I have a copy recorded from some cable channel that's 140 minutes.

I bought a copy of this last year at the Flashback Weekend convention in Chicago. It was a pretty crappy bootleg. Didn't even know there was a different cut. I'm interested in seeing this.

Grindhouse?

I think he has been preparing two new films over the past year Fangland (Which looks to be dead) and The Ward. Heard somewhere awhile back that Debra Hill's death bothered him pretty bad as well.

I believe the post was referring to Carpenter. He has been busy signing off on atrocious remakes of his classic films.

He just finished a film that was going into editing... and then he was leaving to shoot something else.... so he apprears to be busy.

He's spent the last several years writing and gathering scripts and actually has several projects lined up back-to-back.

I'll believe that when I see it.

Not calling you a liar...

Looks like a great DVD despite the lack of a commentary track. Will just be glad to finally have it.

review up

Eh, the special features don't sound too appealing. I'm still gonna grab it though.

Yeah, I had higher expectations for the features. I'll still be checking it out for the curiosity factor though.

Its because everyone wants a Russell/Carpenter commentary, right? Besides that, some pretty interesting stuff on there.

No, I couldn't care less if there was a Russell/Carpenter commentary. The reviewer just doesn't make the features sound appealing. Though I would like to point out that the reviewer makes the commentary sound awful because its about the making of the movie and not about Elvis. I think that's stupid! Why would you want a commentary that is solely about Elvis? The commentary SHOULD be about the making of the film. I know a ton about Elvis, I don't need a commentary retelling me everything I already know. So I think the commentary might actually be good.

Pre-ordered. Then my Carpenter collection will be almost complete (Still missing 'Someone's Watching Me')

Hop on over to Big Lots and grab it for $3. if you can find a copy.

At first I thought, What did he have to do with this movie?

I'm curious as to why this is 16:9. Hopefully it was shot to be safe for both widescreen and the 4:3 television broadcast.

Wasn't it a theatrical movie overseas? If that is the case I assume it was shot in widescreen and then cropped for the TV broadcast in the US.

Either that or Carpenter framed for 1.85:1 and the tv version was open matte.


LOL Ronnie and Roddy are two very different people ;o)

I just worry that its going to become the norm to start cropping films to 1.78:1 so people don't have black bars on HDTV's. You guys are likely right that it was shot intended for widescreen but kept it safe for the open-matte TV viewing. I have Carpenters others TV movie "Somebody's Watching Me" which is presented in widescreen and it doesn't feel over cropped. I've never seen this movie so I am really looking forward to it. The Carpenter collection will finally be complete.

Looking forward to finally having this in my DVD collection!

Added to my Netflix que...

Carpenter stated that he definitely composed "SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME" for 1.33 tv-format (even though he hated that TV full-frame format, he composed it that way because he had to). He didn't oversee the matted widescreen euro-release (which is what is on the DVD, unfortunately).

I have no idea about ELVIS and what Carpenter's truly intended AR was.

Wow fantastic news! Can't wait to finally see this on DVD.