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On DVD some day??

posted 19 years ago by locham2011
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I bought this film on VHS about 2 years ago when I then saw it for the first time. I adore it! It has it's flaws, yes, but it's moving, daring and sweet. For 1982 I think they handled it just right. More and they would have scared people away - - less and they would have bored poeple or it would have been ignored.

Anyone know if it's ever going to be released on DVD? With loooots of extras! I'd love to find out more about the circumstances it was done in, what the actors have to say (LOOOOVE Michael Ontkean! Far too seldom on the screens!) and how it was welcomed and how poeple reacted. I was 12 when it was in the cinemas, so I have no idea what happened at the time. Would love to find out more about the 'behind the camera' and 'making of'..

Oh well..

[–] bepoppie 19 years ago

I'm expecting that day will come too.

Sadly, haven't seen this movie ever. I was 9 when the movie released. Just heard the name from a documentary called "The Celluloid Closet" by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112651/, this is one of the movies I'm dying to see.

Neither this movie was relased on LD.

[–] drobertj 19 years ago

Some background on the film and the actors feelings about making the movie are found in The Celluloid Closet, especially in the extra features, "on the cutting room floor"

[–] ppmadhukar 19 years ago

Where did you buy the VHS? I want to buy one copy too. I saw it as a 18 year old and was mesmerised by it especially in the homophobic India of those days.

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[–] wayoutsteve-1 19 years ago

try ebay they have copies now and then.

[–] mbellofranco 19 years ago

I'm waiting on DVD too.
Now, I can't find even in VHS.
By the way, do you know where I can find one? I'd like to buy one for present to a big friend of mine.
Thanks,
Marcelo

[–] glennh69 19 years ago

It terms of retail availability, the film is basically in limbo, which has transformed it into a hot property. The VHS is out of production, and (unless someone has some insider info), there is no plan to release it on DVD in the near future.

The cheapest used VHS copies on amazon.com are listed at $32 and they go up from there.

[–] White_Pongo 18 years ago

It's sometimes shown on cable TV --in fact, I saw it just recently and recorded it on my cable box's DVR (so I can transfer it to a VHS tape when I have time to).

It was on one of the "Starz" channels-- which are not channels that I particularly recommend --most of what they show is trash-- but I check their listings, anyway, for the occasional film "that got away" from me in initial release.

By the way, I think it's too much like a "TV-movie" -- and that's with no regard for the year it was made, or any other "timing" factor....

I AM looking forward to "Brokeback Mountain," however-- and even though it's a much-lauded film, I will watch it with an eye to the fact that it was written by a straight women, for straight women, produced by straight people and starring straight actors.--

The "target" audience is, in fact, straight women-- a fact that even the producers have publicly proclaimed-- (they're taking the "gay audience" for granted-- an unfortunate, though not unexpected, likelyhood).

They're hoping that hetero-women will flock to it, and hopefully drag some of their reluctant hetero-male-mates into the theaters with them.

Frankly, MY idea of a good (actually, GREAT) gay film is something like John Waters' "Female Trouble." It's a film made by a gay man, with a mostly gay production crew, an almost entirely gay cast, --and best of all-- a gay man (Divine) playing a 'straight' woman! -- now that's a 'gay movie'.....