{"id":8951,"date":"2007-08-31T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/brazil-criterion-anamorphic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:59","slug":"brazil-criterion-anamorphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/brazil-criterion-anamorphic\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Criterion Anamorphic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vlcsnap-7866816.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vlcsnap-7866816.png\" height=480 width=853 border=0><\/a>Criterion Collection Re-Release of Brazil as Anamorphic Widescreen (Sample)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>While looking up the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Gilliam\">Terry Gilliam<\/a> film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil_(film)\">Brazil<\/a> today I found out that in addition to the box set from the late 90s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/\">Criterion<\/a> has (finally, in 2006) released a newly digitized anamorphic version. So, instead of going to see it at the midnight showing tonight at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/Market\/Detroit\/MainArtTheatre.htm\">Main<\/a>, Danielle and I swung by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com\">Borders<\/a> and picked it up.<\/p>\n<p>I must say, it looks really, really good. I&#8217;m sure part of it was the upconverting DVD player <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em> and shiny TV <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em>, but still&#8230; it&#8217;s a very, very nice transfer.<\/p>\n<p>I went ahead and grabbed a couple of captures from it via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\">VLC<\/a> and posted them here in my gallery <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em> for people to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criterion Collection Re-Release of Brazil as Anamorphic Widescreen (Sample) While looking up the wonderful Terry Gilliam film Brazil today I found out that in addition to the box set from the late 90s Criterion has (finally, in 2006) released a newly digitized anamorphic version. So, instead of going to see it at the midnight showing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24610,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions\/24610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}