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Jacques Marin

Jacques Marin

9 films on Best Blurays3 in 4K5 in HD1 in SD

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Jacques Marin (9 September 1919 – 10 January 2001) was a French actor on film and television. Marin's fluency in English and his instantly recognisable features made him a familiar face in some major American and British productions (Charade, The Train, Marathon Man), and Disney movies (The Island at the Top of the World and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo). Source: Article "Jacques Marin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

Supporting role · Director: René Clément

Best English-Friendly:

StudioCanal Blu-ray

Sources: metrograph.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

StudioCanal UK/France

Video Notes:

StudioCanal UK/France has Blu-ray, kinda old transfer

Additional Info:

There is a 4K DCP but no home release yet

Supporting role · Director: Stanley Donen

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps comparing UHD vs BD: https://slow.pics/c/IVNrYoYW

For older Blu-ray: Criterion Blu-ray > Universal Blu-ray with slightly worse encoding > Japan Paramount or UK Park Circus Blu-ray with significantly flatter contrast (possibly Quicktime Gamma Bug?) see caps

Small role · Director: John Frankenheimer

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1994 MGM LaserDisc

Small role · Director: John Schlesinger

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

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

5.1 remix sounds good and likely came from original audio stems.

WB/Paramount Blu-ray has lossy restored mono

Small role · Director: John Guillermin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Michel Boisrond

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Small role · Director: René Clair

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

France Tamasa and Japan

Video Notes:

France Tamasa and Japan has 4k restoration in Blu-ray but no EN subs

Small role · Directors: René Clair & Jean Delannoy & Henri Verneuil & Michel Boisrond & Christian-Jaque & Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Henri Decoin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Lorber DVD

Small role · Director: Jean Renoir

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray (flawed restoration)

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

Best Video & Audio:

BFI or Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(both from the same flawed restoration)

Additional Info:

The BFI and Gaumont Blu-ray releases are both from the same restoration by Éclair. Although this restoration is much superior in detail to the old Criterion DVD, like many Éclair restorations, it has issues with colour. There is a definite yellow cast to the footage, making skin tones appear sickly and dampening the impact of the colour. The image is also murkier than the Criterion. 

As Renoir scholar Tag Gallagher notes: "I talked a lot toward the end about the light blue walls (Criterion); but when I got the BFI blu I was greatly deflated, because the walls are light gray!"

That said, as visible in the screen caps at DVD Beaver, the Criterion has compromised colour too, and often looks too blue/magenta. There is a regraded edition of the BFI Blu-ray out there on the high seas.

The audio on the Blu-ray releases is slightly compressed, but better than earlier DVD releases and relatively full frequency.

The BFI is most likely the best English-friendly release as it includes English subtitles for the bonus features.

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