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My own preference is to have it as close as possible to the way it would have looked on opening night in a top cinema. I think both directors and cinematographers are tempted to change the original look - have a look at the several versions of Halloween and The Thing, all supervised by...

The problem is, UHD is almost certainly the final consumer video format we'll ever see. I'm not sure how much of a draw new restorations would be for streaming services.

I think there's always a temptation to use new technology to "improve" things.

What about more extreme examples? Like what Friedkin did with the first blu-ray release of The French Connection, or Lucas's endless tinkering with the Star Wars films. Are you okay with those because they were director approved?

Why didn't Paramount just use the existing 4K master?

Interesting. All of this has made me decide to just stick with the blu-rays.

Coppola seems to be restoring all of his films, so I'm sure it's in the works. Still, I would have expected it to come before Dementia 13.