Comments on: John Woo introduces ‘Red Cliff’

By: Rhythm-X

Rhythm-X — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:39:25 +0000

Replying to myself here, but it should be noted that Amazon.com is now listing a March 30, 2010 Magnolia release of what's being called the "Two Disc International Version" of RED CLIFF on both Blu-ray and DVD. Never mind the nitpicky detail that it's the short cut of the film that's actually the "International Version" - I'll be picking this up. Congratulations to Magnolia for not being complete idiots. It's all too rare to see something pertaining to Asian cinema handled correctly by an American company.

Now watch, just because I said that, it'll have closed captions instead of subtitles or some other sort of idiocy along those lines.

By: Rhythm-X

Rhythm-X — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:39:25 +0000

By: Rhythm-X

Rhythm-X — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:11:33 +0000

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.

By: websheriff

websheriff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:55:30 +0000

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Hi Mark,

On behalf of Magnolia Pictures and the movie’s producers, many thanks for plugging "Red Cliff" ... .. thanks also, on behalf of the distributors and producers, for not posting any pirate copies or non-trailer clips of “Red Cliff” and if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, previews, then the official trailer for “Red Cliff” is available for fans and bloggers to post/ host / share etc at http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/redcliff/ ... .. for further details of on-line promotions for this movie and Magnolia releases generally, check-out www.magpictures.com and their official YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/MagnoliaPictures .

Thanks again for your plug.

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By: Mark Pollard

Mark Pollard — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:22:01 +0000

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.

By: Kevin Celebi

Kevin Celebi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:37:01 +0000

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…

By: Daniel Zelter

Daniel Zelter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:55:00 +0000

His English is fine. No need to sub it. -_- But at least Tarantino is not mentioned once in that clip…