William H. O'Brien
83 films on Best Blurays9 in 4K53 in HD15 in SD6 with no official release
Biography from TMDB
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Small role · Director: William Wyler
Small role · Director: Mike Nichols
StudioCanal 4K
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K caps.Criterion Blu-ray better encode than StudioCanal Blu-ray.
Small role · Director: William A. Wellman
Small role · Director: Howard Hawks
Small role · Director: Howard Hawks
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Small role · Director: Jacques Tourneur
Small role · Director: Billy Wilder
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is a fine release with no glaring encode issues, the new master is also fine but graded to look quite dim in HDR/DV. Unsure whether that's really respectful to the source
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray / Paramount EU Blu-ray
Old Warner Bros US release is inferior.
Small role · Director: Hal Roach
Small role · Director: Billy Wilder
Kino Lorber 2024 Reissue Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 2024 Reissue Blu-ray has much better encoding than previous Kino Lorber Blu-ray, or MoC or Germany Blu-ray see caps
Small role · Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
But still a bit overly noise-managed.
1984 CBS/Fox Hi-Fi VHS maybe better?
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