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Subject: UK PAL Widescreen Video List as of 26/1/93 (some extra ratios added)
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If anyone can add to this list please email me and I shall repost it.
This list includes all videos released already or to be released shortly
with expected release date where possible.
I know I might be missing some foreign films here.

I have also included some addresses for video companies in the UK after
this list. If anyone has any more please let me know and I will add them
on. 

I've also tried to include the widescreen aspect ratios where possible
but these can be misleading since not all widescreen films are fully
letterboxed, and most, if not all, TV's overscan to some degree.

All videos must be available in the UK, and in VHS PAL format.


The Abyss (Anyone know if it's uncut?)
Akira (Collectors Double-Pack only) [ 1.6:1 ]
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alien [ > 2.3:1 ]
Always
Apocalypse Now [ 2:1 ]
At Play In The Fields Of The Lord (is it FULLY letterboxed?)
Autobus
Back To The Future Part 1,2,3 : BOX SET [ 1.7:1 ]
Basic Instinct *
Batman
The Big Blue (Extended Version)
Big Wednesday
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure (Our Price Exclusive)
Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (22nd March)
Blue Velvet (Box Set) (is it wider than BBC2's recent showing ?)
Born on the Fourth of July [ 2.2:1 ]
Bridge On The River Kwai [ > 2.3:1 ]
Cape Fear (when it becomes available on retail)
Carousel
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (WH Smiths Exclusive)
Chinatown
Cleopatra (Burton and Taylor version)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Special Edition [ 2:1 ]
Close My Eyes
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover [ 2.2:1 ]
Cyrano De Bergerac (is this fully letterboxed ?)
The Damned
Dances With Wolves (3hr version) [ 2.1:1 ]
Dances With Wolves (4hr version + soundtrack CD + booklet) [ 2.2:1 ]
	(WH Smith Exclusive : #29.99. Now reduced to 19.99)
Dangerous Liasons (is it FULLY letterboxed?)
Delicatessen (Normal video and WH Smiths Exclusive Box Set)
Die Hard [ 2.2:1 ]
Die Hard 2 (uncut 18-certificate version. 41 cuts restored)
The Doors
Empire Strikes Back [ 2.25:1 ]
E.T.
Europa Europa
Far And Away (simultaneous rental release in WS and P&S)
Fatal Attraction (with Director's original ending) **
Finian's Rainbow
Flight of the Intruder
Gallipoli
Godzilla : Godzilla vs. Gigan / Godzilla vs. Megalon [ 1.7:1 ]
Godzilla : Invasion of the Astro-Monsters / Ebirah - Horror of the Deep /
           Destroy All Monsters [ 1.7:1 ]
Godzilla : Son Of Godzilla / Terror Of Mechagodzilla [ 1.7:1 ]
Glory
The Graduate (February)
Grease
Grease 2
The Hairdresser's Husband
Hamlet (Mel Gibson. Due by the end of the year...supposedly)
Hardware [ 1.6:1 ]
Hearts Of Darkness (Original Academy Ratio)
To Hell and Back
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
Honeysuckle Rose
The Hunt For Red October [ 2.1:1 ]
Illustrated Man
Indiana Jones Trilogy : BOX SET [ 2.15:1 ]
Inside Daisy Clover
James Bond : Diamonds Are Forever
James Bond : Thunderball [ > 2.2:1 ]
James Bond : You Only Live Twice
JFK (March 1993)
The King and I
Lawrence of Arabia [ > 2:1 ]
The Left Handed Gun
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2 [ 2:1 ]
Life And Nothing But
The Longest Day
McCabe And Mrs. Miller
Mad Max [ 2.4:1 ]
Manhattan
Melancholia
Merci La Vie
The Nasty Girl
Nikita
1900
Oklahoma!
Operation Condor : Armour Of God II [ 2:1 ]
Paint Your Wagon
Pete Kelly's Blues
Platoon
Prospero's Books
Raid Over Rommel
Reflections In A Golden Eye
Return Of The Jedi [ > 2.1:1 ]
Return Of The Living Dead
Robin Hood - Prince Of Thieves (March 1993, but will it be uncut?)
The Sheltering Sky
The Sound of Music
South Pacific
Spartacus [ 2.1:1 ]
Star Trek 1 - 5 (Box Set only) [ all > 2.1:1 ]
Star Wars [ 2.25:1 ]
Star Wars Trilogy : BOX SET (#34.99)
Subway
The Ten Commandments
Terminator 2 (1993 according to Our Price)
THX 1138
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Thelma and Louise (March 1993)
Trop Belles Pour Toi
The Two Jakes
Van Gogh
White Christmas
Wild At Heart
Zombie Flesh Eaters!

* This is advertised by "Mr. Benson's Video Collection" on page 97 of
Empire (December Issue) at a price of 69.95 (UK Pounds Sterling)
I don't know when it will be available at a decent price.

Disclaimer : Don't blame me if the videos aren't released on those dates.

Notes and Queries :

1. One of my friends thought that in Platoon when Kevin Dillon smashes
the skull of the young boy with his rifle, that in the cinema version
the boy's brains come out, but this isn't on the video. Is this true?


Addresses:

CIC Video,
4th Floor,
Glenthorne House,
5 - 17 Hammersmith Grove,
Hammersmith,
London W6 0ND
Telephone : 081 - 846 9433
Fax : 081 - 741 9773

Columbia Tristar Home Video
P.O. Box 14,
St. Austell,
Cornwall,
PL25 3JQ
Customer Services phone number : 0726 68000

Foxvideo Limited,
Twentieth Century House,
31/32 Soho Square,
London
W1V 6AP
Telephone : 071 - 753 8686
Fax : 071 - 437 1625

Disclaimer : Addresses printed without permission. I don't know if I
need permission to do so, so if I'm not supposed to do so legally will
someone please tell me and I shall omit them from this list.

And finally....some widescreen wishes :

Flatliners
Freejack
The Hard Way
The Last Boy Scout
Reservoir Dogs (and I haven't even seen it yet)
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