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1.77:1 opened up is fine. Many displays sightly overscan the image, so you get actual top and bottom 1.85 framing.
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I'm sure it's a typo, but after that screwup with the missing fade out in the 2001 remaster who knows?
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It's hilarious and sad how much certain sites jumped all over a typo about the running time.
I don't see how the Euro cut would be hard to recreate? There are no optical wipes or transitions, it's all simple cuts. The soundtrack at those cuts might need to come from the current Blu-Ray. spoRv is working on a capture of the Italian Laserdisc, so the soundtrack at those cuts could be lifted from the Italian mono as well?
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The original Kubrick DVD set is actually the best one.
Sure the masters are all 4/3 and are from the Laserdiscs era.
But they are all approved by Kubrick and the soundmixes included are all original mono or stereo.
Then when they re-released, is where they started to revisit everything the wrong way, with different colors and remixes.
The only box set worth it is the original one.
Also the 4K ACO has been available for 9 years. Clips from it are in the bonuses of the Blu-ray, it's a swindle, they could have remastered the BR in 2010.
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They were doing 4K masters that far back? I had no idea. I'm still hopeful Criterion gets a shot at The Shining, since it looks like we're not getting any new extras or the mono track at this point. The 1999 DVD mono is a tad anemic.
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Wizard Of Oz 8K scan is from 2009.
But then they released the 1080p version of it on Blu-ray.
They've been conning us the whole time regarding Kubrick.