director's cut

noun

1. an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.

director's cut

noun

1. films a version of a film which realizes the artistic aims of the director more fully than the original version

Example Sentences

But, as told in the Director’s Cut’s commentary, he won it by pitching “the most straight-forward, unpretentious, riveting thriller like ‘Psycho’ or ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ or even the most brilliant B-level like ‘Night of the Living Dead’ or ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ but I want it to look, and I’m going to do this, like ‘2001.’

From Salon

In what could be a prequel or part of a director’s cut of Alex Garland’s much-discussed new film “Civil War”, Brian Stelter outlines a scenario where the autocrat Donald Trump and his regime basically outlaws freedom of the press and terminates the First Amendment.

From Salon

“We were inspired by many film noirs and characters, but it was Fernando Meirelles and his editor, Fernando Stutz, who experimented with the film clips during the director’s cut,” says “Sugar” producer Audrey Chon.

From Los Angeles Times

Think of a gene as a movie; an isoform would be like a director's cut, with different scenes cut, extended or inserted while maintaining major similarities to the original.

From Science Daily

It ran more than three hours when it was first shown; a 1994 director’s cut stretched to nearly four.

From New York Times