>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 ---------------------------------------------- Lang Thompson http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 Full Alert Film Review (formerly World Cinema Review) http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/fafr.htm ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]