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Michael Badalucco

Michael Badalucco

11 films on Best Blurays7 in 4K4 in HD

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Michael Badalucco (born December 20, 1954) is an American actor most famous for his role as lawyer Jimmy Berluti on the ABC legal drama The Practice. He won the 1999 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor for his role on the show. Badalucco, an Italian American, was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean, a homemaker, and Joe Badalucco, a set dresser, movie set carpenter and property person. His brother is Joseph Badalucco Jr., whose most notable role was Jimmy Altieri in the show The Sopranos. He attended Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, graduating in 1972. He was the guest speaker at the 2005 commencement. He later attended SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, New York. He is married to Brenda Heyob. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Badalucco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

Leading role · Director: Joel Coen

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Universal Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Luc Besson

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Has Dolby Vision, better than 2017/2020 Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray from the Collection

Audio Notes:

Has the English Original 5.1

Additional Info:

This title was released many times on 4K Blu-ray and Steelbooks, there was a TC Entertainment 4K Blu-ray  with 5.1 and Dolby Vision too before the Luc Besson Collection was released but differences are unknown, so not recommended for English users.

Supporting role · Director: Joel Coen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Disney Blu-ray (for the extras)

Supporting role · Director: Ernest R. Dickerson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Jeff Rowe

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D version: Paramount 4K Blu-ray (OOP Steelbook Edition for included Blu-ray)

3D version: Turbine Germany 3D Blu-ray

Best Audio:

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Small role · Director: Spike Lee

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Joel Coen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical Cut: Fox Blu-ray

"Director's Cut": Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Small role · Director: Julian Schnabel

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray, in B&W

Small role · Director: Nora Ephron

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 4 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Susan Seidelman

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray early 2026

Best Video:

Both Kino Lorber Blu-ray and UK Final Cut Entertainment are from the same older HD transfer, same for other Blu-ray too

Small role · Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab) · facebook.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Capelight 4K announced for 2026

Video Notes:

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has slightly better compression than Criterion 4K Blu-ray.

The master in DV looks all but identical to the Criterion’s HDR grade. Detail-wise, FiM’s encode looks like it uncovered a tiny bit of extra high-frequency information that got filtered on the Criterion. See nicolas review

Best Audio:

1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1993 MGM LaserDisc/2002 R2 MGM DVD

Audio Notes:

1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1993 MGM LaserDisc/2002 R2 MGM DVD are the best. See blah-ray https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/2018/01/raging-bull-1980.html

Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has better audio than Criterion 4K Blu-ray, from nicolas:

I believe that what’s on Imprint’s 4K is one of the good mixes MGM and Criterion released during the LaserDisc days. Music is powerful and detailed, dialogues have excellent fidelity and ambient sounds have perceptible depth. I compared the "new" 2.0 with the anemic 5.1 as well as the Criterion 4K mix and could clearly hear the improvements.

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