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Warner Archive DVD to include BOTH versions of the film.

posted 12 years ago by Coolestmovies
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As seen here:

http://www.wbshop.com/Strawberry-Statement-The/1000180320,default,pd.h tml?cgid=

From the Archive email update:

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THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT (1970) Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, and Bud Cort star in this quintessential campus protest film. Sometimes a rebel protests to right a great injustice, or to free an oppressed people, or even to stop an unjust war. And sometimes a rebel protests because he wants to meet girls like erstwhile campus revolutionary Simon (Bruce Davison) who discovers the culture war can easily turn into a real war during a campus sit-in gone awry. Screenplay by playwright Israel Horovitz, father of Beastie Boy King Ad Rock. Newly remastered. 16x9 Widescreen

Special Feature: A bonus disc featuring the complete, uncut INTERNATIONAL VERSION of the film!

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[–] Sandoz 12 years ago

Nice to finally have it, but frankly I'm a little amazed this actually got released with all the classic tunes on the soundtrack. Maybe the MOD program has a different rights pay-out than commercial DVDs.

But anyway, what the heck is different about this "International Cut" anyway? Is that a euphemistic way of saying..."the uncensored"version?" There's noting on here under Alternate Versions to reference...

"You may sit here in the waiting room...or, you can wait here in the sitting room."

[–] Coolestmovies 12 years ago

I believe the rights issues are different on the MOD releases. I remember people being rather surprised when they released URGH! A MUSIC WAR in the early days of the Archive. Music rights had kept that off DVD (and possibly VHS?) for decades, but it was released through the Archive with nary a change to its soundtrack.

[–] Sandoz 12 years ago

Well to respond to my own query (someone had to!)...

There's one significant difference between the two versions that come on the WA release: There's a scene between Simon and a large-breasted revolutionary gal in the Xerox room that is entirely missing from the Theatrical Cut version of the film, nearly a 3 minute scene. I was too young to have seen this in the theater, so I don't know if that scene was ever shown originally in the U.S. upon initial release or not, but I'm gonna say it wasn't because the actress in the scene is missing from the end credits of the Theatrical Cut but she's listed in them for the Extended International version. This scene has been shown in TV prints of the film, but when I saw it recently on TCM, all the nudity was censored and it was shorter.

The Extended International version is almost 7 minutes longer than the Theatrical (U.S.) Cut, and the above scene is just shy of 3, so that leaves 4 more minutes that's extra in it. Someone else can look for the for what else is extra, I'm done.

This is very hard to read, isn't it?

[–] jobla 11 years ago

Thanks for the report!