Blu-Ray/HD/Restoratio n forthcoming?

I don't agree about GTE, not even remotely.

Melodrama acknowledged, with the consummate skills of the true artist making the hardest things look easy, as a dis-ease born of certain prejudices and mindsets and values, and transcended, is no longer harmful but beneficial, especially when its criticism is tempered with as much affection as Powell brings to the Jennifer Jones character here.

Melodrama or more precisely and foundationally the long-outmoded, at-least-20-century-old, necessity of "dramatic form" itself, taken from a certain type of literature back when change through technology was at a snail's pace and later literature-influenced "life" (not life itself in its immense and paradoxical complexities which almost every single film seeking a large audience is FORCED and REQUIRED to ignore in favor of "drama" or never financed, "Waking Life" being the only exception in the past 20 years I can name outside the art-house scene), is one of the most cliched prisons of faux-&-outmoded "saying-nothing-new-anymore," non-metaphor-expanding "art" you can ever be sentenced to. The electric chair is better than that. lol The electric charge preferred by someone like Powell of pretending you care about "drama" while letting style do all the heavy spiritual lifting, transcending every last bit of it. Some call it visual poetry but "drama" has nothing to do with it.

I don't like any film because it so-well fits the conventions of drama. I consider all conventions of drama, not just 'melodrama' obsolete and done-to-death for 2000 years. Therefore, visual poetry is the first yardstick and "dramatic effectiveness" only the 19th or 20th down the line. Hence why I love Antonioni films that have almost no conventional drama at all and are hated by even artists of the stature of an Orson Welles, himself only great to the extent that he transcended the putrid stink of "drama." lol

Transcending using the skill-sets of the greatest artists then gives the person who makes the effort to perceive that phenomena, that special re-arrangement and placing of things significant over and above the film's a-thousand-times-hackneyed "dramatic content," and even to a certain extent, the passive consumer of cliched dramatic nonsense, MORE awareness of life, which is never set in stone and always changing (and nowadays at a very fast rate compared to the age that gave birth to "drama"), yet has definite rules that must be obeyed if it is to be tamed, through art and science and all overlaps in between.

Temperance is not compromise. Never has been, never will be. The Greeks taught that over 2000 years ago while they were analyzing and codifying the "dramatic form" itself and almost every other art-form we still use today, most out of habit than necessity. And as you well know, temperance is the absolute OBSESSION of the British and hence why Powell understands and uses it so effectively to subvert dogmatic convention from every side of the film-makers' palette and create his own, uniquely new and detailed maps of spiritual territory previously not navigable, or not navigable with as much ease, exuberance and joy, the rewards of a cartography well-done but never ending.

P.S. The Korean DVD is almost certainly a legal copy of the English one licensed for Korea, but since the English one is so cheap, I'll be buying that one too to see if there is any difference.