Biography from TMDB
6 in 4K
UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Leading role · Director: Walter Hill
Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal
Supporting role · Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
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
Small role · Director: Peter Medak
Imprint 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 2026 release
Small role · Director: Spike Lee
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Imprint 4K Blu-ray > UK ICON > Criterion.
Imprint is same master as Criterion but encoded by Fidelity in Motion without Pixelogic’s filtering.
See: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23389310&postcount=10 and https://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=844792#p844792
3 in HD
Blu-ray or HD streaming
Leading role · Director: Mel Brooks
Small role · Director: Haskell Wexler
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Blu-ray is slightly better than MoC Blu-ray: while both are from a 4K restoration approved by director, MoC is more sharpened but gamma is flatter see caps
Paramount DVD and potentially Paramount LaserDisc see blah-ray
Criterion and MoC Blu-ray has the same audio, and additional (destructive) hiss reduction was applied, and one segment was made significantly louder.
Also, every home video release except the 1982 Paramount VHS cassette replaces Wild Man Fischer's 'Merry-Go-Round' in the roller derby scene with a version of 'Sweet Georgia Brown' by Brother Bones. Two very different songs, and one must assume that the tone of the scene has changed considerably
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