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I thought maybe we had a thread to discuss "Officially endorsed, Director approved and Studio released fanedits" but maybe it just got talked about in various places?
There is Peet Gelderblom's cut of 'Raising Cain' realesed on the Arrow Video blu-ray and Orson Welles recut an existing straight 1970 BBC TV documentary by Francois Reichenbach about art forger Elmyr de Hory into a very different, more bizarre film of his own in 1975 called 'F for Fake'. But it was with the cooperation of Reichenbach, so I'm not sure it's 100% a true FAN-edit. There must be others?
One I just watched:
At Long Last Love (1975)
In a just world 'At Long Last Love' wouldn't have been a reputation-destroying bomb for writer/director/producer Peter Bogdanovich and it wouldn't have been included in a list of "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time", it would have been a celebrated popular hit. It's not the greatest movie ever made or anything but the very worst you could say about it is that it's a light and frivolous musical romantic-comedy, with an inconsequential story. Six friends (or three prospective couples) from the working, middle and upper classes drink champagne, sing, dance, fall in and out of love with one another and generally have a grand old time. They live in a heightened fantasy 1930s where bottles of Bombay London Dry are delivered with the milk in the morning and almost every dress, object and room is art-deco black, white, or silver. I thought it was fab, I laughed and laughed, was charmed by the actors (especially Cybill Shepherd) and the technical and artistic endeavours really please the eye. There are long elaborate camera moves in single takes, one dolly gracefully follows two different characters, singing live, on location, for 3-minutes. All of the songs performed are from Cole Porter's song book but you'd think they were written for the specific scenes in the film. I particularly enjoyed John Hillerman's performance as Rodney the valet, as he seemed to be channelling William Powell (in 1936's classic 'My Man Godfrey').
The 123-minute version I watched is perhaps the earliest known true "fanedit". Sometime in the late 70s Jim Blakely, a head editor at Fox, who had access to the materials, recut his own version of 'At Long Last Love' based closely on Bogdanovich's shooting script and early preview version. He secretly substituted his version for the shorter and critically dismissed theatrical cut, so when Netflix added the film to their library in 2012 they unwittingly uploaded Blakely's unofficial fan version. Bogdanovich was surprised by people suddenly telling him how much they liked 'At Long Last Love', so he gave it a watch himself for the first time in decades and discovered it was not the version he remembered. He loved it, added 90-seconds more cut material and swiftly released it in 2013 as the "Definitive Director's Version" on Blu-ray. Sadly Blakely died 5-years before his cut was discovered and before Bogdanovich could thank him.
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There is Peet Gelderblom's cut of 'Raising Cain' realesed on the Arrow Video blu-ray and Orson Welles recut an existing straight 1970 BBC TV documentary by Francois Reichenbach about art forger Elmyr de Hory into a very different, more bizarre film of his own in 1975 called 'F for Fake'. But it was with the cooperation of Reichenbach, so I'm not sure it's 100% a true FAN-edit. There must be others?
One I just watched:
At Long Last Love (1975)
In a just world 'At Long Last Love' wouldn't have been a reputation-destroying bomb for writer/director/producer Peter Bogdanovich and it wouldn't have been included in a list of "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time", it would have been a celebrated popular hit. It's not the greatest movie ever made or anything but the very worst you could say about it is that it's a light and frivolous musical romantic-comedy, with an inconsequential story. Six friends (or three prospective couples) from the working, middle and upper classes drink champagne, sing, dance, fall in and out of love with one another and generally have a grand old time. They live in a heightened fantasy 1930s where bottles of Bombay London Dry are delivered with the milk in the morning and almost every dress, object and room is art-deco black, white, or silver. I thought it was fab, I laughed and laughed, was charmed by the actors (especially Cybill Shepherd) and the technical and artistic endeavours really please the eye. There are long elaborate camera moves in single takes, one dolly gracefully follows two different characters, singing live, on location, for 3-minutes. All of the songs performed are from Cole Porter's song book but you'd think they were written for the specific scenes in the film. I particularly enjoyed John Hillerman's performance as Rodney the valet, as he seemed to be channelling William Powell (in 1936's classic 'My Man Godfrey').
The 123-minute version I watched is perhaps the earliest known true "fanedit". Sometime in the late 70s Jim Blakely, a head editor at Fox, who had access to the materials, recut his own version of 'At Long Last Love' based closely on Bogdanovich's shooting script and early preview version. He secretly substituted his version for the shorter and critically dismissed theatrical cut, so when Netflix added the film to their library in 2012 they unwittingly uploaded Blakely's unofficial fan version. Bogdanovich was surprised by people suddenly telling him how much they liked 'At Long Last Love', so he gave it a watch himself for the first time in decades and discovered it was not the version he remembered. He loved it, added 90-seconds more cut material and swiftly released it in 2013 as the "Definitive Director's Version" on Blu-ray. Sadly Blakely died 5-years before his cut was discovered and before Bogdanovich could thank him.
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