WHY is this not going to be released on DVD or VOD? What's the reason?
I hear all of these rumors about copyright and how Diane Keaton does not want it out.
Is any of that true?
Diane Keaton would not have any clout to have this film repressed. Paramount own it and would release it themselves of give the rights to some other company to release it if they could.
I think there are music rights issues that are preventing the DVD release. I believe it was on Netflix a couple of year ago though.
This film was made just before the advent of VHS/Beta and long before digital video discs. I'm sure they didn't realize all the legal issues over the music rights that would eventually come to light.
This would be a perfect film for Criterion.
It will be released, eventually... it's been released on VHS and laserdisc. It'll get to DVD and Blu-ray... But I'm hoping the rumors about Criterion releasing it are true.
shareIt will be released, eventually... it's been released on VHS and laserdisc. It'll get to DVD and Blu-ray... But I'm hoping the rumors about Criterion releasing it are true.
I just finished watching it on YouTube.
shareWhy on Earth did you go to all that trouble? Why not just download the movie if you want to see it? It's available, and it is a great movie.
#hands up don't loot
We want it!!
shareAmazon has a DVD available for $90, although everything I've read says it's not available on DVD. Not sure where the seller got this one. I can only imagine it must be a bootleg.
shareI really do want to see this movie but $90.00 is ridiculously expensive. I can't believe they have THIS much trouble over the music rights. Look at "Heavy Metal". That had just as much music--if not more--than LFMG and they were able to deal with the separate artists and labels and release that.
shareMoney may not be the issue.
It could be a case of someone that owns the rights to one of the songs simply hates the film and won't sign off on it. And that doesn't necessarily mean any of the original writers, for example, of one of the song. It could even be someone who was left the rights in a will or even someone who purchased a swag of songs. Until anything official about the exact delay we will remain in the dark on this matter.
Thank you. That makes sense. As you said we may never know.
shareYou can replace part of the soundtrack if necessary. I think the reason it hasn't been released is because it's about as non-PC as you can get these days. It has a repressed homosexual as a villian and implies that a woman is partly responsible for her murder through her own promiscuous behavior. I can't remember the last time I saw a gay villain or even a negative depiction of a gay person, yet here we have someone psychotically killing a woman because he is gay. Gay activist groups are highly organized these days and quick to mobilize so why would Paramount antagonize them over a movie nearly 40 years old? The feminists will have a thing or two to say about it too: it has become a mantra for them that "blame" and "responsibility" are one and the same i.e. if you suggest a woman takes responsibility for her own safety you are immediately castigated for "blaming the woman" for rape. It is impossible to engage with them rationally on this issue. If you leave your car unlocked and the keys in the ignition and the car is stolen you may well be the victim of the crime but you will be laughed out of the police station; yet, when it comes to women who do not take sensible precautions and put themselves directly in a dangerous situation wo betide any person for suggesting that a woman's actions have played any part in her predicament. Basically it's a film completely out of tune with modern day sentiments and I guess Paramount would rather just leave this film in the past where it so clearly lives.
shareYou may be right. I know someone from the early 80's who considered this the most offensive film they had ever seen.
And certainly replacing the music with something else for a DVD release has been done before (the DVD release of Robert Altman's California Suite as case in point).
Then again, Warner Brothers released the far more controversial Cruising in 2007 on DVD and recently re-released it through there 'Warners Archive' program without so much as a murmur. Of course Warners still will not release Ken Russell's 1971 The Devils.
I googled it and found one copy on DVD from a store through yahoo. Santa's store or something like that. It was 25$.
shareWatching it on tv in Japan right now. Japan shows some of the most obscure movies ever from every country, complete and uncut.
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it's possible the film didn't sell all that well when released on VHS and laser disk in the past, and the studio isn't eager to invest more money in transferring it to DVD (?)
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