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Marcia Jean Kurtz

Marcia Jean Kurtz

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Marcia Jean Kurtz

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Marcia Jean Kurtz is an American film, stage, and television actress and director. She has appeared in such films as The Panic in Needle Park, In Her Shoes, Dog Day Afternoon and Big Fan. Kurtz won an Obie Award for her performance as Doris in Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic. She was also nominated for both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for her role in Martin Sherman's When She Danced. Kurtz also directed Matty Selman's Uncle Phillip's Coat and Evan Handler's Time of Fire. She has appeared several times on the television series Law & Order.

Death Wish poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Dog Day Afternoon poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Video:

WB Blu-ray

Once Upon a Time in America poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italy subs in some parts

229 min cut (theatrical): WB Blu-ray

139 min cut (US theatrical): VHS

Best Video:

251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray

229 min cut: WB Blu-ray

139 min cut: VHS?

Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether it's better than previous Blu-ray

Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.

Best Audio:

251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)

Additional Info:

Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.

English-Friendly:

251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italy subs in some parts

229 min cut (theatrical): WB Blu-ray

139 min cut (US theatrical): VHS

Video:

251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray

229 min cut: WB Blu-ray

139 min cut: VHS?

Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether it's better than previous Blu-ray

Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.

Audio:

251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)

Additional Info:

Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.

Running on Empty poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Inside Man poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Universal Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray upcoming

Best Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Inside Man poster
1080p Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

Universal Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray upcoming

Black Swan poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

French Pathe Blu-Ray

Best Video:

French Pathe Blu-Ray

Black Swan poster
1080p Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

French Pathe Blu-Ray

Video:

French Pathe Blu-Ray

mother! poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

mother! poster
UHD Blu-ray

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