Felia
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Criterion's complete Kubrick set is dated 20 October in the US and the disc count is thirty. Thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, UHDs presented in Dolby Vision.
The line that matters to me is sitting in the spec sheet where most people will skip it: the original soundtracks are included alongside the restored and remastered 5.1 mixes. Every previous round of Kubrick releases has forced that argument, and having the mono on the disc instead of only a remix that smears a deliberately dry centre channel across three speakers is the right call. Lolita is listed with uncompressed mono. Spartacus is the 1991 Super Technirama restoration with a 7.1 DTS-HD MA track, which is its own can of worms, but at least it is the version people ask for.
Also in the box: Kubrick's international cut of The Shining, and the early shorts, Day of the Fight, Flying Padre and The Seafarers, all restored in 4K. Those have never had that kind of attention. Twenty five hours of supplements, a fair chunk of it familiar from earlier editions, though a new 4K pass on Vivian Kubrick's Making The Shining is not nothing.
What the announcement does not tell you is who did which restoration. That catalogue is spread across studios and some of those masters are recent while others are years old and have taken criticism over grain handling. A box this size is only as good as its worst transfer, and thirty discs is a lot of surface area for one bad one.
Has anyone seen a breakdown of which titles are new scans and which are existing masters carried over?
The line that matters to me is sitting in the spec sheet where most people will skip it: the original soundtracks are included alongside the restored and remastered 5.1 mixes. Every previous round of Kubrick releases has forced that argument, and having the mono on the disc instead of only a remix that smears a deliberately dry centre channel across three speakers is the right call. Lolita is listed with uncompressed mono. Spartacus is the 1991 Super Technirama restoration with a 7.1 DTS-HD MA track, which is its own can of worms, but at least it is the version people ask for.
Also in the box: Kubrick's international cut of The Shining, and the early shorts, Day of the Fight, Flying Padre and The Seafarers, all restored in 4K. Those have never had that kind of attention. Twenty five hours of supplements, a fair chunk of it familiar from earlier editions, though a new 4K pass on Vivian Kubrick's Making The Shining is not nothing.
What the announcement does not tell you is who did which restoration. That catalogue is spread across studios and some of those masters are recent while others are years old and have taken criticism over grain handling. A box this size is only as good as its worst transfer, and thirty discs is a lot of surface area for one bad one.
Has anyone seen a breakdown of which titles are new scans and which are existing masters carried over?
