Region 4 Winners and Losers

    In 2000 Blood Simple was re-released in cinemas as a Director's Cut. Interestingly, that cut reduced the length of the film rather than extended it and made a change in one of the songs used in the film. Although the case does not say so, the version on this DVD would seem to be the Director's Cut as it features the inserted song. The Region 1 disc has a commentary of sorts. The track is provided by Kenneth Loring of Forever Young Films. The film company and Loring are both fictional. He is an actor working from a script apparently written by the Coen brothers. Apparently the commentary is hilarious as he describes the film in blockbuster terms. For completeness you may wish to pick up that version, however, for the film itself the Region 4 is the first choice. Further, some research suggests that the Region 1 is all on a single layered disc which results in a low bit rate transfer.