Opening titles are very blurry and smoothed, as if de-grained and filtered to death. However, the video soon clears up and is generally very nice all the way to the end.
The notes say that the primary source is the original reversal negative, which looks like it could benefit from more physical cleaning. I’m fine with dirt, but there comes a point when I’m sitting in a theater watching a fine but dirty print, and I want to yell to its owner, “Clean your print!”
I complain, but I still prefer to see dirt instead of artifact-inducing temporal cloning.
There weren’t any repairs that made me stop the disc, but I did catch this spot where a frame was held for the duration of three extra frames:
Instead of freezing, I’d much prefer to edit the sound, see black frames inserted, or, best, see the original damaged frames.
