#patchka goncharov

[lunarhorrors]

patchka is the best character in the goncharov universe

[number-1-stalker]

Goncharov - battling the loss of his wife, a gay affair and a mafia buisness. Is he unstoppable?

[violetfaust]

For my own sanity

I'm trying to put together a list of the various versions of Goncharov (1973) screened throughout the last fifty years.

The four-and-a-half-hour film festival cut that even Scorsese felt was a rough draft

The US theatrical release in 1973

The 1973 European theatrical release with its extra half hour of footage

The 1973 Latin American dub with its extra half hour of different footage

The so-called Secret Reels that producer Domenico Procacci the Elder (not to be confused with the unrelated Italian filmmaker Domenic Procacci the Younger, who has only been active since the late 80s) used to screen at his fantastic, legendary drug-fueled parties in the 70s--these seem to be (at least one of) the source(s) of the deleted Goronchov/Andrey sex scene

The 1980 director's cut

The 1980s Soviet bootleg (which became so popular that it led to the 1993 re-envisioning)

Matteo's own controversial "Writer's Cut" (particularly complicated because apparently he never stopped editing and re-editing to fully achieve his personal vision--every time he screened the movie after 1975, privately or publicly, it had at least some minor differences and often incredibly large ones, with entire character arcs added or lost). At least one of these, my own personal favorite with the deleted second epilogue, was copied and got into general circulation on college campuses and whatnot

Also probably based on one of Matteo's cuts, the "Underground" cuts that were the basis of the Queer improv parties dating back at least to 1982

The first VHS release

The rare Betamax release with the extra Patchka scene

The post-Soviet edit 1993 "modernization" re-envisioning Gonchorov/Katya's backstory that was most Millennials' introduction to the movie

The butchered 90s broadcast TV airings (both of which cut vital plot points--such as Ice Pick Joe's lobotomy backstory--and were likely the reason an entire generation lost interest in the film)

The 1998 25th-anniversary director's cut (the one that The New Yorker famously panned with "It seems that Scorsese has forgotten his own movie")

The 40th-anniversary DVD release with six hours of additional footage

The recent gorgeously digitized Blu-ray release that included the nine-hour supercut and "Making Of" documentary (and probably inspired the Gonchorov renaissance)

The eagerly awaited upcoming 50th-anniversary Criterion edition that's rumored to incorporate the "Lost Reels" that Matteo, Scorsese, Al Pacino, and second assistant editor Mariana Lyudmila Manuali had kept private, as well as the distinct four hours of Patchka footage that the cinematographer filmed whenever he got bored.

And, of course, the crowdsourced Internet project to recover the "definitive" Gonchorov, incorporating most of the known footage as well as new home-filmed snippets from the private collections of minor players like Lynda Carter (in her first screen role as Dancer #2) and Henry Winkler (the busboy)--currently running twelve hours

Am I missing anything?

(Note: This list intentionally excludes the probably apocryphal student project that reframed the entire film from Valery's point of view--even if it actually exists and uses original footage, it can only be considered an homage to the full film and not an actual variant.)

[doydoune]

Okay imagine the Poker Scene but Patchka also wears a bowtie

you cannot tell me Ice Pick Joe wouldn't have won every single game and wouldn't have died afterwards

[purplepenguintime]

Just finished Goncharov (1973) and Ice Pick Joe, resident funky little guy, is my favourite 

I know, I’m predictable

[melancholyofautvmn]

was bored so i made this

[its-blorbin-time]

so……….. I just watched Goncharov (1973) and NO ONE was gonna tell me that “kittypet” was a Goncharov reference (!???) and patchpelt’s character was created in honor of patchka and hawkfROSTS DEATH IS BLOW FOR BLOW PLAGIARIZED FROM ICE PICK JOE’S?????? my whole life was a lie I need to sit down

[quiddling]

doodles that made it to the goncharov discord but not here (aka al pacino with a gun)

[pasta-stuffed-possums]

Patchka the cat.

The scene (not sure from what version) where Patchka stands by Ice Pick Joe’s corpse, blood getting onto her fur, just breaks me. Such a loyal girl.

[gravedangerahead]

The shippers can kill me, I don't care

I'm glad he's dead, because when Patchka tried to save Ice Pick Joe he threw him at the wall so hard that my darling kitty walked away with a limp

A horrible death is what you get for messing with my piccolino, it's what he deserves

I stole the picture from @citizen-zero because I couldn't be bothered to get a screenshot

[meowdejavu]

so wild that even the matrix revolutions snuck in a brief goncharov reference in the train station!! i definitely did not catch this back in the day. 

[number-1-stalker]

Guys!! I just heard that next year, on its 50th birthday goncharov is getting a sequel!!!

I can't wait!

Apparently it's set 50 years after and it's gonna carry the symbolism of the clock through. We're also gonna get flashbacks to just after goncharov so we can tie up the confusion about whether Katya faked her death or not and old Sofia is in it!!!

I hope patchka is still in it honestly that cat is my life

[violetfaust]

I’m disappointed, Joe. Winter has made a lap cat of you.

Goncharov (1973), dir. Martin Scorsese

[violetheart77]

. . .

PATCHKA OH MY GOD I’M SO SORRY

Okay NOW the set’s complete!

[hungry-skeleton]

Good kitty :)

Ice Pick Joe's only emotional support lmao. I hope whoever Patchka's cat-actor was was given many treats and pets she did such a good job!

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[irlwakko]

name a more iconic duo than Ice Pick Joe and his cat Patchka, you can’t