The Glorious Day Has Arrived
Fellow citizens, rejoice!
Today is the day Shaolin Soccer opens wide in the U.S.
The critics love it. I saw the Hong Kong DVD (thanks, Will!) and laughed my freaking ass off. You will love it too.
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Comments
Sandy
April 23, 2004
3:17 pm
Hmm…only one theater in the DC area? Not exactly “wide” release.
What are these studios thinking?
Any word on whether it’s been cut?
Jason Lefkowitz
April 23, 2004
3:28 pm
“Wide release” is what they call it when they go beyond a limited NY/LA release. Even if it’s only playing in one art house in each city, it’s still playing in each city, hence “wide”. There are lots of films that never go beyond NY/LA, so I guess we should be thankful for what we get…
As for the cut, Elvis Mitchell spoke to that in the NYT review ( http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/movies/02SOCC.html?ex=1112418000&en=1a00f1920b2bbc82&ei=5083&partner=USERLAND ):
” ‘Soccer’ was released in Hong Kong in 2001, and was available on DVD until nearly a year ago. Miramax bought it, tricked it up with new, simplified subtitles and scissored nearly half an hour of jagged subplots and brawling that might have compromised a get-’em-into-the-tent PG-13. To compensate, new music and English-language signs and graphics have been added, so the film seems to take place in an even odder world than most Hong Kong action epics.”
There was a cut they showed at film festivals a while back that was pretty poorly received, but that was a different cut than this is.