> Recently I bought the Fox-Lorber DVD of LA NOTTE. Besides from, perversely,
> being in a full-screen format, I was shocked to see that several shots were
> lacking in the start of the film.
The version I have is from NYFA (http://www.nyfavideo.com/). It retains the
shots you mention, and is letter-box (though the ratio is only a slight
difference from the tv ratio). However the quality of the print is horrible
with mostly illegible subtitles.
dw
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