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Jill Goldston

Jill Goldston

11 films on Best Blurays5 in 4K6 in HD

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Jill Goldston is a prolific British background actress. Starting in the 1960s while still in her teens, she has been an extra in over 100 film & television productions. Her most notable credits include The Elephant Man, Aliens and Little Shop of Horrors.

Biography from TMDB

Small role · Director: Melvin Frank

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 3 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Frank Oz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Director's Cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

The 4K Blu-ray has both a poor Dolby Atmos remix and the original theatrical Dolby Stereo mix in its best fidelity but only for the Theatrical Cut.

The Blu-ray has a 5.1 remix for the Director's Cut that, while inferior to the original theatrical Dolby Stereo mix, is still far superior to the Dolby Atmos remix on the 4K Blu-ray, and is the best option for the Director's Cut.

Only the DVD has the isolated score.

Small role · Director: Lindsay Anderson

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

HD Streaming or WB DVD

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

Best Video:

HD Streaming only

Video Notes:

Criterion has the rights to it, but no news on releases https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=375463 

Small role · Director: John Mackenzie

4K · Solid

Small role · Director: Norman Jewison

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MGM/Fox Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Mike Hodges

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray/StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

NOT the 4K Blu-ray, laserdisc maybe better?

Additional Info:

OOP Arrow LE has a bonus disc

Small role · Director: David Lynch

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion or StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

The DV/HDR grade is tasteful and not overdone. SC has better compression, though not flawless; encoded by FiM, but Criterion also holds up quite well. Both releases claim to be approved by Lynch.

SC has a missing fade that Criterion reinstated.

Best Audio:

Original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix: 2001 R1 Paramount US NTSC DVD/2008 R2 Optimum UK PAL or 1999 Pioneer JP LaserDisc

Restored stereo mix: Criterion / StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

The film was originally mixed in Dolby Stereo (matrixed LCRS). For the 4K restoration, this mix has been transferred from the original magnetic elements and remastered with Lynch's supervision. Unfortunately, the fidelity suffered in the process, with many sections ending up significantly less detailed due to a noise reduction pass. This track has been altered compared to the original, with reverb added to some dialogue, different ambient sound effects, changed panning, and extended bass.

For the unrestored mix, there are two major options, each with its own merits and flaws. The 2001 Paramount DVD, which I would say is the best well-rounded mastering, and the 1999 Japanese LaserDisc, which has noticeably better clarity and high-end detail, as well as better dynamics, but suffers from occasional distortion and has less bass than the DVD.

The LD also has some ambiance buried too low in the mix, and some dialogue panned more to the centre than the DVD. There are no content changes I was able to find. Unfortunately, I don't know what accounts for those differences.

The other available tracks all have more significant flaws. The Italian and Japanese BDs use the same base mastering as the DVD, but with some patching in a few shots. HD-DVD is sourced from an inferior transfer, the same as the Momentum DVD.

The 5.1 remix, originally introduced on the 2002 DVD, and carried over without changes to the 2009 BD is a light and mostly faithful remix, with fairly minimal LFE and surround use, but still potentially worthwhile as the only discrete track.

Small role · Director: Warren Beatty

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2020 Paramount Blu-ray

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