A Few Words About A few words about...™ In the Heat of the Night re-dux (Criterion) - in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[DalekFlay]

This has some sections that don't quite look as good as the rest. I assume that's the condition of the elements or something, I'm not an expert. It all looks good though and sometimes it looks amazing.

 

[PMF]

I am definitely buying this at the next Criterion 50% off sale (either Criterion's or Barnes and Noble's)!

There are some motion pictures that just simply can't be postponed until a sale in July.
For me, "In the Heat of the Night" happens to be one of them;
especially when factoriing in that it's a Haskel Wexler derived from an OCN.
I'm also intrigued about hearing the Oscar winning sound design;
which, apparently, we've not truly heard before in other home editions.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I never realized how bad the movie had looked before until I watched this transfer today. Truly a revelation.

When Hollywood makes movies about race in America, it likes to set them in the bad old days, to have the comforting separation of a more enlightened present looking back at a more ignorant past. One of the things that stands out to me about this movie is that its "bad old days" were present tense. It came out two years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and one year before the assassination of Martin Luther King.