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Both Versions: Goodbye to Language

May 4, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

For the final entry in my “Both Versions” blog series, I’ll be breaking one of my major rules. For every preceding film, the competing versions were each released theatrically at […]

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Both Versions: The Grandmaster

March 9, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Roughly five years in the making (delayed when, among other struggles, its star broke his arm), Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster premiered in both mainland China and Hong Kong in January 2013. […]

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Both Versions: The New World

November 10, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Terrence Malick would seem to be precisely the kind of filmmaker who might butt heads with studio financiers. His methodology and style are almost comically divergent from the pragmatic, market-based […]

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Both Versions: Amadeus

September 15, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Evidently there isn’t much of a story behind the return of Amadeus to theaters in 2002 — with, as advertised, twenty minutes of added footage. By then, the world was well into […]

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Both Versions: Blade Runner

July 7, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

As is the case with many movies that have been passed down to us in multiple versions, the gestation of Blade Runner was a contentious affair. The archetypes familiar from the […]

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Both Versions: Apocalypse Now

May 5, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The legend of the making of Apocalypse Now is unparalleled in film history, a production that spiraled out of control but somehow yielded one of the most extraordinary war films ever […]

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Both Versions: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

March 10, 2017by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

Steven Spielberg’s pivotal status in film history can be pretty well summed up by the example of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, his second major blockbuster. A lifelong passion project, […]

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Both Versions: Star Wars

December 16, 2016by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

For the twentieth anniversary of his greatest accomplishment, George Lucas brought Star Wars (now known, for clarity’s sake, as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) back into theaters with new digital […]

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Both Versions: The Exorcist

October 8, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

On the all-time box office top 100 list (adjusted for inflation), The Exorcist, ranked at number nine, is the only straight horror film (with Jaws and The Sixth Sense being arguably borderline, and […]

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Both Versions: The Leopard

August 5, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Over the course of this series on movies and their alter egos, three of the first six exist in more than one language (four if you count the transition from […]

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