All the President's Men

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#1 Post by Kristoffer4 » Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:37 pm

Saw this today on davisdvd.com


Is it just me or is it creepy hearing news anchors repeat the phrase "Deep Throat" over and over? To commemorate the film's 30th anniversary, look for Warner Home Video to re-release All the President's Men in a new special edition next year. Expect extras and featurettes focusing on the production, as well as the actual Watergate scandal.
Cool. =D>

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#2 Post by Sanity Claus » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:46 pm

Fingers crossed for G. Gordon Liddy commentary!

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#3 Post by Fletch F. Fletch » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:39 pm

Sanity Claus wrote:Fingers crossed for G. Gordon Liddy commentary!
Or if we're real lucky, Al Haig. :wink:

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#4 Post by skuhn8 » Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:02 am

Sanity Claus wrote:Fingers crossed for G. Gordon Liddy commentary!
Ahhh...now this is the kind of thinking outside the box input I can bite into. I'd pay an extra tenner to have some actual nefarious participants chiming in. Forget the actor commentary...unless they had some actual experience with the real life players other than woodward and bernstein who I've just about enough from.

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#5 Post by Gordon » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:16 am

Gord's too busy fixing the Fetzer valve on Alan Stanwick's bird.

Right, Fletch?

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#6 Post by dx23 » Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:29 pm

From dvdansers.com:
Title: All The President's Men
Starring: Robert Redford
Released: 21st February 2006
SRP: $26.99


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Warner has announced a two-disc special edition of All The President's Men which tells the story of the Watergate burglary investigation that ultimately brought down the administration of Richard Nixon. The disc will be available to own from the 21st February, and should retail at around $26.99. DVD extras will include a commentary by Robert Redford, a Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of All the President's Men feature, an Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat featurette, a Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire featurette, and a vintage featurette entitled Pressure and the Press: The Making of All the President's Men. Completing the package will be a vintage Jason Robards interview excerpt from Dinah!, hosted by Dinah Shore, and Alan J. Pakula thrillers trailer gallery.
Artwork here:
http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0 ... &n=1&burl=

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#7 Post by Gigi M. » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:31 am

Warner has announced a two-disc special edition of All The President's Men which tells the story of the Watergate burglary investigation that ultimately brought down the administration of Richard Nixon. The disc will be available to own from the 21st February, and should retail at around $26.99. DVD extras will include a commentary by Robert Redford, a Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of All the President's Men feature, an Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat featurette, a Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire featurette, and a vintage featurette entitled Pressure and the Press: The Making of All the President's Men. Completing the package will be a vintage Jason Robards interview excerpt from Dinah!, hosted by Dinah Shore, and Alan J. Pakula thrillers trailer gallery. Artwork is below:

Artwork: http://dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1 ... &n=1&burl=

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#8 Post by Gigi M. » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:03 pm

Here's the first review so far:
Video:
Warner Bros. appear to have done everything they could to bring the movie to DVD in the best shape possible, but the results vary from scene to scene. The image is in widescreen, closely matching its original theatrical 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and it's transferred to disc at a high bit rate and enhanced for 16x9 televisions. However, while colors are almost always deep, the print seems rather dark, perhaps the result of so much location shooting, making faces in particular look too purplish or too strongly pink. When it's good, the picture quality is very good, indeed, but when it's too dark, it's a little annoying. There is also some very minor grain present and a few shimmering lines, none of which is enough to distract our attention from the story line.

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#10 Post by Richard » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:12 am

Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.

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#11 Post by skuhn8 » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:48 am

Richard wrote:Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.
huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it

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#12 Post by Richard » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:24 pm

skuhn8 wrote:
Richard wrote:Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.
huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it
Hmm.. the bitrate-pics both say 2:18:05 but I was looking at the runtime-row where it says 2:18:05 and 2:01:08 for the old and the new version. I guess it's a mistake.

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#13 Post by skuhn8 » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:40 pm

Richard wrote:
skuhn8 wrote:
Richard wrote:Why is the version on this dvd so much shorter than the version on the old dvd? It seems that about 17 minutes are missing when you look at the numbers on DVD Beaver.
huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it
Hmm.. the bitrate-pics both say 2:18:05 but I was looking at the runtime-row where it says 2:18:05 and 2:01:08 for the old and the new version. I guess it's a mistake.
Mine is copy/pasted from the runtime row, not the bitrate. No mistakes there. Same to the second.`1

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#14 Post by Richard » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:47 pm

skuhn8 wrote:
Richard wrote:
skuhn8 wrote: huh?

Runtime 2:18:05 2:18:05
squares up when I read it
Hmm.. the bitrate-pics both say 2:18:05 but I was looking at the runtime-row where it says 2:18:05 and 2:01:08 for the old and the new version. I guess it's a mistake.
Mine is copy/pasted from the runtime row, not the bitrate. No mistakes there. Same to the second.`1
Made a screenshot:

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EDIT: ok, I looked up the same page in IE and there it does show the same number. I think it's some sort of caching-error in Firefox or something.
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#15 Post by Ishmael » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:49 pm

I've actually watched the new DVD, and the film is exactly the same length it's always been.

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#16 Post by skuhn8 » Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:25 pm

[jumps back into Mystery Machine] "On to the next mystery gang!"

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Re: All the President's Men

#17 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:30 am

Been watching this sporadically, and usually whenever it’s on HBOMax. It took me awhile to warm up to certain scenes, particularly anything not in the Post or involving Deep Throat and Hal Holbrook’s chilling performance. I’m struck a bit at the real-life happenings to the movie’s Mr. (Stephen Collins having admitted to sexual misconduct with minors) & Mrs. Sloan (Meredith Baxter coming out as a lesbian while revealing the spousal abuse committed against in her first marriage at the same time she was the mom on Family Ties), all the while that unseen exchange between Woodward and Bernstein about suburbia percolates ever more in these recent viewings.

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Re: All the President's Men

#18 Post by beamish14 » Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:02 pm

I’ve always wanted to read the screenplay draft that Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron wrote

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Re: All the President's Men

#19 Post by ryannichols7 » Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:31 pm

you guys had me excited that Warner had announced this for UHD...

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