Title: Ditto -- full version or nothing
Product review: The full, restored version of this film, which I saw theatrically last year, is a brilliant piece of political filmmaking and very, very exciting -- one of the very few films Pontecorvo directed, and probably the biggest in scope (THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS and THE WIDE BLUE ROAD are two others, and also worth seeing). The film deals with colonialism -- it could have been written by Fanon, for how radical it is. It's also presented in Italian, with Brando's part dubbed (but not as badly as you would expect) into that language. If this version were released on DVD, I would buy it promptly. A truncated, dubbed, pan and scan version? What the hell do these people think DVD buffs are ABOUT, anyhow? MGM can go shove, until they get serious.
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