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Malcolm McDowell strikes again: "O Lucky Man!" and "Caligula" on DVD

post #1 of 13
8/5/07 at 11:23pm
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One of the most popular WB catalog titles that has not appeared on DVD, "O Lucky Man!" is going to be released this October with a McDowell commentary (interestingly, McDowell only agreed to do the commentary for "Clockwork Orange" if they released "O Lucky").

Also appearing in October, which is turning out to be an incredibly busy month, is a three-disc edition of the transcendentally bizarre "Caligula", which includes a pre-release version of the film that lacks most (if not all) of the scenes shot by Bob Guccione. McDowell and Helen Mirren both recorded commentaries.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/16thapril2007.html
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post #2 of 13
8/6/07 at 1:38am
So is this the version of Caligula that's not semi-porn? The odd thing is, I mean, this is probably one of the few historical movies that actually isn't completely off for being full of Bob Guccione stuff. I wonder, then, if there's a version of Polanski's Macbeth that doesn't have all the witch nudity designed to satisfy Hugh Hefner.

I have to check out O Lucky Man just to see the continuing adventures of Mick Travis.
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post #3 of 13
8/6/07 at 2:27am
So, with those two, Clockwork Orange, IF..., and Heroes S1 this is really McDowell's year on DVD.
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post #4 of 13
8/6/07 at 2:31am
I heard Ratner was working on a Hefner biopic, but the Guccione one would be hysterical.
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post #5 of 13
8/6/07 at 2:33am
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI
So, with those two, Clockwork Orange, IF..., and Heroes S1 this is really McDowell's year on DVD.
Although it won't be out on DVD until early 2009, you can sort of add Halloween to the mix too. I do like seeing old actors come into a hot streak, like Christopher Lee a few years ago or the Great Rutger Hauer in Comic Book Movies Streak of 2005.
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post #6 of 13
8/6/07 at 3:06am
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Originally Posted by Phil!
I heard Ratner was working on a Hefner biopic, but the Guccione one would be hysterical.

Everybody knows Hefner's story, so the prospect of a theatrical film doesn't excite me all that much (although I am curious to see whether Ratner and co. are brave enough to include material on his homosexual experiences).

Guccione is a fascinating story. He's estranged from his family, he no longer has control of the media conglomeration he founded, and he's in severe debt. Guccione is a world-renowned art connoiseur that revels in his unattractiveness and dresses as if we're still living in 1977. With Larry Flynt and Hef films, the trifecta must be completed.
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post #7 of 13
8/6/07 at 3:12am
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Originally Posted by Gary Sherman
Although it won't be out on DVD until early 2009,
I think you mean 2008, and sure I guess you can count that.
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post #8 of 13
8/6/07 at 3:52am
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Originally Posted by beamish13
Everybody knows Hefner's story, so the prospect of a theatrical film doesn't excite me all that much (although I am curious to see whether Ratner and co. are brave enough to include material on his homosexual experiences).

Guccione is a fascinating story. He's estranged from his family, he no longer has control of the media conglomeration he founded, and he's in severe debt. Guccione is a world-renowned art connoiseur that revels in his unattractiveness and dresses as if we're still living in 1977. With Larry Flynt and Hef films, the trifecta must be completed.
...I thought he was dead. This excerpt alone makes me want to see a film about him.

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Guccione refused to ape publisher Hugh Hefner in the social arena. Where Hefner surrounded himself with flash and glitter and satin-covered excess, Guccione invested in art for his 30-room mansion, in which he held low profile parties for business associates, favored Pets and close friends.

The 1970s saw Guccione and Keeton branching into other magazine titles—Viva (the women's equivalent of Penthouse), the award-winning Omni, Longevity, and digests of Penthouse including Forum and Variations. Guccione watched as Hefner began making movies, and soon followed suit, investing in The Day of the Locust, The Longest Yard and Chinatown before sinking $17.5 million into his own effort, the X-rated Caligula, which flopped.

Guccione hired his family to help run his publishing empire, General Media—but over the years he ostracized nearly all of his children, in some cases in disputes over financial decisions. Guccione and Keeton pumped Penthouse profits into new and ultimately money-losing magazine and film ventures, funding for crackpot medical and health schemes, a small-scale nuclear fusion reactor endeavor that failed, and another infamous failure, his attempt to build an Atlantic City casino. Guccione was squandering his wealth. And meanwhile, Penthouse's circulation was falling.
Oh, yeah, that was from his bio on the Oral Cancer Foundation's website. Weirdest PSA ever.

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He was broke, and fighting to remain in his beloved East 67th Street home, which through 11th-hour maneuvering he managed to keep—but only as a tenant. Still, thanks to a dental exam and prompt treatment, he survived oral cancer. For the next 10 years he will be publisher emeritus of Penthouse, whatever its new direction may be, and he will remain the magazine's editorial consultant with a half million dollar annual salary.
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post #9 of 13
8/6/07 at 3:52am
Ooops, yeah, I meant 2008.

Holy shit, he put money into Day of the Locust (a wrongly overlooked film, in my opinion) and Chinatown?
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post #10 of 13
8/6/07 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by Gary Sherman

I have to check out O Lucky Man just to see the continuing adventures of Mick Travis.
I read somewhere that the Mick Travises in the Lindsay Anderson movies were not all the same person, but just had the same name. Weird, though it makes more sense that it is the same person.

That said i wonder if they'll include the rumored anal-fisting scenes in caligula.
By the way, special features on the kubrick dvd's will include UK channel 4 documentaries, including Clockwork Orange.
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post #11 of 13
8/6/07 at 12:48pm
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Originally Posted by El Thain
That said i wonder if they'll include the rumored anal-fisting scenes in caligula.
Unless there's a more explicit version or something, this was less rumor and more "oh my God turn it off turn it off turn it off" fact in the version I saw. I believe there was a big block of butter or lard and a recently-wed groom involved.
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post #12 of 13
8/6/07 at 1:50pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB
Unless there's a more explicit version or something, this was less rumor and more "oh my God turn it off turn it off turn it off" fact in the version I saw. I believe there was a big block of butter or lard and a recently-wed groom involved.
Why does this post make me think "Cracker Barrel"?
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post #13 of 13
8/9/07 at 2:25am
According to the reviews on Amazon, it has a bunch of extra features, and it is unrated. Cannot wait for this to come out.
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