This really sucks! I went to 5 more video stores here selling Pinoy DVDs and they all claim that they never had a Macho Dancer DVD, nor do they have it coming to them.
Anyone here knows WHERE in the Philippines can I find and buy that DVD? That's a Viva film right? How come Viva told me there's no DVD of it from their library???
Just read this interesting info lifted from the text found on this DVD's back cover:
When Macho Dancer was first released theatrically, Fillpino censors severely edited many of the film's most explicit moments. This version is mastered from the sole surviving 35MM print of director Lino Brocka's original version, uncut and uncensored, smuggled out of the Philippines and shown to a limited number of international film festivals. This print is now part of the permanent collection at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. :o
Anyone here saw the uncut version of Macho Dancer?:) The shower scene on stage between Daniel Fernando & William Lorenzo was much longer. Also the opening scene where Pol (Alan Paule) was having sex with his American lover was longer. The scene inside the gay bar where Daniel Fernando & Alan Paule first met there was a scene where all the dancers were naked on stage playing with themselves.
Could someone please list down the scenes that were taken out? Tnks.
Is the "Director's Masterpiece" edition being released by Viva Video different from the one released by Strand Releasing?
the dvd that was released here was supposedly the uncut version. it seems to be uncut since there were scenes i didn't remember seeing when i first saw it, mostly frontal shots of the macho dancers (not the stars themselves). it comes with another disc that has about a 15-min feature.