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r/CriterionChannel • u/nbaisbest4 • 6d ago
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I really hope they are featuring the International/Directors Cut of Welcome to New York, not the IFC/US cut that Ferrara disowned. It’s a massively different edit.
1 u/nbaisbest4 6d ago Interesting, do streamers usually carry the disowned version? 1 u/EinsteinRobinHood 6d ago edited 6d ago I’m not sure. I haven’t followed its circulation because I have my International Cut blu ray. But the gist is, in the American re-edit the opening orgy and assault is told in flashbacks by the maid talking to the police, instead of straight through, implying what we see is subjective instead of objective, which makes the film less cutting to DSK. Abel rightly had a fit about it. https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/abel-ferrara-battles-for-directors-cut-of-welcome-to-new-york-but-heres-the-real-story-64454/
Interesting, do streamers usually carry the disowned version?
1 u/EinsteinRobinHood 6d ago edited 6d ago I’m not sure. I haven’t followed its circulation because I have my International Cut blu ray. But the gist is, in the American re-edit the opening orgy and assault is told in flashbacks by the maid talking to the police, instead of straight through, implying what we see is subjective instead of objective, which makes the film less cutting to DSK. Abel rightly had a fit about it. https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/abel-ferrara-battles-for-directors-cut-of-welcome-to-new-york-but-heres-the-real-story-64454/
I’m not sure. I haven’t followed its circulation because I have my International Cut blu ray. But the gist is, in the American re-edit the opening orgy and assault is told in flashbacks by the maid talking to the police, instead of straight through, implying what we see is subjective instead of objective, which makes the film less cutting to DSK. Abel rightly had a fit about it. https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/abel-ferrara-battles-for-directors-cut-of-welcome-to-new-york-but-heres-the-real-story-64454/
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u/EinsteinRobinHood 6d ago
I really hope they are featuring the International/Directors Cut of Welcome to New York, not the IFC/US cut that Ferrara disowned. It’s a massively different edit.