Supporting Criterion is so much more worthwhile than supporting Amazon. By supporting Criterion, it helps to continue and encourage releases such as SHOWBOAT. Not only that, Criterion has a reward program with frequent rewards and discounts and almost always free, fast shipping. I always...
Day of the Jackal holds up really well as the kind of filmmaking that was respectable at the time - not exciting, but compelling in a quasi-documentary style. It certainly look much better than the film did upon release.
That being said, somewhere between th 5th and 7th chapters, there is a...
We just watched this disk and discovered that there occurred production errors beginning in the 6th chapter and continued through out chapter 7. There were freeze-frames, jerky cuts and loss of dialogue. As the dis was new and never been played, we were disappointed and gave up after having...
Will the Hitchcock Blu-ray set from Universal contain a new transfer of this or bump-up of the Bob Harris/Jim Paynton restoration? I have been unable to tell from publicity materials.
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