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  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?
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  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?
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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