No Country for Old Men 4K UHD (2007) (The Criterion Collection)

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by Connoralpha

I believe it was mastered in 4K originally? AFAIK Deakins has had a 4K DI on all of his movies since Jarhead.

Originally Posted by Pieter V

FYI - Back in 2007 this had a 4K digital intermediate.

This is GREAT to know, thanks!

[tsetse27]

Yes!! has been waiting for years.

[King O.A.]

My wishlist gets smaller.

[BobSimms]

But there’s still a chance it’ll be a 2K up-res, right? Please please please, I need something to worry about.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

But there’s still a chance it’ll be a 2K up-res, right? Please please please, I need something to worry about.

Worse. This disc is sourced from a cam recording of them playing a bootleg VHS on a CRT B&W television, with a new blanket teal grading, and a director's cut which randomly removes 30 minutes of scenes. Also AI is in there somewhere. Lots of AI. Is that worrisome enough for you, friendo?

[ronboster]

[rocknblues81]

Mediocre artwork, but excited for the disc.

[Kyle15]

Don't care for the art either. There's like 3 or 4 'artists' doing this exact same thing and I can't tell any of it apart.

[MifuneFan]

I'm not crazy about the art either. It's from a different artist than the Miller's Crossing one (which I personally like more), but is somewhat similar in terms of color tones, the border around the artwork, and title placement.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I'm not crazy about the art either. It's from a different artist than the Miller's Crossing one (which I personally like more), but is somewhat similar in terms of color tones, the border around the artwork, and title placement.

Miller's Crossing is much better executed. It looks more like a real art piece. This one has cartoon-ize-me photoshop collage energy to it.

[HD Goofnut]

I think a perfect art would have been Moss looking at the bag of money or Bell sitting at the table.

[dcx4610]

Good to see a new title from Criterion for once. Looking forward to revisiting this one.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by dcx4610

Good to see a new title from Criterion for once. Looking forward to revisiting this one.

They rarely release new titles so it's cool to see. Especially ones like Eastern Condors, Paper Moon, Funny Girl, Scarface, Gummo, Happiness, Real Life, Risky Business, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Peeping Tom, The Apu Trilogy, Videodrome, Citizen Kane, and The Piano. I hope they release those soon they'd be cool and new to the format.

[Monterey Jack]

Hope they don’t pull a Miller’s Crossing with this.

[OnlyJapantown]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Hope they don’t pull a Miller’s Crossing with this.

Can you imagine?

"Don't put it in your pocket."
*scene ends*

[rcafilm]

Very curious about the wording of the "new 4K master, supervised and approved" by Deakins. As some others mentioned, this has always had a 4K DI, but Criterion touting it as "new" makes me wonder if they went back and rescanned the negative with modern scanner technology. That would seem like a pretty big and seemingly "unnecessary" expense for something that would be a slam dunk release as-is, but maybe that was a condition of doing business with either the Coens or Deakins. My guess is we'll hear something from Deakins about it in the coming months as he's usually pretty open about these things.

I do find the artwork a letdown, but I know Criterion has used similar styles for other Coen releases so I guess they're just trying to stay on theme.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by rcafilm

Very curious about the wording of the "new 4K master, supervised and approved" by Deakins. As some others mentioned, this has always had a 4K DI, but Criterion touting it as "new" makes me wonder if they went back and rescanned the negative with modern scanner technology. That would seem like a pretty big and seemingly "unnecessary" expense for something that would be a slam dunk release as-is, but maybe that was a condition of doing business with either the Coens or Deakins. My guess is we'll hear something from Deakins about it in the coming months as he's usually pretty open about these things.

I do find the artwork a letdown, but I know Criterion has used similar styles for other Coen releases so I guess they're just trying to stay on theme.

The original DI had no Dolby Vision / HDR pass, so I'm sure how a newer scan would be an unnecessary expense..

[SpookyDollhouse]

Amazing news, I watched the Blu-ray earlier this year and it looked rough. It'll be interesting to see how those CGI animals hold up in 4K

[Connoralpha]

Originally Posted by rcafilm

Very curious about the wording of the "new 4K master, supervised and approved" by Deakins. As some others mentioned, this has always had a 4K DI, but Criterion touting it as "new" makes me wonder if they went back and rescanned the negative with modern scanner technology. That would seem like a pretty big and seemingly "unnecessary" expense for something that would be a slam dunk release as-is, but maybe that was a condition of doing business with either the Coens or Deakins. My guess is we'll hear something from Deakins about it in the coming months as he's usually pretty open about these things.

I do find the artwork a letdown, but I know Criterion has used similar styles for other Coen releases so I guess they're just trying to stay on theme.

Criterion words this stuff very confusingly, on purpose. For example their Wall-E UHD advertised a "New 4K Master" even though it was derived from Disney's existing 2K DI. CC's definition of new really just means that they haven't offered that presentation before.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by rcafilm

Very curious about the wording of the "new 4K master, supervised and approved" by Deakins. As some others mentioned, this has always had a 4K DI, but Criterion touting it as "new" makes me wonder if they went back and rescanned the negative with modern scanner technology. That would seem like a pretty big and seemingly "unnecessary" expense for something that would be a slam dunk release as-is, but maybe that was a condition of doing business with either the Coens or Deakins. My guess is we'll hear something from Deakins about it in the coming months as he's usually pretty open about these things.

I do find the artwork a letdown, but I know Criterion has used similar styles for other Coen releases so I guess they're just trying to stay on theme.

"New 4K master" means a whole lotta nuthin'. As said above, it's prolly just had its 4K DI (which Deakins would've scrutinised to the nth degree at the time) reappraised by Deakins for the 4K HDR space.