The Criterion Collection

[aladdin123]

Call it instinct, but I think that black-and-white films are far more likely to come from Criterion than from any Warner label. Those classic 3-strip Technicolor musicals, like An American In Paris, Meet Me In St. Louis, The Band Wagon, are all very likely to come from WAC in UHD eventually, in my opinion. Meanwhile, even as iconic as The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre and Strangers On A Train are, I get the feeling that Criterion is far more likely to release them than WAC. Hell, I think The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre might be more likely to even come from WHV than WAC. Just a gut feeling. WAC's UHD releases seem to be about either large-format films or color ones. Feltenstein, if I remember correctly, talked about Technicolor in particular as a focus of WAC's 4K releases.

[Vilya]

I am giving away 4 of these:



The details can be found here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...5#post23500935

[Cremildo]

Josh Brolin's Closet Picks - YouTube

[FindOneInEveryCar]

Repo Man and Sid & Nancy!

[BorisKarloffice]

Originally Posted by sherlockjr

4K's of those desireable titles would depend on the state of the available film elements. If the elements that are usable for new scans are multi-generation down dupes without close to 4K of picture information, what would be the point? Effectively just a fancy upscale at more money?

Lousy elements didn't stop them from doing Curse of Frankenstein

[sherlockjr]

Originally Posted by BorisKarloffice

Lousy elements didn't stop them from doing Curse of Frankenstein

Who says the scanned elements were bad? According to this site, the 2020 WAC BD release was

"Sourced from a brand-new 4K scan of original color separation elements. The Curse of Frankenstein sidesteps the usual routes to earn what is most certainly the film's finest home video presentation to date, likely surpassing original theatrical prints in the process.".

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-C...146200/#Review

You couldn't want much more than that. Those B+W separation elements should be in much better shape than a 1957 Eastmancolor negative. That same 4K scan is likely the source of the 4K UHD release from WAC and Hammer Films as well.

[Scottie]

OP updated, concluding another year.

(Ignore all of the notes I've added. They'll be tidied up eventually.)

[Alvarius]

A pretty great year.