On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:44:48 -0400, Opoponax
<opoponaxNOSPAM@hushmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:42:59 +0200, COM@comeon.net wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 06:24:31 -0400, Opoponax
>><opoponaxNOSPAM@hushmail.com> wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:50:53 +0200, COM@comeon.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Olivier, Olivier (1992)
>>>>
>>>>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102583/
>>>>
>>>>COM
>>>
>>>I mentioned this to you elsewhere, but here it is again for anyone
>>>else who might want to know.
>>>
>>>The DVD release of this movie is not the way to go. It's heavily
>>>edited (I forget how much was removed, but quite at lot) from what was
>>>in the VHS release. I have no idea about quality, but with so much
>>>removed, I'd be grateful for a well-done VHS rip of this one.
>>>
>>>-Opoponax
>>>Wolf! Right here and now!
>>
>>Can't remember having heard that, but it sounds to be a cruel
>>treatment to a movie
>>
>>COM
>
>I remember I was absolutely apalled when I read it, since I'd been
>considering ordering the DVD from ah mah zone you kay for both of us,
>and now I can't find the discussion where I found this out....
>
>However, compare the VHS and DVD running times for the VHS (dot com)
>and the DVD (dot co dot uk). You'll need to convert, since the VHS is
>NTSC and the DVD is PAL)
>
>VHS is 110 minutes NTSC (which is 105.6 PAL)
>DVD is 105 minutes PAL (which is 109.4 NTSC)
>
>so now that I've done the math I don't see a whackload of difference.
>Maybe the one who posted the complaint had a bogus or alternative DVD
>release (such as an import, modified to get past customs).
>
>I'll keep looking for the DVD and we will see what we will see
>
>-Opoponax
>Wolf! Right here and now!
Found this:
Buy VHS not DVD
Author: mikedarlow from United Kingdom
13 July 2007
I recorded most of movie on VHS many years ago, and have just bought a
used DVD from USA.
I wish to warn viewers, that a full 17 minutes is omitted on DVD, near
the films end.
From point where the older Olivier returns home finding Serge delving
in the garage, asking for help to sort out mess, to the point where
Olivier drives on his motorbike to the little house and gives Marcel
his just deserts, full 17 minutes omitted on DVD .
THIS IS THE HEART OF THE MOVIE
Will try to relate what is missing on DVD :-
Father Serge in Garage, finds old bottle of Calvados; he and Olivier
consume it all getting drunk. They accuse each in turn of running away
from home.
When they rejoin the two women, man and boy are in a bad way, Olivier
singing 'House of the Rising Sun'.
Wife takes Serge to bed nursing his hangover
Later mother relates to Nadine what happened out shopping. Surrounded
by lady shoppers, Gossip questing about return of husband and son.
Newspaper reports true relative Olivier ? (Implication rent boy).
Nadine finds Olivier in bed crying. She joins him. Olivier produces
sisters questionnaire board and supplies Nadine, with all the correct
answers.
Then Olivier half dressed, enters Nadine's bedroom; she in turn is
crying. He joins her in bed, he is cold and lonely. Nadine questions
him again about Paris. He explains that his life has been in a series
of railway station, his orphanages.
She draws him closer and then they have sex.
(Viewers wondering is this incest)?
Later Nadine becomes utterly convinced that Olivier is her brother and
rushes to tell father Serge what she has seen and heard outside the
house
At this point, we rejoin the DVD near the film's end, Olivier sorting
out Marcel.
I think it criminal that heart of the film omitted on DVD.
olivier olivier is a very fine film, ruined in the DVD version. Buy
the VHS and enjoy !
Sincerely, Michael Darlow.
COM
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