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Sorry, thought this was the hometheaterforum, not the vastmajorityofviewersforum. My mistake! Vincent

Grain reduction and "management"? Sure, but this seems to be something on a different level- stripping two whole films entirely of their original film grain and replacing it with a digital "grain-look" noise overlay, apparently in an effort to save time and money in the "restoration" process and...

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On these films, yes. I'm pretty sure RAH is referring to on other films going forward. Vincent

Robert, a tech question- I know that Willis pushed the first two GODFATHERs, did he do the same for III with the more modern Kodak stocks (were those 1990 Kodak stocks T-grain emulsions yet?)? Vincent

I know, and yet it looks more textured and grainy than the first two films on this UHD set. Vincent

Reading through the rest of this thread after I posted a couple days ago, I was clearly wrong re: the "grain". Mea culpa. Vincent

Wow, look at the black-and-white ghouls lurking in the shadows under the trees of the fourth image linked below (and yes, it DOES look like this on the actual UHD disc of the first film). They went through the trouble of ferreting out the original negative of this shot this time around, only to...

The fact that the work on THE GODFATHER PART III towards the creation of the CODA version was completed BEFORE Covid hit- and that was the only one of these three that apparently hasn't had egregious "grain management" applied- seems to suggest that you might be onto something re: Covid having...

Unfortunately, yup. Vincent

Because skies are blue? Vincent

Yeah, I'm definitely seeing real film grain here, but it's very finely resolved. Watching THE GODFATHER right now and it looks gorgeous IMO. Vincent

To be fair to myself, it wasn't meant to be a"shameless plug", it was something I seriously had in mind during the editing re: where to put the reel breaks, since I knew I'd only have a single 16mm print to be taking around to film festivals at the time and it would be "built/broken down" many...

Working on an A BETTER PLACE Blu-ray release now, as well, which should be at sometime later this year, but it likely won't carry over all the extras from the Synapse DVD. Vincent

Theatrical prints are not simply "copied from negatives without post production tampering". Grading/color timing (i.e., "post production tampering" as you put it) has always been a part of the process. The only one-light prints without "tampering" would be workprints used during editing. Vincent

I feel like movies used to be edited into 20ish-minute "movements" and now that's been lost. Vincent

How do you feel about Coppola having removed the "handle" at the end of the reel here? Vincent

It seems like it, since this one was only discovered when somebody was trying to sync an existing dub track to the new picture and the film fell out of sync there. Vincent

Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA has some pretty bad reel change choices, a few of them coming at the end of very important "big" scenes and vintage prints tend to be chewed up during really great scenes as a result (i.e., the "opening murder" scene is its own reel in and of itself, and the "barbed wire...

If 3 seconds were removed from THE GODFATHER PART II to account for "an over allowance for reel changes", why was that the only one that was removed? Vincent