Cowboy Kate & other Stories, director's cut by Sam Haskins.

A director's cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials, comic book or video games, that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit.

' Cut ' explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director's cut is preceded by the rough editor's cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release.

The most common form of director's cut is therefore to have extra scenes added, often making the " new " film considerably longer than the " original ".

Traditionally, the " director's cut " is not, by definition, the director's ideal or preferred cut.

It is often the case that a director approves of the final cut, and even prefers it to the so-called earlier " director's cut.

" The director's cut may include unsatisfactory takes, a preliminary soundtrack, a lack of desired pick-up shots etc., which the director would not like to be shown.

For example, the director's cut of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was 122 minutes long.

Although not complete or refined to his satisfaction, director Sam Peckinpah still preferred the director's cut, as it was more inclusive and thorough than the 105-minute cut.

The restored cut, at 115 minutes, is thus not the traditional " director's cut ," but is closest to the director's preferred version, as it was reconstructed based on Peckinpah's notes, and according to his style in general.

In this case, the director's cut and the director's ideal preferred cut are distinctly separate versions.

Around the time of the release of Texasville, Bogdanovich also revisited his earliest success, The Last Picture Show, and produced a slightly modified director's cut.

The producer's and director's credits have been amended slightly since " The Christmas Invasion ", so that now the credit is in lower case and the name of the crewmember is in capitals.

In contrast, the director's cut of Scott's Kingdom of Heaven ( which was a commercial failure in its 2005 theatrical release ) is the true version of the film Scott wanted, nearly an hour longer and has been met with more critical acclaim than the original version.

As Welles's rough cut no longer exists, no true " director's cut " is possible, but Murch was able to assemble a version incorporating most of the existing material, omitting some of the Keller scenes ( though some were retained, either because they had replaced Welles scenes which no longer existed and were necessary to the plot, or because Welles had approved of their inclusion ).

The film premiered in Japan first on April 15, 1995, with a longer version ( 103 mins ) that is closer to the director's cut and features a previously composed score by Mychael Danna, different editing, and more scenes with Japanese star Takeshi Kitano and Dolph Lundgren notably.

In 1982, Z Channel aired the 219-minute premiere version of Heaven's Gate on cable television — the first time that the longer version was widely exhibited — which Z Channel dubbed the " director's cut.

Beside having a longer " director's cut " of the film, the DVD also has several extra features: deleted scenes, theatrical trailer, two behind the scenes documentaries ( The Guts of the Beast and Documentary ), Legend documentary ( a documentary that reveals the historical facts about the Beast of Gévaudan ), and Storyboards gallery.

After, as longer versions of such films as Touch of Evil by Orson Welles began surfacing from studio vaults, " director's cuts " became a staple of the Revival House theater-circuit.

A much longer cut of this scene can be seen in the director's cut, and the whole performance was included in the extras for the 2-Disc editions.

And as is often the case with this director's work, the pace is so slow and the mood so reverent, that initial enchantment gives way to bored fidgeting.

In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised, " Mr. Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook ".

By definition, where a director enters into a transaction with a company, there is a conflict between the director's interest ( to do well for himself out of the transaction ) and his duty to the company ( to ensure that the company gets as much as it can out of the transaction ).

The director's cut is often considered a mixed bag, with an equal share of supporters and detractors.

Britney Spears ' music video Gimme More was first released as a director's cut on iTunes, with the official video released 3 days later.

Co-written with his daughter Sofia, the film is a mystifying embarrassment ; it's by far the director's worst work yet.

While collaborating on what is referred to as the " director's cut ", the director and the editor go over the entire movie with a fine-tooth comb ; scenes and shots are re-ordered, removed, shortened and otherwise tweaked.

It can be viewed as the marriage between the director's early experiences with expressionist techniques in Germany as well as the spartan style already visible in his late American work.

Russell Mulcahy was disappointed with the movie as originally released, and later made his own " Renegade Version " director's cut with a proper sequencing of various scenes, and the filmmakers ' explanation for why the movie turned out as it originally did.

Bogart was lukewarm about the part, but agreed to it on a handshake with Wilder, without a finished script, and with the director's assurances to take good care of Bogart during the filming.

Shot like the director's previous efforts in black and white, this constructivist neo-noir was Jarmusch's first collaboration with renowned Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller, who had been known for his work with Wenders.

Following the release of Broken Flowers, Jarmusch signed a deal with Fortissimo Films, whereby the distributor would fund and have " first-look " rights to the director's future films, and cover some of the overhead costs of his production company, Exoskeleton.

It will be a director's challenge on how they will express the sea and its waves with freehand drawing.

Unhappy with the theatrical version of the film ( which he blamed on paying too much attention to the opinions of preview audiences ), Scott supervised a director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven, which was released on DVD in 2006.

Running alongside his enthusiasm for DVD, Scott is sometimes considered the " father " of the director's cut, though the impetus to produce such versions has sometimes begun with other parties.

In 1988, however, Peckinpah's director's cut was released on video and led to a reevaluation, with many critics hailing it as a mistreated classic and one of the era's best films.

* In the 1986 horror film Chopping Mall, a store in the mall that survivors use to supply themselves with assault rifles, ammunition and grenades is named Peckinpah's Sporting Goods, a wry reference to the director's film violence.

This criticism was far from universal with other critics recognizing the director's intent to make an " American " film.

By 1998, Petersen was an established Hollywood director, with the power to both re-release his classic Das Boot in a new director's cut and to helm star-studded action-thrillers.

" He suggests that because Allen's films blur the protagonist with " past and future protagonists as well as with the director himself ", it " makes a difference as to whether we are most responsive to the director's or the character's framing of events ".

The Springsteen songs were eventually restored for the 2004 director's cut DVD of the film.

The band performed music from the film, plus a few selected songs from the folk and singer-songwriter repertoire that seemed to fit the mood before, shortly after midnight, the director's cut of the film was shown on a giant screen.

This edition included the 1980s pop and alternative rock songs from the theatrical edition and the director's cut.