best to watch Django in Italian NOT English.

[finishominis]

I hope we can get Homebodies as part of this line

[McCrutchy]

I will probably be picking up both new titles. I have the French BD of Blazing Magnum, but, while it bizarrely offers English subtitles for the feature film (on a France-only disc), it equally bizarrely offers only the Italian dubbed audio, omitting the English language audio for a film which is mostly shot in English and features multiple actors who are native English speakers.

Originally Posted by Joppers

If anyone's on the fence about the the German disc, it is has an English audio track, and Franco Nero dubs his own voice on it.

Originally Posted by fatboyslim142

Normally he'd do his own voice in Italian but not in English hence why it is best to watch Django in Italian NOT English.

Just to be clear, this refers to High Crime, which is a film shot in English in which Franco Nero (amongst others) dubs himself in English. To my mind, this film should be watched in English and not (as I myself once mistakenly thought) in Italian, although offering the Italian dub with English subtitles may work as a curious alternate version of the film.

In any event, anyone who hasn't seen High Crime before needs to pick up the German BD, which offers the complete film:



The UK edition removes the final 10 minutes of the film for unknown reasons. Apparently, this portion of the film was not remastered (on the German BD it is from a noticeably different source) so perhaps the error began there.

[Rayjg]

Good to see Auntie Christ is coming.

[GlacierTuba]

Anyone know if Antichrist will be fully uncut? Already pre-ordered Blazing Magnum.

[DTSBOY]

Originally Posted by GlacierTuba

Anyone know if Antichrist will be fully uncut? Already pre-ordered Blazing Magnum.

13 seconds cut for a toad being squashed would still be an issue probably.

https://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/hitsa...ntichrist_1974

[GlacierTuba]

Originally Posted by DTSBOY

13 seconds cut for a toad being squashed would still be an issue probably.

https://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/hitsa...ntichrist_1974

Cheers for the info. Interestingly the Optimum DVD is fully uncut (apparently, I've not seen it myself). Not a huge deal to miss out on 13 seconds of footage just for that, but still, I'd prefer to have the option to branch it so as to see/not see the footage. Like what was done with Cannibal Holocaust, for example.

EDIT: Preordered it because sure it looks great.

[drush9999]

Noticed there was a 5 second difference between the English and Italian versions of Blazing Magnum. I thought it might be the different titles or company logos, but they seem the same. Wondering what it might be.

[grahams76]

Originally Posted by DTSBOY

13 seconds cut for a toad being squashed would still be an issue probably.

https://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/hitsa...ntichrist_1974

I’ve just watched The Antichrist and that’s definitely in there. It’s pretty graphic so I can’t imagine it’s been cut (might be a fake toad though).

[DTSBOY]

Originally Posted by grahams76

I’ve just watched The Antichrist and that’s definitely in there. It’s pretty graphic so I can’t imagine it’s been cut (might be a fake toad though).

Just bought the only copy HMV Metrocentre had in stock but Blazing Magnum was nowhere to be seen. Natch.

[the13thman]

Is the back cover of Blazing Magnum really as pictured (including the typo)?

"After his sister was poisened..."




I find spelling mistakes like that painful to look at.