Video: How Does The Disc Look?

Presented in a 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, Wise Blood looks quite nice indeed on this Criterion disc. Black levels are consistent and plenty punchy, finely detailed textures come across with clarity and finesse, and the print utilized for transfer here is impressively free of the kind of dirt and blemish that tends to hamper filims of this age. Most impressive, though, is the transfer's color accuracy: Both skin tones and deeper, more saturated hues have wonderful defnition and accuracy. Very nice.

Audio: How Does The Disc Sound?

The mono mix afforded Wise Blood also gets the job done. Dialogue comes through nicely (for the most part - some outdoor scenes have more hiss than other sequences), the film's excellent Alex North score is presented with fidelity that exploits the mono soundscape as far as it'll go, and while much of the work done by backgrounds and atmospherics gets lost in the shuffle of such a minimum-dynamic-range presentation, Wise Blood sounds like it must have upon its release, and that's what Criterion strives to Accomplish.

English SDH subtitles are included.