DISQUS

filmbo · 1 year ago

Jandy, I'm curious as to your VHS tape. I saw the film when it was on TCM a few years ago and I quite liked it and wanted to see it again, so I rented the VHS tape and DAH! The version on video had the strange title card at the beginning and many of the scenes were re-edited to show repetition that was definitely NOT in the TCM/Janus screening.

Did your VHS also suffer from this stranger Americanized version?

Jandy · 1 year ago

Huh, yeah, I had the one with the title card at the beginning (which I kind of liked, actually--it amused me). What specific things were changed, can you remember? I didn't realize there were multiple versions out there. Does Criterion own the rights? Are they going to put it on DVD someday?

filmbo · 1 year ago

Janus owns the rights to this, Tristana, Simon of the Desert, and the recently acquired Belle de Jour, so hopefully they will release it onto DVD. I was hoping for a Bunuel/Pinal boxset, but I think they are working on a Mexican Bunuel boxset with this title included.

Beside the title card, I remember certain scenes being edited differently, so that a scene where the couples all sit down at the table is repeated right after. If there were Janus logos before your copy, it may not have had this issue.

RC of strangeculture · 1 year ago

I haven't seen this one...I saw Virdiana last year for the first time last year...but now you've definitly got me interested.

Jandy · 1 year ago

I haven't seen Viridiana yet, but I do like Exterminating Angel a lot. Probably better than the other Bunuel films I have seen. You might wait until the DVD is released, if it doesn't take too long; I'm not kidding about the VHS print being horrid. A bunch of the subtitles are totally illegible.