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Only the best movies get rereleases from Criterion, but it often takes a lot of polishing, editing, and preservation to bring older selections into the beautiful condition that viewers expect. To see a bit of that restoration process, Gizmodo dropped by the Criterion offices in New York as it was beginning work on Alfred Hitchcocks Foreign Correspondent. In this case, its staff had everything they needed to produce a good release: When you can get the original negative and its in good condition, youre in great shape, Lee Kline, a technical director for Criterion, tells Gizmodo. In the case of Foreign Correspondent, Criterion gave the film far more contrast than what came off of the negative: Criterions staff can have a dramatic impact on the look of a film, so they study other movies by the director and cinematographer to determine just what an image is supposed to look like.