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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)
Caligula Four-Disc Imperial Edition
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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.
I'm also interested in seeing the recreation of the Tinto Brass cut.
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McDowall is great! (don't be too quick in pushing the buttons during the program, you will miss out on some fun details).MichaelB wrote:(shameless plug) I assume you've seen this, but just in case you haven't... (/shameless plug)patrick wrote:McDowall's commentary on If... is fantastically entertaining (I could listen to him read me Chinese takeout menus)
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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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.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).
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Apparently it's some kind of halfway house curiosity; Bruce Holecheck at MHVF.net says it is: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.
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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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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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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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.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"?