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« on: December 17, 2021, 06:41:07 AM »
Sometimes I do stuff that only makes sense to me  . (this master is not fully restored yet. If this happens in the future it will be 1:1,66)
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« on: December 17, 2021, 04:40:11 AM »
The japanische war die letzte V? bisher, alle anderen sind ja schon drau?en... Au?erdem wei? das bisher ja kaum jemand...  
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« on: December 16, 2021, 05:06:17 PM »
Again, the Director's Cut I just finished working on is Sam's Final Cut. The preview cut is a preview cut. He was dismissed
and made his changes nevertheless - but nobody ever saw his Final Cut. Until now. His editor made a negative for Sam
with all the changes after the preview and then Sam stored the negative (lost by now...). His friend Don made
a print, using his own money. The only print in the world. I have it now...
CONVOY: there are some nice moments. I do not have the time to write a lot here, I work 50 hrs a week
on Peckinpah, right until x-mas... RETRO PREVIEW:
(JAP 15) 1:35:58 To hell with?em (7:02)
After the dramatic dialogue beween Dirty Lyle and the Rubber Duck in the destroyed Alvarez? jail, the Duck is suddenly smiling, checking out the damage: "To hell with them if they can?t take a joke, right?". A good moment.
(JAP 16) 1:37:40 Road songs (1:58:10)
The longest 'missing' sequence: on their way to Mexico, the truckers are singing songs. It starts with a laid-over verse from Al Martino?s song 'Spanish Eyes', then we hear and see Kristofferson singing a weird version of 'La Adelita', that famous song from the Mexican revolution! Next comes Madge Sinclair performing 'I don?t know why I love you like I do', a 1940?s classic most prominently recorded by Frank Sinatra and, later, Dean Martin. Everybody is in great spirits and Melissa takes pictures of Rubber Duck. The fourth song we hear is the famous 1939 hit 'South of the Border'. The sequence ends with everybody singing all over the place and a trucker laughing: "Oh, what an experience!". (in the final cut we only hear the 'Jesus freaks', in reality Kristofferson?s band, singing 'Shall we gather at the river'.)
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« on: December 16, 2021, 05:04:32 PM »
Nice. I?ll look out for it.
It?s a shame that Japanese Blu-ray is totally OOP. I can?t even find anyone selling used copies. Presumably it was a very limited print run? Having said that, does the 5 minutes add anything of real worth? Or will I have to wait to see the Cinema Retro article for an answer to that?
Wait, you mean the one on the old DVD is not the same as the cut you received? How are they different?
Again, the Director's Cut I just finished working on is Sam's Final Cut. The preview cut is a preview cut. He was dismissed and made his changes nevertheless - but nobody ever saw his Final Cut. Until now... CONVOY: there are some nice moments. I do not have the time to write a lot here, I work 50 hrs a week on Peckinpah, right until x-mas... RETRO PREVIEW: (JAP 15) 1:35:58 To hell with?em (7:02) After the dramatic dialogue beween Dirty Lyle and the Rubber Duck in the destroyed Alvarez? jail, the Duck is suddenly smiling, checking out the damage: "To hell with them if they can?t take a joke, right?". A good moment. (JAP 16) 1:37:40 Road songs (1:58:10) The longest 'missing' sequence: on their way to Mexico, the truckers are singing songs. It starts with a laid-over verse from Al Martino?s song 'Spanish Eyes', then we hear and see Kristofferson singing a weird version of 'La Adelita', that famous song from the Mexican revolution! Next comes Madge Sinclair performing 'I don?t know why I love you like I do', a 1940?s classic most prominently recorded by Frank Sinatra and, later, Dean Martin. Everybody is in great spirits and Melissa takes pictures of Rubber Duck. The fourth song we hear is the famous 1939 hit 'South of the Border'. The sequence ends with everybody singing all over the place and a trucker laughing: "Oh, what an experience!". (in the final cut we only hear the 'Jesus freaks', in reality Kristofferson?s band, singing 'Shall we gather at the river'.)
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« on: December 15, 2021, 02:24:58 AM »
Yes, 5 Min.
I wrote a long piece about it (and OSTERMAN) for one of the next CINEMA RETRO issues...
PS: Sam's OSTERMAN director's Cut is NOT the preview cut (Videotape / old DVD).
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« on: December 11, 2021, 12:32:43 PM »
CONVOY was released two or three years ago in JAPAN. I co-produced for KING RECORD (Cross Of Iron too): 
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« on: December 11, 2021, 04:14:09 AM »
Seeing that Don Hyde was Peckinpah?s archvist, could he shed any light on that ?pre-release? cut of Convoy that some lucky folks were able to see back in the day?
Not really. But at least we now have the Japanese premiere cut, which is 7 minutes longer... And in all those years I could not clarify why the OSTERMAN agent would shoot himself: 
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« on: December 07, 2021, 02:37:49 AM »
It is indeed a different film and so much better. Before I did this now I never fully realised, I guess I had watched that video copy only once back then, suffering too much (quality) to enjoy it...  
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« on: December 06, 2021, 09:11:10 AM »
Released in 1983, the final release version of the film was heavily altered by the producers. Peckinpah owned a negative of his own director's cut. Peckinpah's friend and archivist Don Hyde made a 35mm interlok print from that negative back in 1983 which was never shown in the last 35 years. It is the only print in existence, the whereabouts of the negative is unknown. In 2002 a very bad video copy of this cut (minus titles) based on a BetaCam tape was included on the Anchor Bay DVD. A year ago Don had decided to give me his print, to make Peckinpah's version better known. This will happen now. I made a 2K scan of the print (which will hopefully receive a full frame-to-frame restoration in the future) as well as a 2K scan of my own theatrical release print. An upcoming Blu-ray release will therefore include three versions of THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND. And new supplements of course. For instance a 64 minute long full comparison video - I was quite surprised regarding the high amount of differences between both versions: 
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« on: August 29, 2021, 08:16:49 AM »
It will include my 3 featurettes (so far only on the German Blu), and my audio-commentary...
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« on: March 05, 2021, 03:04:46 AM »
The first Blu-ray release worldwide, KOCH Films 3-Disc release will be out in May. It contains my new supplements and the roadshow version (SD, the print is rotten by now and can't be restored to HD as we all know)  
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« on: January 18, 2021, 03:13:50 PM »
Happy to report that the German trailer came from this boards very own Mike Siegel. We provided it in 4K and it looks pretty nice. And every single shot in it is an alternate take, angle or deleted scene (same as the French trailer) but now its sharp as a tack. Thanks Mike!
Hugs to you Jordan, you are the only guy in the world I would have sold it to... (whywere you born? ) Glad to see they finally "accepted" your input, which they did not for their "first release". Maybe they didn't trust my opinion at that time, although I already had successfully co-produced 3 Peckinpah's with KINO by then... PS: 2 GLORREICHE HALUNKEN was Sergio's first title for the film as I recall. (TWO MAGNIFICENT ROGUES). Right?
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