Region 4 Winners and Losers

     The Region 0 US 10th Anniversary is identical to the Region 4 release, down to the NTSC format. There was an earlier Region 0 US release with the 1997 Kaufman commentary and some extras. This was apparently rated R and ran about 2 minutes shorter. There seems to be a Region 2 German release that runs 114 minutes but from what I can see the running time is because some of the deleted scenes have been edited back into the film. All the scenes edited back are included in the deleted scenes on the 10th Anniversary edition DVD.

     Apparently the first cut of the film ran 3 hours and I have read a suggestion of a 137 minute version, but no DVD released has had this running time. All versions released on DVD have been non 16x9 and 1.33:1; only the laserdisc edition was apparently in the original 1.85:1 theatrical ratio. Draw.