A Fistful of Dollars / Per un pugno di dollari (Sergio Leone, 1964)

Fistful looks fantastic. Blue skies, creamy walls, bronzed skin tones, rich reds, and it’s actually got CONTRAST with decently dense blacks. Everything is so well integrated and well balanced in the HDR grade that it doesn’t look like it’s HDR, and I mean that in the nicest possible way, that nothing leaps out at you as being too conspicuously ‘modern’. Shame that they’re having to use the Ritrovata restorations with their odd stop/start grain baked in but they’ve done the bestest job they possibly could, and thank fook it doesn’t look like a Ritrovata colour grade! Reminds me of the Italian Blu-ray from Ripley’s, albeit with a touch less green and a bit more saturation. source

And a screenshot comparison: A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | Slowpoke Pics

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