Word: recut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million film, due for release in December, is in trouble with the motion-picture industry's rating board. The eight board members have found Scarface so violent that they want to give it an X rating. To avoid that box-office poison, De Palma has already recut the movie four times, and now he claims that any additional cuts will destroy his "artistic vision." Universal, meanwhile, refuses to release the film in an X-rated form. The R-biters and X-aminers who looked at the director's latest cut last week will soon announce a verdict...
...pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults. But like the dogged romantic hero Jeff Bridges plays in both these films, Richert did not give up. He got back the rights, recut his movies and is now distributing them himself...
...Warrior of Raiders of the Lost Ark, allows his heroic stature to shrivel inside it. In comparison, Hauer's silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more complex than Ford's victimized flatfoot. Because of this imbalance of star roles, and because this drastically recut movie has a plot that proceeds by fits and stops, Blade Runner is likely to disappoint moviegoers hoping for sleek thrills and derring-do. But as a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers. The pleasures of texture have...
...temporarily withdraw [Heaven's Gate] from distribution to allow me to present to the public a finished film with the same care and thoughtfulness with which we began it." Within 24 hours, from his arrival in New York with the unseen film to his decision to withdraw and recut it, Cimino had gone from Heaven to Hell. And from nearly every movie mavin came the cackle of contumely: the arrogant director had committed career harakiri...
...startling shot of a gunman firing directly at the audience could be inserted at either the beginning or the end of the film. D.W. Griffith's epic Intolerance (1916), which blended parables from four epochs into a "film fugue," bombed at the box office; so Griffith extracted and recut two of the stories and released them as separate films. Too soon, producers were applying the cleaver of their judgment to good films and bad, all in the name of "giving the public what it wants." The public, it was implied, did not want to see the complete, two-hour...