Blood Simple - Director's cut
Filmfest 2007
USA 1999
(Original: English)
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Section: Open Air - 25 Years of Filmspotting
Actually, the new version is exactly the same length as the original because the filmmakers have added an introduction in which a distributor identified as Mortimer Young credits BLOOD SIMPLE with "ushering in the era of independent cinema" and claims that now that the movie has been "digitally enhanced and tastefully restored" (with the 'boring parts' excised and the unmistakable voice of Holly Hunter revealed on a telephone answering machine), it will be "forever young". J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams
Credits
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen