Mark-P
Senior HTF Member
Just answering the question, not making recommendations as these were all blind-buys for me, many of which have been on my Criterion wishlist for 10 years and I’ve never been willing to pay Blu-ray prices for them.
Detour
The Last Emperor
The Naked City
The Piano Teacher
Pickpocket
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rules of the Game
The Tin Drum
Umberto D.
Wings of Desire
One note on Last Emperor, it is of course the wrong AR. I have the Italian 3D Blu-ray which is the correct ratio, but looks terrible when playing back in 2D as it has been artificially manipulated for the 3D conversion. At some point I expect Criterion will revisit the title and update the file with the correct ratio.
And one last note I also picked up two titles that Criterion put out on Blu-ray but streaming rights are through other studios. For Heaven Can Wait (1943), the version on Movies Anywhere app is the same 4K restoration as the Criterion Blu-ray (same restoration credit preceding the movie) and for The Awful Truth the version on the Movies Anywhere app also appears restored (
Edit: I've done a comparison of The Awful Truth screencaps from the Criterion Blu-ray to the Movies Anywhere digital version, and can confirm that it's not the same transfer as framing is slightly different. All I can say is that the version on Movies Anywhere is cleaner than the transfer on iTunes or Vudu but not the pristine version on the Criterion Blu-ray.
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