Well, that's exactly what Second Run has been doing from the start - their attitude has always been that any print is better than nothing at all, which I think is commendable.nawin.sona wrote:The time should come when those powers that be ( criterion ! and second run please note ) should not only accept available prints, but also hunt down and discover masterpieces which shook the world once and now lie asleep in someone's house.
The digital revolution means that people do tend to fetishise picture quality a little too much these days, and in some parts of the world - eastern Europe, India, south-east Asia - it's just not realistic to expect first-class materials to be available.
So all you can do is make sure that you present what you've got to its best advantage - which is where Second Run is miles better than Facets, whose lousy transfers and out-of-sync forced subtitles end up adding insult to existing injury.
