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Criterion--What the hell are we paying for?


The Criterion version looks absolutely horrible. It may be the best version out, but it is still lousy. Which brings me to the question: Why are the prices so high at Criterion when they release inferior copies?

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The print is far from pristine and looks much, much worse than those of "La ronde" and "Madame de...". I can't believe that it is the best in existence or that it has been remastered. It seems to be the best on video or DVD as some of the others were transferred from 16mm. It still looks lousy.

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Looks about as good as it gets on TCM right now. No complaints. It's probably the actual restored blu ray criterion they're airing here even if they can't put the criterion title at the start yet for legal reasons I guess .

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Although it feels as though it was made in the early 40's? Lol

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