John Woo introduces ‘Red Cliff’

RED CLIFF (2008)

Magnolia Pictures is gearing up for the limited theatrical release of John Woo’s critically acclaimed war epic RED CLIFF on November 20th and has put out a preview video where Woo describes the significance of the film. Magnolia has already made the film available in the States ahead of its theatrical run as a VOD release on Pay-Per-View, On Demand and HDNet Movies.

I’m looking at Comcast’s listing for RED CLIFF and it looks like Magnolia is releasing the entire two-part saga on VOD beginning with PART 1, as opposed to releasing the shortened international version. Hopefully, we’ll also be able to get both parts when the film comes to DVD and Blu-ray.

Tags: John Woo, Red Cliff (2008), Videos

Rhythm-X

I admire the inherent optimism here, it's touching... but optimism and the discussion of Chinese/Hong Kong cinema releases in the US don't mix. It's safe to assume we're getting screwed, because we almost always get screwed. There's nothing whatsoever on the Six Shooter Film Series website, or the Magnolia website, or the Magnet website, or the American RED CLIFF website about the PPV version being the uncut two-film version. Only one film named RED CLIFF has been rated by the MPAA, and we already know the short cut is rated R. Admittedly, the real version might very well go unrated as there's no plans to send it to theaters. There's also nothing about Red Cliff Part II on Fancast.com, either. You'd think that if they were running Part I that they'd at least have a date for Part II but if they do, they've hidden it quite well.

I hope it really is the uncut version but that seems exceedingly unlikely. More likely someone at Fancast.com got confused and entered the wrong title.

Kevin Celebi

So this won't be the significantly shortened version? I saw the full version and don't understand how any of that could have been left out, except maybe for some of the love stories...

Mark Pollard

My current understanding is that Magnolia is releasing the shortened version in select theaters while the longer cut will be made available to audiences at home, either through VOD or DVD.