Nice to have some feedback, Mr. Brown.

I just remembered another movie I'd just love to have the OPEN MATTE fullscreen version of: the 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

As it came out during the years of transition to widescreen, it appears to have been shown theatrically in different aspect ratios. The original fullscreen version, however, ONLY HAS SURVIVED as a 16mm...

The best material available is of the matted widescreen version, and the fullscreen versions floating around are pan & scans of that widescreen version...

http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org/2012/07/02/invasion-of-the-aspect-ratios/

Wouldn't you love to have a look at that 16mm print? Wouldn't it be great if Criterion released this movie? Not only because of this aspect ratio problem, but because the movie invites the kind of discussion that dvd supplements love to deal with, and also because a series of interviews with cast and crew and other related material has been produced through the years, but are scattered along a few of its home video incarnations or gathering dust in some vault. This movie deserves the royal treatment!