Here's a great article about "definitive" versions of film and the nature of films "restored" through a re-edit. Of note, it mentions Apocalypse Now Redux, Stanley Kubrick's semi-covert edits to 2001 and The Shining, and how The Thin Red Line (or The New World, certainly) could've been an entirely different film if the cutting-room scraps were spliced together.
It's a topic I've thought about for as long as I've been seriously interested in film, and something I'm very conscious of when cutting my current film - am I going to revisit it in ten, twenty, thirty years and make some re-edits that I'll claim make it better but that others feel adds little or nothing to the original?
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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