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[MannFan]

The mentioning of a reference print is immediately promising and reassuring that we're now getting an accurate presentation of the film with its stylization preserved.

Not so sure, Nicolas. This Siskel & Ebert clip seems to indicate to me that maybe the color timing is revisionist.

And FWIW, this chaps my ass much less than I know it does others'. So I am not put off entirely from picking up the disc. But I will say - whew, that is a lot of green. Looks like The Matrix Revolutions. Knew right away that Eyes Wide Shut's excellent UHD restoration looked a whole hell of a lot like a 35mm print of the film, but I'd need to hear from somebody who's seen The Crying Game on film before I am willing to concede that this is a huge change from how it looked in theaters.

The color timing on an Ebert and Siskel clip from a transfer that may have been adjusted for the TVs at the time isn’t necessarily a clue as to what the color timing of a film is, or at least of a release or reference print.

[The Narrator Returns]

I recall a Soderbergh interview that’s on the sex, lies Criterion where he complains about how the clips from his movies sent to TV at that time were low-quality and not from his approved video masters. And both his movies at that time and The Crying Game were Miramax.

[Lowry_Sam]

I saw it in the theater upon release and I don't recall any scene being that green, but that image also didn't spark a memory of what scene it is from either. The only scenes I can think of that might have had such elevated color might have been a night time bar scene. On the other hand the top image looks too drained of color.