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Vincent Laresca

Vincent Laresca

11 films on Best Blurays6 in 4K5 in HD

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Vincent Laresca (born January 21, 1974) is an American actor. Laresca first appeared in film in 1992, in the movie Juice as Radames. Since then, he has appeared in many popular films, including The Devil's Advocate, The Aviator, Empire, Coach Carter, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. In 1997, he had a supporting role in the short-lived Fox ensemble drama 413 Hope St. He has also had major supporting roles on 24, CSI: Miami and Weeds.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

Supporting role · Director: Ernest R. Dickerson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Eureka Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

Eureka Blu-ray > Sony

Additional Info:

Sony Blu-ray has more extras

Small role · Director: Abel Ferrara

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber/101 Films 4K Blu-ray

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber and 101 Films are bit idential. For extras, 101 Films Adds a new extra (~25 min) with Abel Ferrara

Best Audio:

1993 Live Home Video LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1993 Live Home Video LaserDisc is not only better, but also has the correct music see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmm8J7EDNM 

Small role · Director: Iain Softley

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Julian Schnabel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Justin Lin

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(4K Blu-ray has DNR)

Small role · Director: Julian Schnabel

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray, in B&W

Small role · Director: Marc Webb

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Taylor Hackford

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical Cut with unaltered sculpture: Initial DVD

Altered Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · +3 more

Best Video:

Theatrical Cut with unaltered sculpture: Initial DVD with this red message: "The large white sculpture of human forms on the wall of John Milton's penthouse in "The Devil's Advocate" is not connected in any way and was not endorsed by the sculptor Frederick Hart or the Washington National Cathedral, joint copyright owners of the Cathedral sculpture "Ex Nihilo" in Washington D.C.".

Altered Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray see caps

Best Audio:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is more filtered than Warner Bros Blu-ray, although differences may not be audible.
(While the LaserDisc 2.0 is reportedly better clarity in dialogue?)

Additional Info:

DV Plot. For those curious, the sculpture is still the altered one found on the re-issued DVDs, and previous Blu-ray.

5.1 audio on the Shout (either be 1080p or 2160p) was 16-bit, with more roll-off than the Warners one, the Warners was very similar to the NTSC and in terms of balance of the mix, while the Shout seems to be tinkered with, with the score at the beginning and at the end sounding worse on Shout.

Audio Comparisons: Slow.pics

For the regular commentary found on the NTSC DVD "Original Version" (there's no difference including the other NTSC DVD), Shout or Warners; the Shout commentary was just a bloated lossy transcode with some EQ. The best one was from either of the two DVDs.

Commentary Comparisons: Slow.pics

Now there's another commentary; it's basically the same commentary but has some parts different than the others, it can be found on EUR PAL DVD with subs for said commentary. The subs for it doesn't sync for the commentary #1 and vice-versa. Samples

Small role · Director: Martin Scorsese

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Japan Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Quentin Tarantino

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

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