It goes without saying that the film looked and sounded spectacular. The colors popped and Dean’s iconic screen presence, Natalie Wood’s fragile beauty and Sal Mineo’s haunting performance all came across as poignantly as they did on the day of release in 1955.
According to Scorsese in the premiere program, “the original color negative was scanned at 8K resolution” and the sound had to be digitally sourced and cleaned from the original release print.