Thanks for posting the Bluray screenshots. As you can see they bluray looks nothing like the 35mm, and no home video release looks authentic which is what I said here. Belle’s hair being black in the night scenes was in my notes when I last saw the movie projected from 35mm about this time in 2014 (THREE years ago now)!

All films undergo some changes for home video viewing. And that generally involves boosting the colour/saturation so it looks acceptable in a brightly lit room… in a darkened movie theatre you don’t notice the lack of colour in a print, and your eyes are more forgiving of inconsistencies with colour and brightness. But in a living room you have household objects around that are illuminated and give you a stronger basis for comparison. For that reason alone darker films are made quite a bit brighter, but also the poor dynamic range even of bluray to resolve dark details results in banding if some brightness isn’t applied.

It may be a few weeks before I can post more previews, when I can I will. If you want to help speed things along feel free to send a donation for the Alien scan, once that’s done we’ll have access to the hard drives which also hold the BATB and Face/Off scans.