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Title: Essential film, not so good transfer (Criterion Spine # 6)
Review: Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast is a universal masterpiece. But the transfer for this edition (Criterion Spine #6) is not up to the editor's usual standards : scratches, jumps, blurs and sound hissing. Plus... the opening credits are not the wonderful original ones, when Cocteau is seen writing the names of the film crew on a school blackboard. Wait a while and get the new Criterion edition, due in late 2002 !
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