Maggie Cheung
14 films on Best Blurays8 in 4K5 in HD1 with no official release
Biography from TMDB
8 in 4K
UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Leading role · Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2022 Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray
Leading role · Director: Jackie Chan
Leading role · Director: Jackie Chan
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Good 4K Blu-ray upgrades of Ritrovata's flawed restorations
Leading role · Director: Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Leading role · Directors: Tony Ching Siu-Tung & Johnnie To
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Leading role · Director: Johnnie To
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Leading role · Director: Jackie Chan
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Good 4K Blu-ray upgrades of Ritrovata's flawed restorations
Supporting role · Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · hd-dvd.over-blog.fr (opens in a new tab)
4K restoration: Koch Media DE 4K Blu-ray
Original digital master: Cannes 2006 Promo HD-DVD
4K remaster is cropped 2.35:1 from the original 2.55:1 presentation, and has significantly different color grading, as is the case with most WKW supervised restorations. Due to DNR the detail is sometimes lacklustre compared to the old master. CGI scenes appear to be rerendered. A sepia tinted scene was altered to be fully black and white.
Caps: Criterion US BD vs Cannes HD-DVD, HD-DVD vs KR BD vs DVDs vs US BD
Remixed 5.1: The Jokers FR 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1: Cannes 2006 Promo HD-DVD
The remixed track has different front panning and little LFE use compared to the original.
HD-DVD is by far the best option for the original track, as DVDs and Korean BD suffer from noise gating, limiting and duplicated surrounds. Remixed tracks are all similar, but French disc has slightly better dynamics, particularly on the LFE channel.
The 2006 HD-DVD is a promotional release made in only 100 copies, handed out to VIPs at Cannes Film Festival. See this blog post for details. The same master can be found on KR BD, though it suffers from interlacing, blended frames and a gamma bug, as well as older DVD releases.
5 in HD
Blu-ray or HD streaming
Leading role · Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2012 Criterion Blu-ray is the most accurate
4K Blu-ray unrecommended because of controversial colours, no HDR, minimal resolution uptick, and DNR master
The 4K Blu-ray 5.1 adds additional foley and effects.
Leading role · Director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang
Pick your poison: USA Film Movement Blu-ray (two scenes cut / censored & slight Ritrovata yellow tint) or UK 88 Films Blu-ray (DNR)
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Pick your poison: USA Film Movement Blu-ray (two scenes cut / censored & slight Ritrovata yellow tint) or UK 88 Films Blu-ray (DNR). nic’s review
Leading role · Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Leading role · Director: Lam Nai-choi
88 Films UK or Vinegar Syndrome US Blu-ray (preference)
Different color gradings, 88 Films disc is encoded by FiM but Vinegar Syndrome encode (by Marcus Johnson) is more than robust
Vinegar Syndrome potentially has better audio than 88 Films, due to VinSyn possibly having EQ'd the audio mix after Fortune Star scanned the track in a way that makes it sound too hot, whereas 88 left it alone without addressing that issue. However, no direct comparisons exist
Leading role · Director: Zhang Yimou
1 with no official release
Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost
Leading role · Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Short, only in theaters https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2274
Sources: janusfilms.com (opens in a new tab)
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