One minute, director Rupert Goold is being showered with praise for his production of Lucy Prebble's Enron at London's Royal Court.
One minute, director Shawn Seet is pulling a show-stopping helicopter shot that pans up from an overturned car to an infinite, uninhabited landscape; the next, he's filling the screen with dancing code, encryption and jpegs, as a biotech giant is speed-hacked.
Available editions include both a 186-minute "director's cut" and the 161-minute theatrical version.
In the 2005 film, which clocks in at just 93 minutes, director Steve Anderson elicits exclamations of "f***" from a broad selection of celebrities, racking up a surely unbeatable 857, at a rate of 9.21fpm.
To see how far the Captain has come, Albert Pyun's 124-minute Director's Cut of 'Captain America' is available from his www.pyun.com; 'Captain America: The First Avenger' is in cinemas nationwide.
MADE before the huge success of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Peter Jackson's neglected 1995 horror-comedy is being released in this 123-minute director's cut (14 minutes longer than the theatrical release).
But if they were taking suggestions I might offer, "What, I Don't Have My Own Problems?" For 93 minutes, director Stéphane Brizé takes us on a tour of modern economic frustration.
Quentin Tarantino wrote the story for Oliver Stone's 1992 action freakout, "Natural Born Killers" (Oct . 13, starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as a pair of telegenic psychopaths; it will be released, in a two-hundred-and-five-minute director's cut, by Warner Home Video.
In 1924, Erich von Stroheim — legendary for insisting that extras in his costume dramas be issued period-correct silk undies — vainly sought to have his epic "Greed" released in an eight-hour version; from that attempt it was a short, ghastly step to the three-hour-and-fifty-three-minute director's cut of "Dances with Wolves".
I have not seen the 130-minute director's cut of "Klimt" that was shown at the 2006 Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals, but I imagine it was structurally more sound than the 97-minute blur of a movie that opens today in New York.
In the current absence of the Cannes version at 155 minutes, it's hard to make a case for what was removed, but when Tornatore unleashed his 171-minute Director's Cut in 2002, there was ecstasy from fans, but scepticism from many critics, with Roger Ebert noting that whatever "butchery" Miramax had performed on the Cannes print, it looked magnificent compared to the bloated Tornatore edit.
