Thursday, February 03, 2005
DUNE gets a special edition DVD
Universal Studios is finally giving David Lynch’s DUNE a proper special edition. Since we will never see Lynch’s 5-hour directors cut, this is probably going to be the ultimate edition for quite some time.
I know a lot of people hate DUNE, and maybe as a science fiction movie it isn’t so good, but as a David Lynch movie is is very interesting. The last time I watched it was not too long after STAR WARS EPISODE I for the first time and I was blown away by how amazing the sets were in DUNE compared to that movie. The music and visual style are also very operatic and unique. The movie definitely has it’s flaws, but I’ll look forward to watching this one on a decent DVD.
DETAILS:
2 disc set
Region 1
Original Theatrical Version (137 minutes)
Extended Version (190 minutes)
Metal Snap Case packaging
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Bonus Features to be announced.
It is important to note, that neither one of these versions is the Director’s Cut. Lynch’s cut reportedly is almost five hours long and after the movie was re-edited without his consent, he vowed to never touch the movie again.
Source: DVD Times
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
DVD RELEASES > February 1, 2005
- America’s Heart and Soul
- Andromeda Season 3 Collection
- Babe Family Double Feature
- Bad Girls Extended Version
- Blue Lagoon/Return to the Blue Lagoon
- Bodyguard:Se
- Bopha
- Brak Show 1
- The Broadway Melody of 1929
- Chariots of Fire:Se
- Charmed:Complete First Season
- Cheers:Complete Fourth Season
- Degrassi Junior High - Season 1
- Fall Guy
- Frasier:Complete Fourth Season
- Grudge
- Henry Rollins:Shock and Awe
- I Love Lucy:Complete Third Season
- Karate Kid Collection
- Killer Barbys Vs Dracula
- La Commare Secca - Criterion Collection
- Last Days of Patton
- Laughing Policeman
- Look Who’s Talking Collection
- Mr 3000
- Mulan II
- New Jersey Drive
- Night and the City
- Oz: Complete Fourth Season
- Palm Beach Story
- The Palm Beach Story
- Penn & Teller Season 2 Bullsh*T
- Ray
- Ray (Widescreen)
- Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
- School Daze Special Edition
- Sealab 2021 - Seasons 1 & 2
- Sealab 2021: Season 2
- Secrets and Lies
- Shall We Dance
- Shall We Dance
- Shall We Dance - Japanese Version
- She Hate Me
- Star Chamber
- Sympathy for the Underdog
- Taxi - The Complete Second Season
- Thieves’ Highway - Criterion Collection
- Vanity Fair
- Where the Buffalo Roam
- Wind in the Willows
- Wonderfalls: Complete Series
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Monday, January 17, 2005
SAW DVD Artwork
While I haven’t seen the movie itself, the promotional material for SAW was top-notch. The high quality seems to have carried over to the DVD itself. Check out this cool disc packaging and design.

The DVD will be released February 15th, but you can pre-order it now at Amazon.
Read our review of SAW: “From the slitting of a throat, dunking of a hand in the ***censored*** of the toilet bowl to the sawing of ones own foot from its limb, this is one ripe horror flick ready for Halloween.”
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
HD-DVD is here!
Get ready to put your DVDs up on ebay. You only thought you were building a permanent collection. Sorry, dude! Technology is passing you by. HD-DVD is already here. Studios have begun announcing the titles that they plan to release on HIGH DEFINITION DVD in 2005. Here is a partial list sorted by studio.
PARAMOUNT: Black Rain, Braveheart, Coach Carter, Elizabethtown, Forrest Gump, Ghost, Grease, The Italian Job, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Manchurian Candidate, Mission Impossible 2, Save the Last Dance, School of Rock, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Sleepy Hollow, The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie, Star Trek: First Contact, U2 Rattle & Hum, Vanilla Sky and We Were Soldiers.
WARNER: Above the Law, Alexander, Angels in America (HBO), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (New Line), Batman Begins, Blade (New Line), Catwoman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Constantine, Contact, Dark City (New Line), The Dukes of Hazzard, Eraser, Executive Decision, Final Destination (New Line), Friday (New Line), From the Earth to the Moon (HBO), The Fugitive, Gothika, Hard to Kill, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, House of Wax (2005), The Last Samurai, The Mask (New Line), The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Maverick, Million Dollar Baby, The Music Man, Mystic River, Next of Kin, North by Northwest, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Passenger 57, The Perfect Storm, The Phantom of the Opera (2004), The Player (New Line), The Polar Express, Red Planet, Rush Hour (New Line), Se7en (New Line), Soldier, The Sopranos (HBO), Spawn (New Line), Swordfish, Troy, Under Siege, U.S. Marshals, and Wild Wild West.
UNIVERSAL: The Bourne Supremacy, The Chronicles of Riddick, Van Helsing, Apollo 13, U-571, 12 Monkeys, Dune, The Thing, End of Days, Backdraft, Waterworld, The Bone Collector, Spy Game, Pitch Black, Conan the Barbarian, and Dante’s Peak.
Source: DVD FILE
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David Lynch talks TWIN PEAKS:FIRE WALK WITH ME
David Lynch fans have been salivating for years about the existence of an extended version of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME. For a more detailed history of the project, check out this article. Basically, a bunch of extended footage exists and a French DVD company wants to release it, but there have been rights-related issues. That may finally be coming to an end.
Now David Lynch has finally commented on the extended edition. In an interview with the French website Telerama, Lynch mentioned the deleted scenes specifically:
David Lynch: I would do this for sentimental reasons. My friend, Jack Nance appeared in one of those deleted scenes. He’s dead now and it would be a great tribute to him.
I’ve wanted to see an extended cut of this movie since the in-depth article Tim Lucas ran in VIDEO WATCHDOG over ten years ago. The article basically reconstructed the film using the screenplay and the deleted footage. An extended cut of this film might allow audiences to see it in a whole new light.
In other Lynch DVD news, DUNE and MULLHOLLAND DRIVE will be 2 of the first films released on the new High Definition DVD format.
Source: Dugpa
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