Reservoir Dogs 15th AE (R1) in October
25-09-2006 22:20 | 9163 views | Dave Foster | Show Backlinks
Lions Gate Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary Edition) for 24th October 2006 priced at $19.98 SRP. Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic is given its third outing on Region 1 DVD, this time in 15th Anniversary Edition form where it comes packaged in a one-of-a-kind collectible oil can design and is loaded with newly-created exclusive bonus materials including a pulp factoids viewer, compelling featurettes and more.
Special Features (all subject to change) include:
Special Features (all subject to change) include:
- Pulp Factoids Viewer
- “Playing It Fast and Loose” documentary
- The Reservoir Dogs Tipping Guide
- “Profiling the Reservoir Dogs” featurette
- Interview With Eidos Senior Marketing Manager Kevin Gill On The Video Game
- Classic interviews with Quentin Tarantino, Tim Roth, the late Chris Penn, and others.
- Deleted Scenes
- “Reservoir Dolls” video clip
- Select scene audio commentary featuring the cast, the crew and the critics
- Reservoir Dogs style guide
- Securing the Shot: Location Scouting
- The Class of ‘92 retrospective
- K-Billy Sounds of the ‘70s
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I can't see any reason to get this unless it looks much better than before. While innovative there is something so wrong with that packaging.
The big question of course will this mean finally an uncut Special Edition?
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What was meant to be cut? I'm fairly certain no cuts were made in the US and certainly not the UK.
The lack of scene specific commentary from Tarantino is a disappointment though. I'll make do with my region 1 SE until the 20th anniversary HD release at least.
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Note the exact words I used "Uncut Special Edition". In on other words: Currently the original 1 Disc UK DVD is the only Uncut DVD out there. To use the uncut is pushing it but it's technically correct :cool:
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Still advocating the "we must censor creative works before they're banned" position I see. It remains unfortunate that the Lady Chatterley/ Last Exist to Brooklyn defence teams chose not to follow it.
The Reservoir Dogs packaging certainly looks good as a petrol can, but the important thing will be if it's as strong as a petrol can. As for the special edition itself, while the features do look impressive, I agree with other posters that a complete and restored transfer is what it really needs.
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Originally Posted by bradavon:
Currently the original 1 Disc UK DVD is the only Uncut DVD out there. To use the uncut is pushing it but it's technically correct :cool:
I think you may be confused Brad. The region 1 SE is also "uncut", but since the film has never been cut (by either the MPAA, BBFC or studio) only banned (for want of a better phrase) in the UK and maybe some other countries I'm confused.
Any official DVD of this film will be the full intact version - which scene is supposedly cut, and which region?
I haven't heard any rumours of a director's cut either. Which is the only reason I'd pay for this film on DVD again since the extras here look pretty flimsy. Nice packaging though.
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Somebody cut the missing dialogue hence cut. Either that or they're from an older print than was shown at the cinema and the original DVD releases (I wonder if the original R1 bare-bones/non-anamorphic DVD was intact?) :cool:
Originally Posted by ghekkomanic:
I think you may be confused Brad.
Nope it's you whose confused Sir :D .
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Originally Posted by Byron:
Still advocating the "we must censor creative works before they're banned" position I see.
Unless this is a personal dig, this makes no sense to me. But if it was a personal dig, it's a pointlessly gratuitous one, as everything that I wrote in that post was a matter of checkable fact, not opinion.
It remains unfortunate that the Lady Chatterley/ Last Exist to Brooklyn defence teams chose not to follow it.
This is a non sequitur, as book publishing isn't subject to the 1984 Video Recordings Act (or any equivalent legislation), and the court cases you cite concerned the individual publishers.
But had Rank (who handled Reservoir Dogs during this period) decided to release the video without a BBFC certificate, their principled stance would have been met with an open-and-shut prosecution under the terms of the VRA and a hefty fine - the content of the film wouldn't even have entered into it.
I think it's unfortunate that the BBFC effectively turned the film into a political football - but in retrospect it's hard to see how they could have handled it significantly differently given that the tabloids and assorted rentagob politicians were going through the biggest bout of anti-video hysteria since the original "video nasties" affair. And since this led directly to the imposition of the VRA, the stakes were pretty damn high.
It's easy to look back with hindsight and think that the Board was being absurdly over-cautious, but at the time we simply didn't know what would happen - a wide-ranging Criminal Justice Bill was going through parliament and the government was making various noises about toughening up the terms of the VRA. All of which put the BBFC in a diplomatically very difficult position - especially as it had very little to fall back on in a legal sense (the Human Rights Act, which was a major impetus behind the massive liberalisation of 2000, was still several years away).
In the event, the 1994 Criminal Justice Act did end up tweaking the VRA, but not to anything like the same extent as had been threatened. But had the BBFC not gone on a high-profile diplomatic offensive, who's to say what would have happened?
So Reservoir Dogs, by dint of its sky-high profile, became a sacrificial lamb - though as sacrifices go, it wasn't an especially tough one, as the film was widely available in cinemas (rep and late night bookings went through the roof, helping cement its cult reputation) throughout this entire period, and Tarantino himself said that he thought being "banned" was rather cool.
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I'll wait for reviews as I'm sure this packaging isn't that limited........
I'll also be interested to see if the new DTS 6.1 EX sounds any good/different/better/same etc...
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Unless this is a personal dig, this makes no sense to me. But if it was a personal dig, it's a pointlessly gratuitous one, as everything that I wrote in that post was a matter of checkable fact, not opinion.
I assure you it was not. You said it was "unreleasable", and since it certainly wasn't unreleasable in law, taking it to mean it was correctly censored is a fair assumption.
This is a non sequitur, as book publishing isn't subject to the 1984 Video Recordings Act (or any equivalent legislation), and the court cases you cite concerned the individual publishers.
Not only are the moral and political arguments identical, both are subject to the Obscene Publications Act, and it's the failure of that legislation against "video nasties" that laid the path for the VRA. A similar occurrence could easily have befallen publishing after Chatterley and Broklyn (there were widespread calls for the new OPA to be repealed) so non sequitur it isn't.
It's easy to look back with hindsight and think that the Board was being absurdly over-cautious, but at the time we simply didn't know what would happen …
Indeed we didn't, just as we didn't know, before the Chatterly trial, that an acquittal wouldn't kickstart a violent moral backlash. There was every reason to think it would, but Penguin went ahead regardless. Nothing you've said couldn't be said, just as convincingly, to any OPA defence team.
What could the BBFC have done? Released the film as normal. Perhaps the government would have introduced that Tarantino-busting VRA, and Reservoir Dogs would have been banned; but they wouldn't be complicit in it. You do not defeat the Whitehouses of the world by tacit collaboration; you defeat them by confronting and exposing the poverty of their arguments. When her own views weren't in vogue, the geriatric avenger never felt the urge to run scared. Why do you?
Authoritarians work by proposing something outrageous that terrifies their opponents into accepting something a bit less outrageous. However small the 1994 amendments, they advanced the cause of censorship. The early nineties were an unbelievably censorious time because this thinking gives censors permanent control of the agenda. Freedom exists at their fiat. Fight them and, sometimes, you'll loose the battle; collaborate and you've already lost the war.
Reservoir Dogs might have sneaked out in a dirty mac two years later, but it remains on bail. Authoritarians know that, if ever they want to fuel another moral panic, they can rely on libertarians giving up a bit more ground. Witness the latest move against "violent pornography". All the sum of their power lies in those tiny surrenders.
(As for what its director thinks, sitting safe behind the First Amendment at home, he can happily treat censorship in foreign climes as an useful bit of bad-boy cache. Calling censorship "cool" indicates adolescent thinking, not a convincing argument.)
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I have the 10th Anniversary R1 version. Can anyone post exact details of the dialogue missing from this version (if there is any) or tell me where I can find more information on it?
Originally Posted by Byron:
(As for what its director thinks, sitting safe behind the First Amendment at home, he can happily treat censorship in foreign climes as an useful bit of bad-boy cache. Calling censorship "cool" indicates adolescent thinking, not a convincing argument.)
....what, you think Taratino is a grown up? Get real. I hate censorship as much as the next film fan, but you do come over a bit Big Brother (not Channel 4 Big Brother, the other one!)
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Originally Posted by Maffew:
Wait, a matchbox inside of a petrol can?
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cool ain`t it?
I already own the Dutch 2 disc set, but this looks too cool to resist. So I pre-ordered it quite a while ago :D
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