As they suggest on the commentary,Ride with the Devilwas a film without a home.
Through the Criterion Collection, it threatens and deserves to be reincarnated.
My review of Criterion’s Blu-ray ofRide with the Devilfollows after the jump.
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By now, the coded language and meaningful silences of Ang Lee’s cinema is downright familiar.
It was also the film that announced the man was more thanBasquiat.
For that it captures something that’s never been a part of American cinema to this degree before.
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Part of the problem is that the film came out in 1999.
Criterion’s Blu-ray presents the film in widescreen (2.35:1) and in DTS-HD 5.1.
The new cut runs 149 minutes, which eleven minutes longer than the theatrical cut.
It seems most of what was added is featured in the scene where the bushwhackers take over a town.
The only other extra on the film is a conversation with Jeffery Wright (15 min.)
who speaks favorably about the film and the experience of making it.
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Watching it again, I felt the film had become a must-have.
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