tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post4526291409595741788..comments2024-03-23T21:46:50.843-04:00Comments on the passionate moviegoer: Alert! "At Long Last Love" and "The Victors" sightingsjoe baltakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-23563688193912305892016-10-04T21:25:20.546-04:002016-10-04T21:25:20.546-04:00Thanks, Charly! Check out this post on ALLL: htt...Thanks, Charly! Check out this post on ALLL: http://thepassionatemoviegoer.blogspot.com/2011/08/unwanted-childpart-seven.htmljoe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-91330078882976803432016-10-04T20:23:03.377-04:002016-10-04T20:23:03.377-04:00Hey Joe - At Long Last Love has been my favorite f...Hey Joe - At Long Last Love has been my favorite film since it was released. I even got a movie projectionist to dupe me a copy on 3/4 inch video tape in 1976 which cost me $900. Since then I have watched it at least 100 times and of course have several versions of the film.<br /><br />I would love Bogdanovich to do a commentary of the movie. I wonder if you could contact him about doing this - and see if perhaps I could even pay him to sit down a record one.Charly Mannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423006611862171722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-295217090288084262008-07-08T07:10:00.000-04:002008-07-08T07:10:00.000-04:00A bit of web surfing for info about "The Victors" ...A bit of web surfing for info about "The Victors" brought out the piece you wrote on it. I consider myself tremendously fortunate to have seen it on Times Square in New York, uncut, just days after it opened. Unfortunately, this has also been a curse. Just weeks later, I excitedly dragged a friend out to see it and saw the devastation that had been perpetrated on the original version by studio hacks, apparently over-reacting to the mixed reviews that greeted its premiere. What a horror! The radically shortened edition is a decent film but wonderful sequences are gone and so much of its special atmospheric richness, the very thing that REALLY set it apart, was torn out of it.<BR/> Ever since then, I have been trying to discover if the excised footage went the way of the deleted scenes from Peckinpah's "Major Dundee". These were scrapped and lost forever. Do you imagine that anyone knows the truth about this? Might a decent copy of the original version still exist? Have you read the numerous statements that Pentagon brass so despised the film that they did everything possible to help bury it? Where can one turn for reliable answers to such questions? The internet seems so vast, yet so devoid of good leads regarding "The Victors".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-83233434714605209842008-02-29T15:48:00.000-05:002008-02-29T15:48:00.000-05:00I've always thought that this film got a raw deal ...I've always thought that this film got a raw deal - that the reviewers crituiqed the Bogdanovich-Shepherd relationship and not the wonderful film they made. The same thing happened to "Gigli," which isn't as awful as the press made it out to be. Of course "At Long Last Love" is much, much better than "Gigli." It deserves to be on DVD, dammit!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-39404195999711807582008-02-29T12:09:00.000-05:002008-02-29T12:09:00.000-05:00Thanks for the tip on ALLL. I love that movie!Thanks for the tip on ALLL. I love that movie!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com