I have watched scenes from a high-definition transfer of these masters on monitors at Lowry Digital.
Though previously released by Fox, this is a new high-definition transfer with extensive extras produced for the Criterion Collection.
I may have seen more of the Hit Pit in the high-definition transfer, but expressive metaphor had yielded to workaday reality.
This 50th-anniversary edition includes a high-definition transfer from the camera negative and commentary by the performers Charles Busch and John Epperson.
But the high-definition transfer of the film, bringing shapes and textures out of the murk, revealed a gym that was old and shabby but also tidy and scrubbed clean.
After circulating for years in poor, public-domain prints, the film has been reissued by Kino (Blu-ray; $29.95; DVD, $24.95; not rated) in a high-definition transfer taken from a print restored by the Academy Film Archive.
(Fox, Blu-ray $39.99, DVD $29.98, PG-13) SCARFACE LIMITED EDITION Al Pacino stars in Brian De Palma's cocaine-fueled remake of the classic Howard Hawks gangster film, here presented in a new, high-definition transfer.
"Ministry of Fear" itself arrives in a pristine new high-definition transfer from the Criterion Collection, with extras that include an interview with the Lang scholar Joe McElhaney and an essay by the critic Glenn Kenny.
Seasonal A CHRISTMAS CAROL: 60TH ANNIVERSARY DIAMOND EDITION Alastair Sim is Scrooge in Brian Desmond Hurst's much-loved 1951 British version of the Dickens tale, here in a brand-new, high-definition transfer backed with a generous selection of extras, including a 1939 radio adaptation by Orson Welles.
But now, the miracle of digital restoration, as financed by the Film Foundation and performed by the Cineteca di Bologna, has brought this great, cold, morbid film back to life for a new high-definition transfer released in the United States by the Criterion Collection.
