What kills me is _Barry Lyndon_ is letterboxed on the DVD but not on the
tape, even though Best Buy puts it in the widescreen section.  The new
2001 appears to be p&s, while _A Clockwork Orange_ is widescreen, based on
what it says on the box, and comparison of DVD to VHS copies.  All of the
films except _Spartacus_, _Fear and Desire_, and the four docs have been
reissued with the blue banner (though the early films have painted covers
and not the white design). The collection looks strange for including
Columbia's _Dr. Strangelove_ with the Warner and MGM titles, and shows how
much control Kubrick apparently had.  I know Warner distributes MGM
titles, but Columbia?

Scott

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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Lang Thompson wrote:

> >after a rather ill-received advance screening.  Kubrick's habits even
> >once prompted Andrew Sarris to ask in despair when we could regard a
> >film as the "final" version.  Of course, Kubrick lived on into the age
> >of video releases with "European" cuts, "director's cuts," etc., so he
> >would probably relish the controversy.
>
>
>
> So film becomes more like literature in one respect, eh?  This has also
> come to the front with the recent Kubrick DVDs which are presented
> full-screen at Kubrick's request.  This has created numerous complaints
> because they're not letterboxed, often blaming the studio for poor
> judgement in releasing a panned-and-scanned film (which they aren't).
>
> LT
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