If Criterion rereleased blu rays?

[Trogdor2010]

What movies on Blu Ray do you think Criterion should rerelease to make it a better experience? It could be from subtitle placement for cinemascope foreign films (Sony has been notorius for this), DNR, EE or artifacts in the transfer. or a lack of special features, or anything that is problematic with the blu ray.

I would pick Kung Fu Hustle, mainly because when you watch the Catonese track on it, the subtitles are in the black bar is very problematic. Criterion does the most consistent job with foreign films because they emulate the experience for us CIH home theater users. Make that any foreign film to be given this treatment. I'm very upset about Sony because in their early release of Immortal Beloved, I was cheery because they have subtitle placement for the movie that allow you to choose the position of where to put them. Too bad it didn't catch attention because it was an English film in a US Blu ray.

Pan's Labyrinth and Patton for example for problematic use of DNR. With larger screens, this is problematic because the use of DNR is more noticable and doesn't have the film like look (especially Pan's Labyrinth) to immerse us as it did theatrically.

What are your picks?

[doctorsteve]

Edited...

Fear and Loathing.

[Big-byrd]

agree with trainspotting i have the canada version blu still better than dvd.

[csdot]

Videodrome

[Zen_Amako]

The question the OP is posing is which *existing* Blu-ray titles should be reissued by Criterion.

The obvious answer is Ran, but I guess that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

Hero with HD audio (sorry, the dub track doesn't count) and a better subtitle translation would be good.

RoboCop, since the current Blu-ray is bare bones and the transfer isn't so hot. Criterion released this before on LD and DVD.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Zen_Amako

The question the OP is posing is which *existing* Blu-ray titles should be reissued by Criterion

(Which, obviously, do not include Patton, Pan's Labyrinth, or Kung Fu Hustle, which are owned by Fox, New Line and Sony respectively.)

RoboCop, since the current Blu-ray is bare bones and the transfer isn't so hot. Criterion released this before on LD and DVD.

Back when they were actually allowed to release other studios's movies (Michael Bay, Wes Anderson and David Fincher notwithstanding), because studios didn't have their own DVD lines--And didn't much care whether a movie did go to that new trendy toy, so let the snooty LD company play with it for those weirdo home-theater techies, because they were one of the few in town who DID have a laser-mastering facility.

Obviously, it's a little different today. Studios who now depend on DVD income hold onto their titles with greedy jealousy, and Criterion has been left adrift with all the existing intellectual-property titles they own, which is pretty much all of the Janus foreign-film catalog.
If you're still worshipping at the 90's fan-statue of "Criterion can pick any movie they want, so could they pick mine if I ask them to be nice?"...sorry, they tore down that statue a decade ago--Next thread?