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Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel

23 films on Best Blurays19 in 4K4 in HD

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Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Irishman (2019). Keitel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991). He won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Piano (1993). Other films include Blue Collar (1978), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), Cop Land (1997), and Youth (2015). He has acted in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018). He played FBI Agent Peter Sadusky in both National Treasure (2004), and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2006) and reprised his role in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History (2022). From 1995 to 2017, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.

Biography from TMDB

19 of 23 films match

19 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Leading role · Director: Quentin Tarantino

4K · Excellent

Leading role · Director: Abel Ferrara

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber/101 Films 4K Blu-ray

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber and 101 Films are bit idential. For extras, 101 Films Adds a new extra (~25 min) with Abel Ferrara

Best Audio:

1993 Live Home Video LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1993 Live Home Video LaserDisc is not only better, but also has the correct music see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmm8J7EDNM 

Leading role · Director: Jack Nicholson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has terrible encoding, but presumable still better than Paramount Presents Blu-ray from Chinatown 4K.

It was an old Blu-ray, and not the latest restoration. Unfortunately, there's no caps comparison yet.

Leading role · Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2024 Second Sight 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1991 WB LaserDisc

Leading role · Director: Jane Campion

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2014 StudioCanal Blu-ray 5.1, 2012 Lionsgate Blu-ray 2.0

Leading role · Director: Ridley Scott

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Capelight 4K Blu-ray has better encode than Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Leading role · Director: Robert Rodriguez

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray

Also Streaming in 4K on Paramount+

Additional Info:

France/Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray has more extras

Leading role · Director: Jonathan Mostow

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray or StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray?

Video Notes:

Universal has burnt-in English subs for Germany dialogue, slightly different HDR and color grading to the StudioCanal.

Supporting role · Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

(same as all tracks since the DVD)

Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps

Video Notes:

Phenomenal disc, and perhaps the single greatest testament to NexSpec's positive 180 this year. Highlights are beautifully handled and grain structure is fully intact in areas where NexSpec's (and Pixelogic's) encodes would frequently fall apart in 2025 and before then. Criterion BD encode also looks to be robust from linked caps, save for this one frame: https://slow.pics/c/cMjMefmi

https://slow.pics/c/qQbJum0H

https://slow.pics/c/C3kJJZg0

Supporting role · Director: Martin Scorsese

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook

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

Video Notes:

2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding

Best Audio:

Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).

5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Martin Scorsese

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Netflix has 4K Streaming

Supporting role · Director: Brett Ratner

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing
Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has mediocre encode

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