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In the previous blu-ray release thread in 2015, Derrick King posted a link where Lee Kline said that the Criterion Collection was looking at restoring other Indian and Bollywood classics. Eight years later, they haven't announced anything new...

It's an interesting thought: would an original, projected, black and white film from a 35mm print be superior to the picture quality from the best digital projection equipment today? I'm aware that the negatives in The Apu Trilogy were badly damaged and that the restoration is based upon these...

I've never been privileged to be able to experience the Apu Trilogy in a cinema, but I know for certain that the quality we can now experience from Criterion's 4K UHDs, will probably surpass anything that has previously been screened from a film print. Much of the World Cinema masterpieces are...

No. But it's a wondrous trilogy and deserves its place in the pantheon of cinema in the highest possible quality. There is little difference between the blu-ray and 4K discs, apart from superior compression, grain management and greyscale. But that was enough for me. I gifted the blu-ray box, as...