director's cut

American  

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.

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director's cut British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

In the expanded director’s cut, we’re shown the way The Company punishes Ripley for being a working mother, blaming her for drifting for 57 years and missing the chance to raise her daughter.

From Salon

He published a memoir, “Director’s Cut: My Life in Film,” in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times

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

“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