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Criterion’s 4K UHD “Barry Lyndon” highlights Oscar-winning art direction, costumes, cinematography and music
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS During the 1970s, Ryan O’Neal had become one of Hollywood ’ s biggest stars. He plays a poor...
Peggy Earle
Jul 316 min read
A film noir landmark, Criterion’s ‘The Big Heat’ grabs you and never lets go
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Glenn Ford, right, plays Homicide Sgt. Dave Bannion, whose investigation of a policeman’s suicide...
Craig Shapiro
Jul 245 min read
Criterion gives Terry Gilliam’s masterful ‘Brazil’ a stellar 4K UHD face lift
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS (1) Jonathan Pryce, left, plays Sam Lowry, an ordinary guy content with his humdrum job in the...
Craig Shapiro
Jul 75 min read
Criterion’s 4K UHD presentation of Michael Mann’s groundbreaking ‘Thief’ is a must
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS James Caan gives the finest performance of his career as Frank, a highly skilled, independent...
Craig Shapiro
Mar 195 min read
Revenge Western “Winchester ’73” finally gets 4K upgrade
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS James Stewart stars as marksman Lin McAdam, and Millard Mitchell plays his riding partner, Frankie...
Bill Kelley III
Jan 316 min read
The annual Top 10 4K UHDs of 2024
TRUE 4K MASTERING / HDR SCREENSHOTS THE LIST of movies is the very best in 4K viewing from a physical disc. The criteria required...
Bill Kelley III
Jan 1720 min read
Criterion delivers again with 4K UHD remaster of Howard Hawks’ influential ‘Scarface’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS (1) The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Most of the violence in “Scarface” in the shadows or...
Craig Shapiro
Jan 35 min read
Alain Delon hits “Le Samouraï” with killer style
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS French actor Alain Delon plays cool contract killer Jef Costello, who’s been rounded up as a suspect...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 4, 20245 min read
Criterion covers all the bases with Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS James Coburn is Pat Garrett, the outlaw-turned-sheriff hired by New Mexico cattle barons to hunt...
Craig Shapiro
Aug 20, 20246 min read
Acclaimed courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” gets the Criterion treatment
BLU-RAY REVIEW / 1080p SCREENSHOTS Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) and her attorney friend Maître Vincent Renzi (Swann Artaud) determine...
Peggy Earle
Jun 10, 20245 min read
Criterion hits the bull’s eye with Raoul Walsh’s ‘The Roaring Twenties’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS In one of his finest performances, James Cagney, left, plays Eddie Bartlett, a Prohibition...
Craig Shapiro
Apr 5, 20245 min read
Top 10 and a couple more: 4K UHDs of 2023
TRUE 4K MASTERING / HDR SCREENSHOTS THE LIST of movies is the very best in 4K viewing from a physical disc or streaming. The criteria...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 11, 202416 min read
Visually stunning “Days of Heaven” on 4K from Criterion
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Richard Gere and Brooke Adams play soulmates and brother (Bill) and sister (Abby) in Terrence...
Bill Kelley III
Dec 8, 20234 min read
Behind the veil with “The Others” – The Criterion Collection
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Nicole Kidman stars as Grace Stewart, a devout Roman Catholic mother, who lives with her two young...
Peggy Earle
Nov 6, 20236 min read
Orson Welles makes it personal in Kafka’s classic “The Trial”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K. a young bureaucrat, arrested for an unnamed crime. He appears in...
Peggy Earle
Oct 4, 20235 min read
Criterion goes 3-for-3 with Terry Gilliam’s marvelous, magical ‘Time Bandits’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS A history buff of the first order, 11-year-old Kevin (Craig Warnock, third from the left) joins the...
Craig Shapiro
Jul 26, 20235 min read
Yippie-yi-oh – Saddle up for Criterion’s “The Ranown Westerns: Five Films by Budd Boetticher”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS The leathered Randolph Scott was in his late 50s when he starred in Budd Boetticher’s “The Tall T.”...
Bill Kelley III
Jul 24, 20239 min read
Subtle, moving fantasy “Wings of Desire” on Criterion 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Swiss actor Bruno Ganz plays the invisible angel Damiel, who comforts a critically injured...
Bill Kelley III
May 22, 20236 min read
Criterion’s 4K remaster of Terry Gilliam’s brilliant ‘Fisher King’ is phenomenal
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Robin Williams received a Best Actor Oscar nomination as Parry, a homeless man who recruits fallen...
Craig Shapiro
May 5, 20235 min read
Criterion gives Terry Gilliam’s marvelous ‘Baron Munchausen’ it’s overdue due
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Acclaimed for his performances on the British stage in “Romeo and Juliet,” “Richard II,” and...
Craig Shapiro
Jan 22, 20236 min read
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