The Digital Bits has announced that Paramount Home Video will release a Bluray version of the longer, far superior “bootleg” cut of Cameron Crowe‘s Almost Famous on 1.30.11. “Retail exclusive,” they’re saying. The impressionistic paint-dab cover is great — I wonder who designed it? The only really high-level film Kate Hudson has ever been in, and one that arguably contains Billy Crudup‘s finest, or certainly most appealing, performance ever.
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Extras include some of the same stuff available on the theatrical version DVD — audio commentary from Crowe, a “Making of Almost Famous” featurette, an interview with the late Lester Bangs, Crowe’s Top Albums of 1973 and some of his old Rolling Stone articles, etc.
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