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Well, I finally burned my way through the whole set, commentaries and other extras included. It's stunning. The films are magnificent, the transfers are beautiful, and the extras are insightful. I can't possibly recommend it highly enough. It's my favorite release of the year so far, and it's...

What I said was that they can be a bit more challenging for viewers unfamiliar with his work. That's all. Nothing to do with tone. It's just that The Round-up and The Red and the White don't require familiarity with his work to appreciate them, while the later films are much improved if you know...

The Red and the White is just as gorgeous as The Round-Up, with the caveat that it has a couple of flaws that I assume were on the negative, like a blemish on the top of the frame in one shot, and some shimmering in another. They don't take one iota away from the beauty of the transfers as a...

My copy of The Miklós Jancsó Collection hasn't shipped yet, but I did end up with a review copy of the two-disc The Round-Up/The Red and the White, and just watched the The Round-Up. It's gorgeous. Lots of distortion from the Agascope lenses, but that's not the fault of the restoration work...

The last time that I watched The Red and the White was on a laserdisc that had rotted and had speckles throughout. That was maybe a quarter century ago. I've been so eager to get my hands on this set!