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Blu ray coming 9/10/13


I wouldn't hold my breath for special features.I'm interested to see if the aspect ration is 2.35 like in theaters or 2.10 like the director intended for home video release.

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I don't understand why he wanted 2.10.. It was such an odd ratio.

I wonder how the image is going to look compared to the DVD and LD release, the LD opinion is much better than the DVD... I think when they transferred it to DVD it gathered dust and scratches, as the LD is free of these.

If I get the Blu-ray, the first thing I am going to do is go to the scene with the naked man and see if I can get a better glimpse of his penis. Sorry for that.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

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Is there an unrated Blu-ray? I just received the R-Rated Blu-ray through a different vendor from the US. If you look at the Amazon.com-Page for the film, only the cover says unrated.
http://www.amazon.com/Sliver-Blu-ray-William-Baldwin/dp/B00CT5NDHQ
Both at the side in the title it states Rated: R.
And the technical details:
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount Catalog
DVD Release Date: September 10, 2013
Run Time: 108 minutes
Only the run-time would be wrong, that is the run-time of the unrated version. Mine is from Paramount Catalog, with a stated run-time on the cover of 106 min (in truth 106 min and 29 sec. with Paramount-logo-beginning and credits).
The Ratio is stated as 2.1:1, so you see more than in the Fullscreen VHS/DVD.
The difference described here http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1702851 is correct for the scene-difference, but you get more to see, as the aspect-ratio is 2.1:1, on my 1920x1080 TV there are the correct black bars on top and below (small though).
No extras, english subtitles.
Film quality and transfer look both pretty good to me. But I cannot compare, as it is a long time since seeing the film on DVD.

Oh, yeah, and just to be sure, at 1 h 21 min 52 sec you can press Pause and see a naked man going behind a woman putting on her bra looking in the mirror. His swinging penis looks uncircumcised.

Just having seen it again, I am not sure I will risk it again to buy it, maybe if it gets a lot cheaper or a European version gets pressed.
I would like to see a better and uncut/european cut of Color of the night, though.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109456/combinedThe only Blu-ray currently available is a shame compared to this one, and one of those bad 2 films on one Blu-ray-Deals, the picture quality was just so-so, and the missing parts showed more from Bruce and Jane.

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The blu ray version I purchased from Amazon.co.uk is cut! So much so that it tears the very heart out of an otherwise graphic film. The DVD of Sliver I own is uncut in all its graphic glory.

It's just the sex that's cut mind. The violence and profanity are kept intact.

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