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It's a real issue with home video fans. Everyone says that they want home video transfers to accurately represent the original look of film, but whenever cinematographers like Surtees, Willis, or Geoffrey Unsworth are involved, people question the distinctive looks that they created.

I'm not sure how we can keep losing the thread that this film was shot by Bruce Surtees. He was perfectly aware of what happens when illumination is reduced -- he built an entire career around the idea of reducing illumination. How anyone sees California and Florida is irrelevant. How Surtees...

While I generally frown upon screenshots, I feel obligated to offer these (borrowed from Caps-a-holic). The top one is the DVD, and the bottom one is the Blu-ray. They don't have a comparison up yet for the Blu-ray to the UHD, but I think that it's pretty easy to see that the DVD has the same...

I'm quite familiar with the press release from WAC regarding their 2017 Blu-ray release (Blu-ray.com just copy-pasted from it). I'm also quite familiar with what's missing in that press release: the name of the colorist, and what he/she used as a reference. Both Penn and Surtees were already...

Saying that it has "skewed color" is assuming a baseline that hasn't been proven, namely, that the Blu-ray is the "correct" color. That's assuming a fact not in evidence. Reviewers who are making that statement are making an assumption. And you're speaking to a reviewer who watched the UHD and...

My favorite Michael Ritchie!

It's not apples-to-apples anyway. Normally, 4K screenshots are downconverted from HDR to SDR, which rarely gives an accurate impression of how a film looks on an HDR display, let alone in motion. But in this case, DVDBeaver couldn't crack the UHD and posted screenshots from the included Blu-ray...

The DP in this case being Bruce Surtees, and however much anyone may think that Florida should always look bright and shiny, in this case we're seeing it through his distinctive lens and lighting style. And Night Moves is a neo-noir film, so Arthur Penn doubtless chose Surtees for a damned good...

I don't know that I quite agree with that. Oh, it's unquestionably true of Chinatown, but the real moral of Night Moves is don't play chess with people who can see four moves ahead of you. That includes all three women in the film -- his wife Ellen, Delly, and even Paula. He was checkmated...