Acclaimed Editor of TOUCH OF EVIL 'Director's Cut' to Reconstruct Silent Classic GREED for World Premiere on TCM.ATLANTA--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1999--Lauded for his work on the restored and reedited "director's cut director's cut n. The version of a film in which the editing process is overseen, executed, or approved by the director, usually including footage not included in the standard release. " of Orson Welles' stylistic triumph TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), acclaimed film producer and editor Rick Schmidlin has signed on to produce a reedited version of Erich Von Stroheim's famed masterpiece GREED for the Turner Classic Movies (TCM (1) (Trellis-Coded Modulation/Viterbi Decoding) A technique that adds forward error correction to a modulation scheme by adding an additional bit to each baud. TCM is used with QAM modulation, for example. ) television network. TCM will present the world premiere Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 of the new version of GREED in December of 1999, in time for the film's 75th anniversary. Schmidlin calls his pending work on the legendary 1924 MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. classic "the most important in my career." The new version of TOUCH OF EVIL, for which Schmidlin worked from Welles' original notes to create the director's cut of the film, was released last fall. The film earned Schmidlin awards from the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Film Critics Circle, Boston Film Critics, National Board of Review and one from the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Film Critics Association, which will be presented on January 20. GREED's re-edit will offer Schmidlin different challenges than those faced with TOUCH OF EVIL. GREED will require reconstructing missing footage using still photos, Von Stroheim's notes for the color-tinting of a few small areas and other resources. Much of director Von Stroheim's original eight-hour cut of the film was ordered destroyed by then-MGM production chief, Irving Thalberg, after he supervised the editing of the film to a length of just over two hours. Fortunately, a version of the original, full-length screenplay was discovered in the MGM Collection, deposited at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by Turner Entertainment Company (TEC). Six hundred thirty-three rare stills of the missing sequences have also been located to aid in the reconstruction. Schmidlin will restore and reconstruct the final director's cut of the film, which originally ran four hours long. Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 30 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. , Inc. that presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from the '20s through the '80s, commercial-free and without interruption. For more information, please visit the TCM website at http://TCM.turner.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: All Times Eastern |
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