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Ten Most Essential Director’s Cuts

Ten Most Essential Director’s Cuts

A countdown of integral alternative edits for great films

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Apr 16, 2024
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Unnecessary extra scenes? The extended cut of Aliens (1986). Credit: 20th Century Fox

Director’s cut or cinema cut? It’s a hoary old question that crops up in many a cineaste conversation. The answers are often far from straightforward, with legitimate cases to be made either way. Sometimes, against conventional wisdom, the versions originally released a…

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