Mary McDonnell

6 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K2 in HD

Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in Dances With Wolves and May-Alice Culhane in Passion Fish. McDonnell is well known for her performances as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, First Lady Marilyn Whitmore in Independence Day, and Rose in Donnie Darko. She was featured as Captain Sharon Raydor during seasons 5–7 of the TNT series The Closer and starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series Major Crimes on the same network. In 2023, she played Madeleine Usher in the miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary McDonnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Dances with Wolves (1990)

Leading role · Director: Kevin Costner

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory/Australia Via Vision Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

4K restoration of the extended cut to be screened in Locarno Film Festival

Video Notes:

PQ looks the same for all BDs, but only Shout! Factory/Australia Via Vision Blu-ray/Germany Kinowelt Anniversary Blu-ray has both theatrical and extended cut

Matewan (1987)

Leading role · Director: John Sayles

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion or UK 88 Films Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Criterion or UK 88 Films Blu-ray are from director-approved 4K restoration with minimal differences see caps

Additional Info:

Both Criterion and 88 Films have the same audio

Independence Day (1996)

Supporting role · Director: Roland Emmerich

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Fox 4K Blu-ray reference sound

Best Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray, merely okay with compression issues

3.4

Donnie Darko (2001)

Supporting role · Director: Richard Kelly

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

4.0

Sneakers (1992)

Supporting role · Director: Phil Alden Robinson

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · lddb.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray caps

Best Audio:

Closest to original: 1993 MCA Laserdisc or other laserdiscs probably

Audio Notes:

DVD is about the same also. Blu-rays only have upmixes (and the 2.0 track from Kino Lorber is a downmix)

3.6

Scream 4 (2011)

Small role · Director: Wes Craven

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

France M6 Video 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Geoff D review.

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray disappointing - Avoid. Terrible release. Another Kino-grade encode with a huge DV layer. The Lionsgate Limited Steelbook has a different disc with exclusive bonus discs and apparently another poor encode but they also messed up the DV metadata and made that disc unwatchable with DV enabled.

Best Audio:

US releases for the original audio

Pay per view version audio is on the UK Entertainment in Video Blu-ray and the France M6 Video 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray has exclusive extras

3.4

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