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Michael Bowen

Michael Bowen

11 films on Best Blurays7 in 4K3 in HD1 in SD

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Michael Bowen (born June 21, 1953) is an American actor. Films he has appeared in include Jackie Brown, Magnolia, and Less Than Zero. Bowen also had a recurring role as Danny Pickett on the ABC television series, Lost. Bowen (also credited as Michael Bowen Jr.) was born to actress Sonia Sorel (1921–2004) and Beat painter Michael Bowen. He is half-brother to Robert and Keith Carradine. His nieces are actresses Martha Plimpton and Ever Carradine. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bowen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

7 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Supporting role · Director: Quentin Tarantino

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Supporting role · Director: Kevin Bray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Quentin Tarantino

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

International Cut: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Japan Cut: Japan DVD

Upcoming Release:

Whole Bloody Affair 4K Blu-ray upcoming in July, but only has 1 bonus feature and cuts out the rest of the extras

Additional Info:

Japan DVD has more extras compared to the HD/UHD releases

Small role · Director: Quentin Tarantino

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

International Cut: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Japan Cut: Japan DVD

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

Video Notes:

Upscaled from the 2K DI. Caps are here. While not as dramatic an upgrade as Jackie Brown, color reproduction and especially the reveal of additional highlight information that were completely blown-out on the old master make this a great upgrade regardless. See Uma Thurman’s face in the above cap. Japan Cut: Japan DVD

Additional Info:

Japan DVD has more extras compared to the HD/UHD releases

Small role · Director: Quentin Tarantino

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: John Landis

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Francis Ford Coppola

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

1991 Home Video Cut: Paramount 2008 Blu-ray

Theatrical Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, but it has problems described below in the additional info section, and worse encoding than the Coda cut.

Coda Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, but it has problems described below in the additional info section, and also has slightly better encoding than the Theatrical/1991 Home Video cuts on 4K.

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

LaserDisc for original mix

Additional Info:

The Paramount 4K "restoration" is a desecration. It has completely revisionist color timing, harsh HDR, treatment of stock footage, bad encoding, selective DNR and grain management so bad that the entire screen frequently freezes up with only characters moving around in grain soup. It is so bad that the film's restorer Robert Harris publicly washed his hands of it saying essentially the 2007 restoration (with Willis and Coppola supervising) is how the film was intended and made. This is Paramount's modern version done their way. The new 1080p SDR Blu-rays in print are the crap 4K desecration master with the same problems still there just harder to spot and with crap encodes. Part III fares best of the three and these issues are at their most minimal-but they're still there. The new Coda version is given prominence with lesser encodes for the other two versions. The original mix was remixed into 5.1 decades ago and we have yet another version of this instead of the original Dolby Stereo SR as heard on the LaserDisc release.
The 2008 Blu-ray of the 2007 restoration, while an imperfect outdated disc, is LIGHT YEARS better than this 4K desecration. The only truly major issue is that it is very slightly redder than the 2007 finished master as seen on DCPs.
DFIC review of the hideous crap 4K Blu-rays: https://youtu.be/0uw6-Kcy_UA?si=ob1nDg0wTCvemjH0

Despite being restored alongside the Coppola Restorations of The Godfather: Parts I and II, the Part III restoration is not officially labelled a Coppola Restoration.

3 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Small role · Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray teased

Small role · Director: Quentin Tarantino

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Anchor Bay Blu-ray

Video Notes:

US Anchor Bay Blu-ray > International Sony Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Best Buy, Target, and Walmart exclusive editions all have a exclusive extra each.

Small role · Director: Robert Altman

1 in SD

DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS

Supporting role · Director: John Mark Robinson

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

US Image Entertainment LaserDisc

Video Notes:

US Image Entertainment LaserDisc is pan-and-scan, but is the best quality release of the film. Widescreen version never released on home video.

Audio Notes:

US Image Entertainment LaserDisc has the original Dolby Stereo mix.

Additional Info:

Germany DVD is a dupe-y transfer ripped from a VHS with German titles, PAL speedup, and mono audio.

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