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Mel Gibson said in an interview that production designer John Myhre directed the reshoots on Payback.

Generally, when a director supervises a transfer of his older movie, the expectation is that he will want to make it look as close to the original photography as possible, not turn it "pastel" (Friedkin's word) out of the blue and for no reason at all. I'm going to ask this without sarcasm: Have...

Very few directors have the right of final cut. In fact, almost none do. The small number who insist on that contractual right (like David Lynch) do so by trading for a significant reduction in pay. Almost all directors are "directors for hire." The studio owns the film. The director is hired...

Where's the original Star Wars trilogy? Consumer backlash hasn't done a damn thing about that. His cinematographer, the man who actually shot the movie and made the original decisions about how it should look, had a few things to say on that topic.

William Friedkin tinted The French Connection purple. Filmmakers are not gods. They're just people, fallible like the rest of us. Sometimes they lose their minds and make terrible decisions. When that happens, is there no one who can protect the original work from being desecrated by its own...

Yes, but for different reasons. Enter the Dragon was one of the early Warner titles that had been deinterlaced at the studio from old 1080i masters. In the case of 3:10 to Yuma, I think the studio just didn't apply enough of an anti-aliasing filter. They were probably trying to preserve detail...

Here you go: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html

I will reserve judgment on the Blu-ray until I actually watch it in my own home. However, this "it's nothing new get used to it" attitude is not something that I can support. You know what else is "nothing new"? Recycling 20-year-old DVD masters smothered with DNR and edge enhancement on...

It impacts Alien in the early scene where the crew awakens from their hibernation chambers. The shot was perfectly framed to show the sides of the pods and the tops of the open canopies. The Blu-ray is awkwardly cropped. http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare2/alien/0.5.38_OldR1.jpg...

Clearly, the proper course of action is to invent a new word that combines the best qualities of both phrases. Therefore, I humbly submit: "Digital Remastoration(TM)." I'm slapping a trademark on that right away. I expect reimbursement when studios start using it in their marketing materials...