Do those movies present suicide or pedophilia as normal, everyday, healthy, even good things that should be encouraged in society - the way that blackface and racism are normalized in other movies of the period?
It may not be the sort of title that immediately generates tons of excitement, but Before Night Falls is a very good movie and I'll be happy to upgrade it from DVD.
It's really not at all unusual for two different scans performed years apart to have slightly different cropping. depending on how the equipment is calibrated. I'd imagine that the process for striking prints back in the day had similar issues - not to mention that theatrical projection has...
I'm assuming they mean this one from 1980. Looks like it ran two seasons comprised of a TV movie pilot followed by 37 additional episodes. Not sure that really qualifies as a "miniseries." Also, it was on NBC, not HBO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Road_(TV_series)...
DVD is still the format of choice for libraries, schools, and similar institutions. Criterion undoubtedly gets a lot of DVD sales through those channels.