Caligula to be released uncut in the UK after 29 years.
Arrow Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Caligula: The Imperial Edition on 29th September 2008 priced at £24.99. The press blurb is too good not to include here…
The notorious and ludicrously opulent multi-million dollar ‘porn epic' that sees esteemed British acting stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren being outrageously upstaged by graphic sequences involving anal fisting, explicit lesbian trysts, orgies and blow jobs (among other things), the uncut Caligula finally comes to DVD in September.
The Imperial Edition is a four-disc set that features three separate versions of the film including the complete, fully uncut and uncensored version that sealed this demented film's reputation as one of the most controversial in cinema history.
Due to many varied censorship issues and legal problems, over the years since its completion Caligula has emerged in several different versions. The four-disc Caligula: The Imperial Edition includes the three most widely known of these – the full, Uncut Version (2 hours 36 minutes), the UK Theatrical Version (1 hour 42 minutes) and the Alternative Version (2 hours 33 minutes), the latter replacing most of the more sexually explicit sequences with alternate scenes and alternate camera angles. The fourth disc of Extras features a variety of materials (documentaries, interviews, press notes, etc.) that provide a comprehensive background on the history and the making of the film.
Caligula – The Uncut Version - 2 hours 36 minutes
* Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround Sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio options
Caligula – The Theatrical Version – 1 hour 42 minutes
* Trailers: Teaser, trailer & R-rated trailer * North American bonus footage * Behind the scenes footage
Caligula – The Alternative Version – 2 hours 33 minutes
* Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround Sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio options * Deleted and alternate scenes * Audio commentaries by Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and Ernest Volkman (Penthouse magazine's on-set writer and reporter)
Extras Disc
* Making of Caligula documentary * Making of Caligula featurette * My Roman Holiday with John Steiner * Caligula's Pet: A Conversation with Lori Wagner * Tinto Brass: The Orgy Of Power * Stills galleries * Additional DVD-ROM content includes press kit notes; cast and crew biographies; script; novelization.
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:57 pm
by DrPepperMan
Does anyone know when Lost in Translation is coming out on Blue-Ray? I know they said it was going to be released. They released it on HD-DVD anyway before the end.
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:54 am
by tomvek
DrPepperMan wrote:Does anyone know when Lost in Translation is coming out on Blue-Ray? I know they said it was going to be released. They released it on HD-DVD anyway before the end.
Sorry DrPepperMan, no announcement has been made as to when they're going to release it on blu-ray but as soon as they do I'll post it in here.
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:58 am
by Jax
I really hope Blu-Ray isn't the last format we ever have. It certainly could be.
I don't want this because the name Blu-Ray is terrible. DVD is good, and VHS acceptable. Blu-Ray the name? Pfft.
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:00 am
by Shadow
Jaxley wrote:I really hope Blu-Ray isn't the last format we ever have. It certainly could be.
I don't want this because the name Blu-Ray is terrible. DVD is good, and VHS acceptable. Blu-Ray the name? Pfft.
Could we not call them BRDs?
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:01 am
by Pattybean
I watched the orphange on bluray last night, was quite enjoyable and sad.
Excellean't believe the picture quality though, really love the HD goodness, also love how my US office Season 3 looks upscaled I swear it looks full HD.
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:18 pm
by tomvek
Insert 10p to continue wrote:I watched the orphange on bluray last night, was quite enjoyable and sad.
Excellean't believe the picture quality though, really love the HD goodness, also love how my US office Season 3 looks upscaled I swear it looks full HD.
What are you using to upscale Insert10?
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:34 pm
by KK
Caligula sounds like one for all the family.
(God forbid that this actually occurred, & you ended up accidentally watching this 'historic drama' with anyone other than your girlfriend. Oh, the resulting awkwardness would be incredible...)
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:59 pm
by Chris
Wall E: DVD and Blu-Ray release (Region 1).
DVD Active wrote:Disney Home Video has announced 1-disc ($29.99), 3-disc ($39.99), and Blu-ray ($35.99) editions of Wall-E for release on the 18th November. According to the folks at TheDigitalBits.com, the 1-disc will include commentary with director Andrew Stanton, deleted scenes, featurettes (Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up, Sneak Peek: WALL-E's Tour of the Universe), and a new Burn-E animated short. The 3-disc will add to this additional deleted scenes, 3 featurettes (The Pixar Story by Leslie Iwerks, BnL Shorts and Wall-E's Treasures and Trinkets), a Lots of Bots storybook, additional "making of" featurettes, Bot Files and a digital copy of the film. The Blu-ray edition will include all of the 2-disc features (minus the digital copy) plus various viewing track options and interactive games.
tomvek wrote:Batman - Complete Animated Series Gift Set (R1)
Release: 4th November RRP: $107.92 Specs: - 17 Disc
Features: - Limited edition packaging - 40-page collector’s book with artwork from the vaults - New documentary created for this collection
Box Art
I'm really hoping this is coming to R2 very soon.
This is quite annoying as I already own all the Batman Animated episodes on region 1 dvd as it is, but does look like a good boxset. I'll not be picking this up as well though, I hate double-dipping on DVDs.
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:49 pm
by E-Man
Chris wrote:Wall E: DVD and Blu-Ray release (Region 1).
Caligula to be released uncut in the UK after 29 years.
Arrow Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Caligula: The Imperial Edition on 29th September 2008 priced at £24.99. The press blurb is too good not to include here…
The notorious and ludicrously opulent multi-million dollar ‘porn epic' that sees esteemed British acting stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren being outrageously upstaged by graphic sequences involving anal fisting, explicit lesbian trysts, orgies and blow jobs (among other things), the uncut Caligula finally comes to DVD in September.
The Imperial Edition is a four-disc set that features three separate versions of the film including the complete, fully uncut and uncensored version that sealed this demented film's reputation as one of the most controversial in cinema history.
Due to many varied censorship issues and legal problems, over the years since its completion Caligula has emerged in several different versions. The four-disc Caligula: The Imperial Edition includes the three most widely known of these – the full, Uncut Version (2 hours 36 minutes), the UK Theatrical Version (1 hour 42 minutes) and the Alternative Version (2 hours 33 minutes), the latter replacing most of the more sexually explicit sequences with alternate scenes and alternate camera angles. The fourth disc of Extras features a variety of materials (documentaries, interviews, press notes, etc.) that provide a comprehensive background on the history and the making of the film.
Caligula – The Uncut Version - 2 hours 36 minutes
* Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround Sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio options
Caligula – The Theatrical Version – 1 hour 42 minutes
* Trailers: Teaser, trailer & R-rated trailer * North American bonus footage * Behind the scenes footage
Caligula – The Alternative Version – 2 hours 33 minutes
* Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround Sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio options * Deleted and alternate scenes * Audio commentaries by Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and Ernest Volkman (Penthouse magazine's on-set writer and reporter)
Extras Disc
* Making of Caligula documentary * Making of Caligula featurette * My Roman Holiday with John Steiner * Caligula's Pet: A Conversation with Lori Wagner * Tinto Brass: The Orgy Of Power * Stills galleries * Additional DVD-ROM content includes press kit notes; cast and crew biographies; script; novelization.
Hmm. I've had the misfortune of sitting through Caligula, the FilmFour version, which was uncut but didn't feature the hardcore stuff. Not that the director wanted the hardcore stuff in it, the hardcore stuff doesn't feature the main actors and was added in, unknownst to the director by the producer (penthouse porn baron Bob Guccione). Presumably because the film was so strawberry floating boring. Which is an achievement, for a film which features so much sex, violence and nudity.
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:23 pm
by tomvek
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (R1)
Release: TBA (18th November?) Editions: Single disc ($29.98 SRP), 3 disc SE ($34.98 SRP) and 3 disc CE ($59.98 SRP) Specs: The 3 Disc CE will include a Limited Edition Golden Army Statue and excerpts from the journal of Guillermo del Toro.
Features:
(More to be announced)
- Director’s Commentary - Deleted Scenes with optional commentary - Gag Reel - Troll Market Tour with Guillermo del Toro (12mins) - Epilogue (aka Zinco Epilogue) (5mins) - Professor Broom’s Puppet Theatre (3mins) - Director’s Notebook (11mins) - Set Visits (17mins) - Video Prologue & Intro to Puppet Theatre (5mins) - Mike Mignola Creator Gallery with commentary (36mins) - Hellboy: In Service of the Demon Part 2 (63mins)
[quote]On Sept. 9, Universal will release an amazing 10th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Big Lebowski that's packed inside of a mini-bowling ball. A goddamn bowling ball. And it'll have all-new bonus features, which I hope/suspect is filled with John Goodman screaming various permutations "strawberry float" a lot. For only $24. Why so cheap? Because it's only on DVD. WTF, Universal?
Where the hell is the Blu-ray edition? How can you ask us to buy it a fifth time--after VHS, two earlier DVDs and the beautiful-looking HD DVD--without a version on Blu-ray? Do we really have to hang onto our Xbox HD DVD module just so we can enjoy the Coen Brothers' masterpiece, with classic sequences like The Dude's post-roofie hallucination, dripping with oddball 70s sleaze, in high-def? Who are you, George Lucas? This will not stand. [Amazon via Crunchgear]
On Sept. 9, Universal will release an amazing 10th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Big Lebowski that's packed inside of a mini-bowling ball. A goddamn bowling ball. And it'll have all-new bonus features, which I hope/suspect is filled with John Goodman screaming various permutations "strawberry float" a lot. For only $24. Why so cheap? Because it's only on DVD. WTF, Universal?
Where the hell is the Blu-ray edition? How can you ask us to buy it a fifth time--after VHS, two earlier DVDs and the beautiful-looking HD DVD--without a version on Blu-ray? Do we really have to hang onto our Xbox HD DVD module just so we can enjoy the Coen Brothers' masterpiece, with classic sequences like The Dude's post-roofie hallucination, dripping with oddball 70s sleaze, in high-def? Who are you, George Lucas? This will not stand. [Amazon via Crunchgear]
Has that been mentioned much yet on here?
WANTS NOW
Re: The DVD/Blu-Ray Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:39 pm
by Sarge
The HB2 boxset looks mighty fine, especially with the golden army statue.
