The grain never looks quite tight enough and the widescreen images could really have used an anamorphic transfer to extract the most from the problematic film elements. Contrast levels are frequently flat and delicate compositions somewhat washed out. The highly stylized horse ride montage fails to bring to life the impressionistic look inspired by artists Seurat or Monet. Overall resolution is far less than pleasing. Most of the close-ups are all right, but soft image rules Somewhere in Time .
Color rendition is fine.
There is some dirt evident in the elements, but it's minor. The Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound captured the lush nature of John Barry's score. The special edition DVD includes audio commentary from director Jeannot Szwarc and a full blown original remembrance documentary Back to Somewhere in Time. Szwarc's comments often overlap the material in the documentary, but along with Szwarc, Christopher Reeve looks back on making the film, as well as Richard Matheson, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, John Barry and Isadore Mankofsky. Reeve relates one out body experience that came as a result of his tragic accident, and it's very poignant indeed.