I've noticed that my VHS of this is listed as 110 minutes while the Chinese DVD imports have it at 115 minutes. Anybody seen both of them and know? Or does anyone at least have the imported DVD of it and can let me know about the picture quality? Thanks.
shareThat sounds like a PAL/NTSC difference rather than an actual different runtime. To further muddy the waters, the restored reissue that I saw in a cinema yesterday had a runtime of 112 minutes. Picture quality of the restoration is superb.
shareJust for the record, this is getting a Blu-Ray release before the end of this year.
shareCriterion? Criterion currently has only added one Bertolucci film to its collection: The Last Emperor. (How can The Last Emperor be more important than Novecento or Il conformista? I love Criterion for saving so many masterpieces of film and doing so in a format [Blu-ray] that retains the visual/audio detail better than any other current media format. However, Criterion focuses exclusively on collecting the works of the great directors. Sometimes, a transcendental performance makes a film important, even if the director is not one of the revered few. I'm not implying that Bertolucci isn't revered.)
shareBritish Film Institute is putting it out.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=6158
BFI Preparing Bernardo Bertolucci's Before the Revolution
Posted April 9, 2011 02:23 AM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute have revealed that they are working on a Dual Format release of Bernardo Bertolucci's Prima della rivoluzione a.k.a Before the Revolution (1964), which will be out later this year.
In the United States, the film has appeared only on VHS, courtesy of the now defunct New Yorker Video.