But that doesn’t make it an “unreleased” movie- not only was it seen by a large portion of the moviegoing public when it was originally released (it was, after all, a Walt Disney film), it was rereleased numerous times to 1987. I would hardly call that “unreleased” by the OP’s definition.
Box Office Mojo does not indicate a theatrical release, Internet Movie Database suggests a limited American theatrical release with a DVD release later.
I don’t think the dimensional-animated movie I Go Pogo, based on Walt Kelly’s famous comic strip, was ever released theatrically. This was in the days before Direct-to-Video, but it got a sort-of video release, I understand, through Fotomat (remember those?)
This site claims a brief theatrical release, but that’s not what I read at the time. In any event, it never did get a wide theatrical release. Or even a wide video release, for that matter:
http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=48916&pkw=PI&vendor=Paid+Inclusion&OCID=iSEMPI
The opening, at Toon Tracker:
http://www.toontracker.com/igopogo.html
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I don’t think the second Tales from the Far Side movie ever got a commercial release (at least, not a wide one).
Queen Kelly was never released to Eric Von Stroheim’s original vision - it was basically siezed from him and heavily edited to the point of bastardization by the studio.
Maybe so, but it will probably never be released on DVD, so I thought it should be included.
Per Wikipedia Peter Bogdonaovich recently said all problems have been worked out and it is scheduled for release this year.
Here’s the complete Wikipedia list.
It was also released on VHS in the UK and LD in Asia. In addition to its numerous theatrical releases until the early 80s, I’d hardly call that “unreleased.”
Yes. But a few years ago an edition was released that includes a lot of material previously unseen. Most of it consists of panning over stills from the movie, but it is still worth a watch. I forget where this material was discovered - something about a box hidden in the storage rooms of the American Film Institute, perhaps?
I was about to say Electric Heart, the biography of trumpet player Don Ellis, which has been in various stages for, well, forever, but now I see it’s on the film festival circuit and may well be in some sort of release this year, even:
There was a version of The Devil and Daniel Webster made a few years ago that ran into some difficulties and sat on the shelf for a few years. According to Wikipedia and IMDb, it was purchased by another company, retitled, and had a limited release last year (but I don’t remember hearing anything about it, and just about everything plays in Boston). Can anyone confirm that this was actually in a theater?
Anthony Hopkins and Jennifer Love Hewitt; I must admit I’m curious.
Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story - Todd Haynes’ infamous film-school project in which he used barbie & ken dolls to act out the singer’s tragic life. It was never even supposed to be in general circulation, but bootleg copies do exist (I saw a tape of it about 15 years ago.)
This was just in the paper the other day. According to the article…
"A recut version of “The Devil and Daniel Webster” was released briefly last summer in several small markets, including Columbus, Ohio, under the title “Shortcut to Happiness.”
There was a book The Complete Greed that came out in 1972. They probably filmed from that.
No. It was done with footage found more recently. From vonstroheim.com:
“n 1997 Rick Schmidlin found over 650 still camera photos that had been taken on the set of “Greed” during production. Many of them showed scenes that had never been seen on screen. Shortly thereafter he began work restoring the film to it’s originally intended scope for Turner Broadcasting.
Schmidlin and his team merged the 1924 release and the still photos, and though the techniques they used were creative, the restoration was “by the book” — actually by the script — for they uncovered the “continuity screenplay,” dated 31 March 1923. Ultimately, they restored “Greed” to mirror Erich von Stroheim’s original intentions.”
I went to a screening presented by Schmidlin who recounted the painstaking process of reconstructing the film from nothing but MGM’s butchered edition and the newly discovered photos. But he did a great job, IMO, even though Greed 99 is only 4 hours long; a far cry from Stroheims own 9 hour ( :eek: ) edition. Well worth seeing.
Renaldo and Clara - the Bob Dylan Magnum Opus.
It was more in-between these extremes. From Richard Koszarski’s article “Reconstructing Greed: How Long and What Color?” in Film Comment in November 1999:
The existence of the various surviving copies of the original scripts had also long been known.
While more thorough than previous efforts, Schmidlin’s reconstruction should be seen as an extension (and implementation on screen) of what was already broadly known rather than completely unprecedented. But that’s usually the way with such work.
Read in “Crackpot” by John Waters that Pia Zadora had made a film called “Voyage of the Rock Aliens” which was never released.
I saw that at the Auckland Film Festival years back when I was a student. The best part was the reaction of all the middle-aged Carpenters fans who had turned up in anticipation of a “real” biopic…
It was released, and I in fact, own a vhs copy of it.
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Should* it have been released is the real question