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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-09-2000 01:40 AM

Did the 170 minute version ever get a release in the USA? To my knowledge, it's never had a run in Australia, although I know the Electric Cinema in Portabello Rd in London ran it but I had already left the cinema by that time.

Has anyone seen it? Here is what the IMDB says about the alternate versions...
http://us.imdb.com/AlternateVersions?0095765

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Anthony Matarazzo
Film Handler

Posts: 30
From: Brisbane Australia
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-09-2000 04:41 AM

I really enjoyed Cinema Paradiso. I know that the 155m version screened in sydney but not in Brisbane. I didn't know of the 170m version screened in Australia. I would like to have a look at the directors cut. Top movie

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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-09-2000 05:27 AM

Anthony, where did it screen in Sydney? Is the print still around or did it go back. The print of the 120 min version is pretty beat up.

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Tom Ferreira
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 203
From: Conway, NH, USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-09-2000 08:47 AM

My all time favorite film-if there is a director's cut on tape, I'd love to see it-I was unaware of a longer version.

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Stephen Jones
Master Film Handler

Posts: 314
From: Geelong Victoria Australia
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-09-2000 06:21 PM

I screened the 120 min version when it was first released.I was unaware that there were other versions and I would like to see them.I have the 120min on video somewhere.It is an excelent film.

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Nicholas McRobert
Film Handler

Posts: 38
From: Belfast, N. Ireland
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 01-09-2000 07:31 PM

As far as I am aware, the director's cut was released in the UK on VHS a few years ago. The Virgin Megastores here were giving away a copy of the screenplay with each copy of the video purchased. Personally, I own a copy of the original subtitled version. Excellent movie!!! One of my all-time favorites. I think that's why I have never watched the director's cut, though....don't want to risk spoiling it all.

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 01-10-2000 04:05 PM

Yeah, but most of you guys are Cinemecannica-haters. And isn't that projector he's using a V4?

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-10-2000 04:11 PM

I don't know what the model of the projector is but I remember it was stamped, "Prevost", on the side. (In the 'first' theatre.)

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-10-2000 07:35 PM

>>"I don't know what the model of the projector is but I remember it was stamped, "Prevost", on the side. (In the 'first' theatre.)"<<

Actually both projectors in CP were Prevost.

I greek friend of mine said it was pretty typical for the small town theatres to only have one projector. An intermission was expected on all films. I think it was on hour reels though rather than 20 minutes.

Steve

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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-11-2000 06:41 PM

I ran an Italian film festival recently and every film had an internission at the end of spool 3.

Perhaps that's the way they run things in Italy... (on 6k's with only one machine)

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 07-17-2001 07:00 PM

Glorious news!

The "director's cut" of Cinema Paradiso is scheduled (as of this post) for a May 2002 release in the US. Naturally it'll go through the Italians' favorite Stateside distributor, Miramax.

In downtown Easton PA -- west of where I live -- some local people took over the old UA theater last year and turned it into an arthouse/art gallery. The name? Cinema Paradiso.

Now if only MGM would release the uncut Italian versions of all those Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns I can die happy.

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Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 07-17-2001 09:12 PM

The local art theatre in Ft. Lauderdale has taken the same name during festivals. Otherwise it has some other honorific name. I wish someone would at least use "Kinema" or "Bijou" as a name.

Whenever anyone mentions a "director's cut" I wonder if I am in a Hollywood steakhouse. "Would you like fries with that?" I'm not sure if I want to see a different cut of "Paradiso."

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Mervyn Collard
Film Handler

Posts: 10
From: Bude, Cornwall, England
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 07-19-2001 06:34 PM

Hi guys. we are lucky in the UK as there is now a 170minute Directors cut of Cinema Paradiso available on DVD - cracking movie. If anyone is interested it's on a label called Arrow Films. They do have a web site www.arrowfilm.co.uk There are no extras on the disc but who cares - great movie.

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 04-05-2002 06:53 PM

Updates:

(1) Miramax moved the re-release of Cinema Paradiso back to June. Partly it's because the Oscar-nominated Lagaan (from India) will have a US arthouse run in May.

(2) The Cinema Paradiso theater in Easton PA closed last September. The Lehigh Valley doesn't have the demographics to support an arthouse.

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 04-05-2002 09:15 PM

Isnt Lagaan out on video?

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