10h 30min, dec 11, 2019 y - LONDON FIELDS Director's Cut Free Screening Rio Cinema LONDON

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The director's cut is runs for one hour and fifty two minutes before the start of the end credits, 12 minutes longer than the theatrical version

The director's cut has songs by Sia, Nick Cave, Brian Eno, Johnny Nash, Lykke Li, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, Dire Straits, Apparatjik, The London Philharmonic; the producer's cut shares only songs from Dire Straits and Apparatjik.

The director's cut utilizes stock-footage as a narrative and stylistic device, whereas the producer's cut doesn't include any stock-footage moments. By using stock-footage, especially during the opening, world-building sequences, the director's cut takes on a way more epic quality, and the overall vibe that can be felt is more anxious and alive than what can be felt in the producer's cut. In general, the producer's cut favors the use of voice-over more than Cullen's director's cut, which while still utilizing voice-over, offers more of an ambiguous viewing experience. As an overall viewing experience, the producer's cut is a more traditional film, even with a narrative that folds over on itself. The plotting is more straight-forward, there is more voice-over in order to guide the audience along, the musical selections are more classic, and the ways in which characters are introduced are more level. In comparison, the director's cut is a far more eclectic viewing experience, as it relies more on ambiguity and favors are more artistic sense of creation by the filmmaker. There's also a noticeable difference in the saturation of color between the two versions. The producer's cut feels more washed out and drained of color, while the director's cut offers a richer primary color palette scheme, and even features bolder black and shadows during nighttime sequences.

As a general note - both films present the same footage, though there are certainly instances were alternative angles/takes were selected between the two edits. Because the director's cut runs longer than the producer's cut as a result of extra footage being added in to the run time, both films still follow a similar trajectory, but the director's cut becomes the more artistic vision by conclusion.

In the producer's cut, Johnny Depp's character is introduced at the 7 minute mark, whereas in the director's cut, he's introduced at the 35 minute mark. He appears more overall on-screen in the producer's cut than he does in the director's cut.

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