White Wall Cinema: WATERWORLD

WWC is proud to present a very special screening of the fabled ‘Ulysses Cut’ of the much maligned 90s Kevin Costner ‘Mad Max, but on water’ blockbuster Waterworld. Attacked viciously in the press even BEFORE it’s release due to reported production problems and a ballooning budget of what, at the time, became the most expensive movie ever made, the film has (rather incorrectly) become synonymous with monstrous financial disaster.

Cut to ribbons by the studio in a panic to try to salvage something from the reputation the press had given it before even seeing it, huge chunks of character development, some of the film’s best sequences and the films pacing were lost, giving way to a confusing choppy theatrical cut. Eventually in the years that followed more expansive (but censored for TV) versions surfaced on American TV, and over the intervening decades footage was cribbed from these by fans, and cobbled together into an infamous ‘Ulysses Cut’ that spread around film fans online. Finally now restored in it’s full uncensored, original length glory (restoring some lost 40 minutes of scenes) the official ‘Ulysses Cut’ represents the definitive version of this lost epic blockbuster that now comes across as Mad Max directed by Terry Gilliam.

• DOORS: 6.50pm*
• START TIME: 7.20pm*
• RUN TIME: 178 mins
• CERT: 12 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)