নোটবুকে পিরেটিং পিরেটা | MUBI

In Vancouver, 2011, the author and roommate Willa Ross attempted to restore Sergio Leone’s 1966 western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after MGM’s botched "restoration" altered the runtime, dialogue, and audio. They tried to combine an out-of-print 1998 DVD with an Italian Blu-ray, but found the Italian cut even more divergent, leading them to abandon the project for nearly a decade. The article discusses how major studios often release flawed versions of classic films, altering aspect ratios, audio, and footage. Spencer Draper, a film reviewer, criticizes studios for their apathy toward technical defects. Boutique labels like Arrow, Kino, and Eureka aim to restore films to their original intent, though the quality of their restorations varies widely.