Silence of the Lambs gets a 4K Remaster by Criterion

[Red41804]

There is a new 4K Blu-Ray coming out by Arrow in the UK this August, and I hope it will fix the incorrect colors in the first 20 minutes of the film.

[alexp2000]

It’s been confirmed it’s been fixed 😀

[Cheritto]

It’s been confirmed it’s been fixed 😀

Awesome! I was wondering the same myself, and as a newbie here, it's nice to get this kind of info right off the bat.

I'm curious, where do you normally go to look up info like this? I don't want to have to bother people every time I'm curious about this sorta stuff, you know?

[titanic]

It’s been confirmed it’s been fixed 😀

I'm curious, where do you normally go to look up info like this? I don't want to have to bother people every time I'm curious about this sorta stuff, you know?

I'm watching the forums at blu-ray.com.

[Cheritto]

It’s been confirmed it’s been fixed 😀

I'm curious, where do you normally go to look up info like this? I don't want to have to bother people every time I'm curious about this sorta stuff, you know?

I'm watching the forums at blu-ray.com.

Thanks! That makes sense. I often check there too, but sometimes threads there can get long and tedious to search through. I thought, or hoped, that there might be a different site or forum that I hadn't heard of that posts this sort of info. Alas...

[alexp2000]

The people on BR.com tend to get their info from accounts on Twitter and often post the names on the forum - you could always follow those accounts rather than trawling through forum threads. Bear in mind not all the info will be accurate but I’m sure this one came from someone at Arrow..

[Cheritto]

The people on BR.com tend to get their info from accounts on Twitter and often post the names on the forum - you could always follow those accounts rather than trawling through forum threads. Bear in mind not all the info will be accurate but I’m sure this one came from someone at Arrow..

Good to know - I'll try to look for some of those accounts. Thank you!

[AdmiralNoodles]

According to DVDCompare.net:
The Arrow release has the original Stereo and the greatest number of extras. Features a 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative with additional color correction made for this release.
The Kino Lorber release includes an additional documentary, but the Stereo soundtrack is a downmix of the 5.1 track.

I'm still keeping the releases I have, including the Kino Lorber 4K, then going to wait for the ARROW VIDEO 4K to be a standard release and get that, too.

Here's what I own regarding Silence of the Lambs on physical disc media:
The Criterion Collection USA NTSC DVD - DVDCompare.net entry
The Hannibal Lecter MGM/UNIVERSAL UK BD Trilogy - DVDCompare.net entry
The Criterion Collection USA BD  - DVDCompare.net entry
Kino Lorber USA 4K+BD Bonus Features - DVDCompare.net entry

Hannibal:
The Hannibal Lecter MGM/UNIVERSAL UK BD Trilogy - DVDCompare.net entry
Kino Lorber USA 4K+BD - DVDCompare.net entry

Red Dragon:
The Hannibal Lecter MGM/UNIVERSAL UK BD Trilogy - DVDCompare.net entry
Kino Lorber USA 4K+BD - DVDCompare.net entry

Manhunter:
Shout/Scream Factory USA BD - DVDCompare.net entry

[CloakedDragon97]

For what it's worth, the Criterion DVD, once I corrected for a magenta tint, does resemble the remastered Blu-ray and 4K considerably, as well as the 35mm scans I have seen, so I think the remaster is the most accurate color wise.

[Beber]

For what it's worth, the Criterion DVD, once I corrected for a magenta tint, does resemble the remastered Blu-ray and 4K considerably, as well as the 35mm scans I have seen, so I think the remaster is the most accurate color wise.

No, it's not. I've seen the real thing in an actual theater not too long ago. I've seen the digital master and remaster on Blu-ray, UHD and DCP, and all digital masters have been wrong this whole time even though Tak Fujimoto was involved in the most recent one. That's why he's on my blacklist with Lucas, Cameron, Spielberg, Mann, Cundey, Storaro, Scott, Fincher to name a few off the dome. A French VHS from the early 90s was the best look-alike to a film print I could find until I got access to a calibrated high res 35mm scan with proper colors. You can see in the last post of my "toying with the curves" thread the latest attempt I made at regrading the Criterion remaster on one single shot for now, based on said proper scan which checks all the boxes of my memory regarding the 35mm screening I attended. The Criterion DVD is wrong in so many ways. It's not the worst of this whole batch, but don't bother trying to match it expecting a faithful result to the original look.

EDIT: for Fujimoto to come off my blacklist, he'll have to validate a transfer looking just about like this: