Jaymole

Special edition up for pre-order at DVD Empire for 19.98 retail.
commentary by Director Abel Ferrara and Director of Photography Ken Kelsch and a retrospective documentary, and is encased in brand new O-card packaging.

riotinmyskull

just bought the old release a month ago...you're welcome people.

badlieut

Hopefully there is a BD release. Looking forward to it regardless. I would love it if the original music was restored but I doubt it.

Matthew Ackerly

Wow, this should be an entertaining commentary.

Hoepfully, Ferrara can shed some light on when he taught Keitel to smoke crack and everything else that supposedly went on behind the scenes.

Geofferson

Haven't seen this in years -- will likely pick this up.

darkhawk

I want to replace my old dvd. Since this was Artisan, which is now Lion's Gate, do you think LG will get it right? With the way they messed up Ironweed and Voyage of the Damned, Let's see how this will be.

http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_ite...tem_id=1467543

Zen Peckinpah

Yeah, same here got it for $5 last year, and now there's a new one. Great.

Actually just loaned it out to a friend, maybe he'll just keep the old release.

Torchur317

That's great, One of my all time favorites!!!!

BuddhaWake

so did i. i figured a SE would never happened. no need for tank you cards but i do take cash.

tylergfoster

When I heard the maybe-remake by Werner Herzog was in production, i knew we'd get an SE of this.

I've never seen it so I'll be picking it up.

slop101

Bad Lieutenant (along with Irreversible, and I may add Martyrs) has the distinction of being a movie I watch with a girl when I want her to break up with me.

chris_sc77

I am definitely in for this one. I'll place it right next to my King of New York SE.

hasslein

Another reason to hold onto laserdisc.

RagingBull80

I will be getting this.

EDIT: What's the deal with the music issues?

MTRodaba2468

I also picked it up, not too long ago, as part of the 3 For $10 deal at FYE (with my BSP, technically 3 For $9), since I wasn't expecting a SE release.

That would be fantastic if a Blu-Ray with the original music was also released...

MTRodaba2468

That wouldn't have worked with my ex-girlfriend. She was the last chick you'd expect to get into the more "out there" or incredibly graphic flicks (at first glance, you'd think she'd only watch stuff like 13 Going On 30), but she LOVES that stuff...

hasslein

I don't remember the details, but there is a Zeppelin song on the first press of the laserdisc that I guess was cleared, but once that Plant &/or Page found out, they didn't approve and it was subsequently removed. Any other issues I'm unaware of.

mickey65

Wasn't there a remake of "Kashmir" in the soundtrack? I remember when I watched it (on DVD), hearing what I thought was a Zep song - but a poor re-do of it.

dino88

If you don't want to sit through the movie w/them, you could always just re-enact the scene w/the 2 girls in the car. I'm sure she'd be happy to leave before you "finished" the scene.

dino88

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See, Puff Daddy wasn't the first rapper to ruin it.

Matthew Ackerly

In the film, Schooly D's "Signifying Rapper" uses a live guitar simulation of the riff from "Kashmir." However, Led Zeppelin's lawyers threatened to sue, and even though all the parties involved could have contested their claim (one cannot copyright a mere riff), they decided it would be too expensive to fight it, so all subsequent home video releases and cable airings have replaced the song with an acoustic recording of Ferrara himself singing a song called "Bad Lieutenant."

mickey65

So the DVD I have of the movie with that insulting Kashmir riff is one of the "rare" copies of the movie before they eliminated it?

Luther Heggs

"Signifying Rapper" is heard in the theatrical version in four different places, just before the LT buys crack, during the rape of the nun (replaced with organ music that radically changes the tone of the scene), during the LT's walk into the hospital, and over the credits (replaced with the aforementioned Ferrara song). Another thing that will likely be missing from this SE is the additional scenes shot for the R-rated version, as that would require some further music rights clearance.
If you have a commercially manufactured DVD of Bad Lieutenant with "Signifying Rapper" intact, you should certainly put it up for sale on eBay with as high a BIN price as you wish.

islandclaws

I hope this is getting a BD release as well, but I doubt it. Also, given LG's track record as of late I don't have the utmost confidence that they won't somehow manage to fuck this up.

But, assuming they don't, I'll be picking it up.

mickey65

Yes, I do have a an original DVD release with that offending Kashmir riff in it. But I don't plan on selling it!

I love Led Zeppelin and hate (c)rap music, and I just shook my head when I first heard it.

I bought my copy off of Amazon a couple of years ago for about $5.