I Was Born, But… (Criterion)

Dammit, another upscale from Criterion! They are inconsistent in publishing bonus features and alternate versions in HD, and they never state on the box when they upscale. I even checked Blu-ray.com and DVDBeaver before buying (both said 1080p).

Screenshots make it look ok, but in motion, the aliased deinterlacing and DVD-era artifacting is obvious:

Clipped directly from the BD. Also contains microloop.
Clipped directly from the BD.

The movie is encoded at 24fps, but transferred slightly slower, resulting in random whiplash-inducing stuttering.

A Straightforward Boy

Clipped directly from the BD.

Restoration work is horrible:

Frame numbers in yellow.

Frozen temporal cloning looks terrible in motion. The pause in this video clip is due to the broken pulldown, not an error on my end:

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