The Australian New York Ripper is ripper, mate!
Well, not quite, but it's pretty good. It arrived this morning, and I immediately gave it the once-over. Unlike the French 2-disc release that I own, this transfer is progressive, taken from a proper PAL master, and shows substantially more detail. There is a new-found crispness to the image that wasn't there before. On the other hand, there is a rather unsightly brown tint to the image (which I must admit might have been intentional - can anyone confirm?), and at times the black level seems slightly off. There is also quite a bit of film damage in the form of white specs, but as you probably know by now I don't mind that sort of thing half as much as edge enhancement, filtering, standards conversions and the like, all of which plagued the French release something rotten.Look out for a full comparison soon.
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