Joss Ackland

6 films on Best Blurays5 in 4K1 in HD

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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5 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Supporting role · Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (review)

3.2

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

Supporting role · Director: Peter Hewitt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

> US Shout! Factory

Arrow has a slightly better encode, edging out SF even with FEL, and has done some additional damage cleanup. Caps

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Supporting role · Director: John McTiernan

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

3.8

The Three Musketeers (1973)

Small role · Director: Richard Lester

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

StudioCanal's 4K release is similar in encode quality, but has significant glitches in multiple frames. See comparisons 9-16 here: https://slow.pics/c/YkSVb3Ey

Audio Notes:

The pitch of the StudioCanal 4K's English audio is too high

Additional Info:

Criterion has more extras than StudioCanal.

3.4