Hey Zhang Yimou!

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I have two questions for you, my brother, to take up with dunderheads at Netflix, mmkay?

1 - This is how Netflix writes up your (great) film Ju Dou:

"In this romantic tragedy, Chinese director Zhang Yimou's visually sumptuous cinematography perfectly complements the sensual story line... Arresting images, exquisite use of color and a classic yet complex plot combine for a richly satisfying drama that earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film."

So why the hell was the DVD made from the crappiest print they could find? What's the deal? Kinda hard to appreciate the "exquisite use of color" through the haze of scratches and jumps, ya know? Get somebody at Criterion on this! "Visually sumptuous cinematography" goes down a little bit easier when the DVD doesn't look as if it'd been shot with a video-camera during a screening like on a pirated DVD. I half expected someone to stand up into the frame at the end of the film.

2 - Where the hell's the Raise the Red Lantern DVD on Netflix? For someone that's playing catch up with your oeuvre, isn't that one... kinda important? God. Throw a friend a bone here.

PS - the trailer for Curse of the Golden Flower is really kicking my ass. Keep that up!