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You know I tried that - telling the DVD player that my TV was 4:3. It ended up putting the headless image inside a windowbox. Just strange!

And the Blu-ray arrived today. Much nicer with proper 1.66:1 framing. I still wonder about what caused the DVD to chop off heads while automatically going wide.

No. The bad framing put me off. Had I been able to see the full 4:3 image on one of my televisions, I might have watched it. As I said above, what little I've seen has spurred me into buying the Criterion Blu-ray.

I'm sure that's the case, Robert. I guess I was hoping for someone who still has that old DVD to respond with their results. I found them so odd that it seemed like something that could be discussed here. Surely someone's hoarded it somewhere. Well, to be honest, in a couple of days it won't...

Oh well, my question has had 125 views in the past day and not even a single comment, let alone answers. I suppose that a DVD from over 20 years ago is not exactly of interest to anyone.

I'm going to try asking this here, but I'm not sure I'll get an answer. This is a quite puzzling situation. I've been a Kubrick fan for years, but never got a chance to see PATHS OF GLORY or own it in any home video format. It's not included in the several Kubrick sets I've owned. So it...